Volunteers for Good

To further enhance our commitment to our core focus areas, the Foundation supports many of the philanthropic endeavors of our agents and employees by matching their gifts to accredited schools, childhood bereavement organizations, and the Foundation’s educational grantees and their local affiliates, up to $5,000 per eligible person per calendar year.

New York Life has been there for local communities since the company was founded in 1845. When disasters strike, New York Life and our people are there to help. Besides making grants to local communities where our customers and workforce are affected, we also match our workforce’s donations to designated aid organizations and provide disaster volunteer grants.

This annual three-week period of encouraging charity is a long-standing New York Life tradition. New York Life facilitates employees’ and agents’ charitable giving to most US-based nonprofit organizations by offering payroll and ledger deduction services and sending their donations directly to the charities of their choice, and matches gifts to charities whose missions fall into our focus areas. Since 1983, thousands of New York Life people have given millions of dollars to the charities of their choice through this program.

New York Life offers employees one full day off each year to volunteer with a school or charity that is personally meaningful to them.

The Foundation encourages education for all families, including our own. We offer two different scholarships for the college-bound children of our eligible workforce: The National Merit Scholarship (awarded based on PSAT scores) and the Scholarship America Scholarship (awarded on an application basis).