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Engaged Beyond Business

Giving Back to Local Communities

Photo: Hilti: Men building bamboo house

Engaged Beyond Business is our corporate volunteering program formed jointly with the Hilti Foundation. Its aim is to make a significant contribution to solving the world’s social problems. All team members are encouraged and given the necessary support to invest their time and money in local social projects. 

Hilti team members have always shown great compassion by contributing to the communities they live and work in. As a socially responsible company, Hilti wants to support and encourage this commitment with its Engaged Beyond Business corporate volunteering program. Founded jointly with the Hilti Foundation in 2020, its mission is clear: to provide every single Hilti team member around the world with the opportunity to participate in charitable initiatives beyond our business. 
 
If each of our approximately 31,000 Hilti employees worked for just one day a year on a charitable project, it would result in around 150 full-time years of work – this is the vision of our corporate volunteering program.  

  • 2020New corporate volunteering initiative

    Engaged Beyond Business was founded in 2020 together with the Hilti Foundation

  • 150Full-time years of work

    If each of our approximately 31,000 Hilti employees worked just one day a year on a charitable project, it would result in around 150 full-time years of work – this is the vision of our corporate volunteering program

A chance for everyone to volunteer 

Volunteering at Hilti can be as diverse as our teams themselves. There are a variety of programs that cater to every type of engagement. We encourage hands-on involvement, supporting projects on site by means of technical or practical activities. We encourage skills-based involvement, where team members support projects with their professional know-how and expertise. And we encourage team-led donation and fundraising activities. Many of our programs are run locally and focus on causes in the communities where our team members live and work. Hilti team members get paid time off to volunteer for the causes of interest to them, or they can join one of Hilti’s pre-organized social impact events. To round it all off, the Hilti Foundation – based on its long-standing experience in the sector – has selected partnerships with organizations and offers international projects in which our teams can participate. Moreover, in certain emergency situations, we also run global fundraising campaigns across the entire Hilti Group.  

  • 300Engaged Beyond Business projects

    were supported

  • 6,000Team members

    participated across 50 countries

  • 26,000Volunteer hours

    registered by our systems

  • CHF 1.3 mill.Worth of donations

    raised through our projects in 2021

Engaged Beyond Business around the world  

Join us on our Engaged Beyond Business journey and discover a selection of first-hand stories highlighting the engagement of our team members by browsing the world map below: 

Graphic: Hilti: World Map
Graphic: Hilti: World Map
Photo: Hilti: Team Women Building for Women

Women Building for Women Dallas Habitat supports determined women on their journey to financial independence through homeownership. A dedicated team of Hilti women supported the 2021 Women Build campaign.

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Photo: Hilti: Team Safeguarding Forests

Safeguarding Forests for Sustainable Development Reforestamos Mexico is an NGO whose mission is to safeguard the forests and jungles that Mexico needs for its sustainable development. 120 Hilti team members and their families joined forces and spent a day restoring landscapes.

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Photo: Hilti: Live Charity Event for Love Save Pneumoconiosis

Live Charity Event for “Love Save Pneumoconiosis” Hilti China initiated its first digital charity sale event to raise funds for “Love Save Pneumoconiosis”. The organization provides financial and medical help to construction workers suffering from the lung disease pneumoconiosis.

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Photo: Hilti: Men building bamboo house

Lend a Hand to Build a Home A safe place to call home is a prerequisite for social and economic development. To help build a better, sustainable future, the Hilti team in the Philippines collaborated with the Hilti Foundation and Base Bahay to help build two homes for families who need them the most.

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Photo: Hilti. Education Center in Sri Lanka

Affordable Further Education in Sri Lanka Despite the difficult circumstances due to the pandemic, five Hilti team members joined the 2021 BOOKBRIDGE Capability Program and were able to develop their social entrepreneurship skills. The group created a social enterprise called GROW in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. GROW offers affordable further education so beneficiaries can follow their dreams and get the opportunities they deserve.

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Photo: Hilti: Care packages for financially struggling families

Together in Humanity We Are One Since 2018, Hilti Saudi Arabia team members have been volunteering to support financially struggling families that are suffering in silence.

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Photo: Hilti: Man helping Children in Jerusalem Children’s Home

Meeting Schoolchildren’s Basic Needs New Jerusalem Children’s Home is a Montessori-based school that provides schooling and accommodation for children from previously disadvantaged schools. Since 2019, Hilti South Africa teams have been supporting the upgrade of the school’s facilities with hands-on work and donations.

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 Photo: Hilti: Building a Woodhouse

Building Houses to Bring Hope Together with the Hilti Foundation’s partner organization House of Good Tones, team members from Hilti Southern Europe helped people in Petrinja regain some semblance of normality after the devastating earthquake in December 2020.

