Serving the Community

UPS serves more than its customers; we also serve our communities. Because we drive through neighborhoods and knock on the doors of homes and businesses around the world, we see firsthand the problems facing today’s society. At UPS, we are committed to providing both our time and money to help strengthen the communities where our employees and customers live and work.

The UPS Foundation/Corporate Relations
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, The UPS Foundation has a long history of enriching lives and strengthening communities through its various initiatives and programs. The Foundation supports major initiatives in the fields of volunteerism, literacy, and hunger relief, but offers its time, money, and expertise to other causes as well.

In 2001 alone, The UPS Foundation contributed $40.3 million to charitable organizations addressing education and urgent human needs through grants, scholarships, employee gift-matching, and support of United Way.

Through its Corporate Relations programs, UPS manages to match its financial resources to its human resources. UPS has long partnered with other national organizations committed to equal justice, equal opportunity, and building stronger communities. The synergy between Corporate Relations and The UPS Foundation extends the reach of UPS’s philanthropy and strengthens the impact of its social investments.

United Way
Since UPS’s first United Way campaign in 1982, the company and its employees have contributed more than $500 million to support a broad range of human care services. UPS is the first company in United Way’s history to exceed $50 million in annual giving, and in 2001, it was the largest corporate contributor for the second consecutive year.

The UPS Community Internship Program
The UPS Community Internship Program is a unique executive training program designed to attune UPS managers to the increasingly complex needs of a diverse workforce and customer base. Each year, a select group of managers immerse themselves in community service for one month at one of four internship sites, which helps create awareness, promotes understanding, heightens sensitivity, and encourages involvement.

Such community service builds better managers and more well rounded individuals. It also bridges the gap between corporations and communities. Since 1968, UPS has dedicated more than $12 million to its Community Internship Program, with more than 1,100 senior level managers having participated in the training experience.

Employment Initiatives
UPS also helps the community through its various employment initiatives, which include:

Earn & Learn Program, which offers education assistance at participating UPS locations to part-time employees who are attending a college, university, or approved trade or technical school.

School to Work Program, which provides high school students aged 17 and older with the opportunity to earn college credit while gaining work experience with UPS. The program is available in several large cities such as Chicago, Dallas, Louisville, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.

Supplier Diversity Process, which offers minority- and women-owned businesses the opportunity to compete equally with other UPS suppliers. More than 25,000 small, minority- and women-owned businesses across America are partners in the UPS supplier network.

Welfare to Work Partnership, which works with government agencies, faith-based groups, and nonprofit organizations to develop, train, and mentor qualified candidates for positions at UPS and other area businesses.

Environmental Initiatives
At UPS, environmental stewardship has long been recognized both as a responsibility and as a good business practice. Some significant initiatives include:

• UPS’s industry-leading research into alternative fuels, designed to reduce emissions and maximize fuel economy.
  
  
• UPS’s re-engineered express packaging, which eliminates bleach and reduces production waste by up to 50 percent. The Reusable Next Day Air Letter is made of 100 percent recycled fiber, saving more than 12,000 trees per year and more than $1 million in production costs.
  
  
• UPS’s Electronic Equipment Recycling Program, through which the company recycled almost 3 million pounds of outdated electronic equipment in 2001.
  
  
• UPS’s Automatic Return Service (ARS), through which the company assists customers in returning their used toner cartridges, automotive parts, computer and medical equipment, etc. These products are disassembled for reuse or disposed of in a responsible manner.
  
  
• UPS’s delivery notices are made from recycled paper, saving more than 1,500 trees annually.
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• For the 19th consecutive year, UPS was rated America’s Most Admired mail, package and freight delivery company in a Fortune magazine survey.
  
  
• UPS was named Corporate Citizen of the Year by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for its support of critical community issues.
  
  
• For the third consecutive year (1999-2001), Fortune magazine included UPS in its ranking of the 50 Best Companies for Minorities.
  
  
• Transport Topics magazine named UPS # 1 on its Transport Topics 100 List.
  
  
• UPS was the winner in the parcel-express category in the NASSTRAC 2001 Carriers of the Year.
  
  
• DiversityInc.com ranked UPS as one of the Top 10 Best Companies for Diversity.
  
  
• Global Finance magazine named UPS best logistics company in its World’s Best Companies.
  
  
• Worth magazine included former UPS Chairman and CEO Jim Kelly on its list of The 50 Best CEOs.
  
  
• United Way of America named UPS one of its Spirit of America Summit Award winners.
  
  
• Worth magazine named UPS to its list of The Fifty Companies that Gave the Most.
  
  
• For two consecutive years (2000-2001), Smart Business named UPS to its Internet 50 (The 50 Who Got it Right!) ranking.
  
  
• Fortune magazine added UPS to its Fortune–50 Index, the definitive benchmark of the Internet economy.
  
  
• UPS was on the second annual InternetWeek 100, a list of U.S. companies analyzed for their effectiveness in using the Internet to achieve tangible business benefits.
  
  
• Darwin magazine named UPS as one of its Fittest 50.
  
  
• Forbes named UPS to its Magnetic 40 list in the B2B Best of the Web issue.
  
  
• UPS was named to the Forbes Platinum 400 list, which notes companies that are making the most of the Internet and generating lessons others can apply.
  
  
• UPS ranked #4 in Interactive Week’s 2001 Interactive 500 list.
  
  
• i-Source Business included UPS in its ranking of Top 100 Premier e-Procurement Providers.
  
  
• UPS was awarded CIO Web Business 50, which honors outstanding Web sites across business, government, and nonprofit platforms.
  
  
• UPS ranked #7 in the 2001 Info World 100 list.
  
  
• UPS Logistics Group won the Logistics Grand Prix award for significant achievement, and the award for Innovation in the Use of Information Technology at the 2001 Automotive News Europe Logistics Awards.
  
  
• UPS ranked 15th out of 60 in the third annual ReputationQuotient Gold study, which measures the reputations of the most visible companies in the United States.
  
  
• UPS placed 11th in a survey given by the Reputation Institute for top-rated socially responsible companies.
  
  
• Far Eastern Economic Review ranked UPS # 39 on its list of Asia’s Leading Companies.
  
  
• UPS ranked as the 52nd-largest company in the Fortune 500 – America’s Largest Corporations.
  
  
• UPS ranked #135 on Fortune magazine’s Global 500 index.
  
  
• BusinessWeek ranked UPS #135 on its Global 1000 survey.
  
  
• UPS received the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership for its leadership efforts on welfare-to-work issues. It is the first Presidential award to honor companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities.