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Supporting STEM and the Next Gen of Innovators

Kids have awesome imaginations. They transform wood chips into cakes, couches into cars and boxes into castles (that you may or may not be invited to enter). So when a group of young girls drew what they imagined a scientist looked like, the Green Works® team was surprised that nearly…

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Happy Holidays From Our Families to Yours

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Six Ideas for Channeling That Holiday Spirit

We have thousands of people at Clorox who are generous with their time, money and other kinds of donations throughout the year. But when it comes to the holidays, that generosity goes on hyper drive, and our Community Relations team gets inundated with requests from people and teams looking to…

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Celebrating Our Veterans

Our expanding network of nearly 400 veterans is a source of tremendous pride for Clorox. On this Veterans Day, we celebrate our employees and all veterans nationwide. We thank you for your service and sacrifices,  and we thank your families for their continuous support before, during and after your call of…

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Choosing Taste, Not Waste

By Molly Steinkrauss ​Americans waste 28 percent of the produce they bring home. That adds up to $500 thrown away each year. We want to stop that waste. The Hidden Valley® brand, a longtime advocate of getting kids and parents alike to love their veggies, is now trying to get…

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Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards Highlight Best Practices

By Steve Ludwig, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation recognized four organizations with its third annual Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards at the EHS Today Safety Leadership Conference: The Clorox Company, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Paper Converting Machine Company for their leadership in applying a holistic…

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A Warm Cookie and a Good Beginning

By Priscilla Tuan, Senior Director – Marketing I bite into a warm chocolate chip cookie while checking in at the Doubletree Chicago - site of Diversity MBA’s 9th Annual Diversity Leadership Conference and Awards. As I head towards the elevator, the desk clerk hands me a second warm cookie and an…

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Volunteers Help in Crafting a Happily Ever After at Children’s Fairyland

By C.J. Hirschfield, Executive Director of Children’s Fairyland When you run a popular theme park geared toward unlocking young children’s imaginations like Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day: scraped knees, puppet shows, animals, summer camp — you get the idea.

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Finance Volunteers Deliver Great Returns at EOYDC

By Hillary Le, Clorox Finance Team Aside from an unusual number of empty desks, it seemed to be a regular day at the Clorox's Oakland and Pleasanton offices. A BART and bus ride away, though, the scene at the East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC) told a different story.  It was,…

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Meet the Inventor: Scientist Maria Ochomogo, Mother of Green Works® products

By Lindsay Riddell Scientist Maria Ochomogo points out two of her patents on the Clorox wall of patents. It was a high school class when she first arrived in the U.S. that hooked Maria on chemistry. It was a high school class when she first arrived…

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Engineers, Ambassadors and Beekeepers, Oh My! Supporting Education at Clorox

Ana-Lizet is a painter who plans to major in bioengineering. Joe is majoring in public health, and Joseph is studying aerospace engineering. There’s also Tyler, an agricultural ambassador and Sonora, a mathematics major and beekeeper. All talented and all headed off to school with support from Clorox scholarships and Clorox…

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Corporate Responsibility

The Clorox Company Foundation: 35 and Looking Good

By Nichelle Rachal, Senior Community Relations Consultant The Clorox Company was honored to be included in the San Francisco Business Times' list of top corporate philanthropists in the Bay Area on July 23. The timing couldn’t be more relevant; 2015 also marks the 35th year of The Clorox Company Foundation, a…

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The White House Conference on Aging – A Perspective from Clorox CEO Benno Dorer

By Benno Dorer, CEO of The Clorox Company On Monday, July 13, I had the honor of attending the White House Conference on Aging. The conference was timely as 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid and…

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Keep on Truckin’: 60 Seconds With Ed Nicholson

By Paul Unitas, Director of Manufacturing at The Clorox Company Name: Ed Nicholson Position: Maintenance Mechanic at The Clorox Company Work Location: Forest Park, Georgia Years with Clorox: 14 You recently made over your Ford Model T to look like an early Clorox delivery truck. How did the…

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Our LeanIn.Org Partnership in Photos

By Bailey Doyle and Alice LaViolette, Business Committee Co-Chairs of Support, Heart & Opportunity for Women (SHOW), Clorox’s Employee Resource Group that was founded in 2006 and now has over 500 members worldwide.  Clorox recently partnered with Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn.Org on their #LeanInTogether public awareness campaign that…

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‘Flexing’ With Author and Executive Coach Jane Hyun

By Yating Wong, brand manager - ecommerce Recently, Clorox employees and guests from a number of other companies headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area gathered to hear executive coach and global leadership strategist Jane Hyun, speak about her latest book “Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences,” which she…

