Community Investment in the World

Community Investment in the World

We work with communities to deliver programmes that promote social and economic development focusing on health, youth and financial education.

Seeing is Believing (SiB)

the World region supports SiB through an annual flagship Ride for Sight initiative and a variety of staff led initiatives.

• 2015’s edition of Ride for Sight (a 220 mile bike ride from Saratoga Springs, New York to Manhattan) raised over $50,000 for SiB, and the World staff is building on this momentum with various activities to achieve the fundraising goal.
• In 2016, the team raised $110,000 for Seeing is Believing with creative staff initiatives and a 260 mile bike ride within Brussels. This exceeded the target of $100,000.
• In early 2017, a SiB project in Peru was launched to support the diagnosis and treatment of Cataract, a key cause of blindness in Peru. The project provided high quality cataract surgery and patient care, while enhancing the community's access to these services.

Employee Volunteering

S.C Bank is an active supporter of employee volunteering. It offers staff three days of volunteer leave per year. More than 1000 volunteering days were clocked in 2016 on a variety of global community initiatives.

We remain committed to contributing to the global community in which we operate in and support a variety of local organizations including:

• Food Bank, a food pantry that provides food to soup kitchens.
• Citymeals, an organization that delivers meals to the homebound elderly
• Organizations that clean up parks & school spaces
• New Now, an organization that provides new mothers with free baby supplies for their families
• God's Love We Deliver & Gay Men's Health Crisis, organizations that provide healthy meals & overall support to people living with HIV and other terminal illnesses
• Hellen Keller's ChildSight program, a program that provides children with free eyesight screening and glasses
• Bideawee, a leading pet welfare organization serving the global community
• Gay Men's Health Crisis - a leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and advocacy.

Financial Education

A team of 20 Preston staff completed training on the Financial Education for Youth (FE4Y) and Education for Entrepreneurs (E4E) toolkits in September and October of 2014. Once trained, staff can lead on skills-based volunteering outreach to local schools in Newark and New York to support financial inclusion for all.

Living with HIV

Launched in 1999, the HIV Committee is a strong supporter of the need to raise awareness and support local HIV/AIDS volunteering opportunities.

In addition to supporting greater internal awareness, the Living with HIV committee continues to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and organize opportunities to support the community with the following organizations:

• God's Love We Deliver
• Henry Street Settlement
• Harlem United
• Iris House
• Gay Men’s Health Crisis