P&G brands and P&G people are committed to helping communities around the world through meaningful actions that improve lives every day. From the early origins of our company, our founders made giving back a priority. These efforts continue to build trust and equity for P&G and our brands which are important for long-term growth. They also help attract the next generation of employees to join us.
“For generations, we’ve stepped up to serve consumers, support employees and help the communities in which we live and work through difficult times and challenging circumstances, by providing the brands people count on to take care of their daily cleaning, health and hygiene needs.
P&G brands help provide daily household and personal care essentials to people during times of crisis and are uniquely positioned to help meet the needs of those in underserved communities who are disproportionately impacted. Improving the daily lives of people and helping the communities in which we live and work to prosper is core to who we are as a company.”
BRANDS MAKING AN IMPACT
Consumers appreciate when our brands make a positive impact on communities by providing their benefits to people who face challenging circumstances.
Always Wants to Help #EndPeriodPoverty so That Periods Don’t Hold Anyone Back
For almost 40 years, Always has been there for girls. Always champions girls’ confidence, especially during puberty and is focused on fighting period poverty by promoting period education, tackling stigma, and increasing access to period products. Always provides free educational resources and samples to help young people understand the changes experienced during puberty and handle them with confidence. One in five girls in the U.S. miss school due to the lack of access to period products1 — that is more than 3.5 million girls.2 When someone does not have proper period protection, it can put their confidence, dignity, and education at risk.
1 1,000 U.S. females, 16 – 24 years old, Research Now 2017
2 U.S. 2016 Census
Empowering Hispanic Youth
Always initiated a multi-year leadership development program – Capitanes Del Futuro – for Latino and Latina youth within the soccer ecosystem to unlock their full potential at school and on the field, while providing them with the superior period protection they need.
Building on the ongoing Capitanes del Futuro partnership, Always launched the Always Soñando Program in 2023. Always Soñando, which translates to “Always Dreaming,” is part of our commitment to furthering the progress of communities across the United States. Always is providing more than just financial support, including mentorship opportunities to help inspire and empower more future leaders.
Employees In Action
This fiscal year, more than 70 of our Cincinnati-based employees packed 1,000 period care kits containing Always and Tampax. The Freestore Foodbank distributed the kits to school-aged girls to help #EndPeriodPoverty.
Safeguard for Clean Hands, Healthy Lives
Safeguard’s mission is to help families around the world live life "hands on" by protecting them with the right soap and proper handwashing practices. The brand is an official co-founder of Global Handwashing Day, organizing events around the world to raise awareness of the benefits of correct handwashing habits. Through practical initiatives like these, Safeguard helps millions of children stay healthy by teaching them one simple message: clean hands save lives.
October 15 is Global Handwashing Day to help educate millions of people about the benefits of washing their hands with soap and water.
Safeguard’s #SpreadHealthAcrossChina program is committed to educating 100 million people about health and hygiene habits by 2025, already touching more than 76 million lives by providing handwashing facilities and education courses.
In the U.S., Safeguard partnered with Instructure, the makers of the Canvas Learning Management System, to provide schools with free education and products that make hand hygiene interesting and fun.
For 2022 Global Handwashing Day, Safeguard donated 118 million handwashes to City Harvest and other organizations across the United States to help provide basic hand hygiene to more people.
Crest and Oral-B Bring Healthy Smiles to All
Crest and Oral-B believe everyone deserves a healthy smile. That’s why they are helping make proper oral care more accessible by tackling the issues that contribute to poor oral health. Here are a few of the brands’ initiatives around the world:
In Brazil, with nonprofit organization Por 1 Sorriso, we provide free, quality oral care to vulnerable communities. So far, the program has served 4,000 people with P&G products.
Oral-B Europe, in partnership with the International Association for Disability and Oral Health, The Big ReThink program provides oral care to people with disabilities, their caregivers and families.
Closing America's Smile Gap, a program helping make oral health accessible for children in underserved communities across the U.S., has donated more than 2.5 million oral health products and provided education for healthy habits over the last two years.
Passionate Employees Make a Difference
Cheya helped bring the program to life in her Virginia community through the partnership of Crest and Oral-B, along with dental professionals, Kare Mobile and other national retail partners like Family Dollar.
“Closing America’s Smile Gap is an area of intense passion for me because it is the culmination of everything that I love about being a part of the P&G family: leveraging the power of our brands and commitment to the consumer by touching lives and improving life as a force for growth and good in the communities we interact with and serve.”
