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Lavallee, left, with Sen. Tom Harkin, and guests of Voya and the CEO Commission for Disability Employment ring the closing bell NYSE Aug 2022
That's really how we tend to think about partnerships. And the last thing I'll say is we actually have a team, a center of excellence, our “Voya Cares” team, a small but very mighty team. They really manage those not-for- profit partnerships and put together strategic plans with them that are usually six to 18 months out. And we're just very thoughtful around what are they trying to accomplish, how does it align with what we're trying to do? And we put together very thoughtful plans.
As a matter of fact, when I was in DC, we were a found- ing partner of something called the CEO Commission. And it was a partnership started with NDSS, SHRM ( the Society for Human Resource Management) and Voya to bring in other like-minded partner organiza- tions, whether they're not-for-profits, whether they're employers, to focus on workplace inclusion and compet- itive wages. We started that a few years ago, and some- times it's an amalgamation of different partners.
So, when I was on the Hill, we were focused on a few legislative priorities, but some of the partner organiza- tions were The Harkin Institute and Easterseals. So that's a little bit and I apologize, I'm kind of going on a little bit, but we think there's a great opportunity for col- laboration between different organizations and different not-for-profits.
Goga: I agree. And I neglected to mention that Senator Harkin had been a contributor to ABILITY Magazine for over 14 years. He's been a great resource and friend to our organization.
Lavallee: That's very cool. Organizations like yours help us to all understand.
Goga: So true.
Lavallee: We make sure we're looking at the world through the most comprehensive lens as possible. And as you said with your online job fair, there's a lot of things that, again, when we first started, we didn't know what we didn't know. And we needed help from organi- zations like yours and others to really challenge our thinking and advance it to make sure we were as inclu- sive as possible. And we're not done. It's a journey. There's still a lot more that we as an organization con- tinue to learn and lean into as the world evolves.
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