Best Friends Animal Society Claimed Company

Best Friends Animal Society® is the only national animal welfare organization focused exclusively on ending the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters. To this end, Best Friends works with shelters, rescue groups and our members nationwide on a variety of grassroots programs. Working together, we’re building on a foundation of compassion and inclusion to help both pets and people. We’re making sure that everyone has the same access to loving pets and that every adoptable pet has access to the comfort of a foster home instead of a kennel in a shelter. We know we can Save Them All®. read more

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS: 17

TOTAL RATINGS: 274

CEO: Julie Castle

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Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Best Friends Animal Society

Goal: Utilize environmentally friendly and non-toxic products throughout the workplace.
Method: Develop organization wide purchasing policies to encourage, or, when practicable, require, the use of non-toxic cleaning products.
Method: Departments minimize or eliminate the use of hazardous/toxic materials in their workspaces.

Goal: Encourage efficient use of resources.
Method: Implement organizational wide recycling programs.
Method: Implement reduce, reuse, recycle policies.
Method: Implement centralized supply purchasing and ordering strategies to minimize stockpiling and more efficiently purchase materials.

Goal: Encourage use of alternative fuels and minimize energy use.
Method: Develop organizational purchasing policies to encourage, or when practicable, require, the purchase of high efficiency/energy saving equipment.
Method: Provide plug-in electric vehicle charging stations at the sanctuary.
Method. When practicable, incorporate green materials and processes in construction projects.
Method: Replace fleet with electric vehicles as practical.

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