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Giving Back Matters

Q&A with James O‘Leary, Chairman, CEO and President

Discuss the role of Service in a values-driven be able to build something so tangible and provide to all four – Team, Excellence, Service and Trust.
organization, where Team, Excellence, Service for those who need it most is pretty amazing. Many volunteer as part of a team. They’re certainly
and Trust are part of everything we do. in service to others. They’re sharing their
Haskell’s commitment to the United commitment to excellence. And they’re building
Service is a Haskell core value, and giving back to trusted relationships with each other across the
the communities that we work in and live in is a Way across all our offices nationwide is organization. We’re proud to offer every team
long-standing tradition. With 23 office locations and broad and deep, and 2023 was another member four hours each month of paid time off for
numerous project sites around the world, which can record-setting campaign. What does this volunteerism. The 45,000 hours volunteered by
be 100 more locations at any given time, it provides mean to the communities we serve? Haskell team members, generally outside their
us with the unique opportunity to really make an Preston (Haskell III) started Haskell’s relationship everyday responsibilities, speaks volumes about
impact and change lives. That’s what the core values with the United Way decades ago, and it’s a fantastic who we are as an organization.
of Team, Excellence, Service and Trust are about relationship. Again, it speaks much to our core
and what the core value of Service speaks to. values and who we are as an organization and Whether it’s Toys for Tots in Idaho, creating
allows us as individuals to have the opportunity to kits of personal items for the disabled and
You personally worked on the two houses be positive change agents in whatever community elderly in Colombia or refurbishing classrooms
we built for Habitat for Humanity in 2023, we happen to live in. Every day, we talk about in Malaysia, Haskell and its team members
and Haskell provided the largest corporate coming to work and ensuring that we’re bettering touch thousands with their good works.
workforce for builds in this region. How ourselves and the company. Through the United Could you reflect on that? Could you ever
does this commitment by our Haskell Way campaign across the enterprise, we can better have imagined leading such an organization?
team members speak to our values? our communities. So, the relationship is strong,
and it’s something we should all be proud of. It’s remarkable, and it’s an organization that has
The Haskell-Habitat for Humanity relationship has seized the opportunity to do that. To have the
existed for 30 years. We’ve built 27 homes, and in Haskell team members worked more than resources to be in multiple locations around the
2024 we’ll build Nos. 28 and 29. We’ve provided 45,000 volunteer hours in 2023. How do world and have a global impact, to be able to
22,000 volunteer hours since 2015 – 22,000 volunteer those opportunities to serve together improve lives in different countries, communities
hours! – and we’re recognized as their most active support and reflect our culture? and neighborhoods – that’s what we’re doing. It’s
corporate volunteer partner. That’s pretty remarkable humbling when you think of it in those terms.
stuff and I know it’s very satisfying for our team It speaks directly to our strong culture and to our core
members. The service relates to what we do, and to values. And it’s not just the value of Service. It speaks

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