CONTENTS LETTER FROM LETTER FROM SUSTAINABILITY 2025 SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABILITY DRIVING SOCIAL HELPING PRESERVING NOEL WALLACE ANN TRACY HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE IMPACT MILLIONS OF OUR STRATEGY HOMES ENVIRONMENT Health and Hygiene CARE Packages Advancing Education Opportunities In 2021, Colgate partnered with CARE to provide Access to continuing education plays a large role in developing and improving people’s lives, which is why health and hygiene CARE packages to over 25,000 Colgate is focused on providing these types of opportunities for underserved communities. In 2021, we people as we worked together to stop the spread of continued our longstanding support for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) by sponsoring, for the second COVID-19. Together we provided strategic grants in year, the UNCF Virtual Walk for Education, where funds raised will assist UNCF's mission of supporting five countries to provide and distribute important Historically Black Colleges and Universities. health care items. The contents of these packages varied by region, but included kits with supplies Prep for Prep is an organization whose mission is to develop future leaders by creating access for young for personal hygiene, COVID-19 prevention and people of color to first-rate educational, leadership development and professional opportunities. In 2021, prevention of gender-based violence, in addition to Colgate’s Chairman, President and CEO, Noel Wallace, and other Colgate executives, presented “Leading in other medical supplies. Uncertain Times: Lessons for Future Leaders” to students in the program. Colgate has been a partner for Prep for Prep student internships since 1994. Inclusive Oral Health Products Know Your OQ Campaign In partnership with Penn Dental Medicine, we In 2021, we started a conversation around how oral health affects people’s overall well-being, and how are working to create a more inclusive and they can take charge of their oral health, known as the KnowYourOQ campaign. This campaign is designed accessible world of dentistry. In celebration of to promote greater understanding and provide education on how oral health is linked to both physical and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, mental health, and what simple steps everyone can take to have a healthy mouth. In the same way that we donated a selection of hum™ Smart Rhythm people may know their IQ or EQ for their cognitive and emotional intelligence, Colgate wants people to Sonic Toothbrushes, which, with the support of an know their oral health quotient and understand how they can improve their oral care routine. As part of this app, help patients properly brush their teeth by initiative, starting in 2022, Colgate will commit $100 million over the next five years to address this global providing feedback on the duration and frequency health crisis affecting nearly half the world’s population, and help to ensure oral health is integrated into of their brushing. broader public health strategies and responses. 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT PAGE 40