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Safeway Kicks Off Annual People With Disablities Fundraising Campaign

Safeway announces the start of its annual fundraising campaign that benefits organizations serving people with disabilities (Easter Seals, Special Olympics and Rebuilding Together).

Employees from Safeway’s Eastern Division will join their colleagues around the North America for the company’s annual fundraising campaign to support Easter Seals, Special Olympics, Rebuilding Together and a range of job training programs that help people with disabilities live fuller lives.

Beginning Friday, March 29 and continuing throughout April, all 125 mid-Atlantic region stores will raise funds for organizations that are at the forefront of providing assistance, training, therapy and social outlets to the millions of people who live with physical or developmental disabilities.  In addition to the in-store fundraising, Safeway will partner with Rebuilding Together to plan and execute home or community center rehabilitation projects that serve people with disabilities with teams of Safeway employee volunteers being deployed to assist Rebuilding Together “project managers” with various repair, landscape, paint and remodel work.

“Assisting people with special needs of all kinds has long been a Safeway priority,” said Safeway Eastern Division President Steve Neibergall.  “As a company that proudly employs thousands of people with disabilities, Safeway directly benefits from the work of these organizations and is committed to contributing to their success and increasing their outreach.”

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Safeway’s People with Disabilities fundraiser is executed primarily through checkstand donations (although some locations will combine that with other activities) and will include in-store broadcasts and video messages to customers and employees to share information about breakthroughs in research and new programs that help millions of people with disabilities in North America and around the world. To date, Safeway has raised and donated more than $100 million to support organizations such as Easter Seals, Special Olympics and a range of other organizations that assist people with special needs.

Easter Seals and Special Olympics are just two of the many important organizations and causes that the company supports each year. Safeway contributes to a broad range of charitable and community programs and, in 2012, donated more than $200 million to education, hunger relief, health and human services and cancer research.

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Safeway Inc. is a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America, based on sales. The company operates 1,694 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $41.1 billion in 2010. The company's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWY.

Media Contacts:  Gregory TenEyck at (301) 918-7077 or Craig M. Muckle at (301) 918-6803.

 

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