At Yum! Brands, we believe in giving back to the community, and in making a difference in the lives of our customers and their families. While Yum! Brands, Inc. supports hundreds of community activities and charities, efforts are primarily focused on nourishing the bodies, minds and souls of children in need. Yum! Brands is accomplishing this though programs dedicated to hunger relief, day-care subsidies, reading incentives and mentoring at-risk teens.

Many of the 840,000 employees and franchisees in the Yum! system around the world, give back every day in many ways, all with a hope that we can leave this globe a little better than we found it. Here’s a brief snapshot of just some of Yum! Brands philanthropic initiatives in the United States:

• Yum! Harvest – In America alone, one in ten children under the age of five runs the risk of going to bed hungry every night. Taking this into consideration, Yum! Brands has launched the world’s largest prepared food recovery program. Yum now donates millions of pounds of prepared food to the hungry. Food that has nutritional value and will provide nourishment to those most in need, the underprivileged.
  
  
• Dare to Care Food Bank – Yum! Brands is a major corporate partner with the Dare to Care Food Bank, the largest food bank in Kentucky, delivering eight million pounds of food to over 90,000 needy people each year. Yum! Brands Foundation’s $1 million annual commitment to the Dare to Care Food Bank enables the organization to do the following: reach an additional 46,000 hungry children in Kentucky; create outreach services to housebound elderly people and improve food delivery to Dare to Care’s 29 distribution centers.
  
  Pizza Hut’s Book It!® For over 18 years, Pizza Hut has provided an incentive for kids to learn to read by the third grade. More than 22 million students a year, in 875,000 classrooms participate in BOOK IT! The program is relied on year after year by teachers in 50,000 schools – nearly 70 percent of the nation’s elementary schools – so that young minds are nourished with books. Since 1985, Pizza Hut and its franchisees have awarded more than 173 million Personal Pan Pizzas to students who have met their monthly BOOK IT! reading goals.
  
  Colonel's Kids® With more and more double-income or single-parent households, finding affordable daycare has become an increasing burden. Inspired by Colonel Harland Sanders' love for children and KFC’s commitment to family values, KFC turned to the YMCA and together established Colonel’s Kids in the fall of 2002. Today, KFC subsidizes high quality YMCA daycare for families in need. KFC is one of the first corporations to address the child care issue nationally. In the past two years, participating KFC restaurants have raised more than $1 million for Colonel’s Kids through in-store fundraisers.
  
  
• TEENSupreme® Through a unique national partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Taco Bell has established a mentoring program for at-risk teens, offering a safe haven and recreational activities to keep kids off the street. TEENSupreme programs emphasize character and self-esteem development, leadership, education and career exploration, free enterprise, unity, service to clubs and community and social recreation. Since 1995, Taco Bell has raised and donated nearly $12.5 million to the Boys & Girls Clubs for TEENSupreme programming.

Yum! Thailand is giving back to their community by building schools in rural areas. Today, children in 8 provinces around the country attend schools built by Yum! And 2 additional schools are planned for 2003. With an emphasis on education and community development, in addition to the schools themselves, Yum! Thailand has donated books, desks and supplies, scholarship money and standard medical packages to children in need in these provinces.