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Doing good where we live and work

We believe successful businesses improve the human condition. This belief guides our business processes and product development, and our interaction with communities around the world. In 2007, UTC made contributions to non-profit organizations in 34 countries. We also support employees’ community interest by matching their financial contributions to selected non-profit organizations and giving grants to non-profit organizations where they volunteer. In 2007, UTC gave $1.4 million in matching gifts and volunteer grants.

In Beijing, UTC has provided $500,000 in grants to support Conservation International to restore critically endangered forests in the mountains of Southwest China. Our 2007 grant is expected to restore 120 hectares and offset 20,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent over the next 30 years.

UTC is partnering with Junior Achievement to develop fifth grade curriculum, which includes science, technology, engineering and mathematics. When fully implemented the three-year, $1.6 million program will reach 500,000 students each year. We hope the program will inspire more students to seek out careers in science, engineering and finance.

UTC is a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). In 2007, UTC became the founding sponsor of the USGBC’s Greenbuild365, an online training tool that fosters green building education, outreach and the sharing of best practices. Greenbuild365 is an extension of the annual Greenbuild Conference which seeks to focus global attention on the urgent need to develop and adopt innovative and standardized green building practices.

In 2007, UTC sponsored its third public art project. In the first project outside of the United States, we commissioned artist Stephen Vitiello to install sound art in London’s Broadgate Arena. Vitiello’s piece created an environment of sound from recordings of bird and moth wings in the Amazon, upstate New York and Virginia and ran continuously in the public space near Liverpool Street Station.