Helping Build Better Futures

Our mission is to deliver great value to our customers every day. For over four decades, our deep commitment to providing value and caring for others has helped define our culture. It extends beyond the walls of our stores and into our local communities around the world, and the intersection of these principles defines our global community mission:

Deliver great value to our communities by helping vulnerable families and children access the resources and opportunities they need to build a better future.

• Our Approach to Giving Back 

  We are a global business with stores located in thousands of communities around the world and supporting those communities is important to us. There are several ways in which we organize our support:

  • Foundation Giving: Through our three foundations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe we provide philanthropic grants to selected nonprofit organizations.
  • Cause Marketing and In-store Fundraising: Our retail chains conduct charitable campaigns that align with one or more of our focus areas.
  • Associate Volunteerism and Giving: We encourage our Associates around the world to contribute their time, talent, and resources.
• Standing For Racial Justice and Creating Opportunities 

  At TJX, our core values of honesty, integrity, and treating each other with dignity and respect have lived at the heart of our business since the beginning. These values play a key role in our approach to inclusion and diversity and how we support the communities in which we live and work. As a business, we do not tolerate discrimination or hate of any kind.

  In 2020, we committed to do more and be better. To support racial justice and equity, we broadened our global giving priorities to provide more direct support to Black communities with an incremental $10 million in funding over 2020 and 2021. These contributions have been directed to organizations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia that help expand long-term opportunities for Black people and other underrepresented groups.

  The following are some of the organizations we are pleased to support:*

  In the U.S.

  • Boston University Center for Antiracist Research
  • NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
  • National Urban League
  • Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture
  • UNCF (United Negro College Fund)
  • YWCA USA

  
  

  In Canada

  • Black Business and Professional Association
  • Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust

  
  

  In the U.K.

  • Access UK
  • Runnymede
  • Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust

  
  

  In Ireland

  • Irish Network Against Racism

  
  

  In Germany

  • Schule ohne Rassismus (School Without Racism)

  
  

  In Poland

  • Nigdy Wiecej (Never Again)

  
  

  In Austria

  • Zara – Civil Courage and Anti-Racism-Work

  
  

  In Australia

  • AIME Mentoring
  • The Indigenous Literacy Foundation
  • The Healing Foundation

  Many communities around the world continue to experience injustice, and we must continue to work toward a better future for all. Supporting racial justice and equity is an ongoing commitment for TJX, and while that work progresses, we remain focused in our support for other underrepresented populations as they continue to fight to access opportunities, to be treated fairly, and to have their voices heard. We focus our philanthropic contributions to help provide education and local programming, among other things, in the communities in which we live and work. We fully understand these steps are just one step on a long road to social change and recognize that programmatically incorporating this approach into our business practices is important in making a sustainable, long-term impact.

  For more information on steps we are taking in our workplace to stand for racial justice and equity, visit the Inclusion and Diversity page.

  *Donations in Europe are made through the T.K. Maxx and Homesense Foundation.

• Response to COVID-19 

  In addition to our ongoing charitable efforts across the globe, in 2020, we contributed several million dollars to organizations working with families in need due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Save the Children, Feeding America, the United Way, and several mental health organizations, as well as the Red Cross organizations in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, and Poland.

  Our teams around the world also identified other ways that we could give back, which included donating food recovered from store shelves to food banks, donating more than 10,000 masks to frontline agencies, and donating television ad space for public safety announcements.

OUR SOCIAL IMPACT AREAS

We bring our community relations mission to life around the world by focusing our giving on four social impact areas where we believe we can have the most impact, and are critical to helping families and children succeed and thrive.¹

FULFILLING CRITICAL BASIC NEEDS

We are passionate about supporting nonprofit organizations that help fill critical basic needs for vulnerable families.

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PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING

We are committed to helping unlock educational opportunities for at-risk and vulnerable young people.

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SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND CARE FOR LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSES

We support organizations that deliver services to families and children when they are facing life-threatening illnesses.

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EMPOWERING WOMEN

We partner with programs that offer education, training, and job placement as well as help for those fleeing domestic violence.

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