LAS VEGAS, Sept. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts
International (NYSE: MGM) employee volunteers build a house from
the ground up, and hand over the keys to an elated single mother
and her children. Tens of millions of dollars are spent conducting
business with minority- and women-owned enterprises, supporting the
company's strategic objectives and commitment to diversity. MGM
Resorts and NRG Renew partner to install one of the nation's
largest rooftop solar arrays at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino,
stretching a massive 20 acres.
These are just a few of the powerful displays of corporate
citizenship chronicled in MGM Resorts' 2014 Annual Corporate Social
Responsibility Report. Themed "Inspiration Begins With Us!", the
report features the company's accomplishments in corporate social
responsibility (CSR), which includes Diversity and Inclusion,
Philanthropy and Community Engagement, and Environmental
Sustainability initiatives. Released today, the report for
2014 is available for download on the company's CSR website,
www.mgmresorts.com/csr.
"MGM Resorts continues to integrate CSR best practices at all
levels of our company's operations and throughout our culture,"
said Jim Murren, Chairman & CEO
of MGM Resorts International. "We firmly believe that our CSR
efforts make us both a better company and a better corporate
citizen, as we strive to uplift the communities in which we operate
and work," continued Murren, a CR Magazine 2013
winner of the Responsible CEO of the Year Award.
From introducing the gaming industry's first formal diversity
and inclusion initiative in 2000 to building the world's largest
LEED Gold-certified "green" complex in CityCenter, to marshaling
its employees to donate more than 1.6 million pounds of food last
year, CSR is foundational to MGM Resorts' culture.
Named the "Responsible Business of the Year" at the 2014 Global
Gaming Awards, MGM Resorts outlines additional CSR milestones in
its report, including:
Diversity & Inclusion
- The management ranks among MGM Resorts' 62,000 employees
include about 43 percent women, and 38 percent minorities.
- MGM Resorts continued to advance its efforts in supplier and
construction diversity in 2014 by spending $189.5 million with diverse-owned suppliers,
contractors and service providers.
- In 2014, MGM Resorts earned top accolades for its diversity
best practices from national thought leaders, including:
DiversityInc Magazine, Human Resources Officers
Today, Universum, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Women's
Business Enterprise National Council and Hispanic Association on
Corporate Responsibility.
Philanthropy & Community Engagement
- Eighty-one MGM Resorts Foundation grants provided education
support to 109,771 children; food, housing and self-sufficiency
assistance to 251,980 individuals and families; and vital
assistance such as medical care and mental health counseling to
9,542 individuals and families.
- MGM Resorts' donation of more than 1.6 million pounds of food
to Three Square, the leading Las
Vegas food bank, earned the distinction as the largest
single company donation in the nonprofit's history and one of the
nation's largest single-city food drives last year.
- MGM Resorts employees volunteered 172,316 hours, providing
nonprofit organizations with the equivalent of nearly $4 million in labor.
Environmental Sustainability
- MGM Resorts recycled and diverted from landfills nearly 56,000
tons of materials for a 2014 recycling diversion rate of 47
percent.
- A 20-acre, 6.4 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array was
installed on the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in 2014. A 2 MW
addition is planned for the recently completed Mandalay Bay
Convention Center expansion which will make the resort the home to
the country's third largest rooftop array when finished in 2015.
The combined arrays will supply 26 percent of the resort's
electricity during peak production.
- MGM Resorts added 31 compressed natural gas (CNG) Cadillac XTS
limousines to its transportation portfolio.
For more information about MGM Resorts International's track
record towards corporate social responsibility, please visit:
www.mgmresorts.com/csr.
About MGM Resorts International
MGM Resorts
International (NYSE: MGM) is one of the world's leading global
hospitality companies, operating a portfolio of destination resort
brands including Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay and The Mirage.
The Company is in the process of developing MGM National Harbor in
Maryland and MGM Springfield in
Massachusetts. The Company also owns 51 percent of MGM China
Holdings Limited, which owns the MGM Macau resort and casino and is
developing a gaming resort in Cotai, and 50 percent of CityCenter
in Las Vegas, which features ARIA
Resort & Casino. For more information about MGM Resorts
International, visit the Company's website at
www.mgmresorts.com.
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