Other Community Giving
Community Relations Fast Facts
Education
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In 2008, the Target Field Trip Grant program has awarded over 5,000 field trips, which equates to 1 in 25 K-12 schools. Target awarded 1,600 grants, totaling $1.6 million in funds to numerous schools in 2007.
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Take Charge of Education has helped raise more than $229 million of unrestricted funds that schools may use for any and all needs since the initiative’s inception in 1997. More than 100,000 schools and 3.5 million Target guests participate in this program. That number represents 75% of the schools in the U.S.
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With Target’s support United Through Reading has helped more than 220,000 deployed military men and women in all branches of the military stay connected to their families through the joy of reading
- Target’s partnership with the national nonprofit Reach Out and Read has reached 2.7 million children in communities across the country. The partnerships provide resources, tools and inspiration to encourage a love of reading.
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Target sponsors more than 1,500 free days and reduced-price performances at more than 70 museums and performing arts organizations nationwide, from the Seattle Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, and the National Mexican American Museum in Chicago.
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Target has sponsored Target Free Friday Nights at the Museum of Modern Art since the museum’s re-grand opening in 2005. When this program launched, it generated the MoMA’s second most visited day of the year. On March 14th, Target and MoMA celebrated its one-millionth free day visitor.
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In December 2007, Target sponsored a 30 Free Hours program at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York on the museum’s opening day.
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Target has sponsored Theatreworks Free Summer Theater program for past five years. Free tickets are distributed to children from over 200 social service and youth programs throughout New York’s five boroughs.
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Target sponsors 365 days of free performances on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Target donated $1 million dollars to The Salvation Army in 2007, hosted a shopping spree for children in need, and offered a Salvation Army ornament and compilation CD with donated profits to help support those in need during the holiday season.
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In 2007, Target through America’s Second Harvest reported Target donations in excess of 14 million pounds of food. Target expects to exceed that figure in 2008 with an estimated total donation of 17 million pounds.
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Target and individual team members invested in their communities by donating more than $12.5 million to local United Way organizations across the country in 2007.
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Target has supported the National Domestic Violence Hotline’s twenty-four-hour-mission to provide crisis intervention, safe planning and support for more than 19,500 calls a month since the very first call in 1996.
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Target House serves over 520 families of children who are receiving life-saving treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, touching 65 countries around the world.
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Target team members and retirees donate more than 315,000 hours of service to more than 7,000 local and national projects each year.
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More than 1,400 Target stores nationwide participated in the National Education Association's "Read Across America" program to help incorporate reading into the daily lives of children. Last year marked both the fifth anniversary of the program and the birthday of celebrated children's author Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.