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We strive to conduct our business in a socially responsible way. Mal Warwick Associates is not just about serving our clients and making a profit. It's about working in a way that benefits all our stakeholders, including our employees and their families, our community, our country, and the world community. In striving to act in a socially responsible way, Mal Warwick Associates:Protects our environment by using "merge/purge" techniques to reduce duplicate mailings, printing on paper with a high recycled content, and using environmentally benign vegetable based inks. Shares 35% of its pre-tax profits with employees. Each full-time employee receives the same profit share, regardless of salary. Contributes 10% of its pre-tax profits to charity. In addition to making a substantial annual contribution to the Berkeley Community Fund, last year Mal Warwick Associates matched employee gifts by 2:1 or more to 63 other nonprofits, including the Alameda County Food Bank, the California Native Plant Society, Doctors Without Borders, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Holds annual elections for non-management employees to choose a representative to sit on the company's board of directors. Maybe most important of all, we are careful to select as clients only those organizations that, in our opinion, make a significant contribution to making the world a better place. The work we do for our clients is far and away the most significant contribution we make to our country and our community. Since 1979, we have raised more than $500 million to fund organizations dedicated to human rights, the environment, civil liberties, development in the Global South, and the arts, education, and healthcare. Hundreds of nonprofit organizations, institutions, and causes have benefited from our work, as have dozens of progressive political candidates and committees. Three of our most senior staff members are members of Social Venture Network, which Mal Warwick served for four years as chair. We are also a Founding B Corporation and certified as a Green Business by the Association of Bay Area Governments. The company's business policies and practices have been featured in two books published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers: Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun by Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick, and True to Yourself: Leading a Values-Based Business by Mark Albion. Mal Warwick Associates and Response Management were both founding members of Business for Social Responsibility, and Mal served on BSR's board during its inaugural year.