1、STARBUCKS 2019GLOBALSOCIALIMPACTREPORT2019 Starbucks Global Social Impact Report|2 2020 Starbucks Coffee Company.All rights reserved.Dear Starbucks partners,customers and stakeholders:As we provide our 19th annual update on our global social impact activity,we also sit at a significant time in histo
2、ry thats requiring major changes to our business around the world as quickly and dynamically as possible to meet the needs of our partners,customers and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.Starbucks partners are showing how resilient they are in ways no one dreamed about a year ago.Theyre uppin
3、g the ante every day on what our company represents:Using the ritual of connecting over coffee to uplift the everyday experience and drive deeper human connection.Each one of us at Starbucks is forever changed from this pandemic,as are the communities we serve.It has underscored how important servin
4、g our customers and communities is to us,and its brought new perspective and resonance to the ability Starbucks has to make the world a better place.This time is historic in an additional way,as many of our communities are coming together to protest racial injustice and highlight the vast improvemen
5、t necessary in the way society treats people of color.Clearly,current events are showing us that executing our global social impact agenda successfully is now more important than ever.INVESTING IN PEOPLE AND THE PLANETDecades ago,Starbucks developed an agenda of global social impact priorities.In br
6、oad strokes,our investments have centered around balancing our role as a for-profit company with the betterment of people and the planet.That means we invest in people especially our partners,so they in turn can support people in the communities we serve.It also means we recognize healthy human live