GE Citizenship

Awards for Outstanding GE Volunteers

Four GE employees recognized with the prestigious Phillippe Award for outstanding community service 13 Impact Awards given to GE Volunteers Councils for exemplary community projects GE Aviation’s David L. Joyce honored with the 2012 Corinne Johnson Volunteer Leadership Award for championing volunteer engagement Volunteerism is deeply rooted in GE’s culture and is a pillar of...

Creating Possibilities: The Industrial Internet and Sustainability

INTRODUCTION: THE NEXT WAVE OF INNOVATION? The Internet has supported an amazing array of innovation, fundamentally changing our lives, from the way we connect with each other to our shopping habits. While some argue that this wave of innovation has largely run its course, we believe that a new wave is just beginning. As articulated...

Award-winning Environmentalist Ma Jun, Top Name on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business List, Joins GE EHS Training

“It’s like college entrance exams all over again!” environmentalist Ma Jun jokingly complained during his three-day intensive GE Supplier Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) auditors’ workshop in Beijing in May 2012. Ma and eight of his colleagues at the widely respected Chinese watchdog group, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), were in the middle...

Advanced Manufacturing

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Empowering Local Change

Local entrepreneurs are the key to capacity-building for Washington, DC-based NGO Partners for Democratic Change.

GE Transportation employee testimonial: Ed

The End of the Party?: GE to Open Helium Reuse Plant as Shortage Worsens

General Electric (GE), May 20, 2013

SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:Brigitte Prat runs Lulu’s Cuts & Toys, a popular hair salon and toy store in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. Prat is famous for rewarding new bobs, bangs, and fauxhawks with trademark orange balloon...

From Vision to Reality: Haiti’s Largest Public Sector Hospital Opens with Support from the GE Foundation: A Q&A with Hector E. Aguilar

General Electric (GE), May 20, 2013

SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was the second deadliest earthquake of all time. With a magnitude of 7.0 Mw, 220,000 people were killed, and more than 250,000 homes were destroyed. In the earthquake’s aftermath...

Advanced Manufacturing: GE Healthcare Corvix

General Electric (GE), May 15, 2013

SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:If you build it, will they come?: GE scientists have used game theory to find the best place for a new hospital.   About GEGE (NYSE: GE) is an advanced technology, services and finance company taking on the wo...

GE Statement on Japan and Trans-Pacific Partnership

Published April 13, 2013

GE Statement on Japan and Trans-Pacific Partnership

Published April 13, 2013

GE Foundation Expands Commitment to Increasing Access to Healthcare with New Pilot Programs in Four Regions

Published April 03, 2013