EY Ripples

From climate change to social inequality: key social and environmental priorities require collective action and focus. At EY, we believe it’s our responsibility to help. 

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EY Ripples connects EY (and our clients’) people across our business to not-for-profits and social enterprises in Canada and around the world. Through this platform, they provide their time, expertise and passion to support these organizations in creating positive social impacts. Globally, EY is aiming to positively impact one billion lives by 2030.


What have we achieved so far in Canada? 

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EY Ripples focus areas

We support non-profits and social enterprises working on causes important to our people and communities, with a focus on the following areas:

Supporting the next generation

We help young people and underserved groups develop mindsets and transferrable skills so they find