April 03, 2024
Building Today for a Better Tomorrow: 2023 Corporate Citizenship Report
Philanthropy
Newell Brands and the Newell Brands Charitable Foundation invest in nonprofits whose missions align with our businesses and values. Our philanthropic focus areas are:
Child Safety & Development: Programs that address the needs facing parents and caregivers, like water safety programs, educational programs for new and underserved parents, and programs that provide essentials to families with young children.
Education: After-school programs, mentoring programs and college prep programs for underserved students.
Hunger: Food pantries, food donation facilities and school lunch programs
Outdoor & the Environment: Organizations focused on sustainability, nature preservation/restoration, creating safe outdoor play spaces, the welfare of animals and wildlife, and summer camp programs for underserved yout
Diversity & Inclusion: Organizations that promote and advance diversity, address inequalities and injustice, or advocate or provide services for historically underrepresented groups.
Disaster Relief: Organizations that provide relief and recovery support for crisis situations or natural disasters.
Programs
Our Foundation funds two strategic programs through which we support our communities and engage our employees in giving back: our Local Impact Grant Program (LIGP), which celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2023, and our Matching Gift Program, launched in 2021. We also make an impact through product donations to charitable partners around the world.
The Local Impact Grant Program
LIGP is a unique initiative that allows employees in select Newell Brands locations to nominate and vote on nonprofits aligned with our focus areas to receive a grant from the Foundation. To enhance our philanthropic efforts and be globally inclusive, we expanded our efforts internationally through a slightly modified programmatic model. Through this program, we aim to invest $1 million in the communities in which we operate by 2025.
At this time, Newell Brands and the Newell Brands Charitable Foundation accept grant requests and proposals by invitation only.
Matching Gift Program
Our Matching Gift Program, which launches annually on Giving Tuesday, matches employee donations throughout the year to Save the Children and Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign up to $25,000 per nonprofit.
Product Donations
We make our greatest philanthropic impact by donating Newell products to communities and nonprofits in need. In 2023, we proudly donated $9M in products, including baby gear, school supplies, food storage containers, cleaning products, and beverageware to our charitable partners around the world. We aim to donate $50 million in product through this program by 2025.
Who We Support
Save the Children
Founded over 100 years ago, Save the Children works globally to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, children are most vulnerable. Save the Children is always among the first to respond and the last to leave, doing whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – and transforming their lives and the future. In 2023, in addition to our Matching Gift Program, we supported Save the Children with over $400,000 of product donations.
No Kid Hungry
No Kid Hungry is working to end childhood hunger by helping launch and improve programs that give all kids the healthy food they need to thrive. No Kid Hungry is a Share Our Strength campaign committed to ending hunger and poverty. We expanded our support in 2023, in addition to our Matching Gift Program, by donating nearly $100,000 in bubba® and Contigo® water bottles to students.
Good360
Good360 partners with some of the world’s largest corporations to source essential goods and distribute them through their network of diverse nonprofits, supporting people in need around the world. As a Resilient Response Partner, in 2023, Newell Brands donated over 100,000 units of product from our Outdoor & Recreation business, including Coleman® tents, grills, airbeds, camping pads, cots, lanterns and cookware, and more than 10,000 units of Rubbermaid® products from our Commercial business, including mops and microfiber cloths.
Atlanta Public Schools
Since 2015, Newell Brands and the Newell Brands Charitable Foundation have supported the Atlanta Public Schools “Back to School Bash,” a community event where students can receive free school supplies, health care and more. In addition to financial support and product donations, Newell employees volunteer annually. We participated in the APS Back-to-School Bash for the ninth consecutive year. Contigo, Sharpie, EXPO and others donated more than 500,000 units of Newell Brands’ products, which helped fill more than 10,000 backpacks distributed to students. Employees from our Atlanta headquarters also volunteered at the event.
If your 501c3 organization falls within Newell Brands’ focus areas and is in need of our products, please submit your request here. While we cannot address every need, we will try to accommodate your request to the best of our ability.
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