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social
Corporate social responsibility is a core value of our company. Through our partnerships, corporate giving, community outreach, employee involvement and education, we are committed to building healthy and productive relationships with our employees, business partners and the local communities in which we do business around the world.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT We intend to further develop our company-wide community investment strategy in 2008 and began to measure our financial investments as a percentage of company profits in 2007. As a part of our due diligence process, ProLogis closely examines the impact that new development will have on the environment and community. We make every effort to ensure that the public is educated on our plans by attending city council and planning meetings, listening to public feedback and working to create master-planned distribution parks that will assimilate into the community. While every project is different, some examples of our process include traffic analysis to determine if there are any required infrastructure upgrades and economic analysis to research potential job creation our project will provide, as well as the increased tax revenues for local and/or state agencies. Sustainability at ProLogis transcends our development business; its principles are being utilized company wide. For example, at our corporate events and meetings, we no longer offer bottled water or paper, plastic or Styrofoam cups. Instead, we provide reusable cold and hot beverage containers. We also require venues to have plastic, paper and aluminum recycling, and hotels must have a linen reuse program. Finally, in order to eliminate paper distribution at tradeshows, we now provide reusable USB flash drives.
NORTH AMERICA
EUROPE Through the Park Foundation in Poland, we donated funds to upgrade equipment at the children's oncology ward at the Maria Konopnicka University Hospital - this effort was part of a nationwide initiative to support underprivileged children in the country. We also donated time and resources to: sponsor an elementary school basketball tournament where winning schools received sports equipment, support three months worth of summer events for disadvantaged children in Piotrkow, buy lunch for poor children at Warsaw schools, and create scholarships to the Higher School of Logistics in Poznan.
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