Sustainability Committment

TGP partners with locally owned vendors and prioritizes contracts to women and BIPOC owned businesses; therefore, our global teams and partners are committed to ensure that our programs contribute positive SDGs benefits to the local community, local institution, and local environment.

The mission of TGP's environmental policy is to guide sustainable decision-making at all levels of the organization. We aim to conserve natural resources, minimize environmental impacts, and create a sustainable purchasing model that encourages other members of our community to adopt similar goals.

We’ve adopted clear sustainable practices including waste reduction, promoting reuse, eliminating single-use products, requiring vendors to minimize packaging and recycle, electronic documents, purchasing EPA-certified recycled products, using energy- and water-efficient items, protecting wildlife, preventing pollution, and choosing bio-based and forest-friendly materials.

The health and safety of our students and employees are our priority and take precedence over all other practices. TGP will continue to invest and improve our systems, policies, and actions that support sustainable practices to advance sustainability throughout the organization.

TGP has implemented this policy as an on-going effort in coordination with our partners, vendors, ad personnel. TGP will prioritize businesses that are certified by local green business programs in purchasing requests for products and services. TGP will continue to encourage vendors and partners to comply with applicable sections of our policy for products and services provided to TGP.

TGP will evaluate the success of this policy's implementation on an annual basis and report to the team and organization's stakeholders. We encourage and may seek out a third-party partner throughout this evaluation process.

TGP will award contracts to local small businesses, minority owned businesses, women owned businesses, disadvantaged, and veteran owned businesses. We have a commitment to purchase core products (at least 50% of expenses) from independent suppliers local to where the product will be used or where the company operates.