Projects
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H&M Foundation teams up with New Zero World to transform climate communication
H&M Foundation partners with New Zero World to improve climate communication and promote behavioural change through innovative storytelling.
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No one can achieve systems change alone: The case for the Collective Impact method
The Collective Impact method can help drive the systems change needed to address the underlying root causes of complex problems and tackle the drivers of poverty and inequality. We explore…
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Waste pickers in the driver’s seat of new textile recycling initiative
H&M Foundation and Saamuhika Shakti are expanding on the inclusive circularity learnings and welcome two new partners that are developing Circular Textiles Waste Management Models (CTWM), with waste pickers playing…
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Promoting women’s entrepreneurship – experiences and learnings
During 2014-2022, H&M Foundation and its partner CARE supported over 270,000 women entrepreneurs from emerging markets. As part of the programme’s last phase two reports have been created with the…
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Recycled plastic collected by waste pickers turned into 152 million buttons
In 2020, the H&M Foundation launched a first of its kind USD 11 million initiative, Saamuhika Shakti, aiming to equip informal waste pickers in India to lift themselves out of…
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USD 100 million invested in partnership to reach a planet positive fashion industry
Cotton is certified, recycling is on the rise, value chain processes are improved – but it’s not enough. We need to look at the whole system and see how it…
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600,000 people reached through programs for Education, Water and Equality
For the past three years, H&M Foundation and our partners UNICEF, WaterAid and CARE have reached and exceeded our goals within our global programs. Thousands of women have received support…
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Record breaking school attendence
A program to reduce children’s health barriers so that they can focus on learning in Harlem, New York, has been a great success. The attendance at the school has reached…
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Women’s income increased by 500%
Women’s income increased by 500% thanks to our program with CARE in Ethiopia. Furthermore, at the end of our program only 3.6% of the target group didn’t have any savings…
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War Child and H&M Foundation launch ‘Peace Circus’ in Colombia
Colombia’s internal conflict has raged for more than 50 years – leaving a generation of youth who have known nothing but war and violence. War Child and H&M Foundation have…