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  • Merry Christmas

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    Mary Kay wishes you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season.

  • Helping Children Heal

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    The prevention of domestic violence is one of the most important issues we support.  Not only do we provide $3 million in grants to domestic violence shelters each year through The Mary Kay Foundation, we also fund and support a number of programs addressing domestic violence.  Perhaps one of the most unique programs we fund is the Nature Explore Classroom. 

    Nature Explore Classrooms are outdoor learning spaces designed to include nature in the daily lives and learning of children.  Research shows that nature buffers the impact of life stress on children and helps them deal with adversity.  It also helps reduce or eliminate anti-social behavior such as violence, bullying and vandalism – all of which are common in children who have witnessed abuse.  

    Nature Explore Classrooms are traditionally constructed in areas where children can normally access including schools, parks and child care centers.  However, children who are currently residing at a women’s shelter with their mothers, rarely have access to these locations because of the precarious nature of protecting a mother and a child from the potential abuser.  Bringing these outdoor environments to domestic violence shelters provides these children with yet another powerful tool to help them deal with the horrendous abuse they may have witnessed. 

    Since 2009, Mary Kay has funded 13 Nature Explore Classrooms in nine states.  We are proud to announce 2011 Nature Explore Classroom Recipients.
    • Family Violence Prevention Services in Texas
    • HELP  USA in New York
    • Partnership Against Domestic Violence in Georgia
    • Safe Horizon in New York

     

     

     

  • 6 Ways to Not be a “Green Grinch” this Holiday Season

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    Today’s blog post comes from Mary Kay’s Pink Doing Green team. Employees from a variety of departments make up the Pink Doing Green team. The team focuses on seeking opportunities to improve Mary Kay’s environmental performance and continuously strives to find ways to be even more sustainable and green.


    1. Seek out eco-friendly gifts. Everything from fair trade coffee to recycled jewelry. Get creative. Many non-profits and organizations have special programs aimed at holiday shoppers. Be sure to think about how your gift could make a difference.  Check out this article on 11 ways to give without giving stuff. http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/alternative-gifts#fbIndex1

    2. You’ll be mailing gifts and hopefully receiving some, too. Remember to recycle boxes and packaging peanuts. Even better… use the bio peanuts from your Mary Kay product orders instead of traditional packing peanuts. They dissolve in water and can go right down the drain. Plus, you can put them in your compost pile.

    3. Reduce your consumption.  Did you know that not all wrapping paper is recyclable? Wrap your gift in newspaper, fabric or other materials you already have. The recipient of your gift will appreciate the thought and the creativity.

    4. Your energy bill could soar from all of those beautiful holiday lights. Be sure to look at green options as you decorate. LED holiday lights use 90 percent less energy than conventional holiday lights.

    5. Each year, 10 million Christmas trees end up in the landfill. Did you know that you can recycle your tree? Visit www.earth911.org to find the tree-recycling program near you.

    6. Getting a new cell phone, computer or TV for the holidays? You can recycle the old ones. Recycling electronics prevents hazardous elements like mercury, cadmium and lead from ending up in our landfills.  Many large electronic stores will take your old TV and computer. Plus, many companies and organizations will take old cell phones for recycling including The Mary Kay Foundation.  Click here for more details on The Mary Kay Foundation’s cell phone recycling program.

    Hope these tips added a little green to your holidays. Happy Holidays from the Pink Doing Green team!

     

  • The women of Mary Kay – they’re bringing America back

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    That’s what ABC’s Nightline is saying about Mary Kay. Take a look at the TV story from  Nightline's Dec. 14 show to see how Mary Kay CEO David Holl and Mary Kay Independent Sales Directors Courtney Armstrong and Stephanie Arbaugh explain how Mary Kay is growing.


  • Pink Doing Green

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    Today’s guest blogger is Dr. Beth Lange, Chief Scientific Officer.  Dr. Lange leads Mary Kay’s Research & Development division and due to her passion for nature also champions our corporate environmental sustainability efforts.

    Happy Holidays!  I love this time of year.  It is a joyous time to spend with family & friends celebrating.  I want to share with you some of the things we are celebrating at Mary Kay, and one of them is Pink Doing Green.  2011 was a stellar year for our Pink Doing Green programs. 

    We started off the year with the Mary Kay Global Month of Service, leading up to the celebration of International Women’s Day.  Around the world, Mary Kay employees, customers and Independent Beauty Consultants donated their time and energy to make our world a better place.  Together we planted butterfly gardens, cleaned parks and picked up litter along roadways.  In April, we had a blast celebrating Earth Day with our local communities.  We shared our Pink Doing Green message with several thousand Dallas-area students and residents.  And our Western US Distribution Branch spent the day planting trees in their community.In July we challenged our Independent Sales Force to help us with our recycling efforts and bring their used product caps and cases to Seminar.  These are the plastic flip-top caps and color refill cases that are not recyclable in every community.  The Sales Force responded to the challenge with a bang!  We recycled over 52,000 caps and cases from this single event!  Those are 52,000 caps and cases that will not go to a landfill!

    And speaking of not putting anything in a landfill, we hit an enormous milestone in our goal to be zero-landfill at our Global Manufacturing Facility.  At Mary Kay, we want to make your products in an environmentally responsible way.  With zero-landfill, our goal is not to send any manufacturing waste to a landfill.  Have you ever seen a crowd cheering a garbage truck?  At Mary Kay we did just that when we hit this milestone.  This garbage truck was special.  It was not going to a landfill, but to a facility that would turn our trash into energy!  Mary Kay employees lined the street with green pom-poms and noisemakers and cheered their hearts out.

    I hope you had a fabulous 2011.  I look forward to sharing more exciting news about Pink Doing Green in 2012!

  • Deck the Halls with…Lipstick and Mascara

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    Many of you are out and about shopping and getting ready for the holiday season. Planning family meals. Picking out the perfect gift for your friends.  Even ‘assisting’ Santa with your child’s wish list. This holiday spirit stems from that desire to make someone else’s day a little brighter, a little happier, a little merrier. To help bring a little holiday cheer to women and children in need, we’ve donated more than $25 million in cosmetic products, gift items and toys over the last seven years through the Today Show’s Annual Toy Drive. Check out this video about this year’s donation.

  • Operation Blessing

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    Our commitment to helping others is truly one of our core principles. The holiday season provides even more opportunities for us to help people in need by partnering with other great organizations. For Thanksgiving, we partnered with Operation Blessing to donate 6,000 bags of Mary Kay products during its annual Thanksgiving meal distribution in Washington D.C. and Jacksonville, FL. Operation Blessing provides disaster relief aid and also has partnerships with the NFL to provide meals to needy families during this time of year.  For the Christmas season, we are partnering with the Today Show to donate items for its annual Toy Drive. Be sure to tune in to the Today Show this Friday during the 9 a.m. hour to see Mary Kay’s annual donation.

    Washington Redskins player Logan Paulsen smiling with a recipient of a Mary Kay gift bag.

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