Inclusion & Community Engagement

13 new community engagement grants worth EUR 785,445 in total have been awarded to projects across the globe where Grundfos employees partner with local organisations to address pressing issues together. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Foundation has set aside DKK 50 million (EUR 6.7 million) for community engagement in 2025.

On 19 December 2024, the Foundation's Board of Directors approved the year's last round of Community Engagement Grants. Almost 900,000 EUR were granted to various projects where Grundfos employees engage with local communities and organisations.

Hand in hand with local partners, Grundfos colleagues in Vietnam have set out to free the water bodies in and around Ho Chi Minh City of plastic pollution.

With a Community Engagement Grant from the Grundfos Foundation, the groundbreaking PITSTOP! project sets out to eradicate illegal pit latrines and upgrade ablution facilities in underserved communities, providing safe and hygienic sanitation solutions.

The Grundfos Foundation grants EUR 1.1 million to 17 local projects benefitting people, planet, and people all over the world.

Almost EUR 530,000 are on their way to projects around the world, where Grundfos employees support local organisations through volunteering. In Chile, victims of the recent forest fire can look forward to a helping hand.

Through local leadership, innovation, and commitment to unlocking female potential, ECO-PADS helps to empower a new generation of young females by providing access to menstrual hygiene materials, offering reproductive health education, and strengthening the local support networks.

Sunday Chukwudi Okoro lives and works in Bjerringbro, Denmark, but a Community Engagement Project allowed him to support the Nigerian community where he grew up.

With the support of the Grundfos Foundation, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, has solarised the Ngobit borehole, providing a critical water supply for wildlife. Reduced river abstraction also supports downstream communities whose livelihoods are dependent on rainfed agriculture.