AT&T Citizenship & Sustainability Report Highlights CSR Goals and Initiatives
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This document summarizes AT&T's corporate social responsibility goals and initiatives. It outlines three focus areas of people, planet, and possibilities. Specific goals include driving resource efficiency, enabling carbon savings 10 times their operational footprint, and collaborating to improve technology supply chains. Key programs described are AT&T Aspire to increase U.S. high school graduation rates to 90% through education investments and mentoring. It also discusses responsible technology use initiatives and how connectivity can enable reductions in emissions and power sustainable development.
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- 1. © 2016 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, Globe logo, Mobilizing Your World and DIRECTV are registered trademarks and service marks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. AT&T Citizenship & Sustainability March 2016
- 2. Connect to Good At AT&T, we’re using the power of our network to build a better tomorrow. Our CSR efforts focus on three areas: People, Planet, Possibilities. 2
- 3. A Roadmap to 2025: Our Goals Drive resource efficiency and enable AT&T customers to lead more sustainable lives. Lead our supply chain to improve its social and environmental impacts. Enable carbon savings 10x the footprint of our operations. Collaborate to transform the environmental and social impact of technology supply chains. Team up with stakeholders to close the skills gap, by increasing the number of Americans with post- secondary degrees to 60%. 2025 Goal2020 Goal Team up with stakeholders to increase the U.S. high school graduation rate to 90%. 3
- 4. 4 AT&T Aspire AT&T Aspire is our $350 million commitment to drive innovation in education and promote student success in school and beyond. Our 2020 goal is to invest resources, develop initiatives and collaborate with stakeholders to increase the U.S. high school graduation rate to 90%. Mobilizing Learning Powering Career Skills Making Connections Supporting What Works Our Impact Areas Through AT&T Aspire, we are… Investing in innovative solutions Engaging our employees through student mentoring Employing technology and capabilities that are unique to AT&T
- 5. 5 Mobilizing Learning In 2015, we launched the AT&T Aspire Accelerator, an education technology incubator supporting for- and non- profit companies with a $100,000 investment and mentorship from leaders in business and ed-tech. We’re helping to transform learning and empower students to succeed.
- 6. 6 Powering Career Skills To power the global economy, we need to bridge the skills gap and build a diverse talent pipeline for the jobs of today and the future. We’re collaborating with… Udacity to advance the Nanodegree program, a new, flexible category of online degrees Girls Who Code to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors
- 7. 7 Making Connections “I come from a family [where] no one has gone to college. I feel like I’ve broken the cycle.” – Tim, Aspire mentee from Houston, TX “…You all motivate me to go to college, take school seriously, and be successful in life.” – Student mentee from Dallas, TX Through Aspire Mentoring Academy, our employees have provided more than 160,000 students with more than 1 million hours of mentoring. We collaborate with non-profit education groups to connect students to mentors, provide opportunities to learn life skills and about diverse career paths.
- 8. 8 Supporting What Works AT&T is proud to work with many successful education organizations that are meeting the unique needs of students in their communities. AT&T’s supports the achievement of the national graduation rate goal of 90% by 2020 through the Grad Nation campaign. Graduation rates reached a record high of 82.3% for the class of 2014, but there is much work to be done to meet the goal. We are also working toward the goal of increasing the number of Americans with high-quality, post- secondary degrees to 60%.
- 9. 9 Serving Our Communities In 2015, our employees and retirees volunteered more than 5.4 million hours of time in community outreach activities — worth more than $124 million. Through Do One Thing (DOT), employees are encouraged to commit to regular, measurable actions (DOTs) that are good for themselves, their communities and/or the company. Since DOT’s launch in 2011, more than 25,600 AT&T employees in 1,375 cities and 32 countries have adopted more than 55,600 DOTs.
