Cherokee Gives Back is dedicated to improving the lives of the world’s poor and disadvantaged by applying sound business practices and compassionate service to catalyze positive, sustainable change.

Consistent with Cherokee’s core values, Cherokee Gives Back is focused on creating sustainable revenue to support its activities. Revenues are derived from three sources: (1) donations from individuals and corporations, (2) grants, and (3) real estate development.

Cherokee Gives Back will achieve long-term sustainability by engaging in redevelopment initiatives (unrelated to Cherokee’s activities), where we can make a difference in a community and in the environment, while creating value that can support our good works across the world.

A company dedicated to developing commercial processes to convert biomass, including animal waste, to electric power and other valuable byproducts. The venture, led by Cherokee Gives Back, is collaboration among other private interests and North Carolina universities.

Any profits that Cherokee Gives Back receives from this venture will be used to fund the various philanthropic activities of Cherokee Gives Back.

Through our Good Works program we engage in philanthropic activities that catalyze positive, sustainable change and improve lives and across the world.

In 2007, Cherokee Gives Back  partnered with Brad Pitt, the Jolie- Pitt Foundation, Graft, William McDonough + Partners and  residents of the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans in connection with   a project to help the city recover from the lasting devastation caused by  Hurricane Katrina. [more]

In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Cherokee Gives Back is working to create sustainable economic development opportunities, establish new jobs and strengthen educational opportunities. In past years, Cherokee helped bring hundreds of new jobs and education opportunities to families in Ethiopia.  Our three main focuses in Ethiopia are:

Almitas is a volunteer association working in partnership with Cherokee Gives Back, to identify and empower innovative organizations around the world to affect lasting change for orphans and vulnerable children. [more]

Over twenty years after a toxic gas cloud killed thousands of people at a former Union Carbide site in Bhopal, India, the pesticide plant remains idle and contaminated, affecting the health and welfare of the surrounding communities. Gives Back has committed to assist in the cleanup of this environmental catastrophe – pledging our technical support at no charge and up to $1 million in funding.

Our Stronger Communities program seeks to complement the positive work of Cherokee by providing philanthropic activities that alleviate poverty and strengthen neighborhoods in the communities in which the firm serves. Cherokee Gives Back philanthropic activities are wholly separate from investments made by Cherokee.

In late 2006, more than 25 Cherokee employees supported Stop Hunger Now, a nonprofit international relief organization whose mission is to end world hunger in our lifetime. Gives Back matched employee contributions dollar for dollar, and our employees and their families packed food for hungry children at the Operation Sharehouse facility in Raleigh, North Carolina. We also support these charities: