Empowering People and Improving Our Environment
As Corporate Citizens, our purpose is to positively impact lives in the communities where we operate through environmental, economic, and social policies and actions.
- Corporate Citizenship
- Introduction
- Environmental
- Economic
- Social
We Are Corporate Citizens

Protecting Our World
With company-wide policies in effect, our Corporate Citizens program details Sutherland’s measurable commitments to health, safety, and environmental impact in geographies where we operate. We also actively encourage employees to play their valuable part in growing our global culture of integrity through volunteering.
Our top environmental goals:
Reforestation Project: In Colombia, Sutherland employee volunteers worked with Fundación Red de Árboles to plant trees in Cajucá and in an area near Malambo .
Encouraging Healthy Environments
As a signatory of the UN Global Compact, Sutherland actively works to uphold our responsibilities to people and planet through our corporate policies and commitments.
Our Corporate Citizens program partners with local organizations to provide employees with volunteer opportunities that enrich and revitalize the local and natural environments of the geographies in which we live and work.
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For more details, see our Occupational Health and Safety Policy online.
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For more information, please review our current Environmental Policy.
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We develop local, nature-based volunteer opportunities to encourage employee engagement in environmental clean-up, conservation and habitat improvement projects. Emphasis is on grassroots community projects like tree planting, beach clean-ups, and water conservation.
Strategic Investments
Our goal is to champion development and training programs that help to remove systemic barriers to sustainable employment - through partnerships, donations, and investments. As a company, we focus on empowering humans and elevating quality of life through increased sustainable employment among vulnerable populations.
Our top social impact goals:

Elevating Opportunity with Impact Hiring
We empower and employ talent among community members who are systemically disconnected from employers and resources that can help them navigate professional challenges. Our upskilling and mission-led hiring targets six key groups of marginalized people.
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Single guardians with at least one child under the age of 17 living at home.
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Persons with physical or developmental disabilities.
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Refugees, deportees or locally displaced people.
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Those who’ve found sustainable employment difficult since military service.
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Persons 55 years and older who are re-entering the workforce.
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Students between the ages of 17 and 25 readying for entry-level jobs.
Employee Volunteerism
Our employees’ actions have a positive effect on the wellbeing of the communities where we operate. There’s always room for social good. We encourage individuals and teams to actively participate in volunteer opportunities that are created through our Corporate Citizens program and partner organizations.
Our top strategic volunteer goals:

Impacting Local Communities
By partnering with established organizations, Sutherland develops innovative and engaging volunteer opportunities for our employees to help increase sustainable employment among underprivileged or marginalized populations.
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We expose youth to education, technology and career guidance through motivational and empowerment sessions arranged between high school seniors and Sutherland employees
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Our employees engage one-on-one as digital technology mentors with individuals in our target populations. The goal is to team up to learn and practice soft skills for virtual or face-to-face interviews, increasing success with job placement and employment.
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Jointly developed programs provide our employees innovative opportunities to engage with marginalized communities to learn, teach, share and help empower cultural sensitivity, understanding and empathy toward vulnerable communities in the workforce.