Bridgewater's Sanofi Donates $100K to Non-Profits

BRIDGEWATER, NJ — Bridgewater-based Sanofi donated $100,000 to select non-profit organizations serving New Jersey communities at the second annual Sanofi in Our Communities, Celebrating Diversity (SOCCD) event.

Sanofi Foundation of North America allotted each of the Sanofi’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) a total of $10,000 to fund up-to-two non-profit organizations. Selections were based on the priorities of each ERG, community needs, and how organizations addressed those needs in New Jersey.

Non-profit organizations included:

• National Kidney Foundation: Support the transplant workshop, "What You Need to Know about Kidney Transplantation" to provide patient and caregiver education to understand the process and obstacles they will face in the transplant process.
• Sheltered Yoga: General operating support to provide evidence-based, trauma-informed emotional and behavioral health and wellness curriculum to shelters, alternative and public schools, transitional housing, foster homes and outreach programs.
• Camp Quality NJ: General operating support to help fund summer camp programs and other activities throughout the year for children with cancer.
• VNA of Somerset Hills: Hospice care to provide patients with a team of health care professionals that provide expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support, tailored to patient needs. Funding will also support their adult daycare program.
• Camp Nejeda: Our funding helped to support Camp Nejeda's summer residential programs for children with Type 1 diabetes.
• NJ SEEDS: Young Scholars Program to provide Health Sessions to students on topics such as nutrition, exercise and stress management.
• Deirdre’s House: Individual and family clinical counseling program that provides individual, group and family counseling to child victims, non-offending caregiver (NOC’s), and survivors of abuse.
• Garden State Equality Education Fund: Addressing the health and housing concerns of LGBT seniors with the new program Pledge and Protect.
• Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: Psychosocial supportive services to link and retain people living with HIV/AIDS in care who are newly diagnosed or have unmet need for HIV care.
• Rutgers University Foundation: Vets4Warriors call center support program offered to all Active Duty, Reservists, National Guard Service Members, Veterans and their families.
• Dress for Success: The Foundations of Success Workshops provide opportunities for women to develop professional and personal effectiveness through exercises designed to address foundational, internal barriers.

The SOCCD reception was held at Sanofi U.S. Headquarters in Bridgewater, and was attended by representatives from the non-profit recipient organizations, the North America CSR team, the Diversity & Inclusion Council, Sanofi leadership and the company ERGs, including ADVANCE (Alliance for DiVersificAtion, iNClusion and Enrichment), CancerConnect, CareGIVE, DiabetesConnect, MILL (Millennials Influencing Learning & Leadership), ParentsConnect, PRIDE Connect, V.E.T.S., and WISE (Women Inspiring Sanofi Excellence).

(Image provided: Hyacinth AIDS Foundation receives $15,000 from the Sanofi Foundation for North America at the 2016 Sanofi in Our Communities event. The organization will use the funds for psychosocial supportive services to link and retain people living with HIV/AIDS in care who are newly diagnosed or have unmet need for HIV care. Pictured are members of the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation, members of the Sanofi PRIDE Connect Employee Resource Group, along with Sanofi executives representing Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity & Inclusion.)

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