Case Examples of Social Contribution Activities

In this section, we introduce the social contribution activities of the JACCS Group.

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  Donations using employees' JACCS cards

  The company adds an amount equal to a portion of the points awarded to employees' JACCS cards and donates it.

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  Donations as Part of 70th Anniversary Initiatives

  We have made donations totaling 18 million yen to six non-profit organizations as an expression of gratitude for reaching our 70th anniversary.

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  Children's cafeteria support

  We visit local children's cafeterias and donate food items.

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  Forest creation by JACCS

  We work with NPOs to promote forest restoration and regeneration.

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  Invitations to baseball games

  We invited children with childhood cancer, their families, and children from orphanages to a game hosted by Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

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  Hakodate Marathon support

  We send employee volunteers every year to the "Hakodate Marathon," held in the place of our founding, Hakodate, to support the runners.

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  Gold Ribbon Walking

  We sponsored the Gold Ribbon Walking event hosted by the Gold Ribbon Network Foundation.

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  Para-volleyball support

  As a special partner of the Japan Para-Volleyball Association, we support the activities of the association and the promotion of para-volleyball.

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  Pro bono support

  Employees served as lecturers and gave lectures on business communication for NPOs and non-profit organizations.

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  Making and donating building blocks

  Executives and employees sanded building blocks made from thinning wood and donated them to local nurseries and kindergartens.

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  Vaccines through secondhand clothes

  Through the collection of unwanted clothing, etc., we implemented the "Vaccines through secondhand clothes" initiative that contributes to the achievement of various SDGs at bases across Japan.

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  In-house sales events

  We regularly sell sweets and breads made by people with disabilities in local daycare facilities to executives and employees.

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  Activities by overseas group companies

  Our overseas group companies also independently plan and carry out social contribution activities.

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  Activities by domestic bases

  Each base in Japan independently plans and carries out social contribution activities.

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  Other donations

  We make donations to projects run by nonprofit organizations and donate Bell Marks and unused miswriting postcards.

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  Aid donations for natural disasters

  We collect donations from executives and employees to support people affected by large-scale natural disasters and disaster-stricken areas.

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  Social contribution card

  We continue to donate to the Japan Guide Dog Association through the Japan Guide Dog Association Card.

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  Points program

  Using "Lovely Points," card members participate in donation activities to organizations such as non-profit organizations.

We convert a portion of the points awarded to employee JACCS cards into monetary amounts, the company adds an equal amount, and this money is used for donation activities. Each year, officers and employees make recommendations and vote to decide on donation recipients, and in fiscal year 2024, we made donations totaling 7.79 million yen to 12 organizations, including Global Fund for Education Assistance, which provides support to young people facing socioeconomic difficulties. Going forward, we will further enhance officers’ and employees’ awareness of participation and continue our efforts.

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With the support of many stakeholders, we reached our 70th anniversary in June 2024, and as an expression of our gratitude, we have made donations of 3 million yen each to six non-profit organizations, totaling 18 million yen. The recipients include three organizations selected by the Social Contribution Promotion Office and three organizations chosen through employee voting. The donations will support organizations that continue to tackle challenges in our priority areas of "Community," "Next Generation," and "Environment."

Leveraging the JACCS Group's network of locations, starting from fiscal year 2023, employees visit nearby children's cafeterias (84 locations in total as of fiscal 2024) twice a year to donate food items. We delivered local products from Hakodate, Hokkaido, our founding location, and sweets manufactured by people at a facility for persons with disabilities located in Shibuya, Tokyo, where our headquarters is situated, deepening exchanges with local communities.

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In fiscal 2023, we started the project "JACCS Forest Creation" with the aim of environmental conservation. This activity is a five-year forest conservation project to promote forest restoration and regeneration in Hokkaido, which is affiliated with JACCS, in collaboration with The Life Style Research Institute of Forests, a non-profit organization.
Led by executives and employees from our four bases in Sapporo, we planted 1,500 saplings on 1 hectare of land at the base of Mt. Kamuishiri. Going forward, we will work hard to nurture trees through activities such as grass mowing.

