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•Impacting youth and revitalizing our communities
•Leveraging the strengths of our partners
•Creating meaningful, measurable results |
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Capital One® has established several long-term relationships with organizations that share our passion for strengthening education, empowering youth, and improving neighborhoods. Here we’ve identified a few of these national organizations.
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| America’s Second Harvest |
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 | Since partnering with America’s Second Harvest in 1997, we have supported Kids Café, an after-school program that offers at-risk youth a hot meal and learning activities in a safe, chaperoned environment. By sponsoring more than 270 Kids Cafés in Texas, Idaho, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Florida, we help feed 15,000 children each day at least four days a week. Associates also |
volunteer at their local Kids Cafés as mentors, tutors, and role models.
For more information visit America’s Second Harvest and the Kids Café.
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| Consumer Action |
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Consumer Action is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in San Francisco in 1971. The organization serves consumers nationwide by advancing |
consumer rights, referring consumers to complaint-handling agencies, publishing educational materials.
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in several languages, and comparing prices on credit cards, bank accounts, and long-distance services.
Capital One joined with Consumer Action to launch MoneyWi$e, a national literacy program, in 2001. It is the first program to combine free, multilingual financial education materials with community training and seminars.
For more information visit Consumer Action and MoneyWi$e.
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| Heart of America Foundation |
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The Heart of America Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is "to help people, particularly children, learn that they help themselves when they help |
others." The foundation partnered with Capital One to help us organize book drives across the country and
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distribute books to our partner schools for our Annual Literacy Celebration. In 2004, we were able to collect more than $1,000,000 worth of books for 85,000 children in need.
For more information visit the Heart of America foundation |
Jump$tart |
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Together with Jump$tart Coalition, Capital One is encouraging local and state governments to include a financial education curriculum in public school systems nationwide. |
For more information visit the Jump$tart Coalition.
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Office of National Drug Control Policy |
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In 1998 the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy launched the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a historic initiative to educate and empower all youth to reject illegal drugs. The campaign targets kids aged nine to 18 (with emphasis on adolescents when they are at greatest risk to experiment), |
their parents, and other adults who influence the choices young people make.
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| Since 2002 Capital One has proudly supported "The Anti-Drug" campaign through activities that include sharing information with associates, placing anti-drug messages on millions of customer billing statements, and distributing materials through our Kids Café and Leadership Grants programs. In 2003, Capital One began including Spanish-language messages in customer mailings, providing Spanish-language youth-drug-prevention posters and print materials to its community partners, and including in-language materials in its Capital One Leadership Grants program targeting at-risk youth with academic and life skills activities. |
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| For more information visit the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. |
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| Covering Kids & Families |
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In the United States some 8.5 million children do not have health care coverage. Many of them are eligible for low-cost or free health care coverage programs but are not enrolled. Covering Kids & Families (CKF), a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, works to connect uninsured children to health care coverage programs available in their state. Capital One partnered with CKF to help spread the word about low-cost and free health care coverage programs. On monthly billing statements and through community outreach, Capital One is promoting a national toll-free hotline (1-877-KIDS-NOW) that parents can call for more information about programs in their state.
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For more information visit Covering Kids & Families.
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| United Way |
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As corporate citizens, we have an opportunity to create positive change in the communities where we work and live. By combining our associates’ generosity with the support of local businesses and community leaders, United Way zeros in on the problems in the community that no one person, company, or nonprofit organization can solve. |
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| In each of our communities, United Way activates community resources to make the greatest possible impact. The United Way system includes approximately 1,400 community-based United Way organizations. Each is independent, separately incorporated, and governed by local volunteers. |
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| For more information visit the United Way. |
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