Boys & Girls Club Cookout, Summer 2011 HFC employees talk with a member of the Boys & Girls Club Steel Drum Band Recycling education at Beam’s Intermediate School, Cherryville, NC Hooker Furniture Discovery Reef at Virginia Museum of Natural History Designing  OUR FUTURE THROUGH A CULTURE OF COMMUNITY CITIZENSHIP HOOKER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION RECIPIENTS DESIGNING OUR FUTURE 4 The Hooker Educational Foundation (HEF), in conjunction with Hooker Furniture  Corporation (HFC), has awarded over $1.2 million in scholarship grants to children and  spouses of employees at Hooker Furniture and its subsidiaries since the Foundation’s  inception in 1991. The HEF is a tax-exempt private foundation supported by donations  from HFC and friends. The students pictured here are just a few of the 16 young people  who received scholarships from the Foundation or HFC for the 2011–2012 school year. Robert Jordan Young Paige M. Moorefield Jeremy Robbs Haley Mosteller As in years past, Hooker Furniture employees served in leadership roles for  the 2011 United Way Campaign, and the company contributed a total of  just under $94,000, marking both the largest corporate and employee dona- tions for the campaign. The company’s strong commitment to United Way  is driven by the organization’s role as a single source to impact multiple needs  and causes in the community. Another tradition of community service  Hooker Furniture maintained this year was sponsoring a baseball clinic and  From serving in leadership positions of community organizations to making  the largest donation to the 2011 United Way Campaign of Martinsville- Henry County to organizing fundraisers to help pay medical bills for colleagues, employees of Hooker Furniture are active community citizens.  Their engaged efforts on behalf of organizations like The Boys and Girls Club,  the American Red Cross, the Piedmont Arts Association or the Salvation  Army create a culture of giving and serving at Hooker Furniture, Bradington- Young and Sam Moore.  picnic for the Boys and Girls Club and the Martinsville Mustangs college  baseball team. The company provided the food, and employees served at the picnic lunch for approximately 100 children and baseball players. In addition to impacting the local community, Hooker Furniture strives to  be a good steward of the environment through sustainable business practices.  For the third consecutive year, all eight of Hooker’s U.S. facilities across all  divisions obtained certification by the American Home Furnishings Alliance  (AHFA) as an EFEC company. EFEC—“Enhancing Furniture’s Environmen- tal Culture”—is a voluntary environmental management and best practices  program for the furniture industry. The company achieved a milestone this  year by recycling over one million pounds of paper, plastic and cardboard.  Energy-saving utility installations in our warehouses and new boiler controls  reduced energy consumption while saving approximately $2,000 per month.  The company also continued recycling education programs with community  elementary and middle schools this year.