Thriving People & Communities

International Paper and Champions for Literacy are working together to support the Fight for Literacy Games initiative benefiting schoolchildren from kindergarten to 3rd grade. The Fight for Literacy Games empower NCAA basketball coaches, their teams and fans to participate in literacy awareness efforts, volunteer work and fundraising activities.

International Paper works with Feeding America, the United States largest domestic hunger-relief organization, to help feed America’s hungry and to support its national disaster relief efforts. We mobilize our people, products and resources to help “Box out Hunger.”

International Paper partners with The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) to expand child and family-focused programming to feed food-insecure families in Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Mexico, Poland and Spain.

International Paper supports Reading is Fundamental through their Books for Ownership program, which gives age-appropriate books to first-graders in school districts where our employees live and work, so they can begin building their own home libraries.

International Paper annually conducts more than 80 local United Way campaigns in the U.S. and Canada, enabling employees to donate to their communities in a meaningful way. International Paper matches employee donations by 60 cents on the dollar. In addition to financial pledges, employee volunteers participate in a variety of United Way Days of Caring projects.