Report chronicles the company's gains in Diversity, Philanthropy
and Sustainability among employees and communities
These are just a few of the powerful displays of corporate
citizenship chronicled in MGM Resorts' 2014 Annual Corporate Social
Responsibility Report. Themed "Inspiration Begins With Us!", the
report features the company's accomplishments in corporate social
responsibility (CSR), which includes Diversity and Inclusion, Philanthropy and
Community Engagement, and Environmental Sustainability initiatives.
Released today, the report for 2014 is available for download on the company's
CSR website, www.mgmresorts.com/csr.
"MGM Resorts continues to integrate CSR best
practices at all levels of our company's operations and throughout our
culture," said Jim Murren, Chairman & CEO of MGM Resorts
International. "We firmly believe that our CSR efforts make us both a better
company and a better corporate citizen, as we strive to uplift the communities
in which we operate and work," continued Murren, a CR Magazine2013 winner of the Responsible CEO of the Year
Award.
From introducing the
gaming industry's first formal diversity and inclusion initiative in 2000 to
building the world's largest LEED Gold-certified "green" complex in
CityCenter, to marshaling its employees to donate more than 1.6 million pounds
of food last year, CSR is foundational to MGM Resorts' culture.
Named the "Responsible Business of the Year" at the
2014 Global Gaming Awards, MGM Resorts outlines additional CSR milestones in
its report, including:
Diversity
& Inclusion
·
The management ranks among MGM Resorts' 62,000 employees
include about 43 percent women, and 38 percent minorities.
·
MGM Resorts continued to advance its efforts in supplier
and construction diversity in 2014 by spending $189.5 million with
diverse-owned suppliers, contractors and service providers.
·
In 2014, MGM Resorts earned top accolades for its
diversity best practices from national thought leaders, including: DiversityInc Magazine, Human Resources Officers Today,
Universum, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Women's Business Enterprise
National Council and Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility.
Philanthropy
& Community Engagement
·
Eighty-one MGM Resorts Foundation grants provided
education support to 109,771 children; food, housing and self-sufficiency
assistance to 251,980 individuals and families; and vital assistance such as
medical care and mental health counseling to 9,542 individuals and families.
·
MGM Resorts' donation of more than 1.6 million pounds of
food to Three Square, the leading Las Vegas food bank, earned the distinction
as the largest single company donation in the nonprofit's history and one of
the nation's largest single-city food drives last year.
·
MGM Resorts employees volunteered 172,316 hours, providing
nonprofit organizations with the equivalent of nearly $4 million in labor.
Environmental
Sustainability
·
MGM Resorts recycled and diverted from landfills nearly
56,000 tons of materials for a 2014 recycling diversion rate of 47 percent.
·
A 20-acre, 6.4 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array
was installed on the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in 2014. A 2 MW addition is
planned for the recently completed Mandalay Bay Convention Center expansion
which will make the resort the home to the country's third largest rooftop
array when finished in 2015. The combined arrays will supply 26 percent of
the resort's electricity during peak production.
·
MGM Resorts added 31 compressed natural gas (CNG) Cadillac
XTS limousines to its transportation portfolio.
For more information about MGM Resorts International's
track record towards corporate social responsibility, please visit: www.mgmresorts.com/csr.
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