Georgia-Pacific has donated more than $11 million worth of product to Convoy of Hope since 2008, including paper towels and toilet paper to be included in hygiene kits and lumber and other building products to be used in rebuilding homes and businesses.
Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives
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This build marks our 35th home with Habitat and for the first time we utilized various Georgia-Pacific Building Products throughout the construction process.
Social Impact & Volunteering
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For over 35 years, employees at Georgia-Pacific’s Particleboard plant in Diboll, Texas have been participating in Operation Clean Sweep, a project by the Diboll Service Club.
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Georgia-Pacific is proud to announce that the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) has awarded the company the 2023 Leadership in Sustainability Award for the Save My Life Digital Work Process.
GP invests in quality education within its communities by focusing on innovative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs, technical/trade instruction and workforce development programs.
Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives
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Georgia-Pacific is committed to supporting those who protect the communities where employees live and work. Since 2006, Georgia-Pacific’s Bucket Brigade program has awarded more than $3 million in grants, educational materials, and other in-kind donations to fire departments.
Recently, Georgia-Pacific donated $100,000 to the volunteer fire department in Corrigan. The Corrigan Volunteer Fire Department, which has close to 25 active volunteers and answered more than 150 emergency calls in 2022, has kicked off a capital campaign.
Ken Kim, Maintenance Manager at GP's gypsum plant in Tacoma, Washington, shares how continuous transformation is not just imperative for business but also important for its people.
Patty Lovejoy, plant director at our Dixie cup plant in Lexington, Kentucky, has had the unique opportunity to be in every GP business. Hear more about her career path and what advice she would give those interested in the industry.
With a commitment to empowering individuals and building stronger communities, Georgia-Pacific has partnered with the non-profit organization PCs for People to support digital inclusion in underserved areas in Atlanta.
Meet Kiana Townsel, HR business partner at the Cumberland City, Tennessee, gypsum plant. Kiana has held several roles within Georgia-Pacific, where she started as an intern and worked her way through the organization.
Keeping employees safe while working is the number one priority at Georgia-Pacific. We believe that no matter how we are performing today, we can always do better to create long-term success and improve society overall.
Listen to Varsha Monick, VP of customer experience and innovation, describe how innovation and Principled Entrepreneurship led to in-transit tracking to meet customers' needs.
I love working for a company that values growth and opportunities for each individual. Like many at Georgia-Pacific and across Koch Industries, my career has taken a path I wouldn’t have expected when I first joined the company. But it has been the right one for me.
Hear from Jesse Ingram, maintenance manager at Albany Lumber, as he shares how Charles Koch’s book, Good Profit, helped him connect our values within GP back to the building products business.