Freeport-McMoRan: Communities & People

Sustainable development means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Freeport-McMoRan's approach to sustainable development combines three essential elements: continued economic success, building local community capacity and societal trust through stakeholder engagement, and improving environmental performance. Communities & People highlights news and stories of the company’s close collaboration with local stakeholders to minimize and mitigate adverse impacts and cultivate opportunities to maximize positive impacts.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Freeport-McMoRan Invests in Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
PT Freeport Indonesia, a Freeport-McMoRan company, has an extensive Community Economic Development program. In cooperation with Bank BRI, the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises program supports income-generating activities for indigenous Papuan entrepreneurs.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Cerro Verde, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, and Dreambuilder Program Featured in Mining With Principles Campaign Video
América Cristina Paz Tito lives in Arequipa and is a small business owner. She has been taking monthly classes from the DreamBuilder program, a partnership between Freeport-McMoRan and its affiliate Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde, and Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Freeport-McMoRan Named Best Corporate Citizen by Forbes
Congratulations to Freeport-McMoRan for being named to the Just 100: America's Best Corporate Citizens by Forbes! Freeport-McMoRan was ranked 49 on the 2018 Forbes Just 100 list, and was the second-highest ranking company in the Basic Resources category.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Freeport-McMoRan’s Greenlee County Community Investment Fund Grants $250,000 to Arizona Communities
The Greenlee County Community Investment Fund (CIF) awarded grants totaling $250,000 to the Greenlee County community in Arizona.

Innovation & Technology

PT Freeport Indonesia Supplies Power to Remote Villages
PT Freeport Indonesia started a program in 2013 in the remote Papuan highlands called LIMAR, which is an acronym for People’s Independent Electricity as written in the Indonesian language.

Green Infrastructure

The Freeport-McMoRan Foundation grants $200,000 to Colorado Communities

Social Impact & Volunteering

Freeport-McMoRan Invests in Indigenous Communities by Supporting Organic Coffee Cooperative
PT Freeport Indonesia, a Freeport-McMoRan company, has sponsored a coffee farmer collective in Papua, Indonesia since 2000. For 17 years Amungme Gold coffee has been farmed and processed by indigenous Amungme farmers under the guidance of Freeport’s entrepreneur business program to meet growing demand from consumers.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Freeport-McMoRan Named Most Community-Minded by the Civic 50
Congratulations to Freeport-McMoRan for being recognized as the most community-minded company in the materials sector!

For the fifth consecutive year, Freeport-McMoRan has been named as a Civic 50 winner. Freeport-McMoRan is the top company in the materials sector, largely due to their community and stakeholder engagement programs, and their mining education initiatives.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Freeport-McMoRan’s Green Valley Community Investment Fund Grants $450,000 to Arizona Communities
Recipients were selected by the Green Valley CIF, which is overseen by a committee of community leaders assembled by the Freeport-McMoRan Community Partnership Panel, to identify and address community needs in health care, education, environment, economic development and transportation with positive, sustainable solutions.

The CIF was established in 2010, as part of Freeport-McMoRan’s objectives to empower communities to develop and identify projects that would help ensure their self-sufficiency beyond the presence of Freeport-McMoRan operations.

Environment

Cerro Verde, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Featured in Mining With Principles Campaign for Water Treatment Program
Cerro Verde is located in an arid region of southwestern Peru, close to the city of Arequipa. Population growth, industrialization, and sewage contamination of the river Chili were increasing pressures on an already limited water supply. Recognizing this, Freeport-McMoRan worked with local stakeholders to co-finance a water treatment plant that takes contaminated water from the local river and makes it drinkable.

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