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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 35—a longtime Oakland partnership. The event was held at the Oakland Museum of California, a testament to the two organizations’ shared Oakland roots. I was impressed by the rich history of the EOYDC: Since its founding in 1978, EOYDC has provided educational and social support to thousands of low-income Oakland residents ages 6–24. However, I…

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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” the bell with hundreds of folks on the trading room floor cheering for the company. (Side note: You actually push a button, but the NYSE actually used a Chinese gong when continuous trading was first introduced around 1870.)…
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