Several Xerox Corp. employees plan to donate their lean and Six Sigma skills to help nonprofit groups in their communities. The donation is part of Xerox’s larger effort to prioritize the value of good corporate citizenship, which was announced at the Business for Social Responsibility conference on Nov. 11.

“We believe passionately that good citizenship is good business,” says Anne M. Mulcahy, Xerox chairman and CEO. “It’s good for our communities, good for our people and ultimately, good for our companies.”

The lean and Six Sigma skills donation will be concentrated in the Rochester, New York, area, where Xerox has its largest group of U.S. employees. Process improvement skills will be taught to managers at eight local nonprofit organizations to help community issues through strategic planning, service capacity increases and cost reduction.

“Most of us joined Xerox in the first place because it stood for something beyond the bottom line—as important as that is,” says Mulcahy. “We all believe that we are part of an ongoing experiment to demonstrate that business success and social responsibility are not mutually exclusive.”

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