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Good for All: Encouraging Employee Wellness

Clorox was recently recognized as a Fit-Friendly Worksite – Gold Level by the American Heart Association for promoting physical activity, nutrition and a culture of wellness. We reached out to HR's Miriam Lewis to talk about some of the educational and physical activity programs Clorox has launched in recent years to encourage…

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Unlocking the Competitive Advantages of Diversity

In addition to leading customer capability development and sports marketing, vice president Troy Datcher is also busy encouraging diversity awareness at Clorox and his alma mater. A former co-chair and now member of Clorox’s ABLE (African-Americans Building Leadership Excellence) employee resource group, Troy recently joined the board of trustees for…

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Every Day is a Good Day to Give

One of our biggest philanthropic programs, now in full swing, is our annual employee giving program. Through our GIFT (Get Involved For Tomorrow) Campaign, U.S. and Canada employees can donate to almost any nonprofit of their choice and the company will match those donations. …

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Legal Fellowship Works to Keep Families Together   

By Whitney Rubenstein, Equal Justice Works Fellow Ms. Matthews, a client of the East Bay Community Law Center, is a black, single mother of three living in Oakland public housing.  She has worked hard to create a stable life and home for her family despite often lacking resources.  However, when…

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Proud to Support LGBT Employees

Clorox  has earned a top rating of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign's 2015 Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The CEI is a nationally recognized benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality in the workplace. Since 2006, Clorox has…

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Our Veterans, a Valued Resource of Insights

By Vartan Yeranos, veteran and Clorox Creative Services project manager With all of our deployments over the years, it seems like everyone knows someone who is in the military. One of my great friends in the National Guard did a tour in Afghanistan and another has a brother in Special…

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Managing the Pressure of “Shoulds” and Embracing Cultural Differences

By Leslie Tse, Global Insights & Foresights manager Recently, our Asian and women employee resource groups hosted our newest Clorox board member, Esther Lee, SVP of Marketing, Advertising and Sponsorships at AT&T, for a conversation about success in the workplace. Esther touched on a number of topics, including how to manage…

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I Matter: My Clorox Internship Experience

By John Cogswell When people ask me what I do at my internship with The Clorox Company, my answer might surprise them. I’m not filing papers all day, leading projects no one else wants, or going on coffee runs. Instead, I am responsible for writing stories for the company’s intranet, quarterly…

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Celebrating Clorox LGBT Allies With Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson, Clorox vice president – Finance, is the president of the board of directors for Out and Equal Workplace Advocates. Here Tom shares his thoughts on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) allies and his own experience with allies. How do you define an LGBT ally? An ally is someone…

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Spearheading Clorox’s Pro Bono Initiatives: Q&A With Adam Brink

Inspired by his mother’s lifelong volunteerism, corporate counsel Adam Brink approached general counsel Laura Stein shortly after she joined Clorox in 2006 to discuss starting a pro bono program through which Clorox attorneys, paralegals and administrative personnel could volunteer their legal services to low-income residents. With the leadership…

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Together, Clorox Employee Actions Add Up for Earth Day

Clorox employees from around the world celebrated Earth Month this year by pledging to change one or more of their personal habits for a week. With pledges ranging from limiting showers to less than five minutes to not printing to going vegetarian to taking public transit, together, it all adds…

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Corporate Responsibility

Values Matter

Today, theguardian.com posted a poll about company values, and as I was answering the questions a few things struck me. The first two questions asked "Have corporate values gained prominence at your workplace in the last year? ... In the last five years?" I answered no for each…

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100 Percent Proud of Corporate Equality Index Score

This post was written by Carolyn Chin, Diversity & College project manager. Clorox has earned another 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2014 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and been named one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.”  HRC is the national benchmarking tool on…

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Getting People to Give: Being Ineffiently Effective

It's the giving season here at Clorox. This week we kicked off our annual GIFT Campaign (Get Involved For Tomorrow). Employees can give to any nonprofit, and the company matches the donations up to a certain amount. Last year, overall participation was a record-setting 57 percent. This is compared to…

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Wear Purple and Stand Up to Bullies With GLAAD

  Today is GLAAD Spirit Day, and we joined thousands of individuals and organizations in wearing purple to help raise awareness and encourage everyone to stand up against bullying. Our facilities in Pleasanton, Oakland, Alpharetta, Kennesaw and Durham all showed their support with purple signs featuring The Clorox Company logo.