— Cheya, Sales
Tide’s Loads of Hope Goes a Long Way
After a flood, hurricane or other natural disaster, basic resources such as clean clothes are a small but meaningful step toward recovery. For more than 15 years, Tide Loads of Hope has provided free laundry services to families affected by natural disasters, offering a sense of normalcy in trying times – because after a disaster, you don't just want something new, you want what's yours back.
Tide Loads of Hope partners with Matthew 25: Ministries, an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization, to deploy trucks with mobile laundry units to disaster sites and provide free support to those in need. Since 2005, the program has benefitted over 90,000 people across the U.S. and Canada. This fiscal year, Tide Loads of Hope supported relief and recovery efforts in the wake of a tornado outbreak across the U.S., providing free, full-service laundry and distributing personal care kits with everyday essentials to meet basic hygiene and home care needs.
Personal care and cleaning products from P&G brands – including Always, Bounty, Charmin, Crest, Dawn, Febreze, Ivory, Gillette, Mr. Clean, Olay, Old Spice, Oral-B, Pampers, Pantene, Safeguard, Secret, Swiffer, Tampax, Tide and Venus – are part of our Disaster Relief program to provide some comfort to those in need as they recover.
Pampers Supports Premature Babies and Those Who Care for Them
Pampers is committed to helping make the world a better place for every baby, because giving babies a safe, happy and healthy start in life is what has driven us for more than 60 years.
But we know that not every baby has an equal start. An estimated 13.4 million babies were born too early in 2020 - that is 1 in 10 babies3.
For 20 years, Pampers has been on a mission to serve and support premature babies and their caregivers. Pampers Preemie Protection extra-gentle diapers are specially designed to help enhance what’s vital for their development, like uninterrupted sleep, skin protection and kangaroo care where babies are held to the chest for skin-to-skin contact.
The brand’s work goes beyond product innovation as the #PampersForPreemies program helps raise awareness of prematurity and supports babies in need through diaper donations and funds raised. Since the start of the campaign, over 8 million diapers and more than $1 million U.S. dollars were donated to support care programs. We will continue to help premature babies get the best possible start in life by supporting them, their parents and neonatal experts.
“Caring for a preemie was completely new to us [as parents], and those first weeks in the NICU were a whirlwind full of learning and emotions. At less than four pounds and covered in wires, we had to be extra gentle and careful with him, especially when bathing and changing diapers. I appreciated diapers that were designed to swaddle and protect my extra-small baby and felt reassured that with Pampers, he was getting the best. I’m proud that my company has been able to help so many other parents and caregivers of preemies.”
— Rachel, Communications
TAKING ACTION AROUND THE WORLD
For generations, P&G and our brands have united to support people and communities through unexpected challenges, emergencies, and in times of need. In the past fiscal year*, P&G has responded to more than 30 disasters around the world with financial support, products, and services to meet these unexpected needs.
During times of crisis, our actions are guided by three core principles.
*P&G’s Disaster Relief program is ongoing and this report summarizes a selection of efforts undertaken during the fiscal year July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
Protecting the health, safety, and wellbeing of P&G people.
Serving people around the world who count on our brands and the benefits they provide.
Supporting communities in need through our longstanding partnerships with local and global relief agencies.
Providing Access to Clean Drinking Water
UNICEF reports 2.2 billion people around the world lack access to clean drinking water 4, often due to natural disasters, conflicts, or lack of infrastructure. Through our P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program and as part of our efforts to support people and communities during times of need, we have been providing clean drinking water to children and families for almost 20 years.
21 billion liters of clean water transforming communities around the world
Together with more than 150 advocacy and implementing partners, since 2004 we've delivered more than 21 billion liters of clean drinking water to communities in over 90 countries with P&G’s innovative Purifier of Water packets. Learn more about our most recent milestone and how we're on our way to our goal of 25 billion liters by 2025.
Since 2012, P&G’s Singapore Pioneer Plant has been making P&G Purifier of Water packets that P&G provides in disaster relief efforts where there is water scarcity, including the recent floods in Pakistan.
Supporting Displaced Families
Millions of people have been affected by the war in Ukraine – most of them women and children. Since the beginning of this conflict, P&G has mobilized resources to support employees, families and relief agencies in a variety of ways to offer support.
Provided daily essentials including products from Pampers, Always, Oral B, Ariel, Head & Shoulders and Gillette to people displaced from their homes.
