Year |
Event |
2006 |
The UPS Foundation receives the Social Enterprise Award for Leadership in Funding from the Social Enterprise Alliance. |
2006 |
Evern Cooper Epps, President of The UPS Foundation and Vice President of Corporate Relations, participates in Presidential Roundtable on Recovery Efforts in the Gulf Coast Region at the White House. |
2005 |
The UPS Foundation donates $43.5 million to charitable organizations worldwide. |
2005 |
UPS and its employees contribute more than $57.4 million to United Way’s annual campaign, the largest corporate donation in United Way’s history. |
2005 |
Evern Cooper Epps, President of The UPS Foundation and Vice President of Corporate Relations, is appointed by President Bush to the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. |
2005 |
More than 20,000 UPS employees from 45 countries volunteer as part of the third annual UPS Global Volunteer Week. |
2005 |
UPS is named by Children’s Hunger Alliance in Ohio as its Corporate Supporter of the Year. |
2005 |
The UPS Foundation is named “2005 Grantmaker of the Year” by America’s Second Harvest. |
2005 |
UPS receives the first-ever Corporate Spirit of Service Award from the Corporation for National and Community Service in recognition of UPS’s support for volunteering and national service. |
2005 |
The UPS Foundation makes a leadership grant of $1 million to launch and support IMPACT: A Fund For Change Through Volunteerism, a collaborative initiative to influence positive community change by helping organizations manage volunteers more effectively. |
2005 |
The UPS Foundation begins the Experienced Volunteer Engagement Initiative, its first focused grantmaking program to support organizations engaging older Americans (55 and older) in meaningful volunteer service to address community needs. |
2004 |
The UPS Foundation donates $39.9 million to charitable organizations worldwide. |
2004 |
UPS and its employees contribute more than $54.2 million to United Way’s annual campaign. |
2004 |
UPS employees around the world participate in the second annual UPS Global Volunteer Week, donating thousands of hours to their communities. |
2004 |
The UPS Foundation awards nearly US$2 million in grants under its new National Collaboration to Reduce Hunger & Improve Nutrition initiative. This national grantmaking program centers on helping national, regional, state and local organizations work to reduce obesity and improve the nutrition of hungry people in our communities. |
2004 |
The UPS Foundation convenes UPS National Hunger Forum in partnership with the Congressional Hunger Center, bringing together leaders engaged in the fight against hunger to discuss effective approaches to reducing hunger in the United States . |
2004 |
The UPS Foundation, along with the Corporation for National and Community Service and the USA Freedom Corps, releases the first-ever national study of volunteer management at nonprofits. |
2003 |
The UPS Foundation donates $39.8 million to charitable organizations worldwide. |
2003 |
UPS releases its first Sustainability Report. |
2003 |
UPS launches its Global Volunteer Challenge, an effort to achieve at least 100,000 hours of volunteering by UPS employees around the globe. |
2003 |
UPS releases “Preventing a Disaster Within the Disaster: The Effective Use and Management of Unaffiliated Volunteers” with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network. |
2003 |
UPS helps to launch BSA-Atlanta, a multi-year campaign to encourage businesses to increase civic engagement and employee volunteerism in metro Atlanta . |
2003 |
The UPS Foundation collaborates with the Corporation for National and Community Service and USA Freedom Corps to fund a comprehensive national study of America ’s nonprofit sector. |
2003 |
The UPS Foundation introduces new Giving Approach. |
2002 |
UPS contributes more than $53 million to United Way, making the company the largest contributor to United Way for the third consecutive year. |
2002 |
The UPS Foundation donates more than $38 million to charitable organizations worldwide. |
2002 |
The UPS Foundation, along with the Association for Volunteer Administration (AVA) and the Points of Light Foundation, releases “ A Guide to Investing in Volunteer Resources Management: Improve Your Philanthropic Portfolio.” |
2002 |
UPS joins with 17 other companies to meet with President Bush to launch Business Strengthening America (BSA), a multi-year campaign to encourage businesses to increase civic engagement and employee volunteerism nationwide. |
2002 |
UPS, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network, convenes the Leadership Forum on Disaster Volunteerism, a unique meeting of public-private partnership to promote better management and more effective use of volunteers during national emergencies. |
2002 |
UPS receives United Way ’s Annual Spirit of America Award and becomes the only two-time winner of the award. |
2002 |
UPS wins the NAACP Corporate Citizen of the YearAward in recognition of the company’s commitment to help build strong communities nationwide. |
2001 |
The UPS Foundation donates more than $40 million to charitable organizations worldwide. |
2001 |
UPS becomes the first company to contribute $50 million to United Way in a single campaign. That year the company contributed more than $52 million. |
2001 |
UPS forms UPS/United Negro College Fund Corporate Scholars Program. The company also partners with the National Newspaper Publishers Association on a historic initiative to bring the black press online. |
2001 |
UPS wins the nation's only presidential award for corporate leadership, The Conference Board's Ron Brown Awardfor Corporate Citizenship, in recognition of its employee programs. |
2000 |
UPS is the largest corporate contributor to United Way. |
2000 |
The UPS Foundation donates more than $37 million to charitable organizations worldwide. |
1999 |
UPS is recognized for its commitment to Welfare-to-Work and launches Earn and Learn Program on August 1. |
1999 |
The UPS Foundation establishes the Community Investment Grant Program. |
1998 |
The UPS Foundation launches the Volunteer Impact Initiative, a $10 million multi-year effort to identify and share insights into volunteer recruitment, management and retention. |
1996 |
UPS expands Neighbor-to-Neighbor nationwide to encourage UPS employees and their families to serve as volunteers in their communities. |
1995 |
UPS awards its first Jim Casey Community Service Award in recognition of an outstanding UPS employee volunteer. |
1995 |
UPS begins support of INROADS, the nation's oldest and most successful nonprofit leadership development and placement organization for outstanding ethnically diverse college students |
1992 |
Neighbor-to-Neighbor, the company’s employee volunteer program, starts in Florida. |
1990 |
The UPS Foundation releases “Fighting Hunger and Prepared and Perishable Food,” a comprehensive technical assistance manual providing guidelines for starting and sustaining a food rescue program. |
1989
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The UPS Foundation launches the Prepared and Perishable Food Rescue Program (PPFRP), a multi-year hunger initiative that has helped facilitate the distribution of more than 240 million pounds of food to hungry people. |
1988 |
The UPS Foundation launches Literacy Initiative, a multi-year effort that has contributed $9 million and supported more than 400 local literacy programs in 120 communities across the United States. |
1987 |
UPS wins first-ever Spirit of America Award, United Way’s highest national honor for corporate involvement and commitment to building better communities. |
1984 |
The UPS Foundation creates the Region/District Grant Program, offering UPS employees the opportunity to identify community-based organizations and recommend funding. |
1983 |
UPS establishes the George D. Smith Scholarship. |
1982 |
UPS begins partnership with the United Way. |
1976 |
The 1907 Foundation is renamed The UPS Foundation. |
1974 |
UPS begins partnership with the Foundation for Independent Higher Education. |
1968 |
UPS launches the Community Internship Program, an intense management training course designed to immerse senior level executives in the community. |
1963 |
UPS establishes James E. Casey Scholarship and Employee Gift-Matching Program. |
1951 |
The 1907 Foundation is established, focusing on higher education through endowments with organizations, colleges and universities. |
