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“ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANT
TO DO IS TO MAKE EMPLOYEES
FEEL A BETTER SENSE OF ‘BEING’–
FEEL PART OF THE COMMUNITY.”

- JEFF HEATH, DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS, CS WIND

“They feel they have had great citizen, and bring employees starting to get more involved in
success and things have gone together to achieve it – to create what matters to people here,”
very well, so they want to do the a strong sense of family. says Pinsonneault.
same thing on a local basis,” says
Heath. “And to do that, there’s In addition to getting more
nothing better than to have employees involved through the
CS Wind is the largest wind people working towards a payroll deduction campaign,
tower manufacturer in the world, common cause,” Heath asserts. Pinsonneault hopes to run
with facilities in Viet Nam, fundraising events throughout
China, Korea, and Canada. Sarah Pinsonneault, a Human the year to engage the workforce.
The local operation employs Resources Development
over 500 people. In 2015, local Assistant, coordinated the first Mr. So Ra, CS Wind’s Human
workers became members of the United Way campaign. She says Resources Development
Association of Bridge, Structural, CS Wind is involved in a lot of Manager, says they are looking
Ornamental and Reinforcing charitable efforts around the to United Way to help build their
Iron Workers Union Local 721. world, including environmental understanding of how they can
protection projects, and help the community, and share
Its gift to United Way is the building water wells in Africa. that knowledge with employees
company’s first philanthropic But her eyes were opened to so they can rally people to get
effort since coming to Canada. some of the needs in her home involved.
Heath describes their first United community during a United Way
Way fundraising campaign of presentation, so she’s happy “It’s our first step. Our
$24,600 - which includes both that CS Wind is looking for company has a strong intention
employee and corporate gifts - local ways to become a good to participate with United Way,”
as ‘just a first pass’. Their goal corporate citizen. says Ra. “There are bigger steps
is to work with United Way to come.”
to become a strong corporate “It’s good to know that I’m
a part of an organization that is

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