Almac Group to Support Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Laurel House, and St. Jude as part of $300,000 Global Giving Pledge

Employee-driven initiative will benefit 33 health and welfare organizations local to Almac’s 11 global facilities

Souderton, Pa.- 2 September 2020 – Almac Group today announces that the organization will donate to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Laurel House, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of an over $300,000 total contribution being made to 33 charities globally in the wake of COVID-19.

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Federal guidelines set forth in mid-March to mitigate the spread of travel-related coronavirus in the United States allow just 15 “funneling airports” to accept passenger air travel from Europe, China and Brazil. Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is not among these designated airports, making it the only airport among the country’s top 10 for transatlantic travel that cannot serve European markets. Click HERE to sign the petition.

Congratulations to our members named to the  named to the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2020 “Soaring 76.”

Ambassador Club members: Entercom and WSFS Bank

Individual members: Kathy Bellwoar’s company, PPT Consulting; Kate Shields’ company, Vault Communications; and Kevin McGarvey’s company, ALL OUT Parking Lots

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How to make meaningful change against racism at your organization

“For real change to be realized, each organization must orient itself in a way to take deliberate and ongoing action to overcome a system that has failed so many for so long. Deeds must follow words, or the words won’t matter,” said Stradley Ronon Chief Diversity Officer Brian Seaman in a penned article for the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Seaman outlines recommendations to jumpstart your organization’s efforts to combat systemic racism and to ensure that your company’s public statements are the beginning of your #antiracism efforts and not the end.

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WSFS’ first person of color in the C-suite readies for role as ‘organizational change agent’
By Jeff Blumenthal  – Reporter, Philadelphia Business Journal

Michael Conklin has lived and worked in the Midwest for his entire life, most recently serving nearly eight years as senior vice president of global human resources for the nation’s fifth-largest bank, U.S. Bancorp. He oversaw the Minneapolis-based company’s consumer and business banking units as well as payment services — leading a team of 147 human resources professionals and 46,000 employees.

The Wisconsin native has not spent much time in the Philadelphia region save for regular visits to a Folcroft facility while at ConAgra Foods. So why uproot his family and leave the massive U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) to become executive vice president and chief human resources officer for WSFS Financial Corp. (NYSE: WSFS), a company 1,100 miles away that is only a fraction the size?

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