This year on May 11th, we celebrated our sixth-annual Nielsen Global Impact Day (NGID). NGID is our annual day of service where associates around the world step back from their work and use their skills and time for community causes. This year, over 23,000 Nielsen associates across 89 countries came together to volunteer at more than 1,500 community projects in the markets where Nielsen operates.
通过上面的视频，您可以了解 NGID 的影响力。在我们员工的推动下，这一天将我们的全球服务精神与整个组织和我们的社区紧密联系在一起。对我们中的许多人来说，NGID 是个人行为。与成千上万的尼尔森员工一起，身着蓝色志愿者衬衫，带着活力、激情和热情，为无家可归者收容所、学校、食品银行、公园以及我们生活和工作所在社区的无数其他组织提供服务，这种感觉非常特别。正如一位员工今年分享的那样："我真正喜欢 NGID 的地方在于，在这一天里，我可以抛开一切，与队友并肩工作，投入到帮助他人的活动中去。这真的让一切都变得更有意义！"
This year, I participated in two volunteer NGID events in New York, NY. First, I went out to the Housing Works Processing & Distribution Center in Long Island City with members of Nielsen’s Human Resources team to sort and hang donated clothes. These donated clothes help Housing Works to generate funds through their thrift stores for their mission to end homelessness and HIV/AIDS. Next, I headed to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center to help organize materials for the Theater Department. These activities not only exposed me to critical diversity and education missions here in New York City, but also allowed me to connect and bond with Nielsen teammates from across the organization while we made a difference together.
NGID is a global call to action that’s part of our year-round Nielsen Cares employee volunteer program, which empowers associates to use their skills, expertise and Nielsen’s capabilities to make a difference in our communities. Associates have the opportunity to help address some of the world’s biggest social challenges, particularly those within our priority areas of Hunger & Nutrition, Education, Diversity & Inclusion, and Technology, as well as Sustainability through Nielsen Green.
尼尔森大力鼓励各级组织开展技能型志愿服务（利用核心业务技能、经验或教育来帮助非营利组织建立和维持运营的服务）和持续的志愿服务机会。为了巩固这一承诺，尼尔森承诺每年通过公益和实物捐助提供至少1000万美元。2016 年，我们通过基于技能的志愿服务项目和实物捐赠，为非营利组织和大学捐赠了创纪录的 1180 万美元，超额完成了我们的承诺。
今年，尼尔森基金会--一个在饥饿与营养、多元化与包容性以及教育领域应对社区挑战的新平台--还推出了 "事业卡"，通过允许尼尔森员工将基金会的赠款直接捐赠给符合条件的非营利组织，最大限度地发挥尼尔森员工志愿服务承诺的影响力。员工在一个季度内记录 12 个或更多符合条件的志愿服务小时后，即可解锁 "事业卡"。
Nielsen Cares is just one piece of our Global Responsibility & Sustainability efforts at Nielsen, and I’m continually blown away by how our associates all over the world take ownership of this mission to make a difference—whether through Nielsen Global Impact Day, Earth Week, Hunger Action Month, Employee Resource Groups, or their day-to-day work with their clients and teams. I hope you enjoy this peek into Nielsen Global Impact Day 2017, and I can’t wait to see what NGID7 brings next year!
