Corporate social responsibility is a core value for Cummins, a fundamental part of who we are and how we do business.

Cummins has several ways of promoting this essential value. A Corporate Social Responsibility Department oversees strategies and programs to encourage community involvement and responsible citizenship. The Cummins Foundation plays a role in promoting and developing programs or processes that enable the Company to do good work. However, the most important work is done by the Cummins employees.

Mission

The mission of the Cummins Foundation is to make people's lives better by:

• Serving and improving the communities in which Cummins Inc does business, and
• Providing the tools and means for people living on the edge of society to overcome the barriers the face.

Focus

In accomplishing this mission, we will focus our limited resources on opportunities to:

• Embrace the diverse perspectives of all people, honoring with both dignity and respect,
• Balance investment in innovation with continued support of the important,
• Emphasize partnerships, risk-taking and measurable impact, and
• Unleash the power of Cummins by leveraging our people, connections, money, products and services to make a difference.

The philosophy of the Cummins Foundation is that we seek to give people a hand up, not a hand out. We do not seek to make them endlessly dependent on grant funding but rather we prefer to engage all of the Cummins resources to move them to a vibrant, sustainable organization.

History

The Cummins Foundation turned 50 in 2004 and during its history, the Cummins Foundation has played an important role in the Company's unique approach to its social responsibilities and good corporate citizenship.

The Cummins Foundation is one of the oldest corporate charitable foundations in the United States. On November 22, 1954, Mr. J. Irwin Miller held the first meeting of The Cummins Engine Foundation to adopt a formal organization for "religious, educational, and charitable purposes." At that time, the Foundation was one of only 250 company-sponsored foundations in the United States. Today, there are more than 2,500 company-sponsored foundations.

Notable and News

In early 1955, the first round of grants made by the Foundation totaled $2,775. In 2004, the Cummins Foundation provided 42 grants worth $1.5 million to charitable organizations. That money is in addtion to direct corporate donations and considerable employee donations to the United Way.

In 2005, Cummins was chosen the top U.S. by Business Ethics magazine. In response to this award, the Foundation created an innovative service initiative called Every Employee, Every Community. It allowed employees to spend a half-day of company time volunteering in their communities. As a result of the program, more than 2,000 employees provided more than 12,000 hours of volunteer service in Cummins communities around the world.

In 2005, the Cummins Foundation began the Community Innovation Grant Program (CIGP). The CIGP is the combination of two very successful programs the Foundation has spearheaded in recent years - The Plant Innovation Program and the 50^th Anniversary Grant Programs.