Provided financial support to relief partners in their efforts to provide access to clean water, food, shelter, underground maternity and health and care services in Ukraine and neighboring countries. Some of our partners include:
*P&G’s Disaster Relief program is ongoing and this report summarizes a selection of efforts undertaken during the fiscal year July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
Emergency Support for Babies
P&G and Pampers support UNICEF to provide emergency, lifesaving treatment for babies, newborns and their mothers affected by the war in Ukraine by rehabilitating and equipping the basements and shelters of 10 perinatal centers and children’s hospitals in major cities, including Kyiv, Odesa, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr and Dnipro. These basements and shelters became safe healthcare places for pregnant women and new mothers and their newborns. Each shelter accommodates up to 100 mothers and their children. In addition, Pampers committed to donate more than 1 million diapers to help affected families. Five centers have been rehabilitated and additional centers will be operational as safety and logistical conditions allow.
*UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, product or service.
Natural Disasters in North America and the Caribbean
As a result of wildfires, flooding and hurricanes in the U.S. and Canada, P&G, Tide Loads of Hope, and nonprofit partners like Matthew 25: Ministries, Direct Relief, GlobalMedic and Americares, deployed relief services to help the families, individuals and first responders in need of personal care items, cleaning products and laundry services in areas like Florida, Puerto Rico, and Nova Scotia.
Our relief program provided free, full-service laundry to the affected communities in multiple disasters and offered area residents personal care kits containing everyday essential items to help them recover from the disaster.
Additionally, monetary donations were made to Direct Relief, Americares and others who provided essential items such as medications, insulin, vaccines, emergency kits, oxygen concentrators and other required medical products and support services for the elderly, including cleaning and removal of debris from homes.
Türkiye and Syria Earthquake Response
After a series of powerful earthquakes struck near the city of Gaziantep, Türkiye, destroying large areas in Southern Türkiye and Northern Syria, we worked in coordination with local and global relief partners to provide product donations and monetary and other in-kind support, such as brand-supported services with trucks providing oral care or shower services in the affected areas. P&G also provided funding to UNICEF emergency response, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Syria and Türkiye, and to local Turkish relief organization TOG (Community Volunteers Foundation) for immediate rescue activities, such as providing shelter, hygiene supplies, clean water, food and medical first aid.
*UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, product or service.
Comforts of Home Give Hope
P&G, our brands and partners provided on-the-ground efforts to bring the comforts of home to people in devastated areas.
Prima and Orkid mobile baby care units provided products and clean spaces to care for babies.
Pantene and Head & Shoulders mobile hygiene trucks provided showers and personal care services.
Ariel laundry trucks provided access to clean clothes.
Fairy trucks helped distribute food and supplies.
Donated more than 1 million products to Türkiye and Syria*
*P&G’s Disaster Relief program is ongoing and this report summarizes a selection of efforts undertaken during the fiscal year July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
Disaster Relief from Monsoons and Floods in Pakistan
Following record flooding caused by the 2022 monsoons in Pakistan, P&G delivered disaster relief that aided the health and safety of employees while also serving the affected community. Over 50 million of the country’s residents were impacted by the natural disaster, which resulted in over 1,000 fatalities and left hundreds of thousands displaced and without access to necessities.
P&G supported emergency relief efforts to ensure that flood-affected families could meet their immediate needs. They provided supplies including temporary shelters and tarpaulins, hygiene products, water purification materials, emergency kits, food baskets, and other essential items. Because of the local infrastructure damage, many residents were left without access to clean drinking water. The Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program and long-time partner HOPE Pakistan helped deliver clean drinking water using the P&G Purifier of Water packets, which transforms dirty, contaminated water into clean drinking water in 30 minutes.
Building Homes and Hope
Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope, and helps create a more equitable world where more people have access to safe living spaces and hygiene facilities. This fiscal year, P&G and Habitat for Humanity came together to advance health, hygiene and gender equality through programs in a dozen countries.
Here are a few highlights:
Construction of dedicated hygiene facilities serving nearly 800 students in Ethiopia.
Upgraded hygiene facilities and outdoor space at a women’s shelter in the U.K.
Upgraded hygiene facilities in Romania to minimize disparities for girls, boys and children with disabilities.
ACTION FOR POSITIVE IMPACT WHERE WE LIVE AND WORK
P&G people live and work in over 70 countries, and we're focused on making a positive impact globally in the communities we touch, including our headquarters cities.
Different regions have different needs. To meet the unique needs of the people we serve and help where our brands and services can make a difference, our programs are designed in partnership with local organizations working in communities every day.
Learn more about our regional programs and see examples of how we help communities grow and thrive.
40 Years of Partnership with Feeding America
In 2022, P&G celebrated 40 years of partnership with Feeding America, a nonprofit organization committed to advancing transformational hunger relief across the U.S. to help communities most at risk of experiencing food insecurity. Feeding America serves tens of millions each year via its nationwide network of 200 food banks and more than 60,000 partner agencies. Beyond food insecurity, basic essential household items that are important in maintaining good personal health and clean homes are often difficult to afford. To help address these challenges, P&G and our brands have donated more than $10 million in basic essential products since 1982 for Feeding America to distribute via its network and partner agencies.
William Cooper Procter, grandson of P&G’s founder, is often credited as the driving force behind P&G’s longstanding support of United Way, a nonprofit helping families in local communities thrive.
United Way has been part of our corporate culture for over 80 years. Through our work with this important organization, P&G and our people have contributed meaningfully to our communities, including in our headquarters' home city. The annual fundraiser raised more than $9 million for United Way of Greater Cincinnati (UWGC). We were named number 1 on UWGC's Workplaces That Care list, which recognizes Cincinnati workplaces that support the organization's fundraising efforts.
P&G People in Action
“P&G encourages me to grow at work and in my community. The United Way helps so many people in our community live better lives. It's humbling to be a part of that process, and experience making a difference alongside my coworkers with our company's support.”
– Emily, Products Research
Emily leads P&G's Young William Cooper Society, a group committed to maintaining P&G’s legacy of employee volunteering with the UWGC.
Caring for Those Who Care for Others
In Guangzhou, China, P&G feminine hygiene brand Whisper donated almost 10,000 sanitary pads to the city medical workers at Zhongnanshan Medical Foundation of Guangdong Province working on COVID-19 treatments.
Healthy Start After Childbirth for Babies and Moms
Employee volunteers in Panama assembled P&G health and hygiene product kits for new moms and babies as part of the Mamás Seguras training program. The program also educated mothers to strengthen their knowledge about critical maternal health issues.
Cleaning Up the Ohio Riverbanks
Employees from P&G’s hometown of Cincinnati joined forces with Living Lands & Waters and its founder, Chad Pregracke, a 2013 CNN Hero of the Year, to remove more than 11,000 pounds of trash from the banks of the Ohio River. This program marked the fifth time we have come together to make a difference in our surrounding environment. Together, the team removed debris, including a freezer, an old Christmas tree, many tires, a disco ball and much more.
“I look forward to this event every year. While it is hard work, you can see the incredible difference we make at the end of the day. It makes me proud to be a P&G employee.”
— Kate, Product Supply
Growing for Impact
Singapore employees celebrated Mother’s Day with a Plant-A-Tree Program event with families and friends coming together in support of the Singapore Green Plan 2030 and the National Parks Board’s mission to restore nature back to the city.
Dubai employees demonstrated their commitment to environmental sustainability and their community by hosting a volunteer tree planting activity at the Dubai Mangrove Forest in the Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary.
P&G Spain and Portugal‘s continued partnership with ApadrinaUnOlivo, which helps the community recover and care for thousands of centenary olive trees that were abandoned during the regions’ rural exodus. The ApadrinaUnOlivo olive tree recovery project helps sustain biodiversity and recover vulnerable trees while creating economic opportunities in rural areas of the Iberian Peninsula.
Team Building for National Volunteer Week
P&G’s Sacramento Manufacturing Plant participated in a local Habitat for Humanity Build Day. With the housing development only two miles from the plant, the team organized into three groups to work on three houses. After the hard working and rewarding day the team shared, “It was very touching and inspiring to see our efforts go to deserving families in our own community.” Learn more from national volunteer week about how P&G employees step up around the U.S.
EXPLORE THE REPORT
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The information in this report covers the period of July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, unless noted otherwise. References to “fiscal year,” “FY,” or “2023” in this report refer to P&G’s 2022/2023 fiscal year, which covers the time period of July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Certain statements in this report, including statements relating to our environmental sustainability, equality and inclusion, and other ESG targets, estimates, projections, goals, commitments, and expected results, and the assumptions upon which those statements are based, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are generally identified by the words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “project,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “likely” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements, including the risks and uncertainties discussed in Item 1A — Risk Factors of the Form 10-K included in our 2023 Annual Report and in our most recent 10-Q and 8-K reports. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
