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The Clorox Company Foundation |
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2008 Annual Report
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Founded in 1980, The Clorox Company Foundation has awarded cash grants totaling more than $73.4 million to nonprofit organizations, schools and colleges. Since its inception, The
Foundation has focused on supporting innovative programs that serve youth, K-12 education and cultural and civic organizations. The Foundation also supports local needs
in plant communities and other organizations in which Clorox employees are involved. In addition, in fiscal year 2008 alone, The Clorox Company made product donations valued at $5.3 million.
Complete 2008 annual report (PDF) |
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Letter from Don Knauss,
chairman & chief executive officer (PDF)
Our giving is focused in our headquarters and operating areas because we believe in supporting the communities where we work and live as well as the causes that our employees hold most dear.
But how much cash we give is only part of the story. It is the involvement of Clorox employees
in our communities that leverages those monetary contributions to really make a difference. |
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Clorox Partnership and Grants (PDF) |
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Oaktown Jazz Workshop (PDF)
At the Oaktown Jazz Workshop (OJW), students not only develop a foundation in jazz music improvisation, theory and history, but also learn to work as a jazz
ensemble arranging and composing music to perform and record. OJW has recorded two CDs, “Pocketized” and “Oaktown Jazz,” and
has benefited from Grammy Award–winning guest instructors like Roy Hargrove, Branford Marsalis and Terrance Blanchard. |
OASES (PDF)
OASES began in 1983 as a service club at University of California,
Berkeley. In 1991 the club evolved into a nonprofit that now serves
more than 400 students. With a highly effective recruitment and
training model, OASES is composed of 400 volunteers providing
tutoring and enrichment services to predominantly Asian-American
youth from immigrant families.
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Axis Dance Company (PDF)
For more than 20 years, Judy Smith, one of the founding members
of Axis Dance Company (Axis), has been committed to providing educational programs and performing arts opportunities for disabled and nondisabled adults and children. Consisting of both performers and teaching artists, Axis provides
afterschool programs and eight- to 10-week classroom residencies
for Oakland schools. With the support from The Clorox Company
Foundation, the program Dance Access Day provides K–12
students with excerpts from their choreography. |
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Cinnamongirl Inc. (PDF)
Cinnamongirl Inc. was established to meet the specific needs of
young African-American and Latina-American girls by offering
leadership and esteem-building activities, cultural enrichment
opportunities and career development programs. A cohort of 35
young girls ages 12 to 18 years old are matched with professional
career women from diverse backgrounds. |
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Friends of Sausal Creek (PDF)
Friends of Sausal Creek uses hands-on restoration, seed collection
and plant propagation activities to grab the attention of its
participants: inner-city youth from Oakland, Calif. This method
of interactive learning helps it achieve its mission of promoting
awareness and appreciation of the Sausal Creek watershed.
They seek to inspire action to preserve and protect the creek
and its watershed as both a natural and community resource.
This is no small feat when you consider that this population
is often disengaged from the green movement. “Students like
planting and they love working with tools,” says executive
director Sara Marcellino. |
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Employee Support Programs (PDF)
The Clorox Company Foundation helps build stronger communities by donating products to aid in disaster relief, by
awarding grants in our headquarters and plant communities and by encouraging employee giving. From business and
community standpoints, we believe our most important asset is our employees. With their talents and enthusiasm for
volunteerism, our employees make a profound difference in the community.
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Commitment to Quality
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During WWII, when raw materials were short supply, Clorox
— unlike many competitors — curtailed production rather than
dilute its product. The consequent cuts proved costly in the short run.
But Clorox emerged from the war with a reservoir of good will and high
public regard for the consistent quality of its bleach.
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