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We operate an initiative to invite children with childhood cancer, their families, and children from orphanages to Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters games at "ES CON FIELD HOKKAIDO" in Kitahiroshima City, Hokkaido.
Executives, employees and their family members support the event as volunteer staff, and the invited children enjoy extraordinary experiences on the ground, such as the first ball ceremony and base running, in addition to watching the baseball. We invited 110 people in fiscal 2025.

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We have been sponsoring the Hakodate Marathon since the first race in 1991. Since the full-half concurrent event in 2016, we have been supporting Hakodate and the runners by dispatching employee volunteers to water supply stations and conducting water supply activities, hoping to make the event at the place of our founding, Hakodate, even more of a success.
In the 2024 marathon, we contributed to the community by distributing sponges wetted with water and salt supplements.

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As a sponsor of the Gold Ribbon Walking charity event held by the Gold Ribbon Network Foundation to spread understanding and knowledge of childhood cancer, JACCS officers and employees participated as volunteer staff, distributing goods and calling for donations. Since 2016, officers and employees who agreed to participate have also provided support through event participation and donations.

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We have entered into a partnership agreement with the Japan Para-Volleyball Association. In order to support the further spread of para-volleyball, we co-sponsor in-house experience sessions and on-site classes at elementary and junior high schools held by the Association.

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Employees serve as lecturers and cooperate in the "Business Basics Course for NPOs, Facilities, and Volunteer Centers" hosted by the Tokyo Voluntary Action Center (operated by the Tokyo Council of Social Welfare). With the theme of "sales," which is the main business activity of JACCS, employees give lectures on business communication based on knowledge and skills cultivated through many years of experience.
Participants shared feedback, such as "I want to value the basic stance of direct dialogue" and "I would like to immediately apply the lecture content toward collaboration with companies."

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Utilizing the Wood Use Project run by the NPO The Lifestyle Research Institute of Forests, officers and employees sand building blocks made from thinning timber and donate them to nursery schools and kindergartens. In fiscal year 2024, we donated to 15 facilities, and we were able to enjoy exchanges with local children, including receiving songs as thanks when we actually visited nursery schools.

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In fiscal 2023, we implemented the package "Vaccines through secondhand clothes" provided by JAPAN REUSE SYSTEM. It is a mechanism that leads to the achievement of various SDGs such as a recycling business in Cambodia, creation of local employment, decarbonization, and polio vaccinations through the collection of unwanted clothes.
Despite it being the first implementation, 133 bases participated nationwide and we collected about 8,500 items of secondhand clothes equivalent to 875 polio vaccines.

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At several bases, including the headquarters (Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), we regularly hold in-house sales events where executives and employees sell independent products such as sweets and bread made by people with disabilities in local daycare facilities. Through this activity, we contribute to sales and provide a place for people with disabilities to participate in society.

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Our overseas group companies also independently plan and carry out social contribution activities.
At JACCS MICROFINANCE (CAMBODIA) PLC (JMC) in Cambodia, we plan CSR activities twice a year, donating $3,000 to the Japan Heart Children's Medical Center and sponsoring the Yu & Me project organized by Football-For-Everyone Pte., Ltd., holding a soccer class that invited children from nonprofit organizations in Phnom Penh.

At PT JACCS MITRA PINASTHIKA MUSTIKA FINANCE INDONESIA (JMFI) in Indonesia, the company's Finance and Accounting Department head gave lectures to over 50 vocational school students on smart money management methods and savings and investment, contributing to improving financial literacy.

