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.