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Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR)
Pillars

Our social impact efforts are guided by our CSR Pillars:

1.

Helping Vulnerable Communities

Building a brighter future for vulnerable communities with the greatest needs. Focus on food insecurity, mental health, and basic needs.

Recent Initiatives:

• Wonka and No Kid Hungry join forces to help end childhood hunger
• The Jennifer Hudson Show pledges to help provide up to 100,000 meals to families in need
• Barbie joins Save the Children and the Barbie Dream Gap Project to help girls achieve their dreams
• Godzilla x Kong and the Red Cross fight the blood shortage together
• Warner Bros. Discovery’s Where to Turn hub connects viewers with mental health resources and partners
• CNN Impact Your World keeps viewers informed on ways you can take action and share the stories of people making an impact around the world

2.

Creating Career
Pathways

Providing essential skills training, education, and job opportunities to build career pathways into the entertainment industry for people of all backgrounds.

Programs include:

• CrewHQ supports existing crew, creates career pathways, and fosters the next generation of talent, through a program of innovative training and development activity based in our training center on site at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
• WBD Access to Action provides individuals who haven’t traditionally had pathways into the entertainment industry with access to below-the-line jobs and training opportunities on film and television productions
• CNN Academy taps into the knowledge and expertise earned by CNN’s 40+ years at the forefront of international journalism, providing the skills and training to empower the next generation of global journalists
• Warner Bros. Discovery Story Lab, in partnership with Young Storytellers, is a comic-book inspired in-school program that aims to develop a generation of young people who value their voice and the voices of their peers.
• Film and TV Career Days welcomed more than 150 young people in the U.K. for workshops and panels to help inform and demystify career opportunities behind the scenes

3.

Protecting the
Planet

Committed to protecting the environment with concrete actions to lower our environmental footprint and inspiring people to take action through our stories.

Programs include:

• Earth Day: WBD employee volunteers across the globe take action to make a positive impact on the environment.
• Encore: WBD companies and productions donate food and surplus materials to local community nonprofits in locations where we operate.
• Environmental Storytelling and Content: WBD aims to incorporate environmentally-conscious themes in our stories that leave lasting effects on audiences

Learn more about our CSR pillars here.