Since 2012, we have given over $400MM USD in cash and product to help those in need; and our colleagues have volunteered 365,000 volunteer hours to make a difference in the communities where they live and work.
Today, the Mondelēz International Foundation is ramping up our efforts to empower families and communities to lead healthier lives. In 2013, we announced a $50 million commitment to multi-year partnerships promoting active, healthy lifestyles. We are on target to meet this commitment allocating over $41 million (83 percent) to programs across 14 countries in 2017.
We know we’re on the right track, as we’re already seeing positive impacts in the communities where we’re working:
EGYPT: CARE will promote healthy lifestyles for children in Upper Egypt by training educators to deliver a nutrition program, renovating kitchens to teach parents how to make healthy meals and snacks, designing and implementing active play curriculum that tackles cultural barriers for girls, and establishing school gardens.
BRAZIL: INMED Partnerships for Children and Institute for Sports Education (IEE) teamed up to expand Health in Action. INMED’s nutrition efforts, which include school-based gardens, have improved children’s body mass index and vegetable consumption and have decreased anemia rates. The inclusion of physical activity through IEE brought fitness to the classroom and the community and trained teachers, parents and local leaders to coach sports like volleyball, basketball and soccer. The program benefitted over 1,000 schools and 430,000 children. SOUTH AFRICA: INMED Partnerships for Children adapted its award-winning program from Brazil to South Africa. INMED’s efforts, which include school-based gardens, have improved children’s body mass index (BMI) and vegetable consumption in Brazil. The program will now seek to reach 100,000 children, parents and community members across 100 schools in South Africa. Children learn about nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyles through hands-on, skills-based activities, including development of school gardens and aquaponics systems that provide fresh produce and protein to supplement school meals.
BRAZIL: Institute for Sports Education (IEE) and INMED Partnership for Children teamed up to expand Health in Action. INMED’s nutrition efforts, which include school-based gardens, have improved children’s body mass index and vegetable consumption and have decreased anemia rates. The inclusion of physical activity through IEE brought fitness to the classroom and the community and trained teachers, parents and local leaders to coach sports like volleyball, basketball and soccer. The program benefitted over 1,000 schools and 430,000 children.
CHINA: China Youth Development Foundation will spread the benefits of nutrition and access to fresh foods through Hope Kitchens by reaching 150,000 students in 300 schools. Hope Kitchens offer renovated cooking facilities to primary schools, promote education on food safety and balanced nutritious meals and offer vegetable gardens to put good nutrition with reach for thousands of school children.
GERMANY: Klasse2000 is an award winning healthy lifestyle program that has benefited more than 1 million children in 38,000 elementary school classes, teaching vital knowledge about nutrition, the importance of physical activity and other valuable life skills.
AUSTRALIA: Save the Children’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Program will reach approximately 11,500 children and families across 70 schools and community centers over three years. Designed for children ages 12 and younger, the overall program focuses on nutrition education, growing healthy foods, and physical activity. INDIA: Save the Children and Magic Bus are teaming up to promote active play including sports development, nutrition education and growing fresh foods to about 50,000 children and families across India. The program will work alongside parents, educators and community health workers to help improve children’s nutrition, build safe spaces to play and train youth to lead sports programs. MEXICO: Save the Children will improve nutrition and physical activity by promoting active play, nutrition education and gardening to approximately 10,000 children and families. Designed for children ages 2-13, the program will operate in early childhood development centers and primary schools. The program emphasizes Mexican culinary history and customs, healthy eating, smart food choices, and eating locally produced and locally grown foods.
INDIA: Magic Bus and Save the Children Save the Children are teaming up to promote active play including sports development, nutrition education and growing fresh foods to about 50,000 children and families across India. The program will work alongside parents, educators and community health workers to help improve children’s nutrition, build safe spaces to play and train youth to lead sports programs.
FRANCE: Sport dans la Ville will develop a new Sports & Nutrition program targeting children ages 6-17 years old, parents and teachers. The program will reach approximately 5,000 children and families in 36 centers across three regions through a newly created nutrition education curriculum, including urban gardens and cooking workshops along with their existing sports program.
