Talk:Illinois Tool Works

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Community Involvement
ITW is involved in community support in many ways.

Junior Achievement
ITW participates in Junior Achievement programs benefiting children from kindergarten through high school. Children are taught how economic principles affect the day-to-day operation of business, communities, and personal life.

ITW provides schools, in the surrounding neighborhoods where their business units are located, with volunteers who donate several hours a week during each semester. In 2005, more than 300 men and women over the United States volunteered their time to teach Junior Achievement programs. They are also provide support to Falconer School on Chicago’s west side, sending 45 volunteers to teach economic principles and share life experiences with these students.

They also support Junior Achievement by participating in one its major fundraisers. During the ITW/JA Family Bowl-A-Thon, more than 680 employees, their families and friends, come out for a day of bowling and fun. Over a ten-year period, this event has raised more than $1.7 million. Support for the event comes not only from local business units that provide teams of bowlers who pledge money, but also from business units across the United States that provide raffle prizes and fun giveaways to the participants, helping to make the event one of the most successful Bowl-A-Thons year after year.

Their business units in Toledo, Bedford Heights, and Cleveland, Ohio; Sequin, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Waterbury, Connecticut; Lynchburg, Virginia; Appleton and Hartland, Wisconsin; Danvers, Massachusetts; Watertown, South Dakota; and Indianapolis, Indiana also support Junior Achievement by sponsoring their own local Bowl-A-Thons and providing classroom volunteers.

Senior Outreach
The Senior Outreach program was created in 1991 to encourage ITW retirees to volunteer in their local communities. In 2005, more than 450 volunteers provided more than 14,000 hours of service to various health and human services organizations. Senior Outreach volunteers also assist other retirees in personal matters. The program has been successful in extending to their retirees located in the Phoenix, Arizona area and also the Fort Meyers, Florida area.

One example of the difference ITW retirees make is in the annual blood drives ITW holds to give their employees the opportunity to donate blood. The drives are held twice a year and are staffed by Senior Outreach volunteers. In 2005, the drives were held at more than 15 ITW Chicagoland business units, collecting more than 600 units of much needed blood.

ITW retirees also feel strongly about giving to United Way. Over the last eight years, they have contributed over $438,000.00 of financial support to United Way. They are vital to our annual United Way campaign in other ways, helping in our yearly mailing of campaign information to business units across the United States. In addition, ITW retirees conduct their own Celebration of Caring projects.

ITW Foundation
The Foundation contributes financial support to not-for-profit organizations through two major giving programs: A direct-giving program and a three-for-one matching program for employees.

ITW’s Direct Giving program funds 300 organizations in the communities where they have business units. Our Direct Giving program focuses on education, culture, social welfare, youth and United Way. Direct funding includes both annual and multi-year grants approved by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. The grants are concentrated within the metropolitan areas where they have a concentration of business units. Through their many giving programs, each year the ITW Foundation contributes several million dollars back into the communities where their employees live and work.

Several million dollars are also distributed to the numerous and diverse organizations that their employees choose to support financially through ITW’s three-for-one matching gift program. The program allows an employee to make personal contributions, up to $2,000.00 annually, and have the company match the contributions on a three-for-one basis. For example, an employee’s $2,000.00 contribution to an eligible 501(c)(3) organization is matched by the company at $6,000.00, resulting in a total contribution of $8,000.00. Matching dollars were more that 50% of the total Foundation dollars contributed during the last year.

The Foundation also awards scholarships to children of ITW employees for post-secondary education. In 2005, 90 new scholarships were awarded to the sons and daughters of ITW women and men. Awards ranged from $1,500.00 to $3,000.00. A total of twenty Calmer L. Johnson/John W. Leslie ITW National Merit Scholarships and 70 ITW Foundation Scholarships helped ITW children fulfill their higher education goals. Last year, ITW supported 273 sons and daughters of their employees through the two scholarship programs. Since the beginning of the two ITW scholarship programs, the ITW Foundation has awarded more than $1.8 million in scholarships to the children of ITW employees.

Miller Electric AfD
The article on Miller Electric has been tagged for deletion. If you have an interest in this associate of ITW, then you might wish to make your views known. The Miller Electric article could also use some help in editing it. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Skewed focus of article
It seems a bit skewed to focus so much of the article on ITWs environmental record and illegal exports. Neither are key features of the company. It would be preferable to use a more standard layout with sections on history, focusing on turning points, and current operations.Bobbythemazarin (talk) 11:28, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Dear Fellow Editors,
 * I propose to rename the section Legal Issues because it would conform to the trend on other company articles. Also, I propose to add a discussion about "the $ 2 million reward to a whistleblower who exposed an alleged tax avoidance scheme by Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) that cost the U.S. Treasury hundreds of millions of dollars" from the IRS Whistleblower Office.


 * Please discuss. Geraldshields11 (talk) 13:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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Environmental record
environmental record Latest revision as of 12:26, 29 April 2019 Toasted Meter (→‎Environmental record: This entire section seems to be unimportant promo.)

Toasted Meter I think its the way it was written. I'll see if I can clean it up ~ or not ~ just to let you I'm working on it. Of course I do welcome any suggestions Mitchellhobbs (talk) 13:03, 29 April 2019 (UTC)


 * It seems to spend a lot of time on some not very notable stuff, like one product producing less emissions, and some very fuzzy "processes have been changed" language, and them complying with a ISO esqe standard. The PERI thing is interesting but why is a 15 year old version of the list being used? Toasted Meter (talk) 13:18, 29 April 2019 (UTC)