The UPS Foundation enables nonprofit organizations to serve communities more effectively around the world. The UPS Foundation's global giving focus now addresses five areas:

Community Safety
The UPS Foundation deploys programs that build on UPS expertise to help improve community safety. This ranges from providing teenagers with driver safety training to providing network planning to disaster relief organizations.

Nonprofit Effectiveness
The UPS Foundation has a long-standing commitment to help nonprofit organizations operate more effectively and efficiently so they may strengthen the impact of the valuable services they provide to communities. This includes volunteer management, leadership development, social enterprise and capacity building through new technology.

Economic and Global Literacy
Improving economic literacy in communities through programming that teaches the fundamentals of free enterprise and the foundations of economic education are the focus of this initiative. The UPS Foundation also supports emerging entrepreneurs through grants to innovative micro enterprise organizations.

Environmental Sustainability
From addressing the many impacts of climate change to the challenges of reducing energy consumption, it's clear that the protection and conservation of our natural world is a shared responsibility. While the UPS Foundation's role in this area is emerging, its objective is to support organizations and programs that lead to lasting change.

Diversity
UPS understands that diversity encompasses more than race and gender. It extends to the full myriad of issues ranging from ethnicity to sexual orientation to physical ability. The company's goal is to help communities thrive by embracing and leveraging the unique experiences, cultures and ideas.

The UPS Foundation's Global Giving Strategies
The UPS Foundation directs its giving through four global giving strategies. These strategies leverage all of UPS' resources - financial, human and knowledge.

• Effective Volunteerism
  The UPS Foundation helps to strengthen nonprofit capacity to meet demands for services through more effective recruitment and management of volunteers. Businesses strive to manage their employees' time and talents effectively. Likewise, nonprofit organizations seek to increase both the number of volunteers on their rosters and the impact those volunteers have in their communities.
• Leadership
  The UPS Foundation works to improve nonprofit effectiveness through investments that encourage innovation and social entrepreneurship among current and future leaders of nonprofit organizations and agencies. As UPS works to develop a highly skilled, motivated and diverse workforce that responds to the rapidly changing environment around them, the company also seeks to support similar efforts in nonprofit organizations. The Foundation helps to create opportunities for nonprofit and for-profit managers to share best practices with each other so both might better achieve their missions.
• Operations
  The UPS Foundation encourages greater efficiency and effectiveness through investments that share knowledge resources, including UPS management and logistics expertise, with nonprofit organizations. While UPS is known best for delivering packages around the world, the company also has significant expertise in logistics and supply chain related services. UPS sells this expertise and knowledge capital to the private sector around the world, and seeks similar opportunities to share useful information with nonprofit organizations. When disaster strikes, logistics plans often create lifelines for those impacted. The Foundation also makes investments to help in disaster response planning as well, including the important roles volunteers play.

Sustainability
The Foundation helps to promote the long-term effectiveness and financial stability of high-performing nonprofits that are delivering outstanding services to their communities. Not only do these exemplary organizations provide important services, but they also have a wealth of knowledge that can help other organizations enhance their abilities to deliver high quality services, helping more people and strengthening more communities.