A spirit of citizenship and service has inspired our
COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS IN ACTION
We invite employees at all levels of the company to make a difference by being community champions. Eligible employees may take up to three days of paid volunteer time per year and receive company-matching donations for their time. BNY also incentivizes charitable donations to nonprofits by matching employees’ donations.
Since the program’s 2008 launch, BNY employees have volunteered 1.5 million hours, valued at $47 million, with employee donations and company matching accounting for nearly $200 million to nonprofit organizations around the globe.*
*As of Jan 2024, all figures are rounded to the nearest 100,000
Game-changing impact
Roll call
BNY technologists help grantee Year Up develop a prototype for an attendance-tracking mobile app.
Exceeds expectations
The People Team develops employee performance management tools for Breaking Barriers, a refugee charity in the UK.
BNY Hosts
First Annual
Community Month
First Annual
Community Month
As part of the month's activities, BNY honored the AI Hub team for becoming a finalist in the "Hack for Social Impact with AI" challenge as part of the Microsoft Global Hackathon.
EMPOWERING
COMMUNITIES
Aligning with BNY’s role in powering success across the financial world for individuals and institutions, we focus our corporate giving on empowering communities in order to give everyone an opportunity to thrive.
We aim to advance an inclusive economy by addressing unequal access to opportunities and financial systems. Through our grants, we are helping support social mobility, strengthen financially underserved communities and build a more resilient future. In an effort to foster innovation, our grants focus on strengthening technology capabilities for small business and nonprofits.
Support for eligible organizations
BNY will consider support for organizations that fit within our funding priorities and the company’s geographical footprint. In the United States, the organization must have an IRS designation of 501(c)(3). Organizations in other countries must meet requirements for their respective country’s governance.
By The Numbers
$36.8M
in total global community support in 2024
$10.3M
in contributions by BNY employees and matching donations in 2024
136k
hours volunteered by BNY employees in 2024
RESPONDING TO
TODAY'S CHALLENGES
Fostering innovation and resilient futures
The UpPrize Social Innovation Challenge, powered by Innovation Works and funded by the BNY Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, creates cross-sector partnerships to solve some of our community’s most pressing problems.
PHILANTHROPY
IN ACTION
A longstanding partner: JA Worldwide
As one of the world’s largest and most-impactful youth-serving nonprofits, JA Worldwide delivers hands on, immersive learning in entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial health.
Sustainability
We apply a sustainability lens across our enterprise, leveraging the rich diversity of our people and supporting their wellbeing, driving responsible business practices and supporting communities.
Thrive Together
At BNY, we know that broad perspectives lead to greater teamwork and inventive solutions to modern-day problems.