As the first company to sign the Ceres Principles in 1989, we have long supported helping tackle some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and inequitable workplaces. 703 million people globally lack basic access to clean and safe drinking water*. We have a formal annual commitment to donate to nonprofit environmental organizations working to provide and protect clean water through our annual Earth Month campaign. Since 1999, we have raised over $71M for these partner groups, providing clean water for over 1.5 million people in need and protecting thousands of watersheds in communities around the world.Today, we collaborate with charity: water, an organization that has completed over 100K projects since 2006 and brought clean water to over 17M people in need in 29 countries around the world**. Since our partnership began in 2018, we have raised over $5.7M: Enough to impact over 125K people in India, Nepal, Madagascar, and Ethiopia. Each year, that number continues to grow.