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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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People

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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EOYDC: 37 Years of Impact, Efficacy and Sustainability

By Nichelle Rachal, Sr. Community Relations Consultant This year, The Clorox Company Foundation celebrates 35 years of partnering with our communities to make a lasting, positive impact.  The foundation has supported countless educational and youth development programs as well as cultural arts initiatives, with more than $99 million…

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Brands

In Ebola Crisis, Medicine and Gear Saved Lives

Contributed by AmeriCares With Care, a Baby Survives Ebola When a tiny 18-month-old baby girl arrived at the Ebola treatment unit in Sinje, Liberia, last February, she remained unconscious for four days. As the staff cared for the baby, they worried: It is rare for children this young to survive…

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People

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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Corporate Responsibility

United Nations Global Compact: Doing Good is Good Business

By Aileen Zerrudo, Director – Corporate Communications This week Clorox became a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest organization that’s bringing companies, NGOs, governments and other stakeholders together to advance the most important sustainability issues in the world as reflected in the organization’s Ten…

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Get Your Helper’s High on With #GladtoGive

The Glad® brand is making it easy to lighten your load for a good cause with the launch of its Glad to Give program. Inspired by people using Glad® ForceFlex® bags for charitable donations (because they could fill, stretch and stuff those bags with just about anything), the brand has partnered…

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People

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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Brands

Clorox Healthcare and APUA Fight Spread of Drug-Resistant Infections

By Brad Ferris In the U.S. alone, we have an opportunity to prevent more than 600,000 infections and close to 40,000 deaths over the next five years. How? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), by adopting better national infection control practices and antibiotic stewardship efforts.1 The CDC…

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People

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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Brands

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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People

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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Brands

Activating Millennials Through Safe Water

By Molly Steinkrauss, Associate Marketing Director of Public Relations, Digital and Media for Clorox Bleach​ If you asked a millennial to describe bleach, words that may be mentioned include whitening, strong and chemical. In fact, many people may be unaware of bleach’s role outside the laundry room. As millennials start to take…

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Brands

How Hidden Valley Invited Families to #LoveYourVeggies to Benefit the YMCA of the USA

By Kelly Pirie, Public Relations & Digital Strategist It’s dinnertime and an all-too-typical scene unfolds: broccoli is pushed around the plate, steamed carrots go cold and cauliflower doesn’t stand a chance. Many would suspect kids as the primary culprit of these eating habits, but in most households parents are just…

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Brands

Clorox Helps with Texas Flood Relief

By Deborah Napierski, Community Relations Manager Floods from heavy rains in Texas and Oklahoma have left more than 20 people dead and displaced thousands. We at the Clorox Company are grateful that our Texas-based employees are safe; however, our hearts goes out to all those affected by this natural disaster. To assist…

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Products

Clorox Brands Make a #GreatAssist to U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team

By Molly Steinkrauss, Associate Director, PR Big or small, there is always a great assist that makes it all possible. Like players who rely on each other to score a goal, parents across the U.S. think of Clorox's brands as their “Great Assist” helping to get dinner on the table, keeping…

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Promoting Hand Hygiene in Guatemala with Clean the World and ACI

By Mary-Ann Warmerdam As part of its commitment to social engagement, the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) supports the nonprofit Clean the World (CTW) in its effort to improve personal hygiene standards while recycling hotel amenities like soap. Lack of basic hygiene is a leading cause of mortality in children worldwide; CTW's…

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Proyecto Agua Segura: La perspectiva de nuestro aliado en Peru, Prisma

Read in English Escrito por Karem Delgado, Coordinadora del Proyecto Agua Segura en Prisma. Han pasado ya 3 años desde que CLOROX y PRISMA establecimos una alianza para trabajar juntos mejorando la calidad del agua de consumo humano en Piura, al…

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Safe Water Project: Reflections From Our NGO Partner

Leer en español To support this initiative and help raise awareness about the importance of safe water, tweet to #SafeWaterProject or #ProyectoAguaSegura by June 30th, 2015.   For each tweet, Clorox will donate $1, up to $20,000. Your tweet will provide safe water to one Peruvian for…

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How EOYDC is Broadening 2,000 Young Minds: Q&A with Regina Jackson

Since the East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC) first opened its doors 37 years ago, The Clorox Company has partnered with the organization to strengthen the community surrounding our corporate headquarters by providing financial and volunteer support.  We recently caught up with…

