October 17, 2017
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Welcome to the 32nd Annual Vision for America Award Dinner
Welcome Remarks Helen Lowman President & CEO Keep America Beautiful
Singing of ‘America the Beautiful’ Katerina Burton, Soprano The Juilliard School
Dinner Award Presentation Howard Ungerleider Chief Financial Officer DowDuPont Chairman, Keep America Beautiful Helen Lowman Riley Dehr University of Michigan, Class of 2021 Keep America Beautiful 2016-2017 Youth Advisory Council Vision for America Award to Delta Glen Hauenstein President Delta Air Lines
Closing Remarks Helen Lowman
Dear Friends and Supporters, Welcome to the Keep America Beautiful 2017 Vision for America Award dinner, our annual event recognizing distinguished leaders in corporate America and their commitment to create positive, lasting change in communities nationwide. This year’s honoree is Glen Hauenstein, president of Delta Air Lines, representing more than 80,000 Delta employees worldwide. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta’s mainline fleet is comprised of 850-plus aircraft in service, carrying in excess of 180 million customers each year.
Helen Lowman President & CEO Keep America Beautiful
Delta is committed to minimizing its impact on the environment and to conducting its operations in an environmentally sustainable manner. In 2017, Delta was named to Fortune’s top 50 Most Admired Companies in addition to being named the most admired airline for the sixth time in seven years. Additionally, Delta has ranked No.1 in the Business Travel News' Annual Airline survey and been named to the North American Dow Jones Sustainability Index for an unprecedented six consecutive years. Delta was also listed in the Newsweek Green Rankings for the fourth time. I encourage you to read more about Delta’s extraordinary commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainable business on the following pages. As we approach our 65th Anniversary in 2018, Keep America Beautiful has recommitted itself to working collaboratively and purposefully with our powerful Affiliate Network, corporate partners, civic organizations, municipalities, government officials and others to engage the next generation of community stewards. Working closely with partners like Delta, we will play a leading role in expanding the growth of community-based volunteer service across the nation and work to extend the environmental, economic and social impact we deliver across the Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Network to every community in the U.S. and beyond. We feel a strong responsibility to fulfill a vision for America in which everyone lives in a clean, green and beautiful community. And with the commitment of companies like Delta Air Lines and its employees — and with your support — we can empower our fellow citizens and neighbors to #DoBeautifulThings wherever they live, work and play. We hope you enjoy the evening and we thank you for helping to advance our efforts to End Littering, Improve Recycling, and Beautify America’s Communities. Sincerely,
Helen Lowman President & CEO Keep America Beautiful
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2017 Vision for America Award honors Delta Delta: Promoting Healthy Communities, Protecting Our Natural Environment In a business known as much for its volatility as its ingenuity, Delta’s commitment to being a good steward of the environment, a positive force in communities and a great place to work and fly has been fundamental to sustainable success. Delta is determined to maintain its position as the world’s most reliable, customer-centric and employeefocused airline. At the core of its efforts is continual engagement with employees, customers, investors, government agencies and community leaders. In 2016, Delta saw stellar profits, increased confidence from financial markets and unmatched investments in its people through pay increases, $1.5 billion in profit sharing and enhanced benefits programs. The company continued to lead the industry with customer-facing technology to improve the customer experience, from RFID bag tags to innovative security screening lanes. Delta also continued to track positively against the key performance indicators used to measure improvement in areas like cyber security, customer service, supplier diversity, employee satisfaction and climate change. Other accomplishments include: Putting Safety First – Always As a core value at Delta, safety is at the heart of every action of every employee. Taking care of each other and customers is a foundational element in the airline’s Rules of the Road and is incorporated into employees’ daily actions. Over the past year Delta has built momentum with its Personal Safety Journey program that focuses on living safe at work and at home and has aggressive goals and targets that will significantly improve its industry-leading employee injury rate. Additionally, Delta analyzed data from more than 900,000 flights in 2016 to improve the overall safety and efficiency of operations as it strives to become a world leader in flight safety. Environmental Sustainability Delta saved an incremental 9 million gallons of fuel in 2016 through measures as simple as reducing onboard weight, lowering shades and opening vents in the passenger cabin when landing at warm destinations. The company also offset more than 3,200 metric tons of carbon emissions through its 6
Delta is committed to minimizing its impact on the environment.
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industry-leading carbon offset program that offers customers ways to lighten their own carbon footprint when flying, while Delta purchased more than 6 million offsets to maintain carbon neutral growth over its 2012 baseline. And its environmental sustainability efforts will only accelerate as it begins to replace 20 percent of the company’s mainline narrow body fleet over the next five years.
