Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens Joins UPS CEO Carol B. Tomé at the 2023 UPS Impact Summit
17 Outubro 2023 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
UPS Announces Launch of Emergency Child Care
Initiative and 2023 UPS Ignite Grant Recipients
Today, UPS (NYSE:UPS) is hosting the second UPS Impact Summit,
aligning with the company’s customer-first, people-led and
innovation-driven business strategy. This year’s Summit brings
together customers, employees, nonprofit leaders and government
officials to discuss the importance of inclusion, innovation and
collaboration as businesses work to positively impact communities.
UPS CEO Carol B. Tomé will deliver the Summit’s welcome alongside
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and other influential leaders from UPS,
Walker & Company Brands and Beta Technologies.
“Operationalizing our purpose – moving our world forward by
delivering what matters – is a constant for us every day, in every
UPS community,” said Carol. “Today’s conversations reflect our
ongoing commitment to the communities we serve and the collective
work that’s necessary to make a difference in our hometown and
around the world.”
Highlights from the 2023 UPS Impact Summit include:
- UPS announces the launch of an Emergency Child Care Initiative
for U.S.-based frontline workers that addresses retention
challenges impacting career advancement.
- UPS Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing & Customer
Experience Officer Kevin Warren recognizes recipients of the 2023
UPS Ignite Grants, a program created to help diverse entrepreneurs
access the resources and tools needed to grow their business.
- Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and The UPS Foundation President
Nikki Clifton discuss the impact of The Foundation’s nearly $7
million in grants and sponsorships to 29 local partners and how
community-minded corporations positively affect job growth and
economic vitality.
“UPS is proud of our community engagement in our hometown of
Atlanta and around the world,” said Laura Lane, Executive Vice
President and Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer at
UPS. “The UPS Impact Summit provides a platform to share the
intentionality and scale of our efforts and how they uplift our
employees, advance economic opportunities for small business owners
and reinforce our commitment to achieve our sustainability
goals."
Delivering a Difference for Our People
In partnership with Patch Child Care Solutions, the UPS
Emergency Child Care Initiative was piloted from August 2022 to
January 2023 during the evening shift at a UPS facility in Northern
California. With goals of reducing work absences because of child
care challenges and increasing retention, the initiative was a
first-of-its-kind for UPS, which has over 2,000 facilities and more
than 500,000 employees worldwide.
The pilot program offered emergency day care services onsite at
the UPS facility, where parents would have the lowest possible
barrier to using the new service. 80% percent of eligible employees
participated and took advantage of the service more than once,
avoiding more than 120 unplanned absences. Employee turnover among
the pilot group dropped significantly, from 31% to 4%.
UPS is now expanding the emergency child care initiative to
include additional shifts at the pilot site and select Pennsylvania
facilities in the fourth quarter of 2023 – just in time for the
busy holiday shipping season. Additional facilities across the U.S.
will be added in 2024.
Delivering Opportunities for Small Business Customers
This year, in conjunction with the Impact Summit, UPS is also
spotlighting its long-standing commitment to small businesses
through programs such as UPS Ignite. In partnership with Accion
Opportunity Fund, founders Annie Obasih of Annie’s Gourmet Syrup
and Felicia Jackson of CPR Wraps will each receive UPS Ignite
grants of $10,000 to help fuel their business growth. The following
UPS small business customers will join today’s Summit at UPS
headquarters: Beautiful Curly Me, Be Rooted, Edgar Evans, Good Boy
Goodies, Kulture Karaoke, Sam Louise, Simplicity Beverage Company,
Tee Saint Charles and The Chai Box.
About UPS
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is one of the world’s largest companies, with a
2022 revenue of $100.3 billion, and provides a broad range of
integrated logistics solutions for customers in more than 200
countries and territories. Focused on its purpose statement,
“Moving our world forward by delivering what matters,” the
company’s more than 500,000 employees embrace a strategy that is
simply stated and powerfully executed: Customer First. People Led.
Innovation Driven. UPS is committed to reducing its impact on the
environment and supporting the communities we serve around the
world. UPS also takes an unwavering stance in support of diversity,
equity and inclusion. More information can be found at
www.ups.com, about.ups.com and
www.investors.ups.com.
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