The Starbucks Foundation In 1997 Starbucks chairman, president and ceo Howard Schultz established The Starbucks Foundation to support communities where Starbucks does business. The Foundation’s initial focus was on funding literacy programs in the U.S. and Canada. It has since grown to include supporting young people creating change in local communities where Starbucks has stores, water projects through the Ethos Water Fund, and social investments in countries where Starbucks buys coffee, tea and cocoa.
Starbucks Foundation supports the following areas:
Supporting young people as they create change in their local communities.
Starbucks supports communities that produce coffee, tea and cocoa by investing in their social infrastructures.
We are committed to ensuring the mission of Ethos --- to help children around the world get clean drinking water.
In 2005 The Foundation pledged $5 million over five years to create the Starbucks China Education Project at Give2Asia.
Starbucks and the Foundation have committed $5 million over five years to assist in the relief, recovery and rebuilding of south Louisiana after hurricanes Rita and Katrina.
