As we speak we launched our annual Goal Report, which displays and celebrates the previous 12 months’s work in the direction of Powering an Inclusive Future for All—the progress we’ve made towards our targets, and the folks and lives we’ve touched. The report explores the theme, The Energy of Goal, as a result of we acknowledge that after we intersect our enterprise, expertise, and a community of companions along with our function, we create a robust drive for lasting change. And we’ve some unbelievable examples from this 12 months, together with the announcement that we achieved our purpose of positively impacting 1 billion lives, and did so over a 12 months early!
For a few years, the aim of our Goal Report has been to look again. However we should additionally look forward.
Any firm seeking to efficiently execute their enterprise technique should contemplate the altering terrain, establish upcoming challenges and tendencies, and anticipate methods to greatest meet evolving necessities. The identical is true for function. This 12 months’s Goal Report begins to discover the panorama, and the place we see alternatives for Goal to develop.
Our largest challenges are interconnected and interdependent
The previous a number of years introduced us all unprecedented challenges, and a world extra liable to polarization than earlier than. However as an alternative of binary questions and points, a extra multipolar world has emerged, requiring us to function with extra nuance and higher context than ever. On this context one factor is obvious—we’re extra interconnected and interdependent than ever.
Our lives and futures are linked by our shared dependence on our planet and its environments. We’ve got a worldwide accountability to unravel the local weather disaster collectively. We see the expansion of an more and more digital and world economic system, retaining us linked by ecosystems of monetary interdependence. And as we realized within the current pandemic, our collective well being can also be inextricably linked.
International crises additionally proceed to develop more and more interconnected––and the implications disproportionately fall on weak communities. Growing nations who usually contribute the least to local weather change bear the brunt of its impression. And as a result of an absence of infrastructure and technological development, they’re usually the least outfitted to answer pure disasters. Whereas the digital economic system continues to develop, 2.6 billion folks stay unconnected, denying them entry to the alternatives and sources obtainable. The results of every disaster exacerbate others—entry to schooling is disrupted, progress for ladies and women is ready again, and excessive poverty charges rise.
Pursuing our Goal can and should be the glue that brings us collectively to satisfy this second and handle these advanced, interconnected points. The query we should proceed to ask as we glance forward is, how?
This 12 months’s report displays on how—how we achieved our purpose of positively impacting 1 billion lives, how the non-public sector can work in new methods to handle vital points going through our societies, and the way we are able to apply classes from the previous to construct resilience in our communities for the longer term.
The place can we go from right here?
There is no such thing as a doubt that the trail ahead for enterprise in a multipolar world isn’t fully clear. There may be important work forward to handle dangers in provide chains and manufacturing, and complicated questions on methods to greatest navigate a shifting geopolitical terrain. However ought to these challenges and uncertainties additionally apply to Goal?
I don’t suppose so. The truth is, on this second when many are shying away from a worldwide mindset and method, our Goal work proceeds by pursuing what’s most significant, regardless if that’s on the native or world stage. Goal can flex. It operates in a lane that’s valued all over the world, giving all of us who do that work the area to create and iterate, to sway and pivot, and discover our rhythm. And after we do, pursuing our Goal holds the door open for financial initiatives.
As we shut the 12 months by which we reached a purpose of positively impacting one billion folks, I’m wanting forward and contemplating the subsequent purpose we’ll set for ourselves. We’re stronger with our companions by our aspect—an ecosystem targeted on driving impression. We’ll proceed to do that if we combine the teachings of the previous and take a brand new method within the days and years forward. I hope you’ll be a part of us on this journey and examine our impression this 12 months, and my reflections on what’s subsequent, in our FY23 Goal Report. Collectively, we are able to do good for our communities, good for our companies, and good for all.
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