Corporate Citizenship Overview

Being a good corporate citizen is part of our identity. We support our people’s passion to bring lasting, positive change to their communities, and we bring to our corporate citizenship efforts the same principles of high performance that we apply to our work with clients. Our corporate citizenship efforts are centered on delivering tangible outcomes through a mix of financial giving and the giving of time and skills from our skilled professionals. We work with nonprofit and community organizations to help them adapt to change, become efficient and effective, work through times of crises and evolve to achieve their goals and serve our communities. Anchored by our strong set of core values and our Code of Business Ethics, our commitments focus on helping develop the skills of underprivileged individuals and on understanding and reducing our environmental impact.

As a company, we have taken a number of steps to demonstrate our commitment through action, including signing the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, filing our third consecutive report with the Carbon Disclosure Project (which provides information regarding our carbon footprint), achieving global ISO 14001 certification for our environmental management system, and becoming a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Our employees take this commitment to corporate citizenship personally—which includes volunteering their own time, their energy and in some instances their own money to be involved in their communities in a way that matches their passions and interests. Through their individual fundraising, giving and volunteer efforts, people from Accenture offices around the world are continually finding ways to contribute to the communities in which they live and work.

Our Focus on Skills to Succeed:

Our corporate citizenship theme, Skills to Succeed, focuses on “building skills of marginalized and underprivileged individuals, enabling them to participate in and contribute to the economy”.

Developing the skill and talent of our people is at the heart of our business; it is what we do every day and we are a global leader in this space. Our theme also closely resonates with our business model, and allows us to capitalize on the momentum of our existing capabilities and relationships.

In a fast changing multi-polar world, skills are becoming the key driver of economic empowerment for both individuals and communities. In today’s challenging financial environment across the globe, it is more critical than ever to have the right skills to participate in and contribute to the economy. Accenture has what it takes to make a significant impact towards economic empowerment.

In the end, what matters is delivering robust and sustainable outcomes that will benefit individuals, families and the communities in which they live and work.

Corporate Citizenship Initiatives at Accenture India:

Our Corporate Citizenship agenda is delivered through four means:

1. Giving Skills
   Accenture Development Partnerships
   We partner with international nonprofit organizations to offer them high-quality business skills at reduced costs. Our people are engaged in using their skills and time to bring about positive changes to local communities across the world.
   
   Pro Bono Assignments
   Our belief is that the development sector should benefit from the same technology, consulting and core business skills that our paying clients get. Our Pro Bono program ensures that we can provide exactly that , giving the NGO the benefit of world class business expertise at zero cost, ensuring that we have social impact as our end outcome.
   
   
2. Giving Money
   Grant Giving
   Under this program, we focus on ‘skills for livelihood’- building skills which enable people to participate in & contribute to the economy, and support the national agenda of livelihood generation We partner with projects which leverage our skills, engage our employees and are sustainable in the long run. We are testing pilot programs for employability in industry verticals which have the highest potential for employment
   
   Employee Giving
   We focus on creating employment opportunities by providing vocational training to underprivileged youth and providing quality education and welfare to children. The program allows our employees to contribute towards changing lives of disadvantaged children and unemployed youth across the country.
   
   
3. Giving Time
   National Volunteering Program
   Through our National Volunteering Program employees spend thousands of hours of personal time away from their work volunteering with a range of non-profit organizations across the country for various causes that they believe in. Interested volunteers come together on a shared cause to adopt specific NGOs, working with them for community welfare as well as supporting them on their own capability building. The program provides community involvement through sustained interactions and capacity building opportunities – NGO benefits from time and skills and the employees are left feeling worthwhile and “having made a difference".
   
   
4. Giving to the Environment
   Our environment program is aimed at promoting and developing awareness on our environmental impacts as individual employees as well as an organization. We believe that the health of our business is inextricably linked to the health of the environment in which we operate.
   
   Read our Environment Policy
   
   Our Occupational Health and Safety Policy: We are committed to incorporating leading occupational health and safety (OHS) practices into our business strategy and operations and to fostering OHS awareness and responsibility among our stakeholders, including employees, clients and suppliers.
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