GM Social Impact

GM's global social impact strategy promotes economic growth around the world. This strategy will advance STEM education, improve vehicle and road safety and build sustainable communities, with a special focus where GM has business units and employee presence around the world.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investors Increasingly Use Their Dollars to Create Change
Practitioners of ‘impact investing’ seek to generate not just long-term financial returns but also positive environmental, social or governmental results. Companies that are adjusting their business models will attract them.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Volunteer Projects Engage Employees and the Community
In corporate volunteerism, a company’s employees and retirees work together with local young students and residents to revitalize a community in need. Schools are cleaned up, fresh flowerbeds are planted in parks and colorful murals are painted in children’s play areas.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Jimmy Kimmel and Chevrolet Unite to #DayItForward
Teachers at Whaley Middle School in Los Angeles were starting an online campaign to raise significant funds for necessary supplies when Chevrolet and Jimmy Kimmel Live! surprised them by stepping in.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

GM Foundation Awards $2.8 Million to Higher Education
The General Motors Foundation today announced grants totaling more than $2.8 million in 2015 to support 31 universities and organizations across the country through its University/Organization Partner Program.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Chevrolet Donates 2016 Volt to FIRST®
Chevrolet will donate an all-new 2016 Volt to FIRST®, the K-12 robotics program, to help raise money for student robotics opportunities across the U.S. but particularly for those in communities underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education fields.

Social Impact & Volunteering

GM Celebrates Service with ‘teamGM Cares Week’
From packing boxes at food banks to delivering gifts to children’s hospitals and cleaning up neighborhoods, more than 1,900 General Motors’ employee volunteers will participate in nearly 100 community service projects across the U.S. as part of the company’s fourth annual “teamGM Cares Week” beginning Monday.

Social Impact & Volunteering

GM Student Corps Paints the Town – And More
DETROIT, August 19, 2015 /3BL Media/ – Pontiac High School students returning to classes this week are being greeted by a new, massive “PHOENIX PRIDE” sign that represents more than the school’s mascot. Ten of their classmates helped refurbish several areas of Pontiac this summer as members of the GM Student Corps.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

GM Volunteers Set Record for Life Remodeled Project

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Students Get Early Start on Remodeling Osborn High

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

GM Student Corps Adds Pontiac High in 2015

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