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NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY

Broadening the Opportunity

Northern Trust is committed to enhancing access to vital resources, empowering individuals to reach their fullest potential, and nurturing pathways to sustained financial success.

  

Driving Individual Advancement

Studies show that when essential human needs are met, benchmarks of long-term financial success—career opportunities, savings and home ownership—rise substantially, and paths to improved opportunity become more accessible. In support of those paths, Northern Trust is deploying a long-term community investment strategy designed to drive individual advancement and broader wealth creation. We are focusing our resources, capabilities and business expertise on four key areas of fundamental impact that—when strengthened from the start—enrich our communities and the lives of everyone in them.

Explore our 2024 Philanthropic Impact Report to learn how we’re supporting our communities.

Northern Trust Commits $70 million to its Charitable Foundation

Northern Trust announced that it has allocated $70 million to the Northern Trust Foundation, which supports non-profit organizations focused on fundamental needs and broadening opportunities.

Read the press release

By strengthening our Foundation, we are setting the stage to bolster our philanthropic efforts.

Shana Hayes

Chief Social Impact Officer

Global Areas of Focus

Food Security

Ensuring reliable, everyday access to nutritious meals strengthens concentration, the ability to fully participate in school and patterns that sustain long-term physical health.

Affordable Housing

Stable housing can serve as the foundation for a secure future. We prioritize funding to organizations assisting people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with access to safe and permanent housing.

Quality Education

Supporting educational equity and persistence inspires the fullest realization of professional achievement.

Accessible Healthcare

Maximizing healthcare access and awareness directly impacts physical and financial well-being.

  

How We’re Taking Action

Volunteerism

Community engagement is an important part of Northern Trust’s culture. Our employees care about their local communities and understand they have a role to play in making them stronger for everyone.  Over the last decade Northern Trust employees have performed more than 1 million hours of service.

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Philanthropic Contributions

Supporting philanthropic efforts is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s heritage. In the last decade alone, Northern Trust has contributed nearly $240 million to support nonprofit and non-governmental organizations around the world.

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Corporate Sustainability in Action

Corporate Sustainability, Inclusion and Social Impact are essential elements of our mission and culture.

View the Corporate Sustainability Report

1Why the Wealth Gap Hits Families the Hardest, The New York Times, May 18, 2018.

2From low-participation neighborhoods, UCAS 2019 End of Cycle report, Universities UK, 2019.

3Poverty in India: Facts and Figures on the Daily Struggle for Survival, 2019.