Investing in our community

Heart health

Our commitment to helping Canadians live healthy and active lives includes raising awareness of heart-related health issues and risks, giving Canadians knowledge to make decisions that will help them be healthier and live longer.

Financial inclusion

Feeling in control of your financial future is important to your overall well-being. We support organizations and ongoing programs that help Canadians learn how to have long-term economic success.

Supporting local communities

Our success as a company is tied to the success of where our customers and employees live. We partner with many local organizations to focus on the most pressing needs of each community and help these places grow into healthier, more enriched communities.

COVID-19 support

The social and economic effects of the pandemic have been especially difficult for the most vulnerable members of our communities — children, seniors, and the homeless. We’ve been supporting a number of organizations that deliver critical aid to Canadians who are most at risk.

Employee giving programs

We offer employees a variety of ways to support the causes they care about. Volunteer programs give them opportunities to improve their skills, meet and interact with people in their communities, and give something back while increasing the impact of our investment.

• Every Manulife employee has a paid day off each year to volunteer at a registered charity or non-profit organization. That adds up to over 30,000 volunteer hours per year.
• Our annual employee giving campaign matches each employee’s contribution to any registered Canadian charity, up to $4000 per employee.
• Each year, millions of dollars in donations, sponsorships, and other community investments are raised through our Volunteer Day, fundraising matches, team volunteer grants, and more.

Diversity, equity, inclusion

Manulife is investing millions of dollars over the next two years to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and the communities we serve. Three key goals of these focused investments are:

• increasing representation of black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) professionals through graduate programs, leadership recruitment, and career development
• educating employees with regular forums to encourage and strengthen conversations that will build understanding of inclusion and connection, as well as targeted training for managers on leading inclusively, in addition to our current, continuing mandatory unconscious bias training
• supporting communities through donations and volunteer opportunities focused on financial education and career mentoring.