We support long-term community strength by providing economic
opportunity, encouraging employee volunteerism, strengthening
education and supporting disaster relief.
As an employer of over 30,000 people across more than 70 countries, we provide economic opportunities to communities around the world. We also create business opportunity for thousands of suppliers in more than 120 countries and all 50 United States.
In North America, our Supplier Diversity program is designed to integrate small and diverse businesses into our supply chain. We offer opportunities for historically underutilized populations, including minorities, women, military veterans and others to do business with AbbVie.
UN Sustainable Development Goal 8
Serving the Community is one of our fundamental Principles, and
AbbVie employees live this Principle by volunteering and giving.
About one quarter of all employees volunteer annually through
programs sponsored by the company or the AbbVie Foundation. Many
programs focus on education, a philanthropic priority of the company
and the Foundation. Click on each of the four images below to read
a feature story about the program.
Beyond these programs, individual teams also have specialized pro bono volunteer programs. Read about one example here.
AbbVie employees also contribute financially to their communities,
often through our U.S. and Puerto Rico employee giving and matching
program. For every charitable donation employees make to one of over
1.5 million eligible nonprofits, the AbbVie
Foundation matches dollar for dollar up to $5,000.
Communities and AbbVie both benefit from these activities. See just
some of the impacts in 2018:
Education helps to enable the achievement of many other goals,
including health, employment and economic resilience. It’s a
foundational part of our research-based enterprise and a philanthropic
priority for AbbVie and the AbbVie Foundation.
In 2018,
we made historic contributions to four nonprofit organizations
striving to make long-term impacts on education in the United
States.
Communities In Schools, City Year, the University
of Chicago Education Lab, and North Chicago Community Unit School
District 187 will use support from AbbVie to improve educational
support for students in underserved communities. Read
more.
These donations were part of AbbVie’s broader
philanthropic activities in 2018. See the impact we’re creating for
families, students and communities with $350
million in donations to U.S. nonprofits.
Communities In Schools helped a boy living without electricity grow
into a man with a master’s degree. Now he’s paying it forward.
See
the story
Natural disasters have a great impact on communities, from injury,
illness and death to homelessness and economic loss.
Since 2013, AbbVie and the AbbVie Foundation have provided more than
$20 million in cash grants and medicine donations in disaster-stricken
areas. Overall, our disaster relief program has helped communities
impacted by over 40 disasters in more than 25 countries.
AbbVie and AbbVie Foundation disaster relief contributions, 2013-2018:
We support ongoing rebuilding and resilience efforts in Puerto Rico,
where AbbVie has had a presence for over 50 years. As a committed
employer on the island, we donated $100 million total to nonprofit
partners Direct Relief and Habitat for Humanity to rebuild the primary
health care system and strengthen housing, respectively. Learn
more.
After two hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico, we are working with a nonprofit partner to rebuild the primary health care system and strengthen local communities.
