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KKR’s Social Enterprise Accelerator program (“Accelerator”) began in 2018 as a way to enable KKR employees to work with leading social enterprises. The program, which is part of the firm’s citizenship efforts, works in close collaboration with Echoing Green, a nonprofit whose mission is to discover emerging social entrepreneurs solving ...

On October 8, 2019, The Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) awarded KKR its first-ever “ESG Award of Distinction” for our investment in Barghest Building Performance (BBP) at its 10th SVCA Annual Awards. The SVCA introduced this new award to recognize efforts in the private equity and venture capital industry to ma...

Last week, KKR Vets @ Work hosted our annual in-person event for participating portfolio companies*, strengthening our efforts to connect veterans with successful careers. This event is part of KKR’s efforts to promote veteran-focused career development and support retention practices at our U.S.-based private equity portfolio companies. Since...

On Monday, October 21st, the American Heart Association (“AHA”) announced the results of its Workplace Health Achievement Index and awarded KKR Gold-level recognition. This is the third year in a row that KKR received a gold recognition and fourth year in a row that KKR has appeared in the Index. The AHA created the Index with its CEO...