COMMUNITY IMPACT Recognizing our employees’ achievements Each year, the Thomson Reuters Awards celebrates Alliance to help provide pro bono legal services and the extraordinary achievements of a select group of amplify the voices of those oppressed by racism. colleagues who go above and beyond while living our Other winners included Heather Fischer, Senior company purpose. Recipients of these awards acted Advisor for Human Rights Crimes at Thomson boldly and took risks that made a huge impact on Reuters Special Services, and Dave Moran, Head our people, our customers, and the communities in of Product and Consumer Communications, who which we serve. On behalf of each winner Thomson spearheaded an effort to raise awareness for a rise Reuters makes a $10,000 donation to a nonpro昀椀t of in sex traf昀椀cking following the war in Ukraine, and their choice. April Christenson, Vice President of Global Bene昀椀ts Among this year’s eight winners were Dan Calanca, and Wellbeing, who helped bring our Flex My Way a Client Success Consultant on our HighQ product work from anywhere and employee sabbatical team, who worked with the Law Firm Anti-Racism programs to life. Partnership with Social Business Trust in the UK For the past decade, Thomson Reuters has been a of expert panels, and direct advisory support on proud corporate partner of the UK-based nonpro昀椀t individual business issues. Social Business Trust, which is dedicated to helping Several domain experts participated in Advisory high-potential social enterprises grow and increase Boards — giving their time on a regular basis to their impact. The organization achieves this by support the social enterprises with problem-solving facilitating professional support and cash grants and best practice insights in areas such as Strategic from its leading corporate partners in a carefully Finance, Sales & Marketing, Digital, and Human selected portfolio of social enterprises. Resources. A hackathon event was held at of昀椀ces in In 2022 the partnership was strengthened due to London, where 昀椀ve social enterprises were aided by 45 the close working relationship between a group of volunteers, providing their knowledge and experience Thomson Reuters volunteers and SBT’s leadership to help solve several selected business challenges. team to increase the support provided to the 11 Our association with Social Business Trust offers social enterprises in their portfolio. These volunteers meaningful professional development and provided a wide range of domain expertise across networking opportunities, as well as the inherent several key programs, including the SBT Investment reward of contributing to the causes served by social Committee, directing speci昀椀c investments and enterprises themselves. projects within social enterprises, membership 2626
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