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Partnering to Protect Health Workers From Ebola

Prepared by AmeriCares Almost a full year since the largest Ebola outbreak in history began, the the epidemic’s death toll has passed 9,000. The greatest number of fatalities have occurred in Liberia and Sierra Leone; in recent weeks, there has been an increase in cases in Guinea. From the start of the…

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Planet

Reducing Our Footprint in Colombia, One Tree at a Time

By Javier Alarcón ​As part of a companywide effort to continue to drive greater sustainability and offset our environmental footprint, late last year, a group of 24 employees from Clorox Colombia visited the Predio Yanacona, a large forest protected by local environmental agencies and nongovernmental organizations, to plant 200 trees.

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People

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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People

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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Trayendo Agua Segura a 25,000 Peruanos en áreas rurales

Read in English Escrito por Andreina Febres, Gerente del Proyecto Agua Segura Estoy escribiendo este artículo mientras espero en el aeropuerto por mi siguiente conexión para regresar a casa, después de otra visita inolvidable a las comunidades a las que les ofrecemos el…

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Bringing Safe Water to 25,000 Peruvians

Leer en inglés By Andreina Febres, Safe Water Project manager I’m writing this post as I sit at the airport after another unforgettable visit to the rural communities our Safe Water Project serves in the Tambogrande District in Piura, Peru.

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Planet

Bee Healthy: Protecting our VIPs (Very Important Pollinators)

​Patrice Sherman and John Cogswell contributed to this post. Some 15,000 new worker bees have swarmed the Burt’s Bees® office. Literally. The Burt’s Bees® team has installed the largest observation beehive in North Carolina in the wall of its Durham lobby. Glass observation panels make life inside the six-foot by two-foot hive…

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Clorox Sends Bleach to Help in Ebola Fight

By Naomi Greer Like so many others, Clorox employees have been following the news recently, eager to help with the growing public health crisis in West Africa. We have a product recommended to help prevent the spread of viruses like Ebola, but how do we get it to the people…

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Clorox Provides Bleach to Help Fight Chikungunya Virus in the Caribbean

By Omar Arbaje, Country Manager - Dominican Republic & Caribbean Clorox has donated 1.6 million sachets of Clorox® bleach in the Dominican Republic to help minimize the mosquito population. ​Earlier this year, the Dominican Republic declared an outbreak of the Chikungunya virus. The virus…

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Planet

Clorox CR Awards: Planet, Product and Purpose

Below are a few of our employees' stand-out efforts in the area of corporate responsibility for fiscal year 2014 (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014). These teams were recently recognized through our Clorox CR Awards program and receive $1,000 to donate to the nonprofit of their choice. Planet: Shrinking…

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Corporate Responsibility

One Size Doesn’t Fit All When it Comes to Giving at Clorox

Given the diversity of our product portfolio, we were recently asked the following questions: How do you determine which brands are aligned with a particular social or environmental cause? How do you balance the causes that resonate with your employees with those that are relevant to consumers? Here's how we…

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People

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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Proyecto Agua Segura – Reflexiones acerca de Mi Primera Visita a las Comunidades

Read in English En Diciembre viajé a Perú para visitar las cuatro comunidades que actualmente participan en el Proyecto de Agua Segura de Clorox. Antes del viaje había visto fotos de las personas que viven en estas comunidades; fotos que mis colegas habían…

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Safe Water Project – Reflections from My First Community Visits

Community promoter treating the water in rural Peru. Leer en español In December, I traveled to Peru to visit the four communities that currently participate in the Clorox Safe Water Project. Before my trip, I had seen many photos of…

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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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Keep it Simple: Drink Up!

This post was written by Elly Spinweber, director of communications and marketing for Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA). The Brita® brand is supporting PHA's efforts to encourage everyone to drink more water, more often. You are what you drink, and when you drink water, you drink up! This message resonated…

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Clorox Donates $150,000 to Aid Recovery Following Philippines Typhoon

The images of the people and the homes ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan are heart-wrenching. As our general manager in the Philippines wrote, "The aftermath is beyond words. The government has declared a state of national calamity. It is struggling to get relief goods to all affected areas, especially remote ones,…

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Safe Water for Sara

By Andreina Febres, Safe Water Project manager The Safe Water Project is helping to provide Sara and other children with clean drinking water. The Clorox Safe Water Project has been operating in four rural communities in northern Peru for a little over a year.

