“D o i n g G o o d—T o g e t h e r”
Our Office of Corporate Social Responsibility helps businesses give back to the community and create positive change in neighborhoods, and communities. Through this program, we align our day-to-day business operations with our deeper values. It's a challenge we've embraced for more than 25 years, and this strong sense of social responsibility has remained embedded in our company, and its activities. We believe economic growth should be inclusive—for every person, organization, community, and country.
For more than 25 years, we have supported grassroots community development activists working to find solutions to the economic developmental crisis. But in this time of unprecedented threats, it’s often hard to know the best way to get involved. That’s why we’re connecting local faith-focus businesses, with community organizations and stakeholders, to act on the most pressing issues facing the world today.
Our leadership and entrepreneurial staff, are diligent supporters of “grassroots economic development efforts.” Our business measure of success, goes beyond the bottom line. In today’s world, we as a company give back to our community and strive to positively impact our communities, with acts for the greater good—not just for a greater profit!
We work together to bring about specific changes in social, economic, and cultural practices, through collaborative, sustained actions focused on changing and removing barriers, with the ultimate aim of improving the lives of individuals and groups, who are subjected to disparate, discriminatory, oppressive social, economic, political, cultural, or environmental conditions.
Our aim is to ensure that we will be conscious of the kind of impact we are having on all aspects of society, and to align our company’s social and economic development activities with our business purpose and values.
Issues we care about
We build awareness and support for the social & economic development issues that we feel strongly about.
Human Rights & Dignity
We are committed to honoring the rights of all people to live with liberty, security, self-esteem, and freedom of expression and protest, and to have the opportunity to provide for their own needs and contribute to society.
Lives Matter. Now and Always.
We stand firmly in support of our employees, Partners, and community.
As a company, we recognize it’s essential for us to continue to learn, grow, and dedicate resources towards empowering change in the way people are treated in American society.
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Social Value
Everyone deserves equal economic and social opportunities; in using resources in some way—opportunities that are a group of actions that will create a set of circumstances that make it possible to pursue and to produce. Social Opportunities-are chances for people to improve their quality of life
We aim to open the doors of access and opportunity for everyone, particularly those in greatest need.
We are committed to achieving equity and opportunity for communities across our nation that have been historically marginalized, recognizing that this is tied to fair livelihoods that enable individuals, families, and communities to thrive.
Local Neighborhood Economic Growth
We aim to use the resources we have—our voice, our business and our community—to do something about economic development crisis in underserved, socially marginalized communities and neighborhoods.
We envision an increase in the production of goods and services in our neighborhoods, with increases in capital goods, labor force, technology, and human capital.
Faith-Based organizations (FBO), local Community Development corporations (CDC), and faith-driven business organizations, who are interested in neighborhood and community development, may increase their effectiveness by getting involved in joint-ventures with existing businesses, rather than by sponsoring projects independently.
Faith-based organizations are uniquely positioned to have a significant impact beyond simply “church,” and ‘tiny’ fundraisers.