International Women in Engineering Day, founded by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), celebrates its ninth year on June 23. It’s a day to profile the best, brightest and bravest women in engineering—the inventors and innovators who dare to be part of the solution and are helping to build a brighter future in their roles as engineers.
Earlier this month, volunteers from both Whirlpool Corporation and the city of Benton Harbor, MI came together for our first #Juneteenth Day of Impact to revitalize Union Park in our local headquarters’ community.
“Because it was done in conjunction with the community, and with the city and with residents’ input, I think it’s been an amazing thing. It didn’t happen to them, it wasn’t done for them, it was done with them,” said Benton Harbor City Commissioner Sharon Henderson.
After a couple of quiet years due to COVID-19, Whirlpool Corporation’s local FIRST Robotics teams were back with a full season of competition. Whirlpool supports seven different teams in its headquarters community with funding, coaching and mentoring.
One of those stand-out clubs is the Benton Harbor High School Tech Tigers. The Tech Tigers won the contest at Battle Creek, paired with two other teams—the Royal Oak Ravens and the very successful Stryke Force team from Kalamazoo.
“Feel Good Fridges” filled with food help community organizations close the hunger gap in North Texas
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State Senator Royce West and Whirlpool Corp. are collaborating to bring “Feel Good Fridges” to Dallas in collaboration with local community organizations. Through donations of refurbished “community fridges” by Whirlpool Corp., in collaboration with the North Texas Food Bank, the refrigerators will be stocked with nutritious food to make healthy meal options more accessible to anyone in need.
Fall River Massachusetts is the home to Whirlpool Corp.’s commercial dryer plant, where a “Culture Committee” has been established to engage employees with their community and make improvements at the plant.
“Alex Silva, a supervisor on one of the lines and the Change Management Lead, approached me wanting to collaborate to get the word out about different engagement activities and saw how we can work on shaping the culture here,” said Plant Communicator Janelle Poitras.
Few people are more motivating and inspiring than Whirlpool Corporation’s Cleveland Manufacturing New Employee Trainer, Clarissa Shepherd. It’s easy to see that her daughter, Sierra, learned excellence, enthusiasm and integrity by example.
"Some of the work I do includes teaching grant-funded programs that focus on life after middle school and high school—whether that be college or a career—and how to achieve that.”
Miriam couldn’t believe that it had happened again. The house she was renting was sold by the landlord without her knowledge. This was the second time a landlord had sold a house out from under her, uprooting Miriam and her three children: 11-year-old Reina and 9-year-old twins Romeo and Raelyn. “It seemed like I was never able to establish myself,” Miriam says. “But after the last house was sold, that’s when I said, ‘I need to buy a house.’”
Whirlpool Corporation's PRIDE Network employee resource group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally employees was established in 1999 as GLOW (Gays & Lesbians Of Whirlpool). The group's name has evolved over the years, but its mission has always remained constant -- helping to support and promote an inclusive work environment for all LGBTQA employees.
Whirlpool Corp.’s vision is “to improve life at home,” which includes care for the planet that everyone lives on. With this in mind, the company has recently launched a new campaign called “Purposeful Innovation,” which aims to inspire the next generation to develop sustainable kitchens of the future.
The World of Whirlpool showroom in Peterborough, UK hosted the official launch of the campaign in April, which tasked secondary school students from aged 11-14 to re-design a popular appliance to be more environmentally friendly.
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., June 6, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Over one-hundred volunteers from the Whirlpool Corporation and the Benton Harbor community came out as part of Whirlpool's "Day of Impact," a program meant to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday-- and the end of slavery in the US-- through community service, to put the finishing touches on the newly revitalized Union Park.
Whirlpool contributed $500,000 to the project as part of the city's master plan to update and upgrade its parks.
