2010 Sustainability Report - Cummins.com
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<strong>Cummins</strong> employees regularly visit Parkview Villa to work on beautification projects and to interact with residents in addition to the<br />
recycling initiative. Here,. Antonio Almeida (left), Director of Materials, and Mehdi Kalantarzadeh (right), Director of Power Electronics,<br />
visit with two residents.<br />
A green machine<br />
Parkview Villa project in Fridley, Minn.<br />
demonstrates the power of collaboration.<br />
It started rather simply with an observation about the<br />
recycling program at the <strong>Cummins</strong> Power Generation<br />
plant in Fridley, Minn.<br />
But it wasn’t long before the plant’s Parkview Villa project<br />
was building stronger <strong>com</strong>munities, protecting animals,<br />
giving disabled individuals the job skills they need to one<br />
day find a job and, oh yes, increasing recycling.<br />
This Environmental Challenge President’s Award<br />
winner is testament to the power of collaboration<br />
when it <strong>com</strong>es to addressing <strong>com</strong>munity concerns.<br />
“The ease of working with our <strong>com</strong>munity partners has<br />
been the highlight of the project,” says David McGinty,<br />
a Six Sigma black belt and a Community Involvement<br />
Team leader in Fridley. “We made an incredible team<br />
and achieved outstanding results.”<br />
The roots of the project go back to the plant’s<br />
arrangement with Rise Inc. to pick up recyclable<br />
material. Rise’s mission is to support people who<br />
have disabilities and other barriers to employment.<br />
Several <strong>Cummins</strong> employees admired Rise’s work<br />
and wondered if they could help find other<br />
opportunities for its employees.<br />
Coincidentally, McGinty had been active with a<br />
separate group called CommonBond, whose mission<br />
is to build affordable housing as a stepping stone to<br />
success. The team at Fridley started to look for ways<br />
the two groups could work together.<br />
Noting that recycling participation is low at many<br />
low-in<strong>com</strong>e housing facilities, particularly among<br />
older residents, the team in Fridley wondered if<br />
employees from Rise could help residents boost<br />
recycling rates at Parkview Villa, an affordable<br />
housing development near Fridley.<br />
Corporate Responsibility<br />
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