Princeton at Forrestal Village on October
18.
“The winners were selected because they are the
best of the best. They have succeeded not only as private
sector companies, but in improving people’s lives
and our communities,” NJBIA President Philip Kirschner
told a crowd of 240 at the event. “Where would
our communities be without the charitable work that
businesses like Johnson & Johnson do throughout
the year.”
One of the world’s most comprehensive and broadly-based
manufacturers of healthcare products, Johnson &
Johnson is an organization that knows the value of donated
blood. To help the cause, it has partnered with New
Jersey Blood Services (NJBS) for the past three decades,
providing volunteers, services and direct financial
support in excess of $2 million.
The company encourages its employees, retirees and
employee-family members to continually donate blood,
all with great success. Johnson & Johnson also provides
a “fixed site” at its affiliate, the Ortho
Clinical Diagnostics facility in Raritan. The site is
used for regular blood platelet donations. While the
staff at the site comes from the NJBS, all costs related
to its operations are covered by Johnson & Johnson.
NJBS estimates that Johnson & Johnson has saved
the lives of thousands of people directly through its
employee donations and indirectly through its awareness-raising
efforts. The company recently helped raise over $175,000
for a vehicle that will host mobile blood drives, a
testament to its continuing dedication to blood donation.
Since 1984, NJBIA annually has honored a select group
of its members with an Award for Excellence. The Awards
for Excellence winners demonstrate outstanding achievements
in one of four award categories: Environmental Quality,
Outstanding Employer, Enterprise and Public Service.
All NJBIA member companies are eligible to be nominated.
An independent panel of judges reviewed the nominations.
Eighteen members of the Service Corps of Retired Executives
(SCORE) volunteered their time to conduct the judging.
They were joined by four members of NJBIA’s policy
committees: William Baney and Joann Trezza of the Human
Resources Committee, and Tom Eckhoff and John Kinkela
of the Environmental Quality Committee.
Mercadien P.C., Certified Public Accountants of Princeton,
verified the information supplied by the winning applicants.
With more than 23,000 members, NJBIA is the nation’s
largest state-level employer association.
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