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.
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 to help the park reach its sustainability goals.. Learn more about our partnership with Yellowstone Forever.
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.
Partnerships with nonprofit organizations enable us to expand our efforts to positively affect the world’s water system. In addition to making water-saving products and incorporating ocean recycled plastics into our designs, we are proud to be part of many initiatives to engage people around water education and conservation.
Fortune Brands has donated over $1 million to The Nature Conservancy since 2012, primarily in support of freshwater initiatives in the Great Lakes — a region where many of our associates work and live — and around the world. In addition, our associates have contributed time and money to their local The Nature Conservancy chapter.
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.
Moen’s contributions to Drink Local. Drink Tap. over the last decade — an organization that inspires individuals to recognize and solve our water issues through creative education, events and providing safe water access to people in need — have helped bring clean water to nearly 45,000 people Uganda, removed more than a half million pieces of trash from Lake Erie’s shores, and have educated more than 20,000 students in Northeast Ohio, United States.