"Taking care of our people, customers and the communities where they live, work and play is core to Delta’s values." Glen Hauenstein President Delta Air Lines
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Waste Reduction Delta identifies and diverts recyclable materials from its waste streams by recycling goods on flights and encouraging its employees to recycle at home and at work. Delta has collected more than 10,000 tons of goods since inception and has raised well over $1 million in rebates, which it’s used to construct eight Habitat for Humanity homes at various locations within its system. Community Engagement and Support In 2016, Delta demonstrated its longstanding support for the communities where its employees live and serve with a commitment to give back 1 percent of the company’s net income from the previous year to charitable organizations, inkind travel and grants from The Delta Air Lines Foundation. Delta’s employees showed record-breaking generosity in 2016 as well, raising more than $6 million for the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Breast Cancer Research Foundation and United Way. Together, Delta, The Delta Air Lines Foundation and Delta employees contribute thousands of volunteer hours and millions of dollars every year, allowing them to transform communities and improve lives the world over. Battling Human Trafficking Delta expanded its role as a global leader in the fight against human trafficking, with enhanced employee training and partnerships with Polaris, End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking, and Out of Darkness.
Diversity, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination Delta is committed to fostering a workplace that is safe, professional and promotes teamwork and trust. In 2016, the company strengthened its commitment to equality by signing the White House Equal Pay Pledge, encouraging the advancement of equal pay among men and women. By signing the pledge, Delta committed to conducting an annual company-wide gender pay analysis across occupations; reviewing hiring and promotion processes and procedures to reduce unconscious bias and structural barriers; and embedding equal pay efforts into broader enterprise-wide equity initiatives. While Delta is firmly committed to environmental, social and governance responsibility in all its operations, Delta’s most steadfast commitment is to its 80,000 employees worldwide. Delta knows that if they have the tools and support they need to take care of Delta’s customers, its customers will reward it with their business and loyalty, which benefits the shareholders who invest their money back into Delta. Delta believes this virtuous circle will sustain the airline and its corporate responsibility efforts for decades to come.
ABOUT THE VISION FOR AMERICA AWARD For more than 30 years, Keep America Beautiful has presented its prestigious Vision for America Award to distinguished leaders of corporations that have demonstrated their personal and corporate commitment to enhance social, environmental and economic sustainability initiatives in communities across the country.
Past Recipients of the Vision for America Award 2016 Honeywell David M. Cote Chairman and CEO 2015 Caterpillar Inc. Doug Oberhelman Chairman & CEO 2014 Dell Inc. Michael S. Dell Chairman & CEO 2013 Wrigley Martin Radvan President 2012 Xerox Corporation Ursula M. Burns Chairman & CEO 2011 Altria Group Michael E. Szymanczyk Chairman and CEO 2010 NestlĂŠ Waters North America Kim Jeffery President & CEO 2009 Novelis Inc. Philip Martens President & CEO
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2008 Illinois Tool Works Inc. David B. Speer Chairman & CEO
2000 BP Sir John Browne Group Chief Executive
2007 UPS Michael L. Eskew Chairman & CEO
1999 McDonald’s Corporation Jack M. Greenberg Chairman & CEO
2006 PepsiCo, Inc. Steven S Reinemund Chairman
1998 Ford Motor Company Alex Trotman Chairman, President & CEO
2005 Koch Industries, Inc. 1997 David H. Koch The Home Depot Executive Vice President Bernard Marcus Chairman 2004 Waste Management 1996 A. Maurice Meyers Browning-Ferris Chairman Industries, Inc. William D. Ruckleshaus 2003 Chairman Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 1995 August A. Busch III The Dow Chemical Chairman of the Board Company Frank P. Popoff 2002 Chairman & CEO 3M W. James McNerney, Jr. 1994 Chairman & CEO Lever Brothers Company Charles B. Strauss 2001 President & CEO AT&T C. Michael Armstrong 1993 Chairman & CEO Georgia-Pacific Corporation T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Chairman
1992 K-mart Corporation Joseph E. Antonini Chairman, President & CEO 1991 DuPont Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chairman & CEO 1990 The Procter & Gamble Company Edwin L. Artzt Chairman & CEO 1989 The Kroger Company Lyle Everingham Chairman & CEO 1988 Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Hamish Maxwell Chairman & CEO 1987 The Southland Corporation Jere W. Thompson President & CEO 1986 The Coca-Cola Company Donald R. Keough President
The Vision for America Award is a limited-edition piece in which the design of the crystal pays tribute to our nation. The 13 facets on the massive vertical cylinder symbolize the 13 stripes of the American flag. Fifty miniature stars are etched on the top of the slanted surface of the crystal, symbolizing the union of the states.