- 10. 10 Responsible Use of Technology It Can Wait® Digital You Digital You provides tips, tools and information to help consumers experience the benefits of the internet safely and securely. Visit: digitalyou.att.com Visit itcanwait.com
- 11. 11 Connected World Smart cities Supply chain tracking Optimized equipment & machinery Healthcare & fitness Smart energy systems Connected transportation Connected homes
- 12. Reducing Emissions with Technology ICT can enable a 20% reduction of global CO2 emissions by 2030, and could generate over $11 trillion in economic benefits. The ICT industry can empower carbon savings 9.7 times higher than its own footprint. AT&T set a goal to enable carbon savings 10x the footprint of our own operations by 2025. 1 2
- 13. Caring for the Planet Investing in alternative energy and driving energy efficiency. Expanding our fleet to include more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles by 2018. Improving water use and working with organizations like Environmental Defense Fund to empower others. 13
Editor's Notes
- Resource Efficiency Targets: Reduce our Scope 1 emissions by 20% by 2020 (baseline 2008). Develop and deploy robust methodology to understand AT&T’s network impacts to society. Supply Chain Targets: Establish clear industry sustainability metrics and promote their use in sourcing, and develop and follow an industry roadmap for truly sustainable performance. By the end of 2018, incorporate sustainability-oriented standards or analyses into our sourcing decisions with strategic suppliers. Education Goals Targets: We’ve passed the $250 million mark on our plan to invest $350 million in education between 2008-2017. Through Aspire, we’re driving innovation in education to promote student success in school and beyond by leveraging our technology, relationships and social innovation to help all students make their biggest dreams of reality. For example, as of January 2016, we’ve already engaged students at risk of dropping out of high school with 1 million hours of mentoring by AT&T employees.
- Mobilizing Learning Technology is fundamentally altering education by removing barriers so that everyone – regardless of age, gender, income or zip code – has the opportunity to make their dreams a reality. We are driving this change by developing tools for anytime, anywhere learning. Examples include: Aspire Accelerator, ConnectED and Khan Academy. Powering Career Skills The tech industry needs a capable and diverse pipeline of employees to fuel 21st century jobs. The need is currently outpacing the supply of skilled talent. To power the global economy, we need to bridge the skills gap and build a diverse talent pipeline for the jobs of today and the future. Examples include: Udacity-Nanodegrees and Georgia Tech; Genesys Works and Roadtrip Nation. Making Connections When mentors connect to young people, both are changed for the better. Through Aspire Mentoring Academy, we set a goal to provide 1 million hours of student mentoring by AT&T employees by the end of 2016. Examples include: Aspire Mentoring Academy; Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Communities in Schools. Supporting What Works When communities connect with proven strategies to help students achieve, graduation rates rise. Examples include: Connect to Success; Grad Nation and JAG.
- 2015 was our inaugural Aspire Accelerator class where we invested in eduCanon, GradGuru, LearnTrials, MindBlown Labs and Quill. These companies and nonprofits received over 100 hours of design help and over 120 hours of direct mentorship, and collectively, impacted more than 2 million students, 4,500 schools and 200,000 teachers. We’re looking for to our second class in 2016. In fact, we’ve upped our per-organization investment from $50,000 to $100,000. Other examples of how we’re mobilizing learning includes our collaboration with schools like the Momentous Institute to bring technology into the classroom, and we are investing in initiatives such as ConnectED to bring internet connectivity and educational resources to more students across America. (Momentous, ConnectED)
- Udacity Nanodegrees: Online, project-based and taught by leaders in tech Fully recognized for entry-level jobs at AT&T Paid internships at AT&T Scholarships available through several leading nonprofit organizations We’re collaborating with: Udacity to develop Nanodegrees, a new, flexible category of online degrees designed to prepare workers for high-demand jobs in the tech industry. AT&T is also teaming up with Girls Who Code to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors by providing education and pathways to careers in the computing field. Other organizations we’re working with to power career skills include: Genesys Works, Girl Scouts USA, Junior Achievement, Roadtrip Nation, YouthBuild and NACME.
