– As part of our partnership with SOLS 24/7, two dozen staff conducted virtual classroom sessions for 35 youths, covering topics on financial, physical and mental health, and resilience.

At J.P. Morgan, we invest in our customers, employees, and communities around the world to break down barriers to opportunity and create an economy that works for more people. We combine our business and policy expertise, capital, and data to advance four universal pillars of opportunity: jobs and skills, small business expansion, neighborhood revitalization, and financial health.

J.P. Morgan’s Philanthropic Work in Malaysia

We focus our grant-making on workforce readiness programs for youths that narrow skills gaps, improving the employment opportunities for underserved youths in growing industries. Our grantee MySkills Foundation is training 400 at-risk youths in electrical, plumbing, air-conditioning, welding, life management and other soft skills. We are also supporting the organization to create new training modules on digital and entrepreneurial skills and pilot vocational training streams in the corporate secretarial and care work sectors. Our partnership with SOLS 24/7 – another grantee – also provided training to 100 underserved youths in solar energy, English, basic IT and soft skills development to equip them for jobs in the solar energy industry.

Employee Engagement and Volunteering 

Over the past year, our employees have engaged in a variety of initiatives. Earlier in the year, they organized a clothes and bedding donations drive to aid flood victims and children welfare homes, collecting over 90 kg of bedding and 265 pieces of new children’s clothing. The firm also donated used IT equipment in support of Medical Awareness Camp Outreach’s Empowerment Computer Program, which builds and/or upgrades school computer labs. We were able to repurpose more than a hundred monitors and keyboards.  Furthermore, staff partnered with Rise Against Hunger in September to pack 10,000 meals to feed those affected by the food shortage crisis in Sri Lanka.

– Jabil Penang’s spirit to serve is widely recognized and is a foundational pillar of our cultural value since we were first established in 1995. This is the third consecutive year Jabil has been named in the MY AmCham Cares Excellence Award for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

As a global manufacturing solutions provider, Florida-headquartered Jabil employs more than 260,000 diverse, talented and dedicated employees across 100 locations in 30 countries.

Jabil prides itself in giving back to communities where we live and work by empowering employees to lead community outreach initiatives with local charitable organizations through volunteerism and/or financial support. Under our Jabil Cares banner, employees are instrumental in driving positive change with their unwavering volunteer spirit, generosity, and kindness.

All our global locations implement a localized strategy that addresses social causes in their communities around Education, Empowerment and the Environment.

Our Initiatives in Malaysia

Improving our communities is a foundational pillar of Jabil Penang’s cultural values since we were first established in the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Zone in 1995. From active participation in the Penang International Science Fair to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; picking up litter on World Environmental Day; festive outreach at various orphanages; the sponsorship of a computer room with the Penang Welfare Association for the Mentally Retarded Children to ensure differently-abled children are not left out of the digital transformation, Jabil Penang’s support to different causes has unified its employees with shared values.

Our spirit to serve has been widely recognized, including by the American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM). This is the third consecutive year Jabil has been named in the MY AmCham Cares Excellence Award in the category of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

– In 2022, J&J Malaysia Community Impact continued the good work in raising funds and reaching out to those in need through year-long activities and donation drives.

Johnson & Johnson’s Global Community Impact is focused on supporting and championing the people on the frontlines who are at the heart of delivering care. In 2022, J&J’s Malaysia Community Impact (MCI) continued our efforts in reaching out to those in need by launching a Flood Relief and Recovery Campaign in collaboration with NGO Save Environment Save Ourselves (SESO) Malaysia during the flood crisis.

J&J Malaysia employees raised funds to donate 650 boxes of kindness comprising 900 units hygiene products, benefiting 650 families in impacted areas, such as Sungai Kandis and Sri Muda. MCI’s collaboration with SESO continued during Ramadhan, when once again, employees raised funds to donate 200 jars of cookies to 200 families from B40 Desa Mentari flats. The cookies were baked by single mothers at SESO. In Q3 2022, MCI together with Employee Resource Group GenNow collaborated in Pay It Forward, where we collected funds and pre-loved items to donate to orphanages and old folks’ homes. Simultaneously, we launched the Dear Self, How Are You? Mental Health Program with Mercy Malaysia to train 40 J&J employees to become trainers to refugee / stateless children and adolescents on mental health awareness and coping skills.

The aim is to train up to 500 children to be more aware of their mental health and to better cope with stress. To end 2022, work is in progress to plan a Christmas with a Cause luncheon and gift exchange, in which at least 60 children from at least 2 orphanages will receive Secret Santa gifts from J&J employees and be treated to a Christmas luncheon.

Since our beginnings in a Silicon Valley garage, our entrepreneurial spirit and passion has been focused on one mission: helping customers accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. We are driven, curious, collaborative and obsessed with the future of technology.

