DAS employees showed their generosity by contributing to a number of charitable efforts during the biennium.

During the first full year of agency-sponsored blood drives, a total of 206 units were collected at DAS-sponsored drives at the Rhodes Tower Blood Donor Center and at General Services Division headquarters at Surface Road during fiscal year 2002. A total of 205 units were collected at those sites during fiscal year 2003. Collectively these units potentially saved more than 1,200 lives.

DAS employees contributed a total of $126,497 to the fiscal year 2002 Combined Charitable Campaign, surpassing the agency goal by $28,734. The contribution increased to $129,356 for the fiscal year 2003 campaign, a figure $26,704 above the goal.

DAS donated the equivalent of 26,384 meals to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank Operation Feed campaign during fiscal year 2002 and 19,941 meals during fiscal year 2003. One meal is the equivalent of one pound of food or 50 cents. The Mid-Ohio FoodBank also was the recipient of 163 complete baskets, 21 partial baskets and $2,972 contributed by DAS employees to the 2001 Holiday Food Basket Campaign. Donated during the 2002 campaign were 49 complete baskets, 32 incomplete baskets and $1,486.

Several DAS employees took leave to volunteer for the United Way Community Care Day, a day in September of each year when volunteers work throughout central Ohio at United Way agencies. Five employees worked at Camp Oty'Okwa, a Big Brothers/Big Sisters Camp in Hocking County in 2001. The following year 10 DAS employees volunteered at Arlington Park Elementary School in Columbus.

Employees also participated in Make a Difference Day campaigns by donating items to Choices, a battered women's shelter, and Take It To The Streets, an organization which reaches out to the Columbus homeless population.

In addition, employees donated 129 cellular phones to help victims of domestic violence during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October 2002.