Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. employees around the world have long taken an active role in making our communities better places to live and work. Gifts of time and talent are invaluable to community organizations working to improve education, increase safety, protect the environment or promote cultural understanding and diversity.

April 2007 marked the fifth anniversary of Global Volunteer Month at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Over the past five years, volunteers in North and South America have united during this dedicated month and donated a cumulative 25,000 hours of service with an approximate value of $300,000 to support the communities in which we operate.

Beyond Global Volunteer Month, employees volunteer throughout the year, donating their time and financial resources to programs that make their communities better places to live and work.

Through the company’s Foundation, employees can participate in a program called “Employees in Action – Global Volunteer Achievement Fund” to facilitate grants for organizations for which they volunteer. Employees also give generously to United Way, contributing more than $375,000 in 2007, which was matched by the company’s Foundation for a total contribution of more than $1.2 million to the Valley of the Sun United Way and the United Way of Greater New Orleans, as well as other affiliates throughout the United States.

Over the past seven years, the company’s Foundation has invested more than $1.2 million in domestic violence shelters and women’s rights agencies to help address the growing problem of domestic abuse. In partnership with 23 shelters located in or near our operating communities in the United States and Chile, we have assisted in providing safety, shelter, training and independent lives free of violence to more than 11,000 women and 5,000 children each year. Safe lives free of abuse is a basic human right and anything less threatens the safety of our communities overall. In 2007, we committed an additional $750,000 to support the construction of new living space at three shelters in Maricopa County where our headquarters are located. Currently, these shelters must turn women away because of the lack of space, and these expansion programs will help eliminate this problem in the future. Photo: Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. employees volunteer their labor to spruce up and expand a women’s shelter.

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Employee volunteers across the globe devote many hours of public service in mining communities and corporate office locations. Photo: One of two Habitat for Humanity homes fully sponsored by the Freeport organization as part of community rebuilding in the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina.

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