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Nearly$200 million
in open community activity since 2000.
76,600 hours
volunteered by associates earned $500,000 in grants through Anthem's 2018 Dollars for Doers program.
$4.2 million
raised through the 2018 Dollars for Dollars program including Anthem Foundation's match.
$23 Million in New Grants
The Anthem Foundation has announced new grants to nonprofit organizations whose programs support its Healthy Generations initiative.
Every Dunk Is a Big Win
For every dunk scored by Anthem Health Champion Victor Oladipo during the 2018/2019 NBA season, the Foundation will donate $1,000 to Dunk Cancer.
A Better Buildings Goal Achiever
Anthem was recognized as a 2018 leader in energy efficiency and has met its Better Buildings Challenge. Better Buildings is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy.
CSR Grand Prize Winner
Anthem Foundation was recognized by PR News for its leadership in CSR practices among U.S. corporations. Its signature program “Healthy Generations” won grand-prize honors.
Diversity Starts at the Top
Anthem’s commitment to a diverse workforce begins with our Board of Directors—40 percent are women and 40 percent are ethnic minorities.
A Healthier Generation
Through Triple Play, we are addressing the social determinants of health to improve the health and wellness of today’s youth.
2019 Inclusive Internship Program
For the second year, Anthem’s 12-week internship program will emphasize the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Secretary’s Award for Public-Philanthropic Partnerships
The Anthem Foundation was recognized for its work with the American Lung Association in offering free smoking-cessation programs.
CPR on the Fly
At airports across the U.S., training kiosks are teaching travelers the life saving skills of Hands-Only CPR.
Associates Earn Degrees
Anthem has partnered with College for America to help its associates earn college degrees at no cost to them.
Helping the Homeless
Blue Triangle, the first program of its kind, addresses the health and housing needs of Indianapolis’s homeless.
More than a half million people across the United States are homeless on any given night. This issue affects many of the communities Anthem serves. Anthem understands that improving health involves more than access to care.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana, in collaboration with the City of Indianapolis, Partners in Housing and Adult & Child, launched the innovative Blue Triangle program. It targets those experiencing homelessness who may have significant mental health, substance abuse and/or physical health issues and need access to care.
Available to Anthem Medicaid members, the program provides participants with sustainable and secure transitional housing that supports autonomy. Blue Triangle offers connections to wraparound services and access to healthcare, improving both health and quality of life.
After one year, 50% of the Blue Triangle participants found permanent housing.
A Better Buildings Goal Achiever
Anthem was recognized as a 2018 leader in energy efficiency and has met its Better Buildings Challenge.
Better Buildings Goal Achievers are leaders in energy efficiency and stand as an example for their peers in the public and private sectors. Goal Achievers have met their Better Buildings Challenge commitment to reduce their portfolio-wide energy use by 20% in 10 years or less.
As part of Anthem’s energy and water management strategy, we continue to invest in technologies that make our nine-million-square-foot portfolio more efficient. We pursue real-time analytics and maintain a culture of competition through the “Anthem Energy Leaderboard.” We benchmark sites in Portfolio Manager and apply for ENERGY STAR® certification annually.
Addressing the Loneliness of Seniors
The Togetherness Program, introduced by Anthem’s CareMore Health, offers a novel approach to addressing loneliness among seniors. The program has increased engagement and lowered healthcare costs.
Nearly one-fifth of seniors live alone and over 40 percent report regularly feeling lonely. Loneliness has been linked to such health problems as stress, high blood pressure and depression.
Launched in 2017, the Togetherness Program addresses senior loneliness as a treatable condition by focusing on patients’ psychological, social and physical health. It has enrolled 1,000 CareMore patients; through consistent in-person and telephone outreach by Togetherness Connectors—social workers and volunteers—the program has promoted positive health outcomes.*
- Involvement in exercise programs increased by 56.6% among the program’s participants compared with nonparticipants.
- Emergency room (ER) visits by participants decreased by 3.3% compared with their baseline, while ER use by the overall “intent to treat” population increased by 20.3%.
- Hospital admissions per thousand members among participants were 20.8% lower than among the “intent to treat” population.
The program exemplifies Anthem’s leadership in delivering benefits and better care to serve a growing and often vulnerable population.
An Inclusive Internship Program
Anthem’s unique internship program reaches out to include individuals with disabilities. This 12-week program empowers participants both professionally and personally.
Launched in 2018 by Anthem’s Diversity & Inclusion and Disability Policy Engagement teams, the internship program’s curriculum emphasizes personal branding, soft-skill development and mentoring, helping interns navigate our corporate environment and bring great value to our teams.
