Our Work

Benefits21 convenes experts from public and private sector organizations to close benefit gaps and to reimagine benefits in the U.S. for the 21st-century workforce. The impact of the initiative produces tools and insights, convening of policymakers and financial security leaders, and policy innovation toward modern benefits for all workers.

BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) uses time-bound and sequenced integrated interventions to help more than 3,000 extremely poor women build resilience while placing them on an upward trajectory from poverty into sustainable livelihoods. BRAC UPGI provides holistic support, including access to financial inclusion, livelihood support and social empowerment.

IF50 is a global competition that identifies early-stage fintechs, driving financial inclusion and resilience. Since 2019, the IF50 competition has attracted 1,086 eligible applicants. These fintechs operate in over 160 countries, reach over 200 million customers and have raised $2.6 billion.
 

* An accelerator program supported by MetLife Foundation to identify early-stage innovative solutions for financial health of low-income people.

ADAPT identifies startups in the U.S. and Latin America that help communities and individuals adapt to global challenges impacted by climate change, healthcare, wellness and economic mobility solutions that fundamentally shape and strengthen social resilience.

Ashoka is shifting focus from the drawbacks of an aging population by promoting “new longevity”—a concept that encourages maintaining purposeful, healthy lives as we age with the goal of creating a new narrative of longevity to create public awareness and work towards institutional change.

Vision to Learn’s Focus on the Future program provides mobile vision clinics to screen 800,000 K-12 students and provide glasses to over 170,000 students over the next two school years. Glasses are custom made and fit for the students within about three weeks of the exam and warrantied for one year.

MetLife Foundation is supporting the planting of 100,000 trees in nine countries throughout our EMEA region. The planting will increase the resiliency of forest areas in Europe vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Planet Water will deploy 30 AquaTowers in Mexico over the next two years. Each AquaTower provides drinking water for 54,000 people per month and MetLife employees are able to volunteer to help build the towers.