External Memberships and Non-Government Organization Partnerships

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External Memberships and Non-Government
Organization Partnerships

• GEMI October 2002
• Benchmarking Survey
• Laura Bradford George Nagle
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

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External Memberships - Top 10 Business
Organizations
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External Memberships - Top Business Organizations
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External Memberships - Top 10 EHS Interest Groups
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External Memberships - Top EHS Interest Groups
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External Memberships - Top 10 Trade Associations
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External Memberships - Top Trade Associations
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The average GEMI member EHS group belongs to 11
sustainability organizations, EHS interest groups
and/or trade associations.
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What are the most important considerations in
determining which organizations you belong to or
partner with?
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Value for Resources
Type of Value Provided

• Networking
• Best Practices
• Knowledge
• Share Knowledge
• Public Policy Development
• Regulatory Impact
• Marquee Value

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How do you leverage the information you get from
your involvement?
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Ways To Leverage Information

• Internal Communications
• Staff Meetings
• Emerging Issue Groups
• E-mail
• Share with Teams/Project Head
• Newsletters

• External Communications
• Conferences
• Sustainability or Annual Report
• Local Print Media
• Web site
• Advocacy
• Newsletters

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Are your company EHS/sustainability memberships
funded through a single budget/individual?
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If not, are they coordinated?

• Overall, 79 of GEMI companies responding
  coordinate memberships in some way.

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What is your estimate (/- 20) for your annual
membership dues and fees for these types of EHS
organizations?
Average 218,000/year
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What is your estimate (/- 20) of your companys
fulltime equivalent internal man-days invested in
participating in these EHS organizations?
Average 58 man days
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Predict the degree of your companys
participation and investment in membership in
these types of organizations three years from now.
83 - The same or more
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At the corporate level, are you currently
partnering with NGOs on specific EHS
projects/programs?
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If Yes, please list each project
Each is addressed independently.
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What do you feel are the most significant
benefits of business/NGO partnerships?
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What do you feel are the main drawbacks of
business/NGO collaborations?
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What do you feel is the biggest barrier to
business forming collaborations with NGOs to work
on EHS projects?
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Do you envision your company actively engaged in
a business/NGO collaboration in three years from
now?
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Does your company have a specific practice that
you feel is important to maximizing the business
value of your activities in outside organizations
and/or with business/NGO partnerships?
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Other comments regarding this topic?

• I would be interested in ways companies measure
  value received. I am looking forward to examples
  of positive partnerships. Although we have no
  current corporate partnering with NGOs, we have
  in the past collaborated with an NGO to set up
  and maintain some wetland areas which was very
  positive for both groups.
• Is there a greater role for GEMI to play in
  fostering relationships with NGOs?
• It appears that there is a real opportunity to
  both right size the number of memberships and
  better formalize a system for sharing EHS
  information from memberships within my company.
• Pressure will continue to increase to minimize
  participation in outside organizations.

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Bonus Question! Interested volunteers to help
with benchmarking surveys.

• David Seep (BNSF Railway)
• Carol Cala (Eastman Kodak)
• Elsie Rivera Palabrica (Abbott)
• We should keep it at 1.

Thank You!