ARGENTINA: Fundación Huerta Niño will reach 10,000 students ages 4-17 in 120 schools through their Healthy Habits program. Building organic school gardens will teach kids about proper nutrition, get them active through the daily maintenance of the gardens and allow them to increase their consumption of fresh produce.
NIGERIA: Helen Keller International will teach nearly 6,000 children the importance of proper nutrition, physical activity and gardening through in-school and after-school activities. The program will build school gardens, start a School Gardening and Health Club and host quarterly sports events.
RUSSIA: Doverie NGO will re-launch the Be Healthy program that teaches students how to grow and cook healthy foods and stay active through sports and other physical activities. Parent workshops and teacher trainings will be offered. The program will reach approximately 100,000 children and families in 230 schools.
UKRAINE: CSR Ukraine will train teachers to incorporate nutrition education, physical activity and gardening into lesson plans with the long-term goal of creating the Healthy School network with participation from more than 500 schools across the nation. This first-ever Foundation-funded effort in Ukraine will reach 17,500 children.
UNITED STATES: After-School All-Stars expanded its middle school program to offer nutrition education, cooking classes and urban vegetable gardens. This new effort is the Foundation’s first ever after-school program geared to middle school students. The program will reach children and families in 160 schools in 12 U.S. locations.
The Foundation brings our program partners together with outside experts to further connect and build a global network of organizations who work together to help us reach our goals. By sharing best practices, as well as challenges, partners identified that successful programs are built on transparent engagement with local government officials, school principals, teachers, parents and other local community leaders.
“It was a unique endeavor for a corporate foundation to bring together a global group of NGOs to share best practices – the Mondelēz International Foundation’s efforts are a major step in the right direction towards improving community health programs’ processes, oversight and outcomes.”
~Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology & Director, Office of Public Health Practice, Yale School of Public Health1
Each community partner tracks progress of their programs against a set of global healthy lifestyle focus areas that are critical to tackling obesity: nutrition education, physical activity and access to nutritious foods. Specifically, each partner measures:
These metrics were developed with our community partners and public health experts from Yale School of Public Health. Additionally, certain programs measure Body Mass Index (BMI), or the percentage of participants with BMI in normal range, as appropriate. MIF works with each community partner to implement and track these common metrics to ensure all programs are being measured against the same global metrics.
The Mondelēz International Foundation helps communities affected by disasters across the globe by providing financial and in-kind support.
Since 2012, we have given over $400MM USD in cash and product to support disaster reponse and relief.
In 2017, our Foundation renewed our one-year, $1 million USD contribution to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the American Red Cross. The money is allocated to help provide food, water, shelter and other critical supplies quickly during times of disaster. Our contributions have helped the global Red Cross network multiply their resources in response to 350 global disasters, helping millions of people.
People are a powerful driver of social impact. Our colleagues help communities thrive through our #Impact4Good global volunteer initiative that empowers colleague to give back year-round.
As part of this program, we invite employees to take part the “Power Hour Challenge” - a call to action to contribute at least one hour of service to the community during a company volunteer event throughout the year. We think of it as competition, for good!
Colleagues make a positive impact for people and the planet in big and small ways. They take action through various projects that address local needs, from planting school vegetable gardens in South Africa and running nutrition workshops in the US, to packing food for needy families in Germany and organizing sports activities for children in China and India. Since 2012, colleagues contributed nearly 400,000 volunteer hours to communities.
The Mondelēz International Foundation’s Joy Ambassador program sends employees to serve and learn in cocoa-farming communities in Ghana – the birthplace of the company’s Cocoa Life sustainability program.
This two-week skills-exchange journey, in partnership with Voluntary Service Overseas, gives Joy Ambassadors first-hand knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in securing a sustainable cocoa supply.
In turn, Ambassadors share their diverse business skills with cocoa farmers - from marketing, manufacturing, finance, law and more - to help accelerate the impact of the company’s cocoa sustainability efforts.
1 see Mondelēz International Foundation Fact Sheet