Changing the World - Booz Allen Hamilton

environmental
causes
cleaning up the
world’s waterways
Protecting and improving the environment
has long been a passion at Booz
Allen Hamilton. Indeed, in the 1970s, the
US government called on the firm to help
lay the groundwork for agencies dealing
with new problems such as energy policies
and environmental legislation. And during
subsequent decades, the firm has helped
many environment-focused organizations
achieve their goals.
In January 2009, Booz Allen began a partnership
with Ocean Conservancy (OC) and
its International Coastal Cleanup (ICC)
effort. The pro bono project developed a
three-year strategy to increase the ICC’s
contribution to promoting the health of
the world’s oceans and waterways.
Dianne Sherman, ICC director at the time,
says, “We identified key challenges and
opportunities, and a year-by-year, tacticby-tactic
plan to reach our goals. The plan
was as practical and comprehensive as it
Booz Allen volunteers clean
up the banks of the Anacostia River
in Washington, DC, as part of the
International Coastal Cleanup
was visionary and ambitious.… It would
have been extremely difficult to accomplish
this work without Booz Allen.”
Hands-on help
Booz Allen was also a national sponsor of
the 2009 International Coastal Cleanup,
which took place September 19. During
this event, hundreds of Booz Allen volunteers
from across the nation removed
trash from waterways of all sorts.
Booz Allen’s Leavenworth and Kansas
City offices combined forces to clean Indian
Creek in Overland Park. “It feels good
to make a difference, one piece of trash
at a time,” says Senior Consultant Joni
Smith of Leavenworth, Kansas.
In California, Senior Associate Neil Poling
joined colleagues to clean the shores of
Mission Creek, a tributary of San Francisco
Bay. “I share Booz Allen’s dedication to
improving our environment and am proud
of the firm’s participation,” says Poling.
In Honolulu, Associate Stephanie Batzer
and a team of co-workers focused their
efforts on Magic Island, a peninsula adjacent
to Ala Moana Beach Park. “On two
dives, we brought up 20 pounds of trash,”
Batzer says. “Our efforts helped provide a
safer place for children to play.”
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