THINX, Inc.
/OVERVIEW: THINX’s philanthropic engagements focus on reproductive health education and menstrual products.
IP TAKE: THINX is not a traditional grantmaker but has collaborated with organizations on advocacy and education products surrounding the issue of menstruation and “period poverty.” The company’s chartiable foundation is inactive and may have been subsumed by that of its parent company, Kimberly Clark. However, if your organization works in THINX’s areas of interest, reach out via email at partnerships@thinx.com to discuss opportunities. This foundation’s corporate sister is undergoing major changes, so it remains to be seen how those changes will effect giving here.
PROFILE: THINX, Inc. is a New York City-based underwear manufacturer known for its “period panties,” which are designed to be worn in place of or in addition to traditional feminine hygiene products. A charitable foundation affiliated with THINX has not made grants in several years, and the company itself was acquired by the Kimberly Clark corporation in 2019. Shortly after, a series of lawsuits addressed the use of use of harmful PFASs in THINX products, challenging the company’s claim of producing safe and sustainable period products. The future of THINX’s philanthropy is unclear, although it may be subsumed into the work of the Kimberly Clark Foundation. In the meantime, the company’s Bodywise platform aims to empower “all who pee and bleed with shame free body literacy.” Engagement focuses on reproductive health education and “period poverty.”
Grants for Women and Girls
THINX’s philanthropic engagement is tightly focused on causes related to reproductive health and menstruation and is conducted through the company’s Bodywise platform, which offers free educational resources and videos via its webpage. In a past collaboration, the program partnered with New York City schools to provide “medically accurate and inclusive educational experience to empower young people with body literacy” for 10- to 13-year-old students.
More recently, the initiative partnered with PERIOD to create State of the Period, a report on “period poverty” among U.S. teenagers and others that calls for better communication and education about menstruation, as well as equitable access to period products. THINX also donates its products “to grassroots organizations around the world to help to alleviate period poverty.”
Partners include the Alliance for Period Supplies, UN Women, the Homeless Period Project and the National Menopause Foundation.
Important Grant Details
THINX does not publicize its grant values online and may have ended its charitable grantmaking programs.
Philanthropic engagements focus exclusively on menstrual awareness and products for those in need.
Having been acquired by Kimberly Clark, THINX’s philanthropy may have been absorbed into the Kimberly Clark Foundation.
Free educational resources about menstruation are provided on the Bodywise web page.
THINX does not appear to accept unsolicited requests for funding, but organizations interested in partnering with THINX may reach out via email at partnerships@thinx.com.
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