United Strengthens Sustainability Commitment Through Collaboration With More Than a Dozen New Community Organizations
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United works with more environmental, nonprofit partners than any other major U.S. airline
CHICAGO, May 13, 2021 /CSRwire/ – United announced today that it has teamed up with more than a dozen new environmental, nonprofit partners to advance sustainability efforts across the airline’s hub cities as well as Hawaii, complementing the airline’s commitment to become 100% green and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 100% by 2050.
Among the 16 new partners are Carbon180 and RMI, which have worked with United to support decarbonization and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) initiatives at a policy level; DeltaInstitute and Liberty Hill, which have participated in listening sessions and awareness events with United employees; and Galveston Bay Foundation and Kanu Hawaii, with which United employees volunteered in Houston and on the islands of Oa
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Environmental Innovators – Organizations that foster research, development and programming focused on reducing carbon in the atmosphere and promoting renewable energy.
Elemental Excelerator (San Francisco and Honolulu) − LA Cleantech Incubator (Los Angeles)
Prime Coalition (Boston)
Rutgers University (Newark)
Environmental Justice and Equity – Organizations that fight to ensure a more equitable future for our communities’ most vulnerable members.
Air Alliance Houston (Houston) − The Alliance Center (Denver) − Delta Institute (Chicago)
Groundwork Elizabeth (Newark) − Liberty Hill (Los Angeles)
San Francisco Baykeeper (San Francisco)
United Employee Social Impact – Organizations that support United’s on-the-ground commitment to connecting people and uniting the world through employee volunteer opportunities.
City kids involved in Youth Made Media learn videography and software skills.
Our friends at the City Parks Foundation sent over some pictures of a program they held at Hamilton Fish Recreation Center last week. Youth Made Media (YM2) teaches 350 teenagers age 13 to 19 from low-income communities in all five boroughs skills such as video and audio production, media literacy and new media. The students create movies, documentaries and narratives, as well as explore careers and workplaces.
They produce original shows for the Public Access Youth Network and some of the students get to show their work at Tribeca Cinemas at the end of the program. For more info, check out the City Parks Foundation’s website.
Box Office Representative, Summer Stage, Central Park
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At City Parks Foundation (CPF), we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming New York City parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building, and education programs for all New Yorkers. Our programs located in more than 400 parks, recreation centers, and public schools across New York City reach 300,000 people each year.
CityParks Shows brings hundreds of live music, dance and theater performances to communities throughout New York City’s five boroughs. The SummerStage festival presents over 100 free performances and benefit concerts each year in 16 parks throughout the city, ranging from American pop, Latin and world music to dance, spoken word and theater. The Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, home to one of the last public marionette companies in the US, presents modern takes on classic fairy tales, and the traveling PuppetMobile presents f
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