Community Relations Efforts

Johnson & Johnson is a family of companies that cares deeply about their customers. Not only is this shown through their products that help people live healthier every day lifestyles, but is also shown through their corporate giving and volunteer efforts from their employees. The company as a whole has worked every day for the last 120 years helping to benefit the lives of their communities. The desire of their employees to make a difference has inspired every invention and product that J&J has brought to human health.

 Since 1987, J&J has been involved with many philanthropic efforts. They are the founding sponsors of a non-profit organization called "Safe Kids Worldwide", which is an organization that promotes child safety in the U.S and 18 other countries around the world. There mission is primarily to teach children and adults how to prevent unintentional injury and death. Another program they are directly involved with is called the "One Child, One Blanket Disaster Relief Program". This program was started by a scientist of J&J and a few employees in which they were making blankets to send to children affected by disasters. Blanket donations started being made not just from J&J employees, but from friends, families, colleagues, communities and continued building up from there. In the program's first year 1,900 blankets were collected and went to displaced children in Pakistan and to children affected by hurricanes in Central America. These are just two of the many organizations that J&J contributes to by helping to make beneficial change to our world.

The Yale/Stanford-Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program selected the most promising candidates from major American institutions, mainly Yale University or Stanford University, and sends them to one of six overburdened health care sites in places such as Indonesia, South Africa or Uganda. The participants spend 6 weeks in this challenging environment with limited medical supplies and take away with them enhanced medical skills and a great learning experience. This is a special way for J&J to give back to their own employees & future employees.

Johnson & Johnson recently showed their care efforts by helping the people of Japan after their recent natural disaster. Since the earthquake stuck, J&J has worked diligently to see how they could play a role with relief efforts. Thus far, they have committed $8 million in funds in addition to considerable product donations of medical supplies and consumer hygiene products. They have also said that they "are working with local partners to determine the best opportunities to lend assistance and will continue to assess needs as the situation evolves".

All in all Johnson & Johnson shows spectacular community relations and care efforts not only in the United States, but all around the world.