Serving Our Community

Highlight Printing Minneapolis adopted its Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility Program in 2009 as an integral part of our business plan. While our company has a rich history of social involvement, the Corporate Responsibility Program established a focused mission, philosophy, set of guidelines, and communications strategy.

This focus helps us make an even greater, more positive impact on the community through the company’s charitable donations, social involvement, and environmental awareness.

Giving Back

First and foremost, it’s about the future—for our kids and our environment. We are honored to give back to the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro and Greater Minnesota which have provided us with so much opportunity.

Our goal is to support that same opportunity for future generations.

• Since 2013: Voyageurs National Park Association
• Since 2013: Tree Trust
• Since 2006: People Serving People
• Since 2005: The Caring Tree

To enhance the well-being of our local youth and give them a better chance at being successful in life, we choose to give back to our local community through our commitment to children’s causes. Included are those that fund and distribute food, clothing, and shelter to children in need, and those that provide educational programs and supplies.

Additionally, to give future generations the opportunity to benefit from the wonderful outdoors we Minnesotans value so much, we are supporting charitable organizations that work to preserve green space in Greater Minnesota.

Passionately Participating

We welcome and are energized by broad participation in our charitable and environmental efforts. Highlight Printing will at times volunteer, make cash or in-kind donations as a company, and may invite employees to make free-will donations.

We are passionate about actively involving customers, prospects, vendors, and community members in our cause-based events and environmental initiatives. However, we will not solicit donations, and we respect everyone’s right to choose who to support and whether to make cash contributions on their own.

Here are a few snippets from the brochure, “Why Print is Green” from The Print Council:

“In its effort to breathe and be cool, the planet has no greater friend than trees, and trees have no greater friend than print. Sure, we harvest trees, but we plant them, too—on average 5 million trees are planted every day in the U.S.”

“Less than 10 percent of U.S. power comes from renewable sources, but in the pulp and paper industry, that figure is greater than 60 percent.”

“The average person’s paper use for a year—400 pounds—is produced by 500 kilowatt hours of electricity, the amount to power one computer continuously for 5 months.”

“Print providers have also made great strides in eliminating volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which contribute to harmful ozone formation in the atmosphere.”

Here’s What Highlight Printing Does to be “Green”

We recycle tons of paper every year.

We run our plant as efficiently as possible with set-back thermostats set at sensible temperatures during the workday and lights turned off when not in use.

We are considered a “minimum waste generator” by Hennepin County and have worked to make sure that the chemicals we use have the least environmental impact possible.

Green Indicators

We are familiar with and encourage our clients to use paper that has at least one of the following certifications or green-initiative indications to ensure responsible forest stewardship: FSC, SFI, Green Seal, Rainforest Alliance, Green-e Certification, windpower use, and/or PCW (post-consumer waste) content indicator.

Some of the papermills this includes are:

• Appleton
• Boise
• Cascade
• Domtar
• Finch
• Georgia-Pacific
• International Paper
• Mohawk — one of the most committed to being green
• Neenah
• NewPage
• Sappi
• Smart Papers
• Wausau

In our next conversation, let us know which causes are most important to you: 612-522-7600