As a leading technology company, we are also involved in nurturing the next generation of engineers and uplifting the community wherever we have a presence – including in Malaysia where we’re celebrating our 50-years anniversary as one of the 8 samurai that heralded the robust development of Penang’s industrial ecosystem.

Empowering employees to positively impact the community

Through employee-led initiatives, Keysight supports and strengthens the community through volunteerism activities, financial assistance and community outreach programs which includes the donation of hydroponic farms at charitable homes, encouraging self-sustainability.

Focusing on STEM education

We partner with the government and community to drive educational science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs. Our employees inspire and nurture student’s interest in engineering through programs such as Introduce-a-Girl-to-Engineering-Day (IGED), Girls in Engineering and Tech (GET), Innovate Malaysia Design Challenge and First Tech Challenge, among others.  Keysight is also a key player in the establishment of Penang’s STEM initiatives such as Penang Science Cluster, Penang International Science Fair and Penang Digital Library.

Accelerating commitment to net zero emissions with rooftop solar panel installation

Throughout Covid-19, Keysight remains steadfast in our long-term commitment to achieve low-carbon future – hitting a milestone with the completion of the largest industry rooftop solar panel in Penang. The 5.8-megawatt (MW) solar installation that covered the rooftops of all eight buildings at the Bayan Lepas site in Penang is also the largest solar power generation system for Keysight globally.

Powering the nation through tomorrow’s technologies

Keysight will continue to enable purposeful innovations in clean technology, wellness, safety and security through its products, solutions, and services. It has embraced the ethos of creating a positive impact on the world and continue to remain steadfast in making further progress towards building a better planet.

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) and our brands are a part people’s lives in more than 175 countries. We impact billions of lives not just through the products we make, but also the workplaces we create and the communities we serve.

Our products have been sold in Malaysia since 1924. Today, we employ over 900 people across three entities: Kimberly Clark Trading Malaysia, Kimberly Clark Regional Services Malaysia, and Kimberly Clark Products Malaysia. We manufacture Made-in-Malaysia Kotex, Huggies, Kleenex, and Scott that are sold locally and exported to 12 markets in APAC.

Our approach to sustainability is guided by our Purpose Better Care for a Better World. We know that millions still lack access to basic products and the planet is threatened by climate change. Therefore, businesses will need to change the way it operates, and K-C aspires to lead the way to a sustainable future with our 2030 Ambition – advancing the wellbeing of one billion people in need and halving our environmental footprint.

Better Care for a Better Malaysia

1. Social Impact

Empowerment:

• Kotex has educated >1 million Malaysian teens in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women and the National Population and Family Development Board in bid to end period stigma and raise menstrual hygiene awareness
• Kotex She Can Fund – Grants of up to RM100,000 a year to inspire young women to make strides in areas where women are under-represented or to pursue dreams without being restricted by their periods
• Huggies free antenatal classes for expecting moms, covering many topics by medical experts and popular mom figures

Donations:

• Care packages to unsung heroes this Ramadan in appreciation of their tireless contributions
• Kleenex contributed wet wipes to schools across Klang Valley when physical classes resumed. Students were guided on wiping down high touch surfaces and clean hands as fight against Covid-19 continues

2. Sustainability

• Reduced amount of fresh water used in production by 75% whilst output has almost doubled
• All manufacturing waste is recycled; nothing goes to landfill
• Assortment of our Scott products are made from 100% recycled fiber
• Launched Kotex reusable period underwear that absorbs up to 2x of normal pads and can be washed and reused at least 50 times
• All Kleenex, Scott and Kimberly-Clark Professional products manufactured in our Kluang Mill are FSC®-certified
• Volunteered to clean Bukit Lanjan of 281kgs of garbage pollution to mark FSC® Forest Week 2022

The Centre is deeply committed to caring for the environment and the society while balancing the business needs and mitigating the impacts of financial risks of climate change on our industry.  Sustainability is a rite of passage now in our industry, and ought to be for all.

As a leading venue in Malaysia, the Centre has taken a leadership role in driving engagement with strategic partners and the business events supply chains to strengthen our resolve as business leaders to put into action a cohesive plan that places sustainability at the core in everything we do and contribute to Malaysia’s sustainability goals.

In 2022, the Centre together with its partners, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre Business Alliance (KLCCBEA) and Urbanice Malaysia, have kick-started a revolutionary project to create KLCC SDGs Precinct, which will make the precinct a sustainability haven for organisers and delegates to meet, eat, sleep and play responsibly; improve the destination value propositions of Malaysia to the international audience; and provide a SDGs precinct model for the country to roll-out in other precincts.

The Centre has invested in various sustainability projects to manage event-generated waste and facilitate low-carbon events for our clients.  Chief among the key projects are adoption of A.I. system for food waste management; composting machine to convert food waste into compost, thereby diverting waste from landfill; urban, hydroponic farming to provide pesticide-free and zero carbon footprint greens to our delegates; and engagement with professional to create a short to long term roadmap to achieve zero-carbon.