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Social Impact

We’re committed to enhancing the quality of life in communities where we live and work.

Safe Water for All.

Our flagship initiative, Safe Water for All, leverages our company’s strength and expertise and the passion and talent of our associates to help underserved populations around the world in four focus areas: Water Stewardship, Products, Impact Projects, and Advocacy.

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Water Stewardship

High-risk watershed Kohler Co. plants.

Product Innovation

Innovating for the greater good.

Impact Projects

Strategic Kohler Community Impact.

Advocacy

Safe water is a human right.

Sustainable water solutions begin with the community.

Kohler associates use their water expertise to help solve the lack of access to clean, safe water for Canada’s Indigenous communities.

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Water Stories: Dattamaya

At 23 years old, Dattamaya from the community of Shivgarh Tanda in India exemplifies the possibilities that access to water provides.

Arts/Industry

Hundreds of artists have benefited from the celebrated Arts/Industry residency program since its beginning in 1974. The program, undoubtedly one of the most unusual ongoing collaborations between art and industry in the United States, was conceived and is administered by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and hosted by Kohler Co.

Artists-in-residence work at the Kohler Co. factory in the Pottery and/or Foundry. Participants are exposed to a body of technical knowledge that enables and encourages them to explore new ways of thinking and working.

Arts/Industry Program Artists

Jennifer Ling Datchuk lives and works in San Antonio, TX. She is an assistant professor of studio art at Texas State University in San Marcos. As the child of a Chinese immigrant and grandchild of Russian and Irish immigrants, she has family histories of conflict that are a perpetual source for her work.

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Arts/Industry Program Artists

Joann Quninones is a mixed-media artist, working primarily in fibers and ceramics. Their work focuses on African American and Caribbean history, as well as the intricacies of Afro-Latinx identity.

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Arts/Industry Program Artists

Lily Cox-Richard (she/her/LCR) makes sculpture and installations that take up details of cultural and material histories to explore porousness, energy exchange, and paths of resistance.

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Arts/Industry Program Artists

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto is a Japanese-born, U.S.-based artist known for paintings, sculptures, and installations employing elemental materials such as trees, fossils, and minerals to create profound viewer connections with nature.

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Arts/Industry Resident Sarah K. Khan

Radically unapologetic and brilliantly nuanced, multimedia artist and scholar Sarah K. Khan introduces us to her pantheon of heroes, their lives unbound from the 16th-century Book of Delights, during her late 2022 residency in the Kohler Pottery.

Arts/Industry Resident Jesse Harrod

Fiber artist Jesse Harrod spent spring of 2022 working in the Arts/Industry studio of the Kohler foundry. Here they share some of the life experiences informing their exploration of the body at the intersections of queerness and disability.

Arts/Industry Resident Talia Mukmel

See Israeli artist Talia Mukmel at work in the Kohler Foundry during her Arts/Industry residency. Get a glimpse into her process and the inspiration behind her art.

Arts/Industry Resident Harold Mendez

L.A. artist and recent Kohler Arts/Industry resident Harold Mendez shares his experience as a first-generation American exploring the intersection of art, culture, and identity.

Ruth Kohler: A Legacy of Lifting Artists

Passionate about vernacular artists and preserving their work, Ruth Kohler’s legacy will continue to ripple through the art world.

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Innovation for Good

Innovation for Good (IfG) is an in-house startup for Kohler Co. entrepreneurs to commercialize business opportunities with a social purpose. Since 2011, IfG has brought together associates from across industries, skills, and perspectives in an innovation incubator designed to explore products and solutions for pressing global social and environmental issues. We believe that the private sector has an important role to play in the development of scalable solutions that improve people’s lives, and we are committed to doing our part.

Innovation for Good Driving Both Internal and External Impacts for Kohler

What happens when a company empowers its associates to think creatively and innovate with a social purpose? You find yourself with a potent strategic framework for solving for some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.

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Every end is also a beginning

From pottery wastewater running down a drain to a stunning canvas of unlimited creative expression, explore the journey and handcrafted artistry of WasteLAB® products.

Innovators Wanted: Driving Change Through Intrapreneurship

Dreamers. Doers. Status quo busters. Be the change-rs. Nothing’s impossible-rs. Kohler Co. has been brimming with them for 145 years—and now we’re tapping into that potential like never before.

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Innovative Solution to Address Global Sanitation Gaps

Partnering with Sanergy, a Nairobi-based organization focused on sustainable solutions for nonsewered sanitation, Kohler is developing a container-based sanitation (CBS) option for people living without access to safe sanitation systems.

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Intelligent Power: From Concept to Reality

When a real-life opportunity to help make the world a little better came knocking on Kohler product manager Brad Meissner’s door, he made sure he was ready to go.

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