Social Activities
Support for Employees' Participation in Social Activities
As its employees maintain a keen awareness toward social challenges, Mitsui Chemicals provides support for them to remain human resources that voluntarily take it upon themselves to contribute to society.
One-Coin Club
We set up the One-Coin Club in November 2007. Employees who join the club choose an amount to be deducted from their salaries or bonuses, which is used to fund donations to organizations involved in social activities. The One-Coin Club Management Committee, formed by volunteer members, specifies the priority areas for support, chooses social service organizations, and reviews and selects donation beneficiaries in accordance with the provisions of the Committee’s management rules.
Priority Areas of Support
- Activities aimed at nurturing future generations/saving lives and protecting the livelihoods of children
- Activities aimed at supporting people with disabilities/contributing to patients with intractable diseases
- Activities that contribute to medical/maintenance disaster response systems
- Activities that protect the global environment
Criteria for Choosing Social Service Organizations
- The content of the organization’s activities corresponds to the content of the Group’s Social Activities Policy.
- The organization is a third-party beneficiary that is not a Group employee or related party.
- The organization’s activity details and financial condition are disclosed, so it is a highly transparent organization.
- The organization has promised that it will report the results of its activities to the Club after receiving support from the Club.
- The organization has no connection with specific religion, academic society, or political activity.
As of October 2021, the Club had 746 members, who between them contributed approximately ¥4.0 million to the fund in fiscal 2021.
In fiscal 2021, we donated a total of ¥6.4 million - ¥3.2 million from the One-Coin Club and a matching gift* of the same amount from the Company - to a total of 16 organizations involved in a range of social activities.
*Matching gifts:
A program that supports employees’ social contribution activities whereby a company provides a matching donation of the same amount when an employee donates to a social or environmental organization.
Organizations That Benefited from Donations in Fiscal 2021
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| Organization Name (In random order) |
Priority Areas of Support | Past Donation History (Years) |
|---|---|---|
| United Nations World Food Programme (Japan) | (1) | 2008-2021 |
| Japan Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children | (1) | 2008-2021 |
| Nanbyo Network | (1) (2) | 2009-2021 |
| Guide Dog & Service Dog & Hearing Dog Association of Japan | (2) | 2008-2021 |
| Japan Marrow Donor Registry Promotion Conference | (2) | 2008、2010-2021 |
| Helicopter Emergency Medical Network (HEM-Net) | (3) | 2010-2021 |
| team RESCUE | (3) | 2012-2021 |
| Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) | (1) (3) | 2009、2012ｰ2017、2019-2021 |
| MEDECIN SANS FRONTIERES | (3) | 2014-2021 |
| Japan Environmental Action Network | (4) | 2015-2021 |
| Chance for Children | (1) | 2017-2021 |
| Kamonohashi Project | (1) | 2015、2018-2021 |
| 5 years | (2) | 2018-2021 |
| The Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect | (1) | 2020-2021 |
| WaterAid Japan | (1) (3) | 2020-2021 |
| Disaster Rescue Dog Network | (3) | 2021 |
In fiscal 2021, an online NPO activity report meeting was held. Six organizations supported by the Club gave lectures, which served as a precious opportunity for our employees to exchange information and opinions concerning social issues. The participants commented: “This hotline network is helpful” and “It was an important opportunity to learn what is going on in the world.” We believe the meeting deepened their understanding of the organizations supported by the Club and served as an opportunity to consider business from the viewpoint of social issues that the Group is targeting.
Organizations that Participated in the Activity Report Meeting
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| Organization name | Time of implementationTheme |
|---|---|
| Nanbyo Network | SeptemberContent of the organization’s activities |
| Kamonohashi Project | SeptemberContent of the organization’s activities |
| Japan Marrow Donor Registry Promotion Conference | SeptemberContent of the organization’s activities |
| Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) | DecemberContent of the organization’s activities |
| The Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect | MarchInclusion study lectures x One-Coin Club—On International Women’s Day— (About child abuse) *Collaboration event with the Human Resources Division |
| WaterAid Japan | MarchWorkshop on water for children on World Water Day *Collaboration event with Wonders of Chemistry |
Community Service Leave Program
In August 2008, we introduced a community service leave program to provide support for employees participating in social activities, by enabling them to take up to two day’s paid leave a year. Starting in fiscal 2020, half-day leave was introduced, resulting in 54 instances of leave being taken (of which 14 was half-day leave).
Since 2011, we have also been allowing employees to take up to eight days’ special leave each year, so that they can engage in social activities aimed at providing disaster relief.
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