Employee participation activities
Initiatives to encourage proactive philanthropic activities by employees (Japan)
Nissan encourages employees to participate in philanthropic activities by providing support. In 1996, Nissan introduced the Nissan Financial Support Program for Volunteer Activities in which Nissan financially supports employees for their social contribution activities (e.g., volunteer activities and donations). In 2008, the R&D division started the NICE WAVE activity to encourage its engineers to engage in social contribution activities.
Partnership with Habitat for Humanity (North America)
Nissan North America (NNA) has been collaborating with the NGO Habitat for Humanity (Habitat) annually since 2005. Habitat, an international aid organization that fosters hope by helping people build or improve their homes, has a vision of “a world where everyone has a decent place to live.” The nonprofit works to construct homes, revitalize neighborhoods and support families’ self-reliance in more than 70 countries across the world.
Since the partnership began, NNA has logged more than 112,000 employee volunteer hours and contributed more than $21 million to help build homes across the U.S. NNA’s support also includes annual vehicle donation to affiliates across the U.S. and NNA employee engagement at Habitat ReStore locations.
In 2023, NNA participated in 11 house-build projects in Nissan operational communities and supported the weeklong Carter Work Project in Charlotte, North Carolina. This program brought together future homeowners and thousands of volunteers — including Nissan employees — to build 27 new homes in Charlotte. Since the inception of the Nissan Canada Foundation's partnership with Habitat in Canada in 2008, Nissan Canada employees have made an impact by volunteering their time and contributing to over 100 home builds from Halifax to Vancouver. Forty-four Nissan Canada employees volunteered in 2023. Nissan Canada Foundation’s contribution of donations to Habitat has exceeded $1 million Canadian dollars — an important milestone for Nissan Canada — which also includes a yearly vehicle donation that helps Habitat locations build homes in communities.
Employees also participate in a variety of other social contribution activities. In fiscal 2023, more than 46,000 employees participated in social contribution activities globally.
Other employee participation activities:
Sponsorship of an environmental awareness campaign for WWF Japan and activities around the world (Japan, China, South America and Canada)
International cooperation through walking: Sponsorship of Walk in Her Shoes (Japan)
Nissan Waku-Waku Eco School, Nissan Monozukuri Caravan and Nissan Design Waku-Waku Studio (Japan)