After the US State of Pennsylvania passed a health equity mandate, an Oliver Wyman social impact team helped the Department of Human Services kick off the process of identifying the areas of greatest health disparity and conducting root cause assessments.

For several years, Oliver Wyman's Chicago office has supported BUILD, Inc, one of Chicago's leading gang intervention, violence prevention, and youth development organizations. Our colleagues have volunteered as panelists and informal mentors, and raised much-needed funds through the office's annual charity auctions. This past year, we were proud to be the recipients of BUILD's "Corporate Angel of the Year" award.

For two and a half years, volunteers from our Mexico City office have been teaching English to the young women and girls that nonprofit Casa de las Mercedes supports, providing online classes throughout the pandemic, sponsoring students, and donating supplies.

Chicago-based Athena Saldanha didn't go far for her 6-month nonprofit fellowship, instead choosing to focus her efforts to help her own community. Through our NPF program, Athena worked at the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago and partnered with the City of Chicago to design an Equity and Resiliency Dashboard that would help guide future policy decisions.

Members of Oliver Wyman's New York office joined the nonprofit, GrowNYC, on a sunny winter afternoon in Brooklyn to support a community gardening project. In addition to planting, building, and painting, colleagues were grateful for the opportunity to get together outside, re-energize, and bond, while contributing to the NY community.

Our Dallas office has been a long-time supporter of Vogel Alcove, which provides a broad array services for local children and families experiencing homelessness. For a recent volunteer activity, colleagues helped Vogel Alcove gather supplies for 500 snack-filled "bye-bye" bags that children can take with them when they leave Vogel Alcove, ensuring that they have nutritional food to eat while they are away. Vogel Alcove was also included as one of several beneficiaries of funds raised at the 2021 Dallas office's Annual Charity Auction.

As the son of immigrants, Eugen Xie understands how challenging it can be navigating college readiness and success. He currently volunteers with the Bay Area-based nonprofit 10,000 Degrees, where he mentors students, assists with fundraising, and has a position on the organization's Young Professionals Council.

Since 2019, Oliver Wyman's Montreal office has been offering resume workshops to help refugees and immigrants to Canada integrate successfully and sustainably. Since the onset of the pandemic, sessions have been conducted virtually between office volunteers and refugees.

When India was battling their biggest wave of COVID-19 with over 350K new cases every day, two New York-based consultants sought creative ways to raise money as volunteers for Shrimad Rajchandra Love and Care USA, such as a three-hour solo fundraiser walk and virtual cooking classes. 

Through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, we launched a new reforestation program called GROWTrees, and donated a tree for every Oliver Wyman employee at the end of the year. Colleagues voted to plant their tree in 1 of 7 projects we selected to seed our global forest, providing co-benefits that protect wildlife, promote food and water security, support indigenous communities, and improve long-term climate resilience.

Through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, we launched a new reforestation program called GROWTrees, and donated a tree for every Oliver Wyman employee at the end of the year. Colleagues voted to plant their tree in 1 of 7 projects we selected to seed our global forest, providing co-benefits that protect wildlife, promote food and water security, support indigenous communities, and improve long-term climate resilience.

Through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, we launched a new reforestation program called GROWTrees, and donated a tree for every Oliver Wyman employee at the end of the year. Colleagues voted to plant their tree in 1 of 7 projects we selected to seed our global forest, providing co-benefits that protect wildlife, promote food and water security, support indigenous communities, and improve long-term climate resilience.

Colleagues from Oliver Wyman's Sao Paulo office teamed with other MarshMcLennan Brazil colleagues to volunteer over 200 hours for Casa do Pai in Curitiba, Brazil. The NGO provides assistance to children at risk, operating a 24-hour shelter. For the past seven years, the team in Brazil has volunteered in a variety of ways, including doing gardening work with the children, building a reading room, refurbishing their roof, and last year providing the kids with a new wardrobe and doll house!

Oliver Wyman's Detroit office engaged in a food drive for Gleaners Food Bank during the month of December and collected boxes of non-perishable food and toiletries benefiting the Southeastern Michigan area.

Colleagues from Oliver Wyman's D.C. office joined in the Angel Tree Program, which raised donations to be able to provide holiday assistance to families in need, and spent 4 hours helping unload toys and organize the warehouse in preparation for pickup/delivery to +11,000 children in the national capital area.

