Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) and The Foundation have partnered since 1998 to help children in our restaurant communities. We chose BBBS as our primary charity to support a cause that matches our customers' charitable interests. Research shows that our customers' number one choice is to help children in need. For more information about our partnership, click here.

The Contrib Club has helped Jack in the Box employees for more than 30 years by offering emergency relief funds to employees who are victims of natural or personal disasters. The Contrib Club is funded by employee contributions to The Foundation.

The Jack in the Box Foundation donated $10,000 and 100 Nintendo Game Boy systems to Children's Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, launching an innovative program to reduce pre-surgical anxiety.

Jack's Communities enables employees to support special charities in their own communities, which are selected annually by employee vote. Some of these charities include Children's Hospital, Make-A-Wish Foundation and Habitat for Humanity.

The Foundation also supports nonprofit organizations in our headquarters city of San Diego, including the YMCA, Junior Achievement, San Diego Hospice, March of Dimes, The Preuss School, which provides education to low-income youth, and Monarch School, which serves homeless and at-risk youth.

	The Foundation encourages Jack in the Box employees to volunteer in the community, including company group volunteer efforts.
Jack in the Box Inc. Chairman & CEO Linda Lang and Vice President Terri Graham volunteer to teach kindergarten students through a Junior Achievement program. Some 30 Jack in the Box volunteers substitute for teachers at Sequoia Elementary School in San Diego in a one-day annual event.

Jack in the Box Inc. employees in St. Louis helped build five houses in 2005 as part of a Habitat for Humanity volunteer project.

Jack in the Box Inc. employees are annual participants in the March of Dimes WalkAmerica event in San Diego.

	The Foundation also coordinates employee and franchisee fund-raising efforts, matched dollar for dollar by The Foundation, to benefit a variety of local, national and international causes, including 2005 relief efforts for the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina that raised more than $200,000 for the American Red Cross.
	Jack in the Box Inc. directly supports community programs and needs, including America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, America's Second Harvest distributes donated food to more than 23 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children.