• Progressive community lending efforts
• Contributions to service and community organizations
• Employee volunteerism
• Gifts in-kind such as donations of meeting space, graphic design expertise and other knowledge services
• Directorship guidance to charitable and civic boards

Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Initiatives
As of 2009, all three charters have received “outstanding” Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) ratings: The Northern Trust Company, Northern Trust NA, and Northern Trust, FSB. CRA investments completed for the year were $81 million.

Charitable Contributions
During 2009, Northern Trust's global corporate philanthropy program awarded nearly $13 million in cash contributions to nonprofit and non-governmental organizations. The majority of funds have been directed to human service initiatives that provide critical services to low and moderate income families, such as housing, food, child care and health care. In the last decade, Northern Trust has contributed more than $120 million in support of non-profit organizations worldwide.

Employee Volunteerism and Matching Gifts
In 2009, Northern Trust employees volunteered more than 200,000 hours and donated over $1.6M to local non-profit and non-governmental organizations.

Our Children, Our Neighborhoods, Our Community
Northern Trust supports organizations working in three core areas: education, social welfare, and arts and culture. We are committed to supporting education organizations that bring innovative, comprehensive and exemplary programs to students. Through our efforts to augment the priorities and goals of local education organizations, students in our global locations gain additional tools to strengthen their academic achievement and leadership development. We support effective organizations working to measurably improve the quality of life in our focus communities. Health, basic human needs and community development programs provide invaluable support to people who face obstacles that impede their full participation in society. And, we support organizations that bring opportunities to our communities, in order to create forums for social interaction that celebrate all of our diversity and heritage.

Charitable Giving Programs
We administer three programs that make direct charitable contributions to not-for-profit organizations:

• The Northern Trust Charitable Trust
• Employee Matching Gift Program
• Employee Volunteer Grants Program

Non-Profit/Non-Governmental Organization Partners
Northern Trust supports a wide variety of charitable organizations, ranging from social welfare, health care and educational to cultural, conservationist and environmental. Among the many organizations we have supported are:

• Canossaville Children’s Home (Singapore)
• Guernsey Guide Association (Channel Islands)
• The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (International, Disaster Relief Partner)
• International Red Cross Committee of the New Ways
  (United Kingdom)
• The Nature Conservancy (International)
• The Salvation Army (United States)
• The Samaritans (United Kingdom)
• Special Olympics (United States, Ireland)
• Shiela Koathavala Institute for the Deaf - SKID (Bangalore, India) 
• UNCF (United Negro College Fund) (United States)
• United Way (United States)