Social Impact | Visa
  • 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

Practical Business Skills logo

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's World Banking logo

Women-led business empowerment

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

Hand in Hand International logo.

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.

Visa’s UMKM Bisa! campaign with Gojek logo
VillageCapital logo
IFAD logo with byline phrase Investing in rural people.
TechnoServe logo with byline phrase Business Solutions to Poverty.
Visa’s partnership with IFundWomen displaying grant program winners.
Kiva logo

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 programmes

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

Dollars for Doers

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


Doing measurable good

Small and microbusiness

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 programmes 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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Visa Foundation seeks to support inclusive economies where everyone, everywhere can thrive.