PULSE
What is PULSE?
Launched in April 2009, PULSE is an initiative that empowers employees to make a sustainable difference for communities and patients in need. Employees are given an opportunity to use their professional skills and knowledge during a three or six month immersion experience within a non-profit or non-governmental organisation (PULSE Partner). Through this experience, volunteers address a clear partner need whilst developing their own leadership capabilities.
PULSE Volunteer Nela Berlanga worked with the Millennium Villages Project - Tropical Lab Initiative in Ghana
So far PULSE has successfully placed a total of nearly 200 employees from 26 different countries working with 58 non-profit and NGOs in 39 countries. From the Canada to Bolivia, Kenya to China, Haiti to India, PULSE has a global focus contributing to non-profits and NGOs all over the world. PULSE aims to help build solutions and improvements across sectors in health, education and the environment.
There will be a real opportunity and a chance for those people who really feel they want to give something back to society to do that. It is a great chance for our company and the individual to add tremendous value which otherwise cannot be bought.
— Andrew Witty, CEO, 11 December 2008
CEO Andrew Witty describes PULSE
Contact us
For more information about PULSE, you can write to us at:
The PULSE Programme Office
GlaxoSmithKline
One Franklin Plaza
PO Box 7929
Philadelphia, PA 19101-7929
United States