Sponsors and Contributors LEADERSHIP Delta Air Lines, Inc. - Delta Air Lines Global Environmental, Sustainability and Compliance - Delta Air Lines New York Sale Group - Delta Air Lines Corporate Real Estate - Delta Air Lines Corporate
BENEFACTORS Altria Group The Dow Chemical Company Ernst & Young LLP Lazard McKinsey & Company New York Yankees Osterman & Co. Inc PepsiCo, Inc. PwC Ravago Americas Teneo Holdings LLC UPS Waste Management
PATRONS ABM Aviation American Express Global Business Travel Deloitte LLP Direct Travel gategroup Gogo, LLC Goldman, Sachs & Co. HSBC Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. The Madison Square Garden Company Mars Wrigley Confectionery
Morgan Stanley New York Mets Pratt & Whitney Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Sodexo Tzell Travel LLC
CONTRIBUTORS Akerman LLP ALTOUR Anheuser-Busch Barclays Jennifer Cline The Coca-Cola Company G. Raymond Empson HRG North America Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. Jennifer M. Jehn Keep Phoenix Beautiful Ovation Travel Group Owens-Illinois, Inc. Panasonic Avionics PolyOne Reckson Wesley Schultz, Ph.D Sidley Austin LLP TRAVELSAVERS Trinseo LLC Troutman Sanders LLP UBS Asset Management UPS Valerie Wilson Travel Tom Waldeck William Jones Investment Management 11
ABOUT KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization, inspires and educates people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. Established in 1953, we strive to End Littering, Improve Recycling and Beautify America’s Communities. We believe everyone has a right to live in a clean, green and beautiful community, and shares a responsibility to contribute to that vision. Behavior change – steeped in education, research and behavioral science – is the cornerstone of Keep America Beautiful. We empower generations of community stewards with volunteer programs, hands-on experiences, curricula, practical advice and other resources to deliver measurable environmental, economic and social benefits. The organization is driven by more than 600 state and local Affiliates, millions of volunteers, and the support of corporate partners, social and civic service organizations, academia, municipalities and government officials. Learn more, donate and take action at kab.org.
Keep America Beautiful and our Affiliates annually deliver more than $200 million in measurable benefits to the communities we serve.
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SIGNATURE PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES Community Restoration & Resiliency Fund: Motivated by the need caused by the devastation from the 2017 hurricane season, Keep America Beautiful launched the Community Restoration and Resiliency Fund. The fund will help communities restore and enhance their vital public spaces, returning them to the cherished community resource and healing places that connect people, strengthen communities, and prepare them for a more resilient future. Great American Cleanup: Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup is the nation’s largest community improvement program, engaging more than 6 million volunteers and participants every year to create positive change and lasting impact in local communities. Cigarette Litter Prevention Program: The Cigarette Litter Prevention Program is the nation's largest program aimed at eliminating cigarette litter. Over the past 10 years, the program has consistently cut cigarette butt litter by an average of approximately 50 percent in targeted areas. America Recycles Day: America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful national initiative, is the only nationally-recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the U.S. Each year, on and in the weeks leading into Nov. 15, thousands of communities across the country take action to promote environmental citizenship, waste reduction and recycling. Recycle-Bowl: Recycle-Bowl is our fun and exciting national K-12 recycling competition for students, staff and administration. The competition
to see which schools collect the most recyclables runs for four weeks each fall, culminating on America Recycles Day. RecycleMania: RecycleMania is a friendly two-month competition and benchmarking tool for colleges and universities that promotes waste reduction activities within campus communities. Public Space Recycling: Keep America Beautiful aims to improve the effectiveness of public space recycling through research we conduct about what motivates recycling behavior as well as by sharing best practices in implementing public space recycling programs. We also work with corporate partners to place recycling bins in public spaces through grant programs. Youth Education: Keep America Beautiful's education resources for youth and educators from pre-K through college — designed using our field-tested, proven Behavior Change System — provide activities and tools to teach the fundamentals of litter prevention; preserving our resources; responsible solid waste management; and how to reduce, reuse and recycle. Community Impact Grants: With the support of corporate sponsors, we distribute a variety of merit-based grants to enable our Affiliates and other partner organizations to launch or enhance community greening, recycling, education and other grassroots community improvement initiatives.
Keep America Beautiful offers structured service projects – experiential environmental education, organized volunteer events and employee engagement opportunities – in more than 20,000 communities across the country.
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Corporate and Foundation Partners Keep America Beautiful gratefully acknowledges the following corporations, foundations and individuals that have generously contributed to us in the past year. $1 million and above
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Lowe’s
Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.
$5,000 to $9,999
Lazard
AECOM
$500,000 to $999,999
Liberty International Underwriters
Anchor QEA, LLC
Altria Group
M. Klein & Company
Earth Friendly Products
The Coca-Cola Company and
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
The Jeffery Family Fund
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Jennifer M. Jehn
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
H.O. Peet Foundation
Osterman & Co.
