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PROGRAMS

The Western Union Foundation’s current social impact commitment is Prosperity
Beyond Borders, a multi-year initiative to drive $500 million in aggregate wage
gains for disadvantaged, high-potential individuals who currently lack access to
economic mobility. 



Through Prosperity Beyond Borders, we are supporting individuals who have
migrated from underserved communities with the skill building, workforce
readiness, and economic mobility needed to attain better jobs and increased
earnings. We are focusing on aggregate wage gains as a key indicator of success
because we believe that by helping people achieve economic mobility, we can help
them achieve a better quality of life and the opportunity to live up to their
full potential.   

To achieve our $500 million aggregate wage gains goal, we will partner with
global nonprofits that focus on workforce readiness, jobs creation, and
equitable access to employment. Learn more in the tabs below.

Workforce Readiness
Jobs Creation
Access to Employment

Workforce Readiness

We are partnering with innovative nonprofits that provide scholarships for
international students from low-income countries, market-driven skill building
courses, and business boot camps .

Mohamad and Gabriela | Western Union Foundation Scholars Video

Sohaila is rebuilding her life and career in America after leaving Afghanistan.

Hazel Ann is proud to graduate with a degree in information technology.


OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS

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Jobs Creation

We’re proud to invest in fellowship programs that support leaders and
entrepreneurs in their community ventures, seed funding to launch new
businesses, and small business development to help empower leaders.

Narges built an educational center in Gaza to support disadvantaged and
displaced members of her community.

Nathaniel is promoting peace and prosperity with the Whitaker Peace &
Development Initiative.

Change makers who are leading community ventures that serve a social purpose
with Watson Institute.

Access to Employment

The Western Union Foundation supports systems that facilitate safe and equitable
access to jobs in the formal labor market for people who have migrated.

Case Study: The Western Union Foundation invested in critical research in
partnership with Labor Mobility Partnerships with an ultimate goal of helping
people have safer, more sustainable, and more prosperous opportunities for
cross-border temporary employment. This research laid the foundation for a
technology-based tool that brings key industry partners together to infuse
greater transparency and worker voice into recruitment practices.

This initiative enables people looking for cross-border work – and large
companies looking for temporary workers – to match up through ethical channels.
The end product is meant to remove exploitative third parties from the
recruitment process and therefore better protect and serve seasonal workers.

This initiative can help the H-2A (temporary agricultural labor) program achieve
its potential to lift nearly 240,000 low-income workers and their families from
Mexico out of poverty and on a path towards economic mobility, while also
addressing deepening labor shortages in the U.S. agricultural sector.

OUR WORK IS ANCHORED BY OUR TWO SIGNATURE PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS, DRIVING BOTH
WORKFORCE READINESS AND JOBS CREATION.

GLOBAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM, POWERED BY IIE

The Western Union Foundation Global Scholars Program provides scholarships for
international students who are struggling financially to complete their final
years of college. Students must be nominated by a representative from their
higher education institution.

Learn More

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, POWERED BY WATSON INSTITUTE

The Western Union Foundation Fellowship provides entrepreneurs with business
training and seed funding to launch community-focused ventures. The program is
designed for young community leaders who are from and working with highly
marginalized, refugee, and forcibly displaced communities.

Learn More


JOIN US

Our hope is that each of you will consider joining the Western Union
Foundation’s Opportunity Beyond Borders mission and join us in advocating for a
world where there is more equal opportunity for all.

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The Western Union Foundation is a separate charitable corporation that is
tax-exempt under §501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code,
contributions to which are tax-deductible for US income tax purposes. The
Foundation receives support from the Western Union Company, its employees,
agents and business partners. The Foundation funds efforts to connect
underserved populations to the global economy through education and supports
humanitarian relief for communities in crisis.

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