TJX has long been committed to helping unlock educational opportunities for at-risk youth and vulnerable young people to support them in reaching their full potential. Over the years, our efforts have focused on quality enrichment and extracurricular programs that provide skills, resources, and opportunities to support school and career success in the hopes of helping to create a brighter future for children, teens, and young adults. In Fiscal 2024, we worked with a variety of organizations and funded education and workforce training opportunities that impacted more than 2 million young people.

Since 1984, TJ Maxx has proudly supported Save the Children U.S. to help improve the lives of children and families, making this its 39^th year of sponsorship. Over the years, the relationship has grown to include an annual in-store fundraising campaign and donations of profits from co-branded reusable bags. TJ Maxx and Save the Children have also established various custom programs and initiatives, including Save the Children’s Early Childhood Education programs and Family Action network. Read more about TJ Maxx’s partnership with Save the Children and its work to support women and caregivers on our Empowering Women page.

Fiscal 2024 marked TJX's sixth year in the U.S. working with Jumpstart, an early education organization that provides programming to preschool children in underserved communities to help them enter kindergarten prepared to succeed. TJX is the exclusive presenting sponsor of Jumpstart's annual Read for the Record campaign, a program that engages over two million children, adults, and educators across the country and around the world to read the same book on the same day to help promote early literacy and increase access to high-quality books. In Fiscal 2024, our sponsorship helped achieve a distribution of approximately 145,000 copies of the campaign book, with more than 16,000 copies directly donated to TJX nonprofit community partners and TJX Associates — a record number.

Sierra aims to help everyone access the outdoors by providing support to nonprofits that help children get outside. Nationally, Sierra partners with KABOOM! to help fund programs that are committed to providing safe places for all children to play. Sierra also partners with Open Outdoors for Kids, a National Park Foundation program that creates opportunities for children to explore nature. In Fiscal 2024, Sierra partnered with KABOOM! to build a new playground in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The playground started with imaginative visions drawn by children in the area to update an outdated playground installed in 1997 and in need of replacement after its 26-year history. It is now open to the public and serving children in the area. The playground was built in alignment with KABOOM!’s 25 in 5 initiative, which aims to build playgrounds in 25 markets over five years. This is Sierra’s fifth playground built in partnership with KABOOM!.

TJX has a long history of working with underserved youth in cities around the U.S. to help teach them job readiness skills and expose them to career paths in retail. In Fiscal 2024, we continued to support Junior Achievement, a national provider of work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills for young people. Their goal is to give young people the tools they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices. TJX Associates have the opportunity to volunteer in Junior Achievement programs.

TJX Canada's Find Your Stride initiative endeavors to provide access to education and job training for women preparing for the workforce, including work skills development, educational programs, and work placement, in addition to supporting some of their basic needs. Through partners like WoodGreen and Petites-Mains, TJX Associate volunteers have conducted training sessions, mock job interviews, and store tours to help build critical skills for program participants. To learn more about the partnerships and other ways TJX Canada's Find Your Stride initiative is supporting women, visit our Empowering Women page.

TJX Canada is a proud sponsor of the Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust (CCLET), a nonprofit research and public educational organization which aims to encourage, promote, and protect the rights and freedoms for all people in Canada, including newcomers. In Fiscal 2024, TJX Canada’s funding supported the CCLET in expanding their annual education conference to additional locations to educate Canadians about their rights and freedoms. In addition, the CCLET was able to develop a digital education library program, serving as a free interactive workshop to provide newcomers with a better understanding of their rights.

In Fiscal 2024, TJX Europe celebrated 10 years of partnership with The Prince's Trust and support of its Achieve and Get Into programs in the U.K. The Achieve program is a development program designed to help young people engage with and succeed in their education by building their confidence and skills. The Get Into program provides training, development, and employment opportunities to help disadvantaged young people build a better future. In partnership with The Prince’s Trust, TJX Europe runs three Get Into programs across the areas of Retail, Loss Prevention, and Distribution.

TJX Europe also partners with Stowarzyszenie WIOSNA in Poland to support their Academy of the Future program to provide one-to-one educational and mentoring support for disadvantaged children and young people. Additionally, since 2010, TJX Europe has partnered with Children for a Better World in Germany to help children achieve their full potential through their Lunch Table and Discoverer Activities programs. These programs take place at local child and youth welfare institutions, where children affected by poverty are empowered to expand their knowledge on nutrition, improve their life skills, and strengthen their self-esteem.

TK Maxx in Australia supports The Smith Family, a national, independent children's education charity that for over 100 years has been working to help change the lives of children in need. Since 2022, TK Maxx in Australia has been able to help provide approximately 650 scholarships through The Smith Family's flagship program, Learning for Life. Each scholarship supports a child in need with financial support for school essentials, personal support for the child and their family, and practical support through learning and mentoring programs, for one year of study.

TJX remains committed to supporting inclusion and diversity and increased access to opportunities for all, and this commitment extends into the work we do in our communities. We continue to provide support to communities of color by funding organizations that focus on promoting and supporting racial justice and equity. In the U.S., TJX has partnered with a number of nonprofits, including The Posse Foundation, Bottom Line, Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to support their work in helping connect high school and college students with internship and early career opportunities. In Europe, the TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation provides funding to various charities across Europe for projects and initiatives that promote inclusion and diversity. These projects and initiatives provide support for gender equality, the LGBTQ+ community, racial justice, and people with disabilities in local communities. TJX Canada is proud to partner with Indspire, which aims to enrich Canada through Indigenous education and by inspiring achievement. In Fiscal 2024, the TJX Canada Foundation donated funds to support several scholarships for high school and post-secondary Indigenous students in Canada.