UPS again achieved the top rating of 100 percent in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2009 Corporate Equality Index. UPS remains the only company to obtain this rating in the Mail and Freight Delivery industry.

Human Rights Campaign, or HRC, is America's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights organization. The Corporate Equality Index is a tool used to measure how companies treat their GLBT employees, suppliers and customers.

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"These top 16 corporations demonstrate that buying from women results in innovation and growth," said Linda Denny, president and CEO of WBENC. "By implementing strategic, enterprise-wide supplier diversity programs, they are rewarded with outstanding products and services that benefit their customers and their shareholders."

UPS has been recognized by WBENC every year since the awards was created nine years ago. Only two other companies have that honor.

The Atlanta Partners for Education awarded UPS and Fickett Elementary School with the 2008 Mentoring Partnership Award this week as part of its annual awards celebration highlighting high-caliber and creative partnerships between individual schools, Atlanta-area businesses, nonprofit, civic, religious, social and professional organizations.

The Mentoring Award category recognizes the partnership that develops one-to-one relationships between a student and an adult that fosters a caring, supportive environment which emphasizes the individual needs of the student.

UPS has been named #1 in for-profit enterprises and #2 overall in a recent Corporate Reputation Survey in Massachusetts. The survey asked 200 Massachusetts business executives to rate a select list of 74 Massachusetts-based companies and organizations that employ a large number of Massachusetts residents on six attributes - general reputation, products and services, social responsibility, ethics and corporate governance, workplace environment and financial stability. Last year UPS was ranked #17 overall.

The survey is conducted by the survey is conducted on behalf of Morrissey & Company by Opinion Dynamics Corporation, a national leader in market research, polling and consulting based in Waltham, Mass.

UPS received the "Corporation of the Year" award, presented by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).  The award, regarded as the most significant honor to a major corporation for using Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American suppliers, acknowledges UPS for its exemplary achievements in the area of minority business development. 

NMSDC recognized UPS as demonstrating exceptional strength in areas critical to maintaining a solid minority supplier development process. Learn more.

UPS has contributed more than $1,000,000 during a 14-year partnership that has supported CARE's work around the world. Since 1995, UPS has underwritten CARE's Emergency Transportation Shipping Fund. In addition, UPS has donated to CARE's emergency and relief efforts throughout the world, including Kosovo, Sudan, Angola, Cambodia, Vietnam, Lebanon, Haiti and Nicaragua.

The 2006 Harris Interactive® RQ^SM survey ranked UPS as the nation's top company for people's "trust in the company to do the right thing in the event of a product/service problem, excellent customer service, and sincerity of corporate communications." For overall reputation, UPS ranked #7 among the 60 most visible companies in the United States.

The survey polled more than 20,000 respondents, who ranked companies' reputations based on 20 attributes in six categories: financial performance, social responsibility, workplace environment, products and services, vision and leadership, and emotional appeal.

In addition to the top rankings, UPS also was ranked in the top 4 in seven other reputation related categories: ethical standards, consistent corporate communications, distinctive corporate communications, correct and accurate information with corporate communications, easily recognizable corporate communications, corporate communications provides consistent messages and corporate communications that have a common look and feel.

In recognizing UPS, Black Enterprise cited the company’s continued commitment to a multicultural environment indicative of its global reach. The magazine highlighted statistics including 70,000 African Americans in UPS’s U.S. workforce, and minorities holding senior management positions and company board positions. Minorities also accounted for 50 percent of new hires last year.

A second survey, conducted by Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology magazine, ranked UPS in the top five private sector organizations supportive of engineering schools at America’s Hispanic Serving Institutions.

UPS made both lists for their support, both financially and in-kind, to colleges supporting minority students at the country’s top engineering schools.

Workforce Management’s goal is to show how leaders in the profession are guiding their companies to greater success through the astute management of an organization’s most valuable corporate asset – its employees. CHSP has helped UPS achieve a 62 percent reduction in injury frequencies since its inception.

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In 2003, UPS SCS (through the Aiken Brokerage Office) was one of the first companies to participate in the "Be A Bunny" project, donating Easter baskets to area seniors in need. The volunteers collected a phenomenal amount of school supplies for the "School Tools" project last summer and more than 25 percent of their workforce participated in Project VISION in October.