Community engagement and philanthropy

Community engagement

In 2021, we approved our ESG commitment which included a mandate to develop a charitable giving strategy – centered on our Her Promise vision. Our charitable giving includes a portfolio approach.  

Focusing strategic giving on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescent and young adult women will maximize impact and align with Organon’s objectives. Within this scope, we identified four pillars which can support this mission:  

• Normalizing conversations to change the social norms surrounding sexual and reproductive health;

• Advancing education to foster innovative programs teaching SRH life skills to adolescents and young adults;

• Facilitating care delivery to bring primary care closer to where women are; and 

• Strengthening supply chains to enhance the collection and quality of data used to inform SRH planning. 

Our markets around the world tackle these pillars differently, depending on the existing strength of their enabling environment and the severity of SRH outcomes in their region. The charitable giving strategy is implemented via a combination of globally directed and market-led grants.  

In addition, we seek opportunities to engage subgroups of women who have been historically left behind and support our partners’ efforts to specifically target outreach and services for them. We recognize that policies often fail to support SRH, and we encourage our partners’ efforts to advocate for needed policy change. Our grantees’ advocacy activities range from indirect efforts to spread awareness and uptake of best practices into policy, to more direct efforts to engage partners on integrating SRH and gender equity into new and existing policies. We support our partners’ engagement with adolescent women through the design and delivery of SRH efforts. This includes providing hands-on leadership development, providing opportunities for young women to lead initiatives in their own communities and engaging them in high-level summits to explore and inform new policy directions.  

Her Promise grants program

Her Promise grants fund grassroots efforts to empower young women to learn about their sexual and reproductive health and enable them to sustainably access care in their communities.

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Her Promise grants are fueling efforts across more than a dozen countries and are driven by local Organon markets to meet unique geographic and cultural needs in gender equity and SRH. Although varied in approach, grants address the complex factors that lead to unplanned pregnancies and seek to advance gender equity through the engagement of young women in the design and delivery of SRH interventions. Her Promise grants support normalizing conversations around SRH, advancing education and life skills, providing hands on leadership development for young women, facilitating care delivery and strengthening supply chains.   

Grantees include organizations in 20 countries, including the Dominican Republic, South Korea, Germany and Thailand.  

Strategic philanthropy 

Around the world, we are engaging with partners to raise awareness and drive holistic solutions in sexual and reproductive health. Our strategic philanthropy supports youth advocacy for SRH policy shifts, filling information gaps, improving SRH education and access to healthcare services in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) and ensuring a sustainable funding landscape for SRH.   

Population Services International

Organon’s collaboration with Population Services International (PSI) supports the expansion, reach and capacity of VIYA, a comprehensive, digitally enabled health platform that brings together sexual and reproductive health information, products and services to health consumers across LMICs. With a focus on Latin America in 2023, this work helped generate important evidence and learnings to guide VIYA’s future global expansion of the platform.

Women Deliver

Through Women Deliver’s Young Leaders Program, we are enabling passionate young advocates to elevate and amplify their work on SRH. Our grant partnership includes support for young leaders to implement advocacy projects focused on women’s health and gender equality.

YLabs

Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, and it has a disproportionate impact on women and girls. Through a partnership with YLabs, we developed a framework designed to assist funding partners in assessing, anticipating and responding to gendered climate-change impacts on SRH programs.

Disaster relief and humanitarian aid  

We are deeply committed to supporting communities in need and providing a timely response to disasters and humanitarian crises, working in collaboration with our nonprofit partners. 

We supported CARE’s humanitarian response efforts in Ukraine that focused on providing lifesaving assistance and livelihood recovery support to those affected by the crisis. Women and girls remained at the center of CARE’s humanitarian response.  

CARE mobilized resources to implement various relief activities in Ukraine, such as providing financial assistance to help families secure food, shelter, protection and livelihood opportunities; providing access to health services, including primary and reproductive healthcare; gender-based violence-focused lifesaving services; nutritional services; shelter materials and other non-food relief items to prepare for winter months; and education services.  

We contributed to the disaster relief efforts of the American Red Cross as part of their Disaster Responder program. In collaboration with key partners and stakeholders in collective disaster response efforts, the American Red Cross provides shelter, meals, and care to families and communities affected by disasters big and small, including hurricanes, wildfires, and countless other crises.  

Employee volunteering

We encourage our employees to volunteer their time with nonprofit organizations that align with our vision to create a better and healthier every day for every woman.

We believe that cultivating an environment of employee volunteers serves:

• Our employees by enriching the quality of their lives and by providing opportunities for service experiences.
• Organon itself, by building trust with neighbors and the community; enhancing employee skills, talents, and experiences; and furthering our reputation as a community partner.
• Our broader communities by lending support and aid to nonprofit organizations, public charities, or NGOs, including those that support access to healthcare and healthy lifestyles, advance women’s health and advance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

To put this commitment to communities into action, our employee volunteer policy enables all full-time employees to dedicate 40 regularly scheduled work hours per calendar year toward volunteer activities.  

Learn more about how we engage our employees in human capital  

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