Community Involvement

Lubrizol Gives Back: Month of Impact 2024

Many Lubrizol sites participated in Lubrizol’s Month of Impact for 2024. Painesville worked with Forbes House, a non-profit shelter for domestic abuse survivors and their families to enhance and revamp their facility in June.

Forbes house works with domestic abuse survivors and their families to provide them a safe haven away from their situation that is safe, encouraging and secure. The site leadership helps those staying with them to be safe, grow. Their end goal is to return the family to a safe situation where they can feel comfortable and leave their old situation behind. The Lubrizol Painesville team noted that they were very honored to help Forbes House.

In total, 85 volunteers from Lubrizol gave their time. They brought their expertise to tackle the manual labor and skilled trades needed. Lubrizol employees donated over 560 hours of their time, and in total Lubrizol donated over $70,000 in goods, and supplies to Forbes House.

Some of these activities included:

Landscaping: Removed bushes, brush, trees, and overgrown landscaping. Installed new landscaping, lining garden beds, laid over 24 yards of mulch, trimmed bushes, planted flowers, and created new beds!

Drainage: Installed new drainage system for the water to run away from the building, installed 50 tons of soil to raise the ground level and keep floods from happening indoors.

Playground: Cleaned, repaired, painted and upgraded their playground area, including installing 60 tons of pea gravel.

Painting/Staining: Painted many rooms inside the facility, as well as exterior fencing and the pavilion.  

Drywall/Plumbing: Updated the laundry room, installed a utility sink, cabinets, and removed a closet.  

Flood Prevention: Installed a new back up sump pump and performed maintenance on their generator to make it operational again.

We encourage all Lubrizol employees around the world to get involved in whatever way they can to give back to their community. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and all those who will serve at other sites this year.

Have questions or wnt to nominate a non-profit?                                                                       Contact Joe Eder at joe.edger@lubrizol.com for nomination information

Lubrizol Gives Back: Painesville Building Bonds 2023

As many Lubrizol sites look for opportunities for collaboration and service for the upcoming Building Global Bonds Day on Sept. 12, some facilities have already begun this work in the community. One of these sites is Painesville, Ohio, whose Building Global Bonds Day recently took place, with the team volunteering at local nonprofit, Hannah’s Home.

Hannah’s Home works with young mothers and mothers to be. Together, they work with those in need on parenting skills, job skill development, life skills, among others. Their end goal is to develop young mothers and children so they can be prepared to live on their own. The Lubrizol Painesville team noted that they were very honored to help Hannah’s Home on our Building Bonds Day.

In total, nearly 90 volunteers from Lubrizol gave their time. They brought their expertise to tackle the manual labor and skilled trades needed. Lubrizol employees donated over 560 hours of their time, and in total Lubrizol donated over $70,000 in goods, and supplies to Hannah’s Home.

Some of these activities included:

Landscaping: Removed bushes, brush, trees, and overgrown landscaping. Installed new landscaping, lining garden beds, laid over 24 yards of mulch, trimmed bushes, planted flowers, and created new beds!

Playground: Created new playground space, removed sod and dirt to create safe space for children to play, installed new fencing for play space, and built play set, etc. for children to use.

Painting/Staining: Painted many rooms inside the home and the front porch. We stained the handicap ramp, exterior stairs, a play set, benches, chairs, and the back deck.

Drywall/Plumbing: Fixed shower plumbing from a leaking shower, cutout and installed new drywall, and corrected drywall damaged by flooding.

Flooring: Removed old carpeting, installed 1600 sq. ft. of new waterproof flooring and trim.

We encourage all Lubrizol employees around the world to get involved in whatever way they can to give back to their community. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and all those who will serve at other sites this year.

Have questions or want to nominate a non-profit?                                                                      

Contact Joe Eder at joe.edger@lubrizol.com for nomination information.

Click on the collage to the right for a snapshot of the locations we have supported with volunteers from 2010 – 2023.