Insights from Mizuho Americas
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Category: Community
iMentor: Mizuho staff mentor high schoolers on college and career goals
Since 1999, iMentor has matched nearly 38,000 students across the country with mentors. Erick and Nazaria are two of those talented students who, over the course of a multi-year mentorship with Mizuho employees, are exploring the rich educational and career opportunities available to them.
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Category: Community
Meals and mentorship: Mizuho grantees persevere through the pandemic
As New York City grappled with the pandemic and a shutdown that stifled the food service industry, caused enormous job losses, and exacerbated a hunger crisis for vulnerable New Yorkers, two Mizuho USA Foundation grantees stepped up to the plate and, through innovative business models, leveraged relatively small investments to have an exponential impact on food insecurity and economic opportunities for the underserved.
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Category: Community
Mizuho’s First Hunger Relief Week Raises Money, Volunteers, and Awareness
Motivated by the impact of its donations in 2020 to food programs across the U.S., Mizuho held its first Mizuho Hunger Relief Week, May 10-16, bringing together teammates remotely to gather donations of food, funds, and support.
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Category: Community
Philanthropy in a Pandemic: Volunteering Amid the Virus
COVID-19 has forced us to find new avenues of opportunity, volunteerism included. As with so many things, our marquee annual event – Global Mizuho Volunteer Day – took on a decidedly different feel in 2020, but has exposed new approaches to outreach.
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Category: Community
Mizuho Provides $30 Million in Financing to Boost New York State’s Economic Recovery
Mizuho Americas closed on two $15 million transactions to support minority- and women-owned small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Category: Community
High School Interns Made an Impact
Mizuho hosted two outstanding high school students from the inaugural intern class of Genesys Works NYC, a Houston-based non-profit that recently opened its NYC chapter with some help from two Mizuho USA Foundation grants.
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Category: Community
Mizuho Providing National Relief to Strained COVID-19 Charities
Early on in the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis, the Mizuho USA Foundation began reaching out to its community partners to assess emergency relief needs. Since then, Mizuho Tokyo and other Mizuho entities in the US have expanded their scope nationwide to provide much-needed funding to overwhelmed nonprofits.
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Category: Community
Mizuho Americas Donates 15,000 Masks to Hospitals
Across the United States, and internationally, doctors and nurses are struggling with a dwindling supply of PPE. With our disaster readiness supplies, we were able to donate 15,000 masks to local hospitals.