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Charitable strategy
We respond to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and actively uses core functions to help solve social and environmental problems. We continued the four major charitable strategies of "Social Care", "Sports Competition", "Artistic Cultural Creation", and "Green Care" in 2023 and integrated subsidiaries of the Group, First Bank Culture & Education Foundation and First Bank Volunteer Service Team. We work with customers, suppliers, and non-profit organizations in charitable activities. In addition to improving the brand image and corporate social value, these activities also help increase growth in overall operations.
Amount Unit: ten thousand

Amount Unit: ten thousand

*1:Starting in 2022, we have changed our existing "5 Plus 2 Industry" (intelligent machinery, Asian Silicon Valley, green energy technology, biomedical industry, defense industry, new agriculture, and circular economy) loan program to the "Six Core Strategic Industry" (including information and digital technology, excellent information security, Taiwan precision health, green power and renewable energy, defense and strategic industries, and consumer products and defense readiness) loan program.
*2:Our existing "Renewable Energy Creation Loans" were renamed "Renewable Energy Sustainability Loans" in 2022.
Amount Unit: ten thousand

Amount Unit: ten thousand

Benefit evaluation
In order to effectively measure the input resources and output benefits, FFHC adopts the community investment management model of London Benchmarking Group (LBG), and uses quantitative data to evaluate the input resources, benefits, results and long-term impact of each project on society. We invested a total of NT$112.03 million in the four major charitable strategies in 2023. We also used the LBG model to evaluate the proportion of investments in the past four years.
Unit: ten thousand NTD
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■ Type of resources committed

Volunteer Service
First Financial Holdings has established a volunteer service team since 2011, including "Green volunteers" who promote sustainable environment and "Loving Volunteers" who care for the disadvantaged. In 2023, a total of 159 charity activities were held, including 66 loving volunteer activities, 37 green volunteer activities, and 56 financial knowledge promotion activities on campus and in the community. Between 2011 and 2023, volunteers participated in events for a total of 27,043 times, benefiting over 235,175 people and clocking in a total of 109,521 hours of service. To learn about the participants' satisfaction rate of volunteer activities, we also distributed 8,046 surveys and recovered 98.46% of the surveys. 91.82% of the participants have expressed their satisfaction with the events.
■ Service Hours Rendered by the Green Volunteers and the Loving Volunteers in Recent Years


Promotion Projects for Financial Education
FFHC takes practical action to support disadvantaged groups by proactively leveraging its core competencies to help disadvantaged people learn about financial knowledge and safeguard their rights and interests. Our employees form volunteer service teams every year to share financial or wealth management concepts with rural communities, schools, and social welfare groups in hopes of continuously expanding the universalization of financial knowledge and creating opportunities for children to learn financial knowledge. FFHC incorporates the product concepts of retirement trusts and disability trusts for customers with physical or mental disabilities into volunteer services, thereby ensuring the financial security of the elderly and families of people with physical or mental disabilities.
■ Provide financial education to disadvantaged groups and in remote areas

■ Online financial education

First Podcast Show about ESG by a State-owned Bank-"Chitchat with FCB on New Stuff"
First Commercial Bank adopts a multitude of media channels to promote the ESG sustainability concept, becoming the first state-owned bank in Taiwan to launch an ESG podcast-"Chitchat with FCB on New Stuff"-via the voice-based podcast platform. The podcast uses an interesting, in-depth, yet easy-to-understand approach to communicate new information about sustainability issues to the general public. A total of 16 episodes were uploaded in 2023, which were downloaded 44,644 times. The show calls on society and the public to care about sustainable development together, so that we can build a sustainable ecosphere hand-in-hand.

In an unprecedented move in the financial industry, First Commercial Bank, an ESG front runner, partners with celebrity singer WINNI to roll out the music video "Act Now Together with FCB"
Setting a precedent in the financial industry, First Commercial Bank partnered with WINNI, dubbed as the "ideal Taiwanese girlfriend" to film a brand image video titled "Act Now Together with FCB". Through singing, dancing and catchy lyrics that stick in listeners' minds, we invite everyone to respond to the call for environmental sustainability. The video has accumulated 750,000 views on YouTube.
