The Environment
Enhancing Sustainability & Conserving Water
One of Fortune Brands’ community priorities is supporting organizations dedicated to protecting the environment, particularly through sustainability and water conservation initiatives. Learn more about some of the orgnizations we support.
Yellowstone Forever
In 2022, Fortune Brands announced a new partnership with Yellowstone Forever, the official nonprofit partner of Yellowstone National Park, to provide cash and product donations over the next three years to help the park reach its sustainability goals.
Yellowstone has launched a major effort to revitalize employee housing and enhance sustainability efforts throughout the park. Since this partnership began, Fortune Brands has provided over $150,000 in both cash and in-kind donations, the majority of which are Therma-Tru doors and Moen plumbing products to help update housing for park staff and some of the park’s facilities. These new products will help the nation’s oldest national park meet its goals to reduce water consumption and conserve energy while increasing the comfort and functionality of employee housing and common spaces. We are also lending our expertise for how the park can conserve water and secure its facilities.
Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy
We have also partnered with Northwestern University’s Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy. The Institute forms strategic alliances between corporate, civic and not-for-profit partners. By leveraging shared expertise and resources across disciplines and locations, the Institute and its partners are able to discover, develop and deploy sustainability and energy related solutions more quickly and with transformative impacts. In addition to sharing our expertise in material conversion and science and manufacturing, we believe bringing in outside voices can also help to spark new ideas for our products.
Alliance for Water Efficiency
Fortune Brands is a partner of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, an organization that promotes the efficient and sustainable use of water, advocates for water-efficient products and programs in North America, and provides support on water conservation efforts.
Chicago Children’s Museum
In 2021, Moen announced a partnership with the Chicago Children’s Museum to construct a new exhibit, “Moen Presents: Water City,” dedicated to Moen’s mission of protecting and elevating experiences with our most precious resource, water. The exhibit, which opened in spring 2023, connects water play and STEM experiences for the next generation of young explorers and their families.
Drink Local Drink Tap
Moen is a longtime partner of Drink Local Drink Tap, an organization that inspires individuals to recognize and solve the challenges facing water through creative education, events, and providing safe water access to people in need. With our support, we’ve helped Drink Local Drink Tap bring clean water to nearly 50,000 people in Uganda, removed more than a 16,000 pounds of trash from Lake Erie’s shores, and have educated more than 20,000 students in Northeast Ohio, United States. Moen associates in the Cleveland area, where Drink Local Drink Tap is based, participate in several volunteer beach cleanups each year. In 2023, approximately 175 associates volunteered their time to remove over 200 pounds of garbage from Lake Erie’s shores.
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