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People

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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People

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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Products

Clorox Helps with Colorado Flood Relief

This post was written by Deborah Napierksi, Clorox Community Relations manager. In response to the recent record-breaking floods in Colorado, Clorox is working to provide aid to those impacted. The Clorox Company is a proud supporter of the American Red Cross Annual Disaster Giving Program, which supports…

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People

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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Proyecto “Agua Segura” en Fotos

Read in English En Mayo del 2013, regresamos a las cuatro comunidades de Perú, donde en el 2012 iniciamos nuestro proyecto “Agua Segura”, esta vez con un equipo de filmación. Nuestra meta era filmar escenas que nos ayudaran a presentar los avances…

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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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People

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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People

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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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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Communication

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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Planet

Really, One Bag Will Do

This post was written by Molly Steinkrauss, PR group manager for the Glad® brand. We are a trash bag brand that wants to see less trash in the world. As the U.S. works  to divert more to recycling and composting, we are also on a journey to reduce our own…

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Products

The Building Wave of #5 Plastics Recycling

  Written by John Lively, director, Environment and Material Science at Preserve. Preserve partners with our Brita® team to recycle #5 plastic water filters. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), #5 plastic is the most common plastic found in the U.S. municipal waste stream. For Preserve, the company where I’ve…

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Products

Fighting Bottled Water Waste One Bottle at Time at SXSW 2013

This post was written by David Kargas. An interesting piece of news caught my eye the other day. After a couple of decades of soda supremacy, good old water is once again America’s most consumed beverage. But our abundant, safe supply of tap water isn’t driving the change. Bottled water…

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Proyecto Agua Segura – Aprender y Adaptarse

  Read in English Esta publicación fue escrita por Andrea Ginsberg, gerente de proyecto para el proyecto piloto “Agua Segura” de Clorox. Si hay algo que hemos aprendido de este proyecto, es esperar lo inesperado. Nuestro reto actual es cerrar la brecha entre lo que nuestras medidas…

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Make Yours a Flu-Less Flu Season

Flu season came early this year. The Centers for Disease Control anticipated this was going to be a bad flu year, and so our "spread prevention team" has been even busier than usual pushing out flu prevention and educational programs. Efforts began in October with our annual Say Boo!…

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Grab Your Shades, The Future is Bright

This post was written by Rita Gorenberg, PR manager A little over four years ago, the Marketing team and I were seeing more and more news stories about drastic school budget cuts and the loss of important school programs. For more than 30 years, The Clorox Company Foundation has supported…

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Safe Water Project – Visiting the Villages of Northern Peru

  Leer in español This post was written by Andrea Ginsberg, project manager for the Clorox Safe Water pilot project. Last month, my colleague Alexis and I spent a day in each of the four rural communities using Clorox® bleach to disinfect their drinking water. It was an…

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Proyecto “Agua Segura” – Visitando los Pueblos del Norte del Perú

  Read in English Esta publicación fue escrita por Andrea Ginsberg, gerente de proyecto para el proyecto piloto “Agua Segura” de Clorox. El mes pasado mi colega Alexis y yo pasamos un día en cada una de las cuatro comunidades rurales que usan la lejía Clorox® para desinfectar…

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Bringing Safe Water to Rural Peru

Leer in español On June 30, we launched a one-year pilot program that uses diluted bleach to disinfect drinking water for four remote villages in Peru. For children in the developing world, unsafe drinking water is a leading cause of intestinal disease, malnutrition…

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Trayendo Agua Segura al Perú Rural

  Read in English El 30 de junio, lanzamos un programa piloto de un año, el consistió en usar lejía diluida para desinfectar agua potable en cuatro comunidades remotas del Perú. Para los niños del mundo en vías de desarrollo, el agua potable no segura es una de las…

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Nobody Likes a Bully

In September, teenager Amanda Todd posted a video on YouTube that revealed years of bullying, as well as an attempt to harm herself by using bleach. The bullying persisted and eventually led to her suicide by hanging in October. Since her death, the bullying has continued with posts and pages…

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GIFT and Gratitude

We are in the middle of our GIFT Campaign. GIFT, which stands for Get Involved For Tomorrow, is  our employee giving campaign through which Clorox employees can give to any nonprofit and the company will match the donations (up to $250 or $2,500, depending on the level of giving).

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Company

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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