Cargill China Cares Council
Part of being a good citizen is giving back to your community with financial resources, time and talent. Cargill focuses primarily in three areas: nutrition and health; innovation in education; and stewardship of natural resources.
To organize community involvement activities, many of our locations have established Cargill Cares Councils, formalized groups of employees that coordinate volunteer programs and direct resources to meet community needs. With “enriched communities” as one of Cargill’s four measures of performance, Cargill businesses are also including community involvement as part of their annual business plans.
In China, Cargill has established 31 employee-led Cargill Cares Council, to carry out varied social activities in the fields of education, environment protection and health. Over the past five years, Cargill China employees have contributed over 24,000 hours to community service. Cargill Cares projects seek to identify local problems and find local solutions, and obtain funding and coordination advice through the central Cargill offices in Beijing and Minneapolis. Those projects range from volunteering in local schools and orphanages to cleaning up polluted areas to donating funds to disaster-stricken areas, etc.
