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When UPS CEO Carol Tom stepped into her role in 2020, she made it clear that how she and the company show up in Atlanta "really matters to her," Nicole Clifton, the company's president of philanthropy, tells the Atlanta Press Club.
To that end, UPS has set four priorities for its philanthropic efforts in the city: community safety, entrepreneurship, education, and arts and civic engagement.
One example: Earlier this year, UPS donated nearly $1 million to Truckers Against Trafficking, a nonprofit that trains truck drivers to recognize and report instances of human trafficking, Clifton tells Saporta Report.
Another example: The company has invited a co-founder of the group to join UPS in its anti-human trafficking efforts.
"We've got a lot of drivers on the road, and the transportation industry is unwittingly complicit in moving people and we wanted to make sure that we were not part of that problem," Clifton says.
"But, we needed experts in that area.
[It's important to] take the time to build the capacity, learn from the experts, and approach your solutions in an informed way."
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