The Bristol-Myers Squibb Pledge includes a commitment to conscientious citizenship, a helping hand for worthwhile causes and constructive action that supports a clean and healthy environment. By encouraging its own employees and its business units to support their local communities, the company and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation seek to participate as responsible neighbors and members of the communities where its people live and work and where its facilities are located.
The company, its many business units and company facilities have established grants and charitable contributions programs to support medical, educational and philanthropic initiatives. The company recognizes the impact it makes in communities and understands its obligation to participate in and enhance the life of those communities. Specifically, as a science-based, health care company, it seeks to align those efforts with its mission and its strategic vision to address unmet needs and health disparities in specific therapeutic areas at the community level. It also looks for opportunities to support programs, initiatives and organizations that address shared priorities of both the company and its communities.
Supporting non-profit organizations in communities where company employees live and work provides an opportunity for the company to adhere to the values expressed in its Pledge. Building relationships with neighbors, including hospitals, local governments and educational institutions, creates a positive environment for the company in pursuing its mission and its growth objectives. It also enables the company to enhance the life and welfare of the communities where its employees and their families live. Both benefits help in attracting and retaining employees and in working alongside various partners to create a positive business climate for the company wherever it locates its facilities and does business.
In the United States, a series of philanthropic efforts by Bristol-Myers Squibb has focused on two important goals:
- To address health disparities that arise due to differences in healthcare that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, living in rural localities or sexual orientation;
- To demonstrate conscientious citizenship in support of worthwhile causes and activities in the geographic communities where Bristol-Myers Squibb employees live and work and the healthcare communities they serve.