Community Outreach
Impacting Our Communities
 Lockheed Martin believes that creating a better world starts at the local level. Our employees are active participants in our communities — involved in everything from food drives and homeless shelters, to fund-raising events for medical research, to environmental projects that enhance parks and other public spaces.
Over the past few years, Lockheed Martin employees have logged millions of volunteer hours in their communities -- 1.3 million in 2006 alone!!
Our volunteers come from all levels of the Corporation. Lockheed Martin executives serve in leadership capacities for a wide variety of initiatives — from national organizations such as Boy Scouts of America and Junior Achievement to local science museums and performing arts centers. A Lockheed Martin senior management team in Owego, N.Y., volunteered at a local mission shelter, donating food, restocking its food-pantry shelves and cleaning its thrift store.
The Corporation encourages employee volunteerism by promoting volunteer opportunities and by making it easy for employees to participate. Our Volunteer Web Site, called Lockheed Martin Volunteers, helps employees match their volunteer interests with community needs and local opportunities.
Many nonprofit partners tell us that they couldn’t achieve their goals without the Corporation’s volunteer support. For example, Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, a nonprofit organization that promotes stewardship of Colorado’s public land, undertakes large outdoor projects with the help of Lockheed Martin employees, sometimes as many as 200. The employees participate in activities such as building trails in outdoor recreation areas or planting trees in wildlife areas.
Community Outreach
Lockheed Martin’s outreach initiatives touch the lives of people — from the very young to the elderly — in our communities. Here are some examples:
• Holiday Gifts for Women and Children — Employees at Lockheed Martin in Greenville, S.C., collected holiday gifts for more than 130 people associated with Safe Harbor, a local domestic abuse shelter that serves women and children in the area.
• Helping the Homeless — Every two weeks, an employee team from a different department at Lockheed Martin in Marietta, Ga., serves a hot breakfast at a local homeless shelter. Employees work with shelter officials to prepare food and serve meals.
• Recycling Project —Lockheed Martin in Camden, Ark., operates a program that promotes recycling and makes donations to non-profit organizations serving the underserved.
• Historical Project — Employees in the Network of Volunteer Associates (NOVA) at Lockheed Martin in Valley Forge, Pa., teamed with Valley Forge National Historic Park to create the Valley Forge Muster Roll database and Web page. The site provides the only known, free to the public, automated database of all of the soldiers who served at the Valley Forge encampment. Lockheed Martin volunteers designed the database and entered data from park records and documentation.
• Project Linus — Several Lockheed Martin locations participate in Project Linus, a national effort that gathers handmade blankets and afghans for children who are seriously ill or have been traumatized by a tragic event. Employees made blankets for children whose parents have been killed in Iraq.
• Serving Up Hope — Employees at Lockheed Martin in Cherry Hill, N.J., organize monthly HOPE (Help Other People Eat) lunches that raise money for charity. A 20-person committee organizes the program, and other employees volunteer as well. As many as 300 employees turn out to purchase and enjoy the lunches, which raise money for a different charity each month.
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