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Community Involvement

Matching Check Presented to American Red Cross for Sandy Relief Efforts

After devastating Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern part of the U.S. last Fall, Wolters Kluwer employees from all over the world rallied and raised a total of $22,481.68 . This total donation amount was matched dollar-for-dollar by Wolters Kluwer and was presented to the American Red Cross in Riverwoods as over 100 Wolters Kluwer employees proudly watched. The ceremony was led by senior WK leaders, Kevin Robert and Stacey Caywood, who were joined by Fran Edwardson, Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago. Mrs. Edwardson thanked Wolters Kluwer’s staff and management for their generous contribution and for supporting the matching campaign.  She and volunteer, Kyle Sullivan, also shared personal experiences and memories from their time spent on the front lines helping Hurricane Sandy survivors.

Now, three months later, the American Red Cross has served over 10 million meals and snacks and distributed millions of supplies as blankets, clothes and clean-up kits to Sandy survivors and will continue to devote resources to Sandy relief efforts for the next several months. For more details about the difference our donations make, click here​  for a copy of the American Red Cross Three Month Update or click here to view this message of thanks from the American Red Cross National CEO.  

 

Wolters Kluwer’s senior Leaders, Stacey Caywood and Kevin Robert, present a handsome matching donation check to American Red Cross/Chicago Chapter CEO, Fran Edwardson, on behalf of the company as part of a charitable giving campaign launched last November.  Thanks to the generous donations made directly by our employees, in total the Wolters Kluwer organization raised almost $45,000 USD which was directed toward helping with Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery efforts. ​ 

​Community Involvement

Wherever we work and travel, Wolters Kluwer employees are part of the community. Promoting initiatives that improve those communities’ quality of life is an important part of our involvement in the world as a whole. Our employees’ skills and our services deliver solutions that aim to improve the quality of life of people in local communities.

At a corporate level, we support initiatives in need of our help in places outside our operations.

At a local level our employees act on their own initiative or team up with customers to support community initiatives. Our combined expertise helps to create a lasting impact on the quality of life in our communities.​.


Employee Driven
Employees are encouraged to develop ideas that support their local communities. Offering their expertise, products, judgment, and time, they significantly contribute to making their communities more successful.
 
Customer Driven
Wolters Kluwer regularly partners with customers to create an impact at the community level, improving the quality of life for communities. We also support customers worldwide wherever the need arises.
  
Community Involvement Requests
Contributing to the community efforts of partners is an opportunity to interact with people and organizations around us. This helps us to better understand our role as a global corporate citizen. It also provides the opportunity to broaden and innovate the usage and development of our products and services.
 

Alignment with our identity and objectives
We believe that our community sponsoring contributions should align with our corporate identity and business objectives so that we can critically assess proposals.

Community sponsoring efforts should therefore:

 
We will be using a grid to assess the applicability of proposals.
 
Applying
If you think your proposal fits the above, please send your request with an explanation why you think your proposal aligns to sustainability@wolterskluwer.com. We will try to get back to you within a week with a reaction.
 
Local and/or national activities
Following the guidelines you might expect that local and/or market-specific activities will not be sponsored by Wolters Kluwer globally. For those activities you better contact Wolters Kluwer locally or send your request to one of the Communications Leads of the divisions and units of Wolters Kluwer. See the media contacts page for their details.​

  • Youth Off The Streets

    CCH Australia has sponsored the organization Youth Off The Streets (YOTS), which offers support to homeless and abused youth.

  • Global Health Delivery

    Wolters Kluwer Health & Pharma Solutions partners with Global Health Delivery to offer complimentary one-year UpToDate subscriptions .

  • Emergency Resources Portal

    After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health supported disaster relief efforts.