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Photo: Hilti: two people sawing a plank

Houses for Romania – A Better Future for Cumpăna, Constanța Through our partner Habitat for Humanity Romania, we joined forces and brought 23 Hilti colleagues together to build homes, communities and hope. The project was supported by the Hilti Foundation to make a difference in Cumpăna.

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Photo: Hilti: Headquarters team members spent a day with people with and without disabilities at Sunnahof

Inclusive Cooperation at an Organic Farm As an EBB HQ pilot project, we were allowed to spend a day with people with and without disabilities at Sunnahof, an organic farm in Austria.

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Photo: Hilti: Teammembers of Trägerkreis Junge Flüchtlinge e. V./SchlaU

Integration in Focus Trägerkreis Junge Flüchtlinge e. V./SchlaU offers targeted and intensive support for young refugees. Around 90 percent of the students find an apprenticeship after graduating from school.

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Photo: Hilti: Woman in wheelchair holding flag

Taking up the Challenge of the NGO Action Against Hunger “Action contre la Faim” is an NGO that fights hunger in the world. In October 2021, it organized a solidarity race near Paris which enabled employees to raise funds for the association’s activities.

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Photo: Hilti: Packing supporting goods for children

Serving the Children of the World “Kiwanis is an international organization dedicated to improving the lives of children. In the 80 countries where Kiwanis operates, it organizes social activities for the benefit of disadvantaged children. Our Hilti organization in Belgium and Luxembourg has established a partnership to support this worthy cause.

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Photo: Hilti: Team to revive the russian forests

Planting Trees to Restore Our Planet’s Green Lungs After a hot summer provoked massive forest fires throughout Russia, the ecological campaign “Save the Forest” has started helping forests in the Eurasian region recover. Dozens of Hilti Russia employees have joined the campaign as volunteers and devoted time to planting tree seedlings for the first time since the pandemic kicked in.

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Photo: Hilti: Team gibing furniture a new life

Giving New Life to Old Furniture When Hilti Hungary relocated its headquarters, a lot of furniture became obsolete as it no longer fit the new layout. This problem was turned into an opportunity and the furniture donated to several children’s homes and one hospital.

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Photo: Hilti: Repair old Hilti Machines

Tools for Schools As part of the “Tools for Schools” program, our market organization in the Czech Republic donates used – but still functional – tools to four schools, thus supporting the education of future electricians, engineers and business owners.

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Photo: Hilti: Woman in field

KIVA – Help for Self-help to Make a Difference at Scale KIVA is an impactful microfinance program that reaches out to underprivileged people across the globe who are not served by financial institutions. Through the Hilti Foundation and local Hilti organizations, our team members get access to the KIVA platform and can support local entrepreneurs.

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Photo: Hilti: Team Women Building for Women

North America Women Building for Women

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Photo: Hilti: Team Safeguarding Forests

Mexico Safeguarding Forests for Sustainable Development

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Photo: Hilti: Live Charity Event for Love Save Pneumoconiosis

China Live Charity Event for “Love Save Pneumoconiosis”

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Photo: Hilti: Men building bamboo house

Philippines Lend a Hand to Build a Home

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Photo: Hilti. Education Center in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Affordable Further Education in Sri Lanka

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Photo: Hilti: Care packages for financially struggling families

Saudi Arabia Together in Humanity We Are One

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Photo: Hilti: Man helping Children in Jerusalem Children’s Home

South Africa Meeting Schoolchildren’s Basic Needs

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 Photo: Hilti: Building a Woodhouse

Croatia Building Houses to Bring Hope

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Photo: Hilti: two people sawing a plank

Romania Houses for Romania – A Better Future for Cumpăna, Constanța

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Photo: Hilti: Headquarters team members spent a day with people with and without disabilities at Sunnahof

Austria Inclusive Cooperation at an Organic Farm

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Photo: Hilti: Teammembers of Trägerkreis Junge Flüchtlinge e. V./SchlaU

Germany Integration in Focus

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Photo: Hilti: Woman in wheelchair holding flag

France Taking up the Challenge of the NGO Action Against Hunger

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Photo: Hilti: Packing supporting goods for children

Belgium and Luxembourg Serving the Children of the World

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Photo: Hilti: Team to revive the russian forests

Russia Planting Trees to Restore Our Planet’s Green Lungs

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Photo: Hilti: Team gibing furniture a new life

Hungary Giving New Life to Old Furniture

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Photo: Hilti: Repair old Hilti Machines

Czech Republic Tools for Schools

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Photo: Hilti: Woman in field

Global KIVA – Help for Self-help to Make a Difference at Scale

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