Whirlpool had an impact across the globe in 2019. Two thousand, seven-hundred employees in fifteen countries took part in Community Day volunteering at thirty-two non-profits. Whirlpool Corporation and Indiana University celebrated ten years of building Habitat for Humanity homes together. Employees honored Martin Luther King Junior with a day of volunteerism. Habitat for Humanity and Whirlpool Corporation teamed up with Chef Roshara Sanders to lend new homeowners a hand in the kitchen. We announced significantly reduced emissions and improved product efficiency in our corporate sustainability report. We were proud to support local high-school robotics teams. Whirlpool E-M-E-A launched a new initiative supporting the reduction of plastic pollution. A new bus program for employees at our Amana, Iowa plant helped reduce auto emissions. Whirlpool Brand helps keep kids in school with clean clothes courtesy of washers and dryers from the Care Counts program. Our blood drives donated blood for three thousand, five-hundred people. We donated appliances for every Homes for our Troops build and raised over eighty thousand dollars with our annual Veteran’s Ball. Consulada da Mulher empowered and improved the lives of over thirty-two thousand low-income women in Brazil with matched funding from Whirlpool Foundation. Employee and retiree giving through United Way was more than four-point-five million dollars. More than one hundred thousand families over the last twenty years impacted worldwide through our partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Over one hundred Whirlpool Foundation Sons and Daughters Scholarship and Award recipients currently attend collage. Hundreds of volunteers around the world pitched in for the Kitchen-Aid Day of Caring. Our disaster relief program made employee-matched donations to people in distress. Maytag brand has donated more than seven million dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs of America since the start of their partnership. Whirlpool E-M-E-A helps to fight food waste with the “Moment Not to be Wasted” campaign. The Women’s Network organized employees to pack food for Haiti disaster relief. E-M-E-A employees ran the Milano Relay Marathon supporting C-A-F Onlus. The Whirlpool Foundation has awarded more than two-hundred million dollars in grants since its founding. Whirlpool Corporation employees volunteer an average of two-hundred and sixty-eight thousand hours each year. We have supported more than a thousand organizations benefiting over one-point-six million people around the globe. Whirlpool corporation. Whirlpool-corp--dot--com.
