Community Action

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen once said, “Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.” We liked the sound of it so much, we even made a bumper sticker out of it! And, of course, we also made connecting with our community a part of our culture.

Many of our annual company events feature day-long community service projects. In recent years, we’ve cooked, boxed, and planted food for the Vermont Food Bank, rebuilt houses in New Orleans, and built a playground in a low-income neighborhood in Berlin, Germany.

In company-owned Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops, we’ve created programs with nonprofit partners to help young people facing big challenges to learn job and life skills.

And as you might expect, we donate loads of ice cream each year to community organizations around the country to help them celebrate a special event, draw a crowd, or advance fundraising efforts.

In 2011, local bands in Singapore got together with a single aim to help raise funds for the victims of the tragic Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. We were happy to sponsor some ice cream to help them with their fundraising efforts.

For Singapore’s Free Cone Day in 2011, we decided to encourage our fellow Singaporeans to embrace our culture of community activism by collecting donations for kids with learning difficulties at the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS). They did us proud and helped raise over SGD$14k in just one day!