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News 2022-04-29

Increased donations in turbulent times

In connection with Grundfos' Annual General Assembly on 29 April, the Grundfos Foundation announces record philanthropic donation framework of DKK 250 million (~EUR 34 million) for important purposes all over the world.
Local Community Engagement 2022-03-25

Grants worth almost 12m DKK on their way to communities

The Foundation has approved community grants worth almost 9 million DKK (1,2m EUR) for local social initiatives all over the world. Additional emergency funding of 2.7m DKK (268,000 EUR) is also on the way to local organisations helping refugees in Poland Hungary and Slovakia.
News 2022-03-16

20m DKK to help refugees

The Grundfos Foundation releases 3 x 5m DKK to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), DRC Danish Refugee Council, and Danmarks Idrætsforbund (DIF) to help refugees in and around Ukraine and in Denmark. An additional 5m DKK is made available to local Grundfos companies for emergency relief via the Poul Due Jensen Community Engagement Grant.
News 2022-03-14

Fourth generation Due Jensen in the Board of Directors

At its annual meeting on 14 March, the Board of Directors elected Helena Due Langvad to fill the empty seat after Estrid Due Hesselholt who has decided to step down. Helena is the first of the founder's great-grand-children to serve on the Board of Directors of the foundation created by Poul Due Jensen in 1975 to safeguard his life's work, Grundfos.
Kenya 23 - next level 2022-03-08

Water is a must for girls in school

Girls’ educational opportunities are particularly affected by the global water crisis. Not only can contaminated water make them too sick to attend school, but they also typically shoulder the burden of collecting water for their families. Losing out on an education impacts their economic prospects in the future.
News 2022-03-04

Helping out in Ukraine

The Grundfos Foundation will support direct emergency relief in Ukraine with at least DKK 15 million (EUR 2 million).
Combating arsenic poisoning in Nepal 2022-01-10

Multi-level collaboration: the key to fast, effective COVID-19 response in Nepal

Oxfam looks back on the past year's collaborative efforts to combat the second COVID-19 wave in Nepal.
Disaster
response 2022-01-03

Emergency relief for Tigray and typhoon victims in the Philippines

Toward the end of 2021, the Grundfos Foundation donated DKK 500,000 for Plan International's emergency relief in Ethiopia and 40,000 EUR for the NGO Water and Life after super typhoon Rai.
Local Community Engagement 2021-12-17

Last Community Grants of 2021 awarded

This year's last Community Engagement Grants were awarded at the board meeting on 10 December. 8 local Grundfos projects received funding at a combined worth of 3.5 m DKK. The Foundation is particularly happy to see more engagement by Grundfos employees in the projects.
News 2021-11-12

2021 Grundfos Prize Student Award

At the Grundfos Prize ceremony on 11 November, three talented Grundfos students were rewarded for their contributions to Grundfos: Søren Thalund, Bartosz Kurkiewicz, and Jakob Vester Nielsen each receive DKK 25,000.
News 2021-11-11

2021 Grundfos Prize to bioinformatics researcher

Today, Professor MSO Mads Albertsen, Aalborg University, Chemistry and BioScience, is awarded the 2021 Grundfos Prize at the Grundfos Center in Bjerringbro. The prize consists of DKK 1 million, of which DKK 750,000 is a grant for further research.
Local Community Engagement 2021-10-11

11 new community engagement grants awarded

The Grundfos Foundation has awarded 11 new community engagement grants for local projects in California, Colombia, Denmark, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Argentina and Tanzania.