Social Impact

Social Impact: Building an equitable future

We enable people and businesses to prosper so our shared humanity, communities and planet can thrive.

Our investments

Uplifting everyone, everywhere through knowledge and skill-building tools for equitable access to trusted, convenient ways to move money.

Partners in our global collaborative community

Financial education resources

This global digital platform, powered by Visa, delivers free-to-use education resources to help small and micro business owners start, manage and grow their businesses.

Women-led business empowerment

This Visa Foundation partnership helps financially empower millions of women-led micro and small enterprises globally.

Kenyan micro-business support

Our partnership with Hand in Hand provides more than 10,000 micro businesses in Kenya, 75% of which are women-owned, with access to business and financial skills education, and broadened access to financial services.

UMKM Bisa!

Visa partnership with Gojek in Indonesia to provide small and micro business owners with online lessons and resources to help them maintain and grow their businesses.

Village Capital

Visa Foundation partnership to support accelerators working to close the financing gap facing underserved entrepreneurs in Latin America, with a focus on food and agriculture innovation.

International Fund for Agricultural Development

Visa Foundation partnership creating employment opportunities for rural youth in Africa by designing a network of innovative and integrated agribusiness hubs to build entrepreneurial capacity and technical/managerial skills.

TechnoServe

Visa Foundation partnership to strengthen the gender diversity of local farmer cooperatives in India and their institutional capacity to make them resilient to economic shocks.

IFundWomen

Global partnership to help women entrepreneurs secure the funding they need through a series of grant contests and providing access to expert business coaching.

Kiva

Visa Foundation partnership to increase financial access for underserved small and micro businesses, wherein Visa employees help designate microloans to the participant businesses.

Practical Money Skills

Global free educational resource powered by Visa to empower individuals to take control of their finances.

I Can Manage My Money

Visa partnership with UNDP and Habitat in Turkey to offer training sessions on financial concepts and budget management to enable individuals to use financial tools and services.

Inclusive Fintech 50

Collaborative partnership that annually leverages a competitive process to identify 50 early-stage fintechs driving financial inclusion worldwide. The competition offers participants exposure to investors and others who can help them grow.

Accion Venture Lab

Visa double bottom line investment in venture capital fund supporting early-stage fintechs reaching underserved consumers and small and micro businesses.

Rappi

Visa strategic partnership with Rappi to accelerate digital commerce and financial inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Guatemala COVID Relief

Visa Direct technology enabled instant deposits into the accounts of the beneficiaries of the Bono Familia government emergency subsidies program in Guatemala.

Universal Postal Union (UPU)

Visa partnership with UPU to establish the Financial Inclusion Technical Assistance Facility initiative, a program to support national posts to digitize payments and advocate for inclusion.

VC Include

Visa Foundation partnership accelerating investment into diverse emerging fund managers in the United States.

Black Ambition

A racial equity and entrepreneurship initiative launched by producer and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams and partnered with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, with support from Visa Foundation.

Tipping Point Community

Visa Foundation partnership to provide pathways to economic opportunity via local, non-profit organizations working to educate, employ, house and support vulnerable communities in the Bay Area.

Bridge for Billions

Visa partnership with Bridge for Billions to power a mentorship program where Visa employees support social start-ups in creating a validated business plan in 3-4 months.

Visa Black Scholars and Jobs Program

Visa partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to offer selected college-bound Black and African American high school students in the U.S. yearly scholarship assistance.

Visa Foundation COVID Relief

Visa Foundation has provided $15M in emergency relief to support organizations on the frontlines responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic, including nearly $4 million to the Red Cross and $4.5 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

Back to Business

Visa web-based tool to help find businesses that are open in the aftermath of a natural disaster by identifying companies that have successfully processed a Visa transaction.

Relief donations

Visa and Visa Foundation provide financial donations for disaster relief in times of crises. Visa offers double matching for employee donations to select charities responding on the ground.

Our commitments in action

The digital and financial equity landscape is constantly changing. That’s why we conduct original studies in these areas to action on the latest insights and research.

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Employees making a difference

Visa encourages and supports employees to make an impact in ways that inspire them, whether that is through volunteering, giving or empowering people and communities in need.

Volunteer Time Off

Employees receive 16 hours of Volunteer Time Off.

Mentorship and loan programs

Our workforce helps with small business mentorship and Kiva loan programs.

Dollars for Doers

Employees earn $10 per hour of volunteering to give back to charity.

Doing measurable good

Small and micro business

50 M

We are committed to digitally enable 50 million small and micro businesses worldwide by 2023, as part of our efforts to advance digital equity.

Equity and Inclusion

500 M

We met our goal to provide 500 million unbanked/underserved people access to digital payment accounts by 2020 and are continuing the work.

Community

80 %

We had 80% of our employees participate in Visa programs to give back to their communities in 2022.*

* Data assessed during fiscal year 2022 (FY22), which runs from October 2021 to September 2022

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Social Impact: Building an equitable future