Making a difference in our communities
starts with strong partnerships.

Safeway and Easter Seals work together to offer help, hope and answers to children and adults living with autism and other disabilities or special needs. Since 1985, Safeway has raised more than $110 million for Easter Seals programs such as vocational training, independent living assistance and early intervention therapy for children with developmental delays.

At the local level, support from The Safeway Foundation has provided Easter Seals affiliates the ability to not only maintain current services, but also to significantly expand the work of the organization on behalf of children and adults with disabilities.

Funds raised by The Safeway Foundation:

• Provided employment services in Southern California for nearly 1,600 adults with disabilities, assisting in their ability to find and hold part and full-time employment
• Increased enrollment at the inclusive Easter Seals Child Development Center in Las Vegas, serving children starting at 6 weeks of age with and without disabilities
• Given more than 23,000 hours of service to youth with disabilities in the San Francisco Bay Area via the Kaleidoscope After School Program
• Provided assistance for more than 900 clients in the Reno, NV area in the transition from high school to work
• Expanded autism services in Montana and Idaho through pediatric therapy (speech and occupational) combined with additional workshops for parents, teachers and others involved in the care of a child with autism
• Increased number of camp sessions available at Easter Seals Colorado's Rocky Mountain Village, while adding respite services in multiple locations around the state for families
• Provided high-quality childcare to more than 100 children in the metropolitan Washington, DC area at The Safeway Foundation Child Development Center, named in honor of Safeway's contributions.
• Offered comprehensive services at The Children's Therapy Center in Salem, Oregon, which include prevention, diagnosis and treatment for 3,000 children with disabilities and special needs annually
• Supported job coaching, training and long-term follow-up and support services that helped nearly 2,000 clients in North Texas
• Expanded the established feeding program for infants and young children in Phoenix, AZ, ensuring that children with feeding problems (including newly diagnosed clients with autism) receive the nutrition critical to development

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For more than four decades, Special Olympics has been organizing athletic games for people with intellectual disabilities. Safeway has raised more than $7.5 million for Special Olympics to fund 23 Special Olympics programs in 22 states. These funds are carefully invested into the communities where they are collected.

Using funds raised by The Safeway Foundation, Special Olympics:

• Offered free training and competition opportunities year-round to more than 13,000 individuals with intellectual disabilities in Northern California
• Put on a 3-day Fall Festival in Pennsylvania, which included the costs of competitions, meals, lodging and social activities for 200 athletes.
• Gave approximately 1,800 athletes in Illinois, many of whom live at or below the poverty level, the chance to advance from local competitions to sectionals, districts and state tournaments
• Provided the equivalent of a full year of service for an astounding 711 Special Olympics athletes in Texas.

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Safeway works hand in hand with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), which is dedicated to curing muscular dystrophy, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and related neuromuscular diseases. So far, Safeway has raised over $68.4 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association; helping MDA researchers make landmark achievements.

Using our funds, MDA:

• Launched the first clinical trial with a drug that specifically targets the genetic flaw in familial ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)
• Designed two projects to prevent debilitating side effects caused by long-term steroid therapy, currently the only approved drug regimen for Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
• Activated a clinical trial designed to optimize a gene therapy strategy for Limb-Girdle muscular dystrophy
• Uncovered the genetic defects responsible for several forms of muscular dystrophy and more than 40 other neuromuscular diseases

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Safeway has raised over $75 million for the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), the world's largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research committed to finding better treatments and, one day, a cure. The foundation channels resources to the world's top scientific minds—cutting red tape and encouraging collaboration to speed breakthroughs.

Money raised by The Safeway Foundation:

• Funded a new advance in early detection– a urine test that locates a unique piece of DNA found only in prostate cancer cells
• Potential to catch prostate cancer many years earlier
• Together with a PSA test and a checkup will help doctors determine who has prostate cancer and thus prevent patients from undergoing unnecessary biopsies.
• Funded research that has played a role in the recent approvals of three new drugs which extend the lives of patients with advanced metastatic disease
• Supported research that helped identify 25 genotypes (varieties) of prostate cancer

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The Safeway Foundation is a major fundraiser for breast cancer research at the top research centers in the United States and Canada. Because of advances in early detection and treatment, millions of women are surviving breast cancer today. In the last nine years, Safeway has raised a total of $108 million for breast cancer awareness and research.

Our donations contribute to cutting-edge trials and programs, including the I-SPY Trials, which are designed to accelerate the development of more personalized clinical breast cancer trials. Since the launch of the I-SPY Trials, scientists have reported findings that could influence the way researchers screen, treat and assess the prognosis for women with advanced breast cancer.

The Safeway Foundation has also launched an aggressive breast cancer awareness and detection program by partnering with regional medical institutions to support mobile mammography programs.

Our funding from last year alone:

• Provided over 15,000 mammograms for women who would otherwise not had access to services through our mobile mammography screening
• Provided almost 20,000 people fighting breast cancer with the ability to check online to see if there is a clinical trial for prevention or treatment of breast cancer that might be right for them through www.breastcancertrials.org
• Will benefit over 150,000 women in the Athena Breast Health Network in just the next 5 years. Athena's mission is to save lives by transforming how we deliver care today, learn from our patients, create life-changing science, and improve prevention and treatment options tomorrow
• Will make it possible to reduce the cost and the amount of time it takes to approve new breast cancer treatments by half through our sponsorship of the I-SPY 2 Trial, an unprecedented new clinical trial design, which is enrolling women all over the country

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In 2010 Safeway partnered with Rebuilding Together, the nation's leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize communities. Their network of more than 200 affiliates provides free rehabilitation and critical repairs to the homes of low-income Americans.

Since 2010, Safeway has:

• Provided 1,372 volunteers for Rebuilding Together
• Worked a total of 11,011 hours in local communities
• Performed $1,036,638-worth of repair work.
• Impacted 39 homeowners and families directly
• Increased Community Center clients to 3,506
• Raised media impressions to 1,487,642

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