Giving and 
volunteering

Our collective impact

Impact, our global giving and volunteering platform, allows Stryker to support nonprofits that our employees are passionate about. Stryker amplifies the generosity of our employees with a year-round 1:1 company match, and elevated match rates for our annual Driven To Give and Giving Tuesday campaigns. We also organize giving opportunities for moments in time like Giving Tuesday, Black History Month, International Women’s Day, Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Pride Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Military Appreciation Month and National Disability Employment Appreciation Month. 

Impact also provides employees with personalized volunteer options, including virtual, skills-based and in-person opportunities. In addition, when disaster strikes anywhere across the globe, employees can support relief efforts and get funds to the places that need it most. Eligible employees in the U.S. can request a volunteer leave of absence for one day per year to receive pay while volunteering with a qualifying organization during their normal work schedule.

Signature partners

Stryker has signature partners whose work aligns closely with our mission and social impact strategy. These partnerships are funded and managed at the corporate level but offer engagement opportunities to all employees no matter their location.

Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation

Fueled by our belief that thriving healthcare professionals are the foundation of a healthy healthcare ecosystem, Stryker partners with the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation to help support healthcare workers’ mental health and wellbeing.

Together, Stryker and the Foundation have made progress in addressing operational practices and processes driving health worker burnout, while improving access to mental health care. Key initiatives our partnership supports include:

• All In: Caring for Caregivers—A program to help organizations improve practices and policies to reduce burnout
• Wellbeing First Champion Challenge—An effort to remove questions on licensing and credentialing applications about prior mental health diagnosis and treatment
• Impact Wellbeing™ campaign—A collection of evidence-informed solutions that hospital leaders can use to build a system where healthcare workers thrive 

Operation Smile

For nearly four decades, Operation Smile has provided critically needed surgical and comprehensive care for children with cleft and other conditions in low- and middle-income countries. Serving as Stryker’s first signature partner, we have supported these efforts through cash, in-kind donations and volunteers since 1999. In addition to providing free surgeries to children in need, our partnership helps train surgical residents in Rwanda, expand the Global Surgery Scholars program and deliver surgical safety education for teams of healthcare workers in Madagascar.

Project C.U.R.E.

We collaborate with Project C.U.R.E.—the world’s largest distributor of medical equipment and supplies to resource-limited communities—on product shipments across Stryker’s product lines and divisions. This partnership helps both patients and care teams, providing health systems with additional capacity.

Our relationship with Project C.U.R.E. began in 2007, when Stryker began providing drills, saws and other essential items for surgical procedures. We now also supply beds, sterilization equipment, gurneys and other items, including essential equipment in regions in need of emergency relief. 

Beyond donating money and supplies, Stryker employees volunteer at Project C.U.R.E. distribution centers in Denver, Phoenix, Nashville, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Kansas City, where they sort incoming donations, provide warehouse support, share valuable technical expertise and prepare equipment for shipment. Employees worldwide also help pack Kits for Kids, which provide families with essential first aid and hygiene items. These items help families living at great distances from the nearest hospital treat minor conditions at home, saving a trip to the clinic for care. 

Red Cross

Stryker’s disaster relief strategy is rooted in the safety and wellbeing of our employees and communities, and we support those impacted by disaster through our signature partnership with the Red Cross. We are a member of the Red Cross Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP), providing an annual donation that helps enable the Red Cross not only respond immediately to disasters around the world, but also proactively prepare before a crisis strikes. 

Through this partnership, our employees are also able to get involved in their communities through organized blood drives, emergency preparedness training and other community initiatives.

Stryker provides employees with opportunities to step up and help the Red Cross. Efforts include a 2:1 donation match and the opportunity to host local blood drives and volunteer events, which many divisions and employee resource groups have organized. For example, Stryker employees support the Red Cross during emergency blood shortages by raising awareness or donating blood and/or platelets. They also participate in volunteer opportunities to assemble disaster recovery kits for people affected by natural disasters. 

Visit.org

Visit.org, an organization that connects businesses with curated nonprofit volunteer opportunities, makes it possible to provide every employee, no matter where they are in the organization, the opportunity to plan and attend volunteer events. This partner provides key tools for our Global Volunteer Network to find in-person and virtual volunteer opportunities, making it simple for Stryker employees to plug in and make an impact in communities throughout the world.