MetLife: Caring For Communities Through Employee Volunteerism

MetLife encourages a culture of year-round volunteering. Colleagues across all regions and departments lend their time, talent and passion for their communities to educational, environmental, mentoring, coaching, skills-based and pro-bono initiatives. 

MetLife colleagues are engaged in their communities in their personal lives, as well as through their work at MetLife. MetLife Foundation offers external recognition through the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) for eligible U.S.-based colleagues who volunteer and track more than 100 hours of volunteer service, including hours completed during our Volunteer Day, on weekends or in their personal lives. The PVSA is a national volunteer recognition program that honors acts of service in communities.

2024 Global Volunteering by the Numbers

• 179,000 employee volunteer hours
• 38 markets

Skills-Based and Pro-Bono Volunteering

When they put their professional skills to use in a volunteer capacity, MetLife colleagues have an outsized impact on nonprofits and their communities. 

MetLife Foundation established MetLife Skills for Impact. Through the program, MetLife volunteers shared business skills with MetLife Foundation grant recipients, helping the grantees establish operational processes, create financial modeling tools and develop an earned revenue model for a community focused program.

MetLife colleagues in the U.S. and Latin America also mentored founders participating in the ADAPT startup accelerator, operated by Village Capital and supported by MetLife Foundation. Mentors helped founders refine their business assumptions and plans, including perfecting their funding pitches to investors and optimizing how they measure their organization’s social impact.

In collaboration with South Korean impact investor, Merry Year Social Company, which supports social venture companies not plugged into mainstream investors, MetLife Korea colleagues, including the CEO of MetLife Korea and Head of MetLife Korea Foundation, volunteered as mentors to social venture leaders and judges in the selection process for Inclusion Plus. The MetLife mentors provided pro-bono support and business advice in areas including legal, marketing, information technology, accounting and finance.

Read more about how MetLife is strengthening communities through volunteering our 2024 Sustainability Report.