Philanthropic Initiatives in

North/Central America

Highlights

 

American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
  • Eagle Rock School
    American Honda Motor established the Eagle Rock School, located in the mountain resort community of Estes Park, Colorado, the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, to further its long-term commitment of contributing to society in areas beyond the imperatives of the company’s day-to-day operations. more
  • NYPUM (National Youth Project Using Minibikes)
    NYPUM is a diversion program that uses riding minibikes as a motivational tool to engage at-risk youth in improving their lives. Participants between the ages of 10 and 17 are encouraged to work toward goals, and rewarded for educational achievement and community contributions with the opportunity to ride Honda minibikes. NYPUM began in 1969 as an innovative way of engaging youth who don’t respond to traditional outreach programs and services. Honda has sponsored NYPUM since its inception, donating US$40 million in minibikes and program funding.
  • Ride for Kids
    Ride for Kids is a charitable motorcycling program that supports and helps fund the efforts of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (PBTF) to find the cause of and cure for childhood brain tumors. The Ride for Kids program was started in 1984, and Honda became its presenting sponsor in 1991. With the help of the Honda Rider’s Club of America and thousands of other motorcyclists taking to the roads in rides across the United States, more than US$34 million has been raised to support brain cancer research and family support programs.
  • Community Action Teams (Associate volunteer program)
    American Honda Motor provides a program to facilitate individual associates to take active roles in community where they live and work. more
Honda of America Manufacturing., Inc.
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC
  • United Way Campaign
    The company adds financial contributions to the donations made by individual associates to the United Way in support of the United Way’s efforts to assist agencies that provide health and human services to those in need.
  • Honda Star (Associate volunteer program)
    Honda Manufacturing of Alabama provides a program to facilitate individual associates to take active roles in communities where they live and work. more
Eagle Rock School

Eagle Rock School

NYPUM (National Youth Project Using Mini-Bikes)
NYPUM (National Youth Project Using Mini-Bikes)

NYPUM (National Youth Project Using Minibikes)

Ride for Kids

Ride for Kids


Honda Canada Inc.
  • Spring Creek Preservation
    Since 2000, Honda Canada associates and their families have been cleaning up and enhancing the habitat of Spring Creek, which flows through company property. more
  • Earth Rangers
    Honda Canada provides vehicles (Odyssey) and financial support for Earth Rangers’ school-based action projects that help youth nurture a lifelong commitment to the environment.
  • Family Literacy Day
    Joining hands with the ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation, Honda Canada is the founding sponsor of Family Literacy Day. Every year, on January 27, families and communities across Canada celebrate this special day, a key part of an initiative that promotes the importance of reading and learning together as a family.
  • The Toronto Marathon and Honda Relay
    In support of the Toronto Marathon, Honda sponsors the Honda Relay, an initiative designed to raise pledges in support of cancer research at the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.
  • Community Volunteer Action Committee(Associate volunteer program)
  • Community Partnership (Associate volunteer program)
    Honda Canada provides programs to facilitate individual associates to take active roles in communities where they live and work. more
Spring Creek Preservationy

Spring Creek Preservation

Family Literacy Day

Family Literacy Day


Honda de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
  • Sea turtle preservation
    Honda de Mexico supports a program that helps protect critically endangered sea turtles on the west coast of Mexico. Five 4-wheel ATVs were donated to a local university scientific research program that patrols a nature conservation area to prevent turtle eggs from being eaten by predators. As part of the research program, participating scientists bring turtle eggs laid on the beach to be hatched in a field laboratory. So far, this program has rescued about 100,000 sea turtle eggs, 80% of which have been successfully hatched.
Sea turtle preservation

Sea turtle preservation


Foundations
  • Honda has established three foundations in North America: the American Honda Foundation, the Honda Canada Foundation and the Honda of America Manufacturing Foundation (HAM Foundation). In 2006 these foundations donated more than US$2.3 million to various nonprofit organizations to support education programs and initiatives for youth. more

Summary
             
Educational

Educational

Environmental

Environmental

Traffic Safety

Traffic Safety

Community

Community

Associate volunteer support

Associate volunteer
support

Philanthropy recognition

Philanthropy recognition

American Honda Finance Corp. point     point point point
American Honda Foundation point point     point point
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Honda Canada Foundation point          
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Honda de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. point point point point    
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC point point point point point point
Honda North America, Inc. point   point point point  
Honda of America Manufacturing Foundation point          
Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. point point   point point point
Honda of South Carolina Manufacturing, Inc. point     point   point
Honda R&D Americas, Inc.       point point  
  • This graph indicates activities from the period April 2006 to March 2007.
  • Description of activity types are indicated in the graph legend.
Honda Philanthropy