PolyOne Corporation
$250,000 to $499,999
Owens-Illinois, Inc. and O-I Charities Foundation
Praxair, Inc.
American Chemistry Council
PwC
Ramboll Environ
DowDuPont
Ravago Americas
The Share Fund
Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Rubbermaid Commercial Products
Stinson Leonard Street LLP
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company
Steel Recycling Institute
Univar
Wrigley Company Foundation
TruGreen Chemlawn
$100,000 to $249,999
$10,000 to $24,999
American Express Company
Anheuser-Busch
Caterpillar Inc.
CH2M
BNSF Railway Company
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Nestlé Waters North America, Inc.
Columbus Industries
Alexandra Krauss
PepsiCo, Inc.
Covington & Burling LLP
Merchants Distributors, Inc.
Unilever
Blair Effron
Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
The UPS Foundation
EQT Foundation
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Waste Management
Ernst & Young LLP
The Coca-Cola Foundation Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.
$2,500 to $4,999
LLP
Foodservice Packaging Institute, Inc.
Rawle & Henderson LLP
$50,000 to $99,999
Timothy J. Gardner
The J.M. Smucker Company
Carton Council
Georgia-Pacific Foundation
Thompson & Knight LLP
Dickinson's
Harris, St. Laurent & Chaudhry LLP
Tressler LLP
Honeywell International Inc.
Hogan Lovells LLP
Wilcox & Savage P.C.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Kenneth Jacobs
YKK Corporation of America
McDonald's USA
Kutak Rock LLP
Niagara Bottling, Inc
Local Search Association
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Mars Wrigley Confectionery
Walmart Foundation
Morgan Stanley Polsinelli
$25,000 to $49,999
Robins Kaplan LLP
Amcor Rigid Plastics North America
Ropes & Gray LLP
Barclays
Shell Oil Company
Centerview
TerraCycle, Inc.
City of Austin
Trinseo LLC
The Clorox Company
Union Bank
Dow Corning Corporation
Vranos Family Foundation
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
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We also thank the many donors who have contributed up to $2,500!
KAB Board of Directors Chairman Howard Ungerleider* Chief Financial Officer DowDuPont Beth Buehler Chief Operating Officer Rodale Inc. Barry H. Caldwell* Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief People Officer Waste Management Tim Carey Senior Director, Sustainability PepsiCo, Inc. Carolyn Crayton Founder Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful Debra Evenson Executive Director Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful Timothy Gardner* Jennifer J. Griffin Ph.D. Endowed Chair of Business Ethics and Professor of Strategy Loyola University Chicago Carey Hamilton Executive Director / State Representative Indiana Recycling Coalition / Indiana House District 87 Peggy Jacober Director, CSR and Better World Anheuser-Busch
Kim Jeffery* Operating Executive North Castle Partners Anne Johnson Principal and Vice President of Global Corporate Sustainability Resource Recycling Systems Greg J. Jozwiak Corporate Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain The Dow Chemical Company Bruce Karas Vice President, Environment and Sustainability Coca-Cola North America Group Helen Lowman President & CEO Keep America Beautiful Victor Mehren Chief Operating Officer, US Business Mars Wrigley Confectionery Ian Olson Senior Director, North America Sustainability McDonald’s USA Monique Oxender* Chief Sustainability Officer Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. N. Brian Peace Corporate Administration Executive Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Michael Pengue Senior Vice President/ General Manager Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. Gregory H. Ray Senior Vice President, Smokeable Manufacturing Philip Morris USA, Inc. Shannon Reiter President Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Wesley Schultz, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology California State University San Marcos Antonio Sciuto Executive Vice President Brands and Chief Marketing Officer Nestlé Waters North America Thomas H. Tamoney* Counsel Day Pitney LLP Tom Waldeck* President & CEO Keep Phoenix Beautiful James W. Woods Senior Director, Communications American Iron & Steel Institute Directors Emeritus Richard D. Hofmann Stephen K. Lambright A. Maurice Myers * Member of Executive Committee
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#DoBeautifulThings We don’t clean up communities just to keep America beautiful. We clean up, so Americans can do beautiful things. Millions of volunteers work with Keep America Beautiful and our network of more than 600 community-based Affiliates to End Littering, Improve Recycling and Beautiful America’s Communities.
We are proud to honor Delta Air Lines and its President, Glen Hauenstein, as our 2017 Vision for America Award recipient. Learn how you can support our efforts at kab.org/partner.
Keep America Beautiful envisions a country in which every community is a clean, green and beautiful place to live. With a national network of community-based affiliates, we work with millions of volunteers who take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. Our collective efforts help to create communities that are environmentally healthy, economically sound, and socially connected.
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