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Traveling the Globe to Help Others

Katie Keil, marketing manager for Clorox® Liquid Bleach, was interviewed for this post. What is your volunteer work? I really enjoy construction projects. I have done several disaster relief trips (after the tsunami in Thailand and the earthquake in Haiti, for example) and have enjoyed being…

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Safe Water Project: A Report in Photos

Leer en español In May 2013, we returned to the four villages in Peru where in 2012 we instituted our Safe Water project, with a film crew.  Our goal was to gather video footage to help us document the project in action and help…

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Cleaner Classrooms in the New School Year

This post was written by Rita Gorenberg, PR manager for Clorox. Clorox® is committed to supporting healthy, vibrant communities through illness prevention and promoting education, among other efforts. This fall Clorox is doing its part to ensure that classrooms, where our kids spend most of their day during the school…

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Walking to End Cancer, Talking (and Listening) to Help Kids

This post was written by Doina Amudipe, plant controller at the Brita plant in Brampton, Ontario. I volunteer for two different causes. The first is the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers walk. This 60-kilometer, two-day walk is held during the…

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Communication

Clorox Diversity Efforts Recognized

This post was written by Jen Dozier, a communications specialist in the Clorox Corporate Communications department. Two magazines have recognized Clorox in their special August 2013 issues for promoting inclusion in the workplace and employment opportunities for those who have served in the U.S. military.

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Narrowing the Office Waste Stream to a Trickle

This post was written by Prashant Kripalani, a manager in Clorox’s Eco Office. A few years ago we embarked on a waste-diversion strategy at our corporate offices in Oakland, California, with the goal of diverting at least 90 percent of our landfill trash to recycling and composting. This effort was…

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Volunteering to Inspire the Next Generation of Scientists

This post was written by Danielle Freeman, World Class Manufacturing resource manager. Imagine how satisfying it would be to prompt a kid to say “Thank you for making science something I want to know about again” — especially if you’re a scientist yourself. Clorox employees like me, who…

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What It Takes to Get to Near-Zero Solid Waste

This post was written by David Creamer, Environment and Sustainability group manager. Our Glad® manufacturing facility in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, has the distinction of being the first and only Clorox plant to receive the company’s Low Waste Facility designation. To be classified as a low waste facility, a site…

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Clorox Employees Act Locally with Annual Scholarship Fundraiser

This post was written by Nichelle Rachal, senior community relations consultant. The employee auction for the Marcus Foster Education Fund (MFEF) raised more than $99,500, making this another record-breaking year in Clorox’s fundraising efforts for the Clorox Partners Scholarships. The Clorox Company Foundation awarded an additional grant of $30,000,…

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An Inclusive Workplace: Unlocking Employee Potential to Drive Growth

This post was written by Tom Johnson, vice president of Finance, Global Business Services. When I joined Clorox in 1988, coming out as a gay man was the furthest thing from my mind. The company didn’t have domestic partner benefits, a GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) employee resource…

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A Longtime Community Partnership

This post was written by Alec Knauss, Corporate Communications intern. On June 4, I had the good fortune to participate in a joint celebration of the anniversaries of the East Oakland Youth Development Center, better known as EOYDC, and Clorox—Clorox just turned 100 and EOYDC, which Clorox helped found, turned…

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Ongoing Printing Conservation Program Saves Money, Shrinks Footprint

This post was written by Larry R. Youngman, senior service delivery manager in IT Customer Computing. In the course of my work providing IT services, I was struck by the volume of print that the company produces each month (in the domestic United States). As our workforce transitions toward more…

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100 Years and Counting

  On May 7, I joined a group of folks from Clorox to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Clorox’s centennial anniversary. It was an incredible feeling to see our centennial banners wrap the façade of the stock exchange and even more incredible to “ring”…

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Equal, Once More

This month, we learned that Clorox has earned another perfect 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. HRC is a national LGBT rights organization that, among other things, rates U.S. Fortune 1000 companies on their policies and practices with respect to their LGBT employees. As…

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Enduring Value: Our FY12 Annual Report

There's a yellow hazard sign that someone posted near my door that reads "Caution: Annual Report Under Construction."  I don't have bumper stickers on my car, wear pins on my bags or (typically) post signs in my window, but after months of "building" our annual report, that sign felt very…

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It Gets Better

  Ever searched for an illustration or photo to depict the words "different" or "unique?" Images of clone-like stick figures, unsharpened pencils and dull bulbs appear with one person or a sharpened pencil or a glowing bulb standing out in sharp contrast. Different is interesting, different is smarter, different is…

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