Building Communities
Whirlpool Corporation supports the efforts to help people and individuals shape a better world for themselves and others. By providing time and resources, Whirlpool aims to help more people reach their full potential, and by doing so, improve the quality of life for themselves, their neighbors and the communities in which they live.
Whirlpool works with non-profit organizations, government, educational institutions and other businesses to help improve the lives of others. This section represent a few examples of how Whirlpool Corporation and its 73,000 employees worldwide are helping to build a better world, one home, one neighborhood at a time.
In addition to nearly $9.2 million in grants from the Whirlpool and Maytag Foundations, Whirlpool Corporation donated nearly $7 million in cash and nearly $450,000 in-kind donations to community organizations in 2007, approximately 2 percent of its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT).
Whirlpool Corporation employees spend countless hours providing leadership and volunteer services to non-profit organizations in their communities.
Through the Dollars for Doers program, Whirlpool Foundation recognizes this volunteerism by awarding $500 grants to non-profit organizations in which an employee has an ongoing volunteer involvement, and that focus on quality family life, cultural diversity and/or lifelong learning issues. A Whirlpool employee must volunteer 50 hours of his or her own time for a period of six months or in combination of the employee completing 25 hours and a member or members of his or her family completing the remaining 25 hours within the same six-month period for the non-profit organization to qualify for the grant.
In 2007, Whirlpool Foundation contributed $58,500 in recognition of 76 volunteers.