Building Together

The company has pledged more than $1.3 million in funding and Dow anticipates $4 million of gift-in-kind contributions of STYROFOAM™ brand insulation products.

“Thirty-year-old trailer to a new home, there’s a substantial amount of difference. We used to joke and call the trailer ‘the caulk house’ because with every little hole, I’d get out the caulk gun and patch it up. I used to start in June winterizing it because it would take me that long. The first year I was here, I was like, I don’t have anything to do! I liked it.” — Mary Jacobs, owner of a Dow-sponsored Midland County Habitat for Humanity home in Michigan

“The volunteer experience allows our employees to engage their manual skills but also their professional ones,” Miller says. “Dow employees consult with affiliates, serve on local affiliate boards and offer skills like financial planning or accounting. Working with Habitat can touch all aspects of our employee base, from plant workers to executives, from the U.S. to China to Ghana.”