Programs and Partnerships

Building families is an essential part of creating a better life in the communities where Kimberly-Clark employees, customers and partners live, work and play.

For more than 30 years, K-C has supported Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), with contributions totaling approximately $8 million. BGCA is a U.S. organization whose mission is to promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence.

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Kimberly-Clark recognizes that good health is essential for a better life. Unfortunately thousands of people in economically developing countries suffer from a lack of healthcare.

For more than a decade, K-C and MedShare International have forged a partnership to bring critically needed medical supplies to health facilities around the world.

Since K-C's original grant to help launch MedShare in 1998, the company has funded the shipment of $6.2 million worth of supplies to more than 25 different hospitals in nine countries. In addition, Kimberly-Clark employees have worked thousands of volunteer hours to help pack the shipping containers with life-saving equipment.

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Just like Kimberly-Clark, the United Way of America is committed to ensuring a better life for those in the community through their focus on improving the health and well-being of families.

Each year as part of our annual employee fundraising campaigns, K-C employees have the opportunity to make a difference in their local communities by volunteering and contributing to United Way organizations coast to coast. Kimberly-Clark then matches employee pledges dollar for dollar. In the last decade, K-C and its employees have contributed more than $60 million to United Way, helping to improve lives and build stronger communities through the areas of education, financial stability and health.

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Kimberly-Clark understands that our employees may support local organizations beyond those to which we directly contribute. We have a number of programs in the U.S. to support their efforts and generosity.

Our Matching Gifts Program matches U.S. employees' charitable donations on a dollar-for-dollar basis, up to $10,000 per person each year. Since its inception, the program has distributed over $14 million in matching gifts to thousands of nonprofit organizations across the country.

In addition, our Community Partners program provides $500 grants to non-profit organizations where employees and their spouses or domestic partners volunteer more than 30 hours per year. Since its inception, the program has distributed more than $13 million in grants to thousands of nonprofit organizations across the country.

Committed to fighting global poverty, CARE International works at the community level to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources in the poorest communities in the world. Kimberly-Clark has provided support for the Sulawesi Participatory Linkages to Appropriate Water Sanitation and Hygiene (SPLASH) project in Indonesia that works to encourage widespread understanding and adoption of safe personal hygiene practices.

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Conservation International (CI) strives for a world where a healthy planet is supported by a sustainable, green development path. Kimberly-Clark has given financial support over the last three years to CI for a biodiversity conservation project. The project will have environmental benefits for the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, a major global pulp producing region that provides around 30 percent of our fiber. It will help preserve and restore habitats for endangered species, conserve some of the most affected areas of the Atlantic Forest, and protect streams and fragile slopes.

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The Forests Dialogue (TFD) is an independent group that brings together environmental groups and industry to explore sustainable forestry management issues. Kimberly-Clark supports TFD's work to engage other stakeholders in addressing forestry related topics such as illegal logging, plantation forestry, sustainable forestry management and climate change, and tropical rainforest protection.

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The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), the American Meteorological Society and the Weather Channel have partnered on an initiative called Earth Gauge. This program provides television weather programs with basic environmental information for their viewers. Kimberly-Clark has supported funding for the television program and also has helped NEEF create a Business Sustainability Education Roundtable to facilitate the exchange of best practices in Employee Environmental Education among environmental NGOs, government agencies and U.S. businesses.

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World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives. The WRI mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Kimberly-Clark has supported WRI's U.S. Climate Business Group and its development of a Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Accounting Protocol for Product Supply Chains, which is being done in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. For the past three years, K-C also has participated in WRI's Climate Midwest and Climate Southeast groups as a vehicle to keep up with scientific and political developments in this rapidly changing field.

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At Kimberly-Clark we often work on a global level to tackle issues around the environment and conservation of natural resources; however, we understand that big change can start locally. Therefore, several of our offices support their local recycling and conservation programs, including Kimberly-Clark Peru's Recycle me, perform YOUR role campaign, Kimberly-Clark Central America's We Sow Life for Your Paper campaign, paper recycling programs in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador, Kimberly-Clark China's water-saving campaign, and Yuhan-Kimberly's Keep Korea Green tree-planting campaign.

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When disaster strikes throughout the U.S and around the world, Kimberly-Clark steps up to help the communities where we live and do business. We are committed to helping these communities return to normal as soon as possible.

Throughout the years, Kimberly-Clark has worked with the American Red Cross to support relief and recovery efforts in times of disaster. During that time, Kimberly-Clark and its employees have provided financial contributions, product donations, blood donations and volunteer time to ensure the needs of those affected by devastating disasters are met.

In 2007, Kimberly-Clark joined the American Red Cross’ Annual Leadership Giving Program (ALGP) with a pledge of $1 million over five years to support local, national and international disaster preparedness and response programs. Kimberly-Clark generally makes additional contributions when disasters affect communities where K-C has employees and facilities.

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When disasters strike internationally, the scale and scope usually exceed the efforts of any one organization. Therefore, a network of global and community organizations come together to ensure victims receive the care and supplies needed for recovery.

During past international disasters, Kimberly-Clark has partnered with a variety of agencies to ensure aid reached where it was needed most, such as World Vision of Taiwan, Nanjing Charity Foundation in China, China Children and Teenager's Fund and China's poverty alleviation fund.

In August 2009, a typhoon stormed through the Philippines, Taiwan and eastern China, destroying thousands of homes and killing dozens. The typhoon affected more than 11 million people in coastal China and Taiwan. K-C contributed $50,000 to World Vision of Taiwan to aid victims of this storm.

Also in 2009, K-C made its second payment of $100,000 against a two-year, $200,000 pledge to the Nanjing Charity Foundation in China to help provide relief to victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. This was part of a support package that totaled more than $800,000 in both cash and product donations to the Special Relief Fund for Wenchuan Earthquake Orphans, managed by the China Children and Teenager's Fund and China's poverty alleviation fund.

Committed to helping our employees invest in the bright futures of their children, Kimberly-Clark supports their efforts to provide a quality college education.

Established in 1993, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation Bright Futures Scholarship Program awards college scholarships to children of K-C employees in the United States and Canada. Each scholarship is worth up to $20,000 ($5,000 per year for up to four years) for full-time students pursuing bachelor's degrees at accredited colleges and universities.

Since its inception, the program has distributed nearly $33 million in scholarships to more than 1,650 students.

In 2011, the Foundation received 272 applications and awarded 68 scholarships totaling $1.36 million. The average GPA for this year's scholarship class was 3.94.

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