At Anthem, we recognize that our differences, balanced with our common purpose, infuse new thinking, deeper insight and broader perspectives in everything we do. We are strongly committed to employing people with disabilities and partnering closely with external organizations and ABLE, our disability inclusion associate resource group, to nurture a culture and a physical environment that are inclusive of associates and consumers with disabilities.
2018 CSR Winner for Corporations
Anthem Foundation was recognized by PR News for its outstanding Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. The Foundation’s signature multigenerational program—Healthy Generations—earned grand-prize honors in the Corporations category.
Awards were presented on March 15 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, where over 200 attendees celebrated communicators who work hard to make the world a better place through corporate social responsibility and nonprofit initiatives.
The Healthy Generations program was commended for its focused grant-making approach, its innovative use of data and technology to inform decisions and the impact of its investments—10 million people trained in Hands-Only CPR, 16 million kids engaged in active lifestyle programming and 1 million Americans reached through efforts to promote smoking cessation and reduction of secondhand-smoke exposure.
The award also highlighted the Foundation’s ability to engage Anthem associates in philanthropic work, citing more than 75,000 volunteer hours logged in 2018. In addition, Anthem received an honorable mention for the revamp of our volunteer program Anthem for Good.
Diversity Starts at the Top
Anthem’s commitment to a diverse workforce begins with our Board of Directors. Our board is diverse in both gender and ethnicity, with 40% women and 40% people of ethnic minorities.
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that our Governance Committee must take into account the overall diversity of the board when identifying possible nominees for directors—including gender, ethnicity, age, tenure and geographic location. Anthem believes that a diverse board offers a more-aware mind-set, is critical to good governance and is better able to identify opportunities that promote long-term growth.
As a leading healthcare company serving diverse populations across the U.S., we recognize the importance of diversity, particularly in decision-making roles, and of fostering an affirming and inclusive workplace. The challenges we face in healthcare require us to draw from the perspectives, experiences and ideas of all associates to deliver innovative and effective services and solutions that meet the needs of our consumers.
A diverse board is a visible commitment to our associates, consumers and other key external partners.
Committed to 100% Renewable Energy
Anthem recently joined RE100, a global initiative that brings together influential businesses that are committed to sourcing 100% renewable energy within the shortest possible timeframe.
As a healthcare company, Anthem recognizes the link between environmental health and the health of our consumers and communities–and we are committed to continually improving the environmental sustainability of our operations. Our goal is clear—we are committing to offset 100% of the electricity used in our offices with wind and solar energy by the year 2025.
Anthem uses over 225,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year, which is enough to power over 20,000 homes. It will take the equivalent of a 100-megawatt utility-scale solar plant to offset our electricity, which is the size of over 300 football fields filled with solar panels. We are currently evaluating large, offsite power-purchase agreement opportunities that would help us meet the RE100 commitment by 2025.
These births take a toll on families; they are also estimated to cost more than $26 billion annually, according to the National Academy of Medicine. We believe that targeting preventable health concerns by making strategic charitable choices will help us create a healthier generation of Americans. The Anthem Foundation—one of the country’s largest corporate foundations—is a private, nonprofit philanth ropic organization wholly funded by Anthem, Inc. Central to the efforts of the Anthem Foundation is the Healthy Generations program, a multigenerational initiative to improve public health.
That’s why the Anthem Foundation, through our signature Healthy Generations program, is pledging $20 million by 2020 to qualified nonprofit organizations with community initiatives that address the social determinants of health.
Anthem joins a list of 135 honorees from 23 countries and 57 industries distinguished by the 
The latest funds bring the Foundation’s current community investments to $53 million at work addressing some of the nation’s most pressing and preventable health issues through innovative programs with proven results.
Stephen Ritz, a teacher in New York’s South Bronx district and the author of The Power of a Plant, pioneered a new hands-on approach to addressing childhood obesity, student motivation and school performance. His vision grew into Green Bronx Machine, an agricultural program that dramatically transforms students’ performance and health.
In 2012, Anthem’s Sales organization created the Sales Diversity Internship Program (SDIP) focused on improving the racial diversity of our Sales workforce by recruiting diverse students and offering them experiences to develop critical skills as they enter the workforce. Since its inception SDIP has hosted 41 ethnically diverse interns and hired 16 to full-time positions.
Oladipo has long been devoted to promoting healthy choices and to giving back, but it was after unexpectedly losing his junior high school basketball coach that he focused his passion for making a difference on cancer prevention. In 2013, Oladipo helped establish Dunk Cancer, a charitable initiative that brings the basketball community together to help individuals and families affected by cancer overcome their present battles and to support research on finding a cure.