- Aspire Mentoring Academy is the flagship employee engagement program of AT&T Aspire, AT&T’s signature education initiative focused on school success and workforce readiness. Aspire Mentoring Academy engages AT&T employees to mentor underserved middle and high school students. This issue is so important to us that we made it our goal to provide 1 million hours of mentoring to students at risk of dropping out of high school… and as of January 2016, we’ve met that goal. When mentors connect to young people, both are changed for the better. AT&T Aspire seeks to improve high school graduation rates by providing young people across the country with mentoring by AT&T employees. As of January 2016, we’ve provided 1 million hours of student mentoring by AT&T employees through Aspire Mentoring Academy. We’re always looking at new ways to provide mentoring to students across the country through traditional in-person engagement, and online engagement. We collaborate with nonprofit education groups to connect students to mentors, provide opportunities to learn life skills and about diverse career paths, and ultimately understand how what mentees are learning today connects to their success tomorrow. Organizations we’re working with to make connections include: Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Communities in Schools, ICouldBe, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership and We Teach Science
- Each year, employees and retirees invest their time and energy to serve their communities. From helping to restore and rebuild after a disaster to mentoring students who need it most, our employees continue to inspire. Do One Thing (DOT) is an invitation to all employees to choose to voluntarily commit to regular, measurable actions - or DOTs - that are good for themselves, their communities and/or the company. Since DOT’s launch in 2011, more than 25,600 AT&T employees in 1,375 cities and 32 countries have adopted more than 55,600 DOTs. DOTs created by employees have saved more than 21 million gallons of water, kept over 1.6 million pounds of trash out of landfills and saved the company more than $509,200.
- Digital You includes features that: Build on success of It Can Wait with a pilot program that teaches consumers: How to use a smartphone or tablet How to guard against online scams How to take a stand to against cyberbullying How to maintain a positive digital profile Strengthen relationships through community-level involvement Leverage resources with new material from Common Sense Media, a trusted resource for parents and teachers to ensure online activities are safe and constructive
- Connections lead to dialogue – between people, machines, nature and much more. How can this network of connections build a better tomorrow? By connecting a smart world, we can help build safer communities and more efficient businesses. Some examples include: By 2020, the UN estimates that 60-80% of global greenhouse gas emissions will be generated by cities. Through connected buildings, transportation, traffic lights, utilities and more, the Internet of Things (IoT) gives smart cities powerful new tools to operate in a more environmentally-friendly manner. AT&T’s CargoView with FlightSafe® uses an M2X platform and wireless sensors to monitor shipping conditions like temperature. Real-time monitoring lets a shipping company more efficiently track and manage cargo, resulting in fewer perished goods. Our Digital Life service is enabling customers to remotely monitor and control lighting, thermostats, smoke detectors and water sensors from smartphones, tablets and laptops. We’re also aiming to make cars smarter and safer through our AT&T Drive platform We worked with HydroPoint, a provider of smart water management solutions, to help their customers remotely monitor and manage their irrigation systems and ultimately save 15 billion gallons of water in a single year. We’re also providing businesses with products like AT&T Telepresence Solutions that’s resulting in avoided travel expenses and related emissions. AT&T is also one of the largest providers of fleet management solutions for commercial truck and van fleets.
- According to the Global e-Sustainability Initiative’s (GeSI) SMARTer2030 report, increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) can enable a 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions around the globe by 2030. This means the ICT industry can enable people, organizations and the world to save 9.7 times the carbon emissions than the ICT industry itself emits. Using this finding, in 2015, AT&T set a goal to enable carbon savings 10 times the footprint of our own operations by 2025. We will do this by enhancing the efficiency of the network we provide, and delivering solutions that help customers reduce carbon emissions. At AT&T, we know technology plays a critical role in empowering the transition to the low-carbon economy. Our products can help better manage resource use, increase business resiliency and improve daily lives. The possibilities are endless. Some carbon-saving technology solutions that will be created over the next decade aren’t even fathomable yet.
- Along with our aim to achieve our “10x” goal, fundamentally, we want to be an environmental steward. We’re a large and growing company, so any change to our operations can have a big effect. We’re investing in alternative energy, working with experts to ensure our operations are efficient, and taking steps to reduce our energy use. We’re expanding our fleet to include more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles by 2018. We’re finding efficient ways to manage our own water intake and we’ve worked with organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund to make our lessons accessible to others. Together we developed a water toolkit that helps address water use in cooling towers.