At JACCS FINANCE PHILIPPINES CORPORATION (JFP) in the Philippines, we held a total of three workshops aimed at young people aged 12 to 18. The first session covered entrepreneurial skills training that included practical content for building small-scale businesses, such as product planning, strategic planning, marketing, packaging, budget preparation, and pricing. The second session was a cooking skills training workshop that taught Japanese cooking methods and how to sell the dishes. Finally, we applied the content from sessions 1 and 2, considered business from product planning through sales to profit generation, and connected this to learning the concepts of business creation and monetization.

At JACCS International Vietnam Finance Company Limited (JIVF) in Vietnam, as part of the CSR activities, we sponsored the Yu & Me project organized by Football-For-Everyone Pte., Ltd., and engaged in exchanges through soccer with children aged 7 to 16 living at the orphanage SOS Children's Village, Ho Chi Minh City. We also provided uniforms.

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• At the Kumamoto Branch, we conducted cleanup activities at Suizenji Ezuko Park to protect the local environment.
• At the offices in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City, including the Kyushu Area Management Department, we are participating in activities to collect empty cases of disposable contact lenses and recycle them.
• At the Machida Branch, we decorated blank fans to express summer, and donated them to a special nursing home for the elderly.
• At the Mie Branch, we collected plastic bottle caps and donated them to an organization that uses them to fund vaccines that save children around the world.
• At the Tokyo Auto Loans Credit Screening Center, we held dance classes and painting classes for people in the workplaces of social welfare corporations involved in daily in-house sales events.
• The Health Management Promotion Office of the Human Resources Department made feeding boxes from recycled milk cartons and donated them along with toys to support organizations that volunteer with rescued cats.
• The Osaka branch donated 50 assorted sweets packages as Christmas presents to local children's cafeterias.

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We endorsed a project to establish the Japan Heart Asia Children's Medical Center in Cambodia run by Japan Heart, an international medical NGO, and donated 10 million yen to support it. It is expected that the new hospital will be able to detect diseases requiring advanced medical treatment such as childhood cancer at an early stage and provide appropriate treatment. It is also expected that the hospital will be used as a place to teach the latest technologies for the training of local medical professionals.

We collect Bell Marks as a social contribution activity that officers and employees can easily participate in. The collected Bell Marks are donated to schools near our business locations and used for purchasing school supplies and equipment.
In order to further contribute to the local community, we will continue to support children with a bright future through collection activities and donations.

We donate unused miswriting postcards and small denomination unused stamps that we collect daily to the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan. These are converted to cash and become donations for the UNESCO World Terakoya Movement that the organization runs and are used mainly for poverty reduction and self-reliance support through education in Asia, where there are many non-literate people and people in poverty.

As support for those facing economic hardship, we are donating food to the food pantry program operated by the Shibuya City Social Welfare Council. The Shibuya City Social Welfare Council provides food support to those experiencing financial difficulties while also offering consultation services for various concerns and providing ongoing support. To contribute to these activities, we are providing specialty products from Hokkaido, including our founding city of Hakodate.

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We collect donations from executives and employees of the JACCS Group to support people affected by large-scale natural disasters and disaster-stricken areas.
We provide a matching gift where the company adds an amount equal to the amount collected from executives and employees, and donate the funds to disaster-stricken areas, the Japanese Red Cross Society, and certified NPOs that carry out support activities in disaster-stricken areas.

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  The above donation amounts include donations from matching gifts as well as donations as a company.

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We continue to make the following donations to the Japan Guide Dog Association through the Japan Guide Dog Association Card.

• We donated about 18.69 million yen to the Japan Guide Dog Association through the Japan Guide Dog Association Card.
• In order to raise awareness about the Japan Guide Dog Association, we co-sponsored a charity golf tournament (October).

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Using the "Lovely Points” points program that accumulates points according to the amount of card usage, card members participate in donation activities to organizations such as non-profit organizations. We accept point exchanges throughout the year, and we donate 1,000 yen for each 1,000 points to various organizations selected by card members. In addition, we ask card members for their cooperation in the event of a disaster.

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  Point donations are made under the name of JACCS.

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