Corporate Responsibility
The Columbia Group recognizes that it is entrusted with significant responsibility—to our customers, to our employees, and to our surrounding communities. As a corporation, we have an obligation to ensure that we are highly responsive to our customers’ needs and that we support the personal and professional growth of our employees. We believe that from these commitments follows positive financial performance, and that our success in that area requires us to give back to our communities. Read below to learn about some of the ways that we work to meet these responsibilities.
Decision-making at The Columbia Group is determined in order of priority by our 1, 2, 3 philosophy: #1: What is good for our customers; #2: What is good for our employees; and #3: What is good for our long-term financial stability and growth. We believe that by prioritizing people over short-term profits, we will all be better off in the long run.
—Senior Leadership Team
Customer
Service to our customers drives all of our actions at The Columbia Group. We make our customers’ priorities our own and do everything possible to provide the most effective solutions at the lowest cost. We offer proven best practices that have been developed over the course of our more than 30 years serving the Department of Defense and federal government, but we recognize that every customer is unique and we are committed to understanding and solving each customer’s need in the best way for that individual.
Employee
The Columbia Group knows that we cannot fulfill our mission, or any of our other obligations, without an underlying commitment to our employees. We strive to ensure that our employees are satisfied and challenged by their careers. We treat our employees with respect, encouragement, and professionalism, knowing that that positivity carries over directly to how they perform and support their customers.
Community
The Columbia Group and our employees value our place in the communities in which we work and live. We strive to be exemplary citizens of our local communities as well as the community of contractors serving the U.S. government. That is why providing service to those communities is central to our values.
We support several charitable organizations. For example, each year we fund the Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society and the Semper Fi & America’s Fund for the combat wounded, ill, and injured. We also use our employee communications to encourage participation in community service and fundraising activities that support worthy causes.