Community Connection
As an integral part of the communities where our employees live and work, Mohawk collaborates both locally and globally to enhance lives in areas where we operate. Reflecting the distributed nature of our business, we empower local teams to drive initiatives that benefit their respective communities.
Product Donations
As a manufacturer of high-quality flooring materials, donating our products to worthy causes is an important way we give back and educate our communities about what we produce. Our philanthropic activities include building new homes for people in need, creating welcoming and accessible spaces for disabled veterans, and supporting dream bedroom makeovers for children with serious illnesses.
We support renovation and construction projects, including a decade-plus partnership with Sunshine on a Ranney Day®, where our flooring products have been used to create custom rooms for children with special needs. The Company also has long served as a national corporate sponsor of Habitat for Humanity®, with employees actively participating in home builds and fundraising events.
Over the past several years, Dal-Tile has had the privilege of teaming up with The Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E.® (Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment) program, which provides mortgage-free, specially adapted smart homes for severely wounded service members and first responders. The heroes visit their nearest Dal-Tile showroom to select tile, which is then donated by Dal-Tile.
Maintaining its active cooperation with and support for local cultural institutions and organizations, the Marazzi Group contributed to the restoration of the Torre dell’Orologio, or Clock Tower. The restoration, carried out by the City of Sassuolo, Italy, with the aid of Marazzi Group, returned to its former glory an architectural feature that has become a symbol of the town.
Community Give Back
Many of our brands look for opportunities to drive business growth while also creating positive societal value. For example, Flooring North America has enjoyed a collaboration with Susan G. Komen®, a leading breast cancer research organization, for over two decades. Through our Decorate for the CureTM and Specify for a Cure® programs, we donate a portion of our proceeds from eligible products to Komen—which has collectively led to more than $7 million in contributions. Mohawk is also the Official Flooring Sponsor of the Susan G. Komen 3-Day®, donating more than 5,000 carpet pad rolls each year to comfort the walkers during lunch stops throughout their 60-mile journeys.
In 2022, Mohawk Industries and the northwest Georgia branch of the Latin American Association (LAA) announced an exclusive partnership that will increase the resources and services provided by the LAA in the region that is home to approximately half of Mohawk’s U.S. employees. We continue to strengthen this partnership through increased outreach in the regional Latinx community, establishing a scholarship fund for Latinx students, creating a local leadership council and providing funding for new and ongoing programs.
Mohawk Group collaborates with ArtLifting to launch carpet and hard surface flooring collections created in partnership with gifted artists affected by housing insecurity or disabilities, which empowers them to advance their success in the contemporary art market.
To celebrate artists with disabilities in the Oceanic region, Godfrey Hirst’s Social Canvas Collection is proud to support genU’s Arts Programme. genU is an organization that is driven to ensure everyone’s lives are happier and healthier, especially people with disabilities, the aging and those experiencing disadvantages.
Employee Contributions
While much of the work we do to partner with nonprofits is facilitated through the business, we also support employee-driven efforts to contribute to communities around the world. We encourage each of our locations to determine what local needs they want to address—and how they want to address them—whether through volunteering, donations or partnerships.
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