For Our Communities
Strengthening Communities Through Our Grantmaking
MetLife Foundation collaborates with nonprofit organizations globally by making contributions to strengthen communities. For example, our grants to UNICEF support the organization’s efforts to help young people in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon gain essential technical, 21st-century skills to help them unlock opportunities for their futures. In Egypt, UNICEF’s projects focus on bringing Wi-Fi connections to communities, while teaching digital skills to young people. In Jordan, UNICEF offers technical and vocational training, as well as digital skills training to help women and refugees find work. In Lebanon, UNICEF provides programming to empower adolescent girls, promoting leadership skills and access to education, skills and protection from gender-based violence.
The Community Impact Grant Program (CIGP) supports grassroots nonprofit organizations addressing the essential needs of people with low income. Through CIGP, MetLife Foundation has awarded $2.6 million in grants to nonprofit organizations that provide vital services to 650,000 people with low income in locations where MetLife has a presence. CIGP expanded to the Asia-Pacific region in 2024, contributing $1 million in grants to nonprofit organizations in six markets since program inception in 2023. One of these nonprofits is Orange Sky Australia, which offers free laundry, shower services and conversation to individuals experiencing homelessness.
The full list of grant recipients for CIGP is available on MetLife Foundation’s website.
Supporting Youth in India
MetLife Foundation supports Medha, a nonprofit in India that combines 21st-century skills training, career counseling, on-the-job work experience and alumni networks to support youth, especially young women, throughout their careers. The Foundation has supported Medha since 2022.
Disaster Relief
MetLife, MetLife Foundation and our colleagues support disaster response around the globe, particularly in communities in which our colleagues live and work. MetLife Foundation is a member of the American Red Cross Disaster Responder program and CARE Surge Fund, which helps communities with disaster preparedness in addition to immediate disaster response.
In 2024, MetLife contributed $1.4 million to disaster response efforts:
- Brazil Floods: MetLife Foundation donated to Associação Prato Cheio, which provided those impacted and displaced with food and water, as well as other necessities like hygiene kits, clothes and animal feed;
- Japan Noto Peninsula Earthquake: MetLife Foundation donated to Peace Winds Japan and Save the Children Japan for recovery efforts, as well as matching Japan colleagues’ donations to International Medical Corps; and
- U.S. Hurricanes: MetLife Foundation matched employee donations to the American Red Cross following Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton’s landfall. In addition, the Foundation donated to several local nonprofits in the areas that were hardest hit.
Impact Investments
Since 1984, MetLife Foundation has made impact investments alongside traditional grants to generate positive societal benefits for our communities. To date, the Foundation has invested $92 million, including $2 million in Upstate New York through Launch NY Seed Fund II, LP, which invests in high-growth startup companies to drive local employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
In addition, New Majority Capital (NMC) Fund I is a private equity micro-buyout fund that supports entrepreneurs who are acquiring profitable, cashflowing small businesses that are coming to market as older-generation owners retire. NMC also operates accelerator programs to help entrepreneurs prepare to grow these businesses.