An active member of the Oliver Wyman London Community Committee, Marissa Leppala particularly enjoys volunteering and bringing colleagues together to fundraise for the Magic Breakfast, who do the important work of ensuring that no child is too hungry to learn by delivering healthy breakfasts to feed children in need. This year, Magic Breakfast, along with Ambitious for Autism, were the two beneficiaries of London's annual charity auction which raised £30K.

An Amsterdam social impact team supported the Dutch NGO Natuurmonumenten to develop the business case for building a new nature reserve, which would involve creating new islands to restore nature and provide a home for migrating birds. In addition to the work of the project team, Oliver Wyman colleagues spent a day volunteering at one of the new islands, removing unwanted tree species in order to stimulate the island's biodiversity.

Colleagues from OW Germany held an activity-based fundraising campaign called Minutes for Mentor Mothers to benefit mother2mothers, a nonprofit that has worked to achieve virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa by employing local women living with HIV as Frontline Health Workers.

As part of Oliver Wyman’s partnership with Alpha Omega, a French foundation bringing financial, strategic, and operational support to the best educational charities, a team worked with the charity Réseau E2C to assess their performance and efficiency, and to define their extended value proposition.

Our Paris office participated in France's National Food Bank Collection Day, where they gathered food for the Association La Mie de Pain. The team reported 48 participants, 21 hours, 2 stores, 110 cartons, and 1295kg of food for 1700 hot meals!

Through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, we launched a new reforestation program called GROWTrees, and donated a tree for every Oliver Wyman employee at the end of the year. Colleagues voted to plant their tree in 1 of 7 projects we selected to seed our global forest, providing co-benefits that protect wildlife, promote food and water security, support indigenous communities, and improve long-term climate resilience.

Through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, we launched a new reforestation program called GROWTrees, and donated a tree for every Oliver Wyman employee at the end of the year. Colleagues voted to plant their tree in 1 of 7 projects we selected to seed our global forest, providing co-benefits that protect wildlife, promote food and water security, support indigenous communities, and improve long-term climate resilience.

Working with the Authority of Social Contribution in Abu Dhabi, Oliver Wyman worked with the Ma'an Social Incubator and Accelerator program to design a comprehensive mentorship and training framework for socially driven start-ups.

Mentoring for MarshMclennan charity partner, the Cherie Blair Foundation, is a way for Stephen Rawson, of Oliver Wyman's Dubai office, to create real social impact and reduce the various "privilege gaps" that still exist, particularly in technology, were there is a shortage of female role models.

Through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, we launched a new reforestation program called GROWTrees, and donated a tree for every Oliver Wyman employee at the end of the year. Colleagues voted to plant their tree in 1 of 7 projects we selected to seed our global forest, providing co-benefits that protect wildlife, promote food and water security, support indigenous communities, and improve long-term climate resilience.

We worked to produce a report for the Aurora Group which analyzed key trends in the funding and fund-seeking side of the Australian charity sector. We found that intermediaries better connect funders and fund-seekers, particularly in funding underrepresented LGBTIQ causes.

We supported the strategic decisioning and development of 'Smart School Anywhere', a new digital education program by PeopleStories Charity. In the long term, we hope the improved access to education will offer the children in rural Cambodia more opportunity to pursue their dreams through increased employment options. 

We supported Twenty10, a not-for-profit charity based in Sydney, Australia, on the development of their organizational identity. We worked with the Board to define its organizational vision, purpose, and brand architecture so that they can become a more prominent resource for LGBTQIA+ people and their allies, such as parents. 

We are helping to develop and operationalize a fund to support at-risk refugee populations, reduce the risk of gender-based violence, and improve the environment and human health through reforestation and cleaner cooking.

Oliver Wyman has a long history of work with the nonprofit Tarayana Microfinance, located in Bhutan. Singapore-based consultant, Fay, relocated to Bhutan for six months in 2021 as part of our Nonprofit Fellowship program. Ever wondered what goes into the thinking behind designing a cattle warranty scheme? It involves planning for unconventional scenarios such as tiger attacks and evil spirits!

Through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, we launched a new reforestation program called GROWTrees, and donated a tree for every Oliver Wyman employee at the end of the year. Colleagues voted to plant their tree in 1 of 7 projects we selected to seed our global forest, providing co-benefits that protect wildlife, promote food and water security, support indigenous communities, and improve long-term climate resilience.