Promoting Fair Treatment & Opportunity

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We’ve long been known for having zero tolerance for racism, discrimination, human trafficking or child labor in our operations or our supply chain. We celebrate inclusion and the positive impact of diversity for our company and society.

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Providing minorities and women greater access to education and STEM leaning

From the Kaleidoscope Education Series in Racine to Escola Johnson in Brazil, the SC Johnson family has made their commitment to education and access to STEM for minorities and women a central focus of creating a world with more opportunity for generations.

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At Work for a Better World

As a family company at work for a better world, actions and commitments of five generations of leaders have been grounded in fairness and opportunity parity.

Samuel supported the Piney Woods School in Braxton, Mississippi, in the early 1900s, opening up educational access to African American children. His support for scholarships helped to lift up a generation of Piney Woods students, several of whom went on to become educators at the school.

Samuels' son, Herbert F. Johnson, Sr., believed that all employees should participate in the success of the business, helping to inform the creation of the company’s profit sharing program in 1917 and making SCJ one of the first U.S. companies to institute the practice.

Building on Herbert F. Johnson, Sr.'s 1927 speech declaring the “goodwill of the people” the only enduring piece of any business, five decades later, we formalized our corporate value statement, This We Believe, to reflect that purpose.

"The sincerity of our beliefs encourages us to act with integrity at all times, to respect the dignity of each person as an individual human being, to assume moral and social responsibilities early as a matter of conscience, to make an extra effort to use our skills and resources where they are most needed and to strive for excellence in everything we do."

Third generation leader H.F. Johnson, Jr. established the Johnson Foundation, the company’s philanthropic arm - providing “aid without discrimination” through scholarships to those in need. Today, the Johnson Foundation still gives away 5% of the company’s pre-tax profits. The Racine Community Chest in 1922 became an important outlet for companies to give back to the local community. The Community Chest evolved into the present-day United Way of Racine County.

In the 1980s, Sam Johnson, our fourth-generation company leader, supported the opening of SC Johnson’s first corporate childcare center – one of the first of its kind in the United States. In the early 90s, Sam created the first office of diversity and inclusion within SC Johnson and a supplier diversity program - both of which live on today.

Under the leadership of our current Chairman and CEO, Fisk Johnson, our board of directors is 50% diverse. This commitment to diverse voices can be seen through our investment in, and education of, underrepresented and vulnerable populations. We believe that it's what unlocks opportunity parity. The dedication to protect the rights, health and safety, and livelihood of women and girls is proven through efforts around global anti-human trafficking work, our support of Girls Inc., STEM programming, and investment in female entrepreneurs including the founders of SC Johnson brands Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day®, Oars & Alps® and Stasher®.

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50% of the SC Johnson Board of Directors is representative of women or minorities. As a private, family company, SC Johnson isn’t required to have a Board of Directors guiding its operations. However, we do it because we value the counsel, experience and diverse insights they bring to our company.

For more than five decades, SC Johnson has been a supporter of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) through funding of scholarships to minority group members.

In 1991, a Minority Supplier Program was instituted as a community service program, which continues today as our Supplier Diversity Program.

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Promoting Fair Treatment & Opportunity

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Providing minorities and women greater access to education and STEM leaning

How SC Johnson Celebrates and Creates Opportunities for Women

SC Johnson Supports STEM Funding, Literacy and Tomorrow's Innovators

Working with Dibujando un Manana, SC Johnson Helps Girls Transform Their Lives

SC Johnson Empowers Female Entrepreneurs, Fights Malaria in Rwanda with EKOCENTERS

At Work for a Better World

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Providing minorities and women greater access to education and STEM leaning

At Work for a Better World

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1917 Herbert F. Johnson, Sr.

SC Johnson Corporate Value Statement - This We Believe

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