Hannon Armstrong Donates $100,000 to Organizations Addressing Racial Injustice and Voting Rights
28 August 2020 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
Part of a Company Commitment to Advance
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc.
("Hannon Armstrong") (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in climate
change solutions, today announced a $100,000 donation to support
leading organizations addressing racial injustice and voting
rights.
The donation will be allocated among the following
organizations:
- NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) – A nonprofit
organization seeking structural changes to expand democracy,
eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice through
litigation, advocacy, and public education. Since its founding in
1940, LDF has been a pioneer in the struggle to secure and protect
the voting rights, employing legal, legislative, public education,
and advocacy strategies to promote the full, equal, and active
participation of African-Americans in America's democracy.
- Campaign Zero – A nonprofit organization that aims to reduce
police violence in the United States. Campaign Zero promotes urgent
policy solutions that can change the way police serve our
communities and protect and preserve life through analysis of
policing practices across the country, research to identify
effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to
organizers leading police accountability campaigns, and the
development of model legislation and advocacy to end police
violence nationwide.
- Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) – A nonprofit organization
providing legal support to Baltimore communities as they exercise
their civil liberties, protesting injustices rooted in structural
racism and economic inequality. BALT is dedicated to using creative
and collective solutions to support the Movement for Black Lives in
Baltimore by supporting community-led efforts to address racial
injustices focused on inequities in the criminal justice system.
These efforts include community education, rapid response,
training, research, and advocacy.
“57 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
the long and painful fight against systemic racism has rightfully
taken on renewed urgency over the past months, weeks and days,"
said Hannon Armstrong Chairman and CEO Jeffrey W. Eckel. “We are
committed to helping drive meaningful change for communities of
color, which is why we are proud to support the work of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Campaign Zero, and the
Baltimore Action Legal Team in elevating Black voices and driving
progress towards racial equity and justice.”
As previously announced, Hannon Armstrong has also committed to
match individual employee donations made to organizations
confronting racial and economic injustices, voter suppression, and
other civil rights violations on a dollar for dollar basis up to
$2,000.
To support a sustained transformation over the long-term, Hannon
Armstrong is taking a number of steps to make both immediate and
measurable long-term progress on its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,
and Justice (DEIJ) journey. These previously disclosed actions
include convening listening sessions to provide a platform for
sharing experiences; holding learning gatherings to understand how
and where employees can be valuable allies and advocates; launching
a DEIJ task force; implementing efforts to advance diversity in our
hiring practices; building on our unconscious bias learning
initiatives; and engaging an independent consultant to perform a
comprehensive Equity Assessment that will inform a multi-year plan
to grow our equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts.
Hannon Armstrong also recognizes the role that a strong
democracy plays in the fight for social justice and the need to
ensure voting access for all communities, particularly for the
Black community and other communities of color. That's why the
company is a signatory of Time to Vote, a nonpartisan coalition of
U.S. businesses working to increase voter participation in our
country's elections. Additionally, Hannon Armstrong joined 249
companies in signing Business for America's letter to Congress in
support of secure absentee ballots and safe in-person voting sites
for the 2020 election.
To learn more about Hannon Armstrong's stance on powering equity
and confronting racial injustice, read the "Clean Energy Industry
Leaders Take a Stand Against Racism" joint-statement and the June
2, 2020 letter to employees from Hannon Armstrong Chairman and CEO
Jeffrey W. Eckel.
About Hannon Armstrong Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI) is
the first U.S. public company solely dedicated to investments in
climate change solutions, providing capital to leading companies in
energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other sustainable
infrastructure markets. With more than $6 billion in managed assets
as of June 30, 2020, Hannon Armstrong's core purpose is to make
climate-positive investments with superior risk-adjusted returns.
For more information, please visit http://www.hannonarmstrong.com.
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