Q4 2023 ESG Team Update
It has been a while since we have shared updates, but here is what our ESG Team has been up to:
Employee Benefits
To start off, we forgot to mention that beginning this year, we added a new benefit for our employees with PerkBox, a platform designed to support and motivate employees by offering perks, rewards, wellbeing support, and more. We have been putting their peer-to-peer recognition features to good use by holding frequent polls where employees can vote for things like who best exemplified one of Acupay’s values or who made your job easier in the past month. Along with celebrating their accomplishments, winners of these polls earn points that can be used to get real-world rewards through the platform.
Fundraising
As shared on LinkedIn, a few members of our ESG Team helped raise funds for and participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure this past October. While the heavy rain made the walk around the Central Park loop a bit less comfortable than it could have been, our group still had some fun and ended up raising $400.
Here are a few pictures from that day:
Overall, the event raised almost $617,000 for breast cancer research, care, and support.
Carbon Emissions Calculation and Reduction Objective
We have been researching guidance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) to get started with creating in inventory of and calculating our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions so that we can work towards our 2024 goal of establishing a plan to reduce our emissions. As of now, by the end of next year, we hope to:
Determine our baseline
Set GHG reduction target(s)
Establish a procedure to track our progress and report
We are still learning, and this is a work in progress, so we do not have further details to share, but we are committed to doing so in future newsletters.
If you have any questions or would like to partner with Acupay’s ESG Team for volunteering or fundraising opportunities, feel free to contact Jeremy Woodcock at jwoodcock@acupay.com.