COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PHILANTHROPY
The Communities Where We Live and Work
We want to build on decades of support and continue to be a positive force within our communities.
This includes our longstanding Green for Good program, supporting numerous nonprofit initiatives ranging from the United Way, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Crosby Scholars, a number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the U.S., Minus 18, and the Reach Foundation in Australia.
We have also historically provided millions of dollars of essential clothing and resources in response to hurricanes, other natural disasters, and to those in need. Our partnership with organizations like Delivering Good has helped us to quickly get our product to where it is needed most.
We’re also proud that every year our associates devote tens of thousands of volunteer hours to support charitable work such as tree planting, community clean-ups, and working with local schools. In 2021, our salaried workforce averaged nine volunteer hours.
Green for Good Program
This work is not new to us. We launched our global Green for Good program in 2010 – a unique program that is funded annually with savings from our recycling programs.
Since then, Green for Good has enabled health clinic renovations, paid for more than 1,700 life-changing surgical procedures, provided over 8,100 people in the Dominican Republic and Honduras with access to medical services, and sponsored dozens of schools across El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Vietnam. Green for Good has also worked internally, supporting thousands of our associates and their family members in completing high school and college programs.
Another important program funded by Green for Good is a partnership with Foundation for Educating a Salvadorian (FESA) to provide physical education programs for more than 730 at-risk children.
In this partnership, we work with local public schools near our production facilities in El Salvador that lack sports infrastructure and help to create opportunities for the children of our associates, as well as children in local neighborhoods.
Green for Good Program
This work is not new to us. We launched our global Green for Good program in 2010 – a unique program that is funded annually with savings from our recycling programs.
Since then, Green for Good has enabled health clinic renovations, paid for more than 1,700 life-changing surgical procedures, provided over 8,100 people in the Dominican Republic and Honduras with access to medical services, and sponsored dozens of schools across El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Vietnam. Green for Good has also worked internally, supporting thousands of our associates and their family members in completing high school and college programs.
Another important program funded by Green for Good is a partnership with Foundation for Educating a Salvadorian (FESA) to provide physical education programs for more than 730 at-risk children. In this partnership, we work with local public schools near our production facilities in El Salvador that lack sports infrastructure and help to create opportunities for the children of our associates, as well as children in local neighborhoods.
Partnership with Wake Forest University
We have a longstanding partnership with the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to provide volunteer medical missions to the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Since 2012, these missions have provided free ear, nose, throat, cleft palate, and eye surgeries to more than 1,700 people – most of them children – living in communities near our Dominican and Honduran facilities.
WFU Medical Center’s teams, which include surgeons, anesthesiologists, registered nurses, and medical students, work with our volunteer associates to conduct medical clinics and surgeries to treat community patients.
In Honduras, we recently partnered with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, Wake ECHO Global Ophthalmology, and Hospital del Ojo Club de Leones Fraternidad in San Pedro Sula, to perform cataract surgeries and corneal transplants. The project supports a specialized medical team of doctors and nurses to facilitate life-changing procedures for patients, including our associates and their families. Honduras has no organ bank, so the health is critical for these patients.
Partnership with Wake Forest University
We have a longstanding partnership with the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to provide volunteer medical missions to the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Since 2012, these missions have provided free ear, nose, throat, cleft palate, and eye surgeries to more than 1,700 people – most of them children – living in communities near our Dominican and Honduran facilities.
WFU Medical Center’s teams, which include surgeons, anesthesiologists, registered nurses, and medical students, work with our volunteer associates to conduct medical clinics and surgeries to treat community patients.
In Honduras, we recently partnered with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, Wake ECHO Global Ophthalmology, and Hospital del Ojo Club de Leones Fraternidad in San Pedro Sula, to perform cataract surgeries and corneal transplants. The project supports a specialized medical team of doctors and nurses to facilitate life-changing procedures for patients, including our associates and their families. Honduras has no organ bank, so the health is critical for these patients.
Delivering Good Partnership to Aid Disaster Relief Efforts
When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, it claimed nearly 100 lives, left millions without power, and displaced tens of thousands of residents. In the months following, we partnered with Delivering Good to provide more than 100,000 clothing items to those struggling to rebuild their lives and communities. United Cajun Navy, World Vision, Caring For Others, and 4Good Community, partners of Delivering Good, coordinated the direct distribution of our product in flooded areas.
We began working with Delivering Good over 12 years ago, and together, more than $45 million of products have been distributed to communities recovering from crises. In 2024, we provided over 1 million items of clothing to natural disaster victims across the United States