UNUM's Vision is world leadership in disability and special risk insurance.
Leadership does not necessarily mean a dominant market share. Rather, we will
achieve leadership in areas that are meaningful and important to our customers
and a marketplace that values profitability, quality and reputation.
UNUM is a socially responsible corporation that invests in the well-being of
our communities, the health of our society and secondary-school public
education reform to ensure a competitive work force for the future. For
example:
- UNUM America's social investing program puts the company's assets to work in
Portland, Maine, where it is headquartered. Our lending to social service
agencies, such as Shalom House and Tri-County Mental Health Services, helps
finance community housing for the mentally ill in Southern Maine. UNUM America
also invests in small businesses through a lending program operated in
partnership with the city of Portland's Economic Development Department.
- UNUM America regularly has been included in Working Mother
magazine's "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers," recognizing the
company's family-friendly on-site child care facilities, flextime and
telecommunications programs, and the percentage of women in management.
- UNUM Limited received the national "Investor in People" award from
the United Kingdom's Department of Employment and the "Positive about Disabled People" award
from the U.K. Employment Service for combating discrimination among employers.
- The UNUM Foundation actively supports
the Maine community where we are headquartered with dozens of grants to non-profit social
efforts that totaled almost $2 million in 1995. Among the organizations we supported
were the AIDS Consultation Service at Maine
Medical Center, the University of Southern Maine's
efforts in public school reform,
and a Long Term Care Study to help better understand
the needs of Maine's elderly and disabled residents.
- In recognition of outstanding health promotion and disease prevention,
UNUM America's
Wellpower program won the 1995 C. Everett Koop National
Health Award. For efforts to create equal access to opportunities for people with
disabilities, the company also received the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's first
"Employer of the Year" award.
If you'd like to learn more about our guiding principles, read
UNUM's Mission, Vision and Values.
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