River Bend Business Products and it's employees feel a strong commitment to support the local communities we serve in Southern Minnesota. Throughout the region our employees are your neighbors and friends. You know them from school, church, service clubs and local United Way campaigns. Our employees live throughout Southern Minnesota and are active in their communities. Their children attend school, they own their homes, support local businesses and vote on important issues within their hometowns.
River Bend Business Products’ involvement with our local communities is also reflected in our joint employee and company commitment to the United Way. While there are many worthy non-profit organizations, we believe a United Way donation best serves our desire to make an impact on as many lives as possible in the communities in which we live and serve. 99% of all donations stay local and 90% of all money raised goes directly to programming. 1 in 3 people in the area are directly impacted by United Way giving.
Given our relative size to some of the corporate giants, River Bend Business Products consistently ranks in the top 20 corporate gifts in the local area and our corporate per capita giving ranks in the top 5.
We are very proud that more than 80% of our employees donate at least one hour of their monthly pay to the United Way. People willing to help others less fortunate than themselves. Caring people. That's definitely our vision of the people we want taking care of our customers.
In addition, our other charitable focuses include programs that benefit children, families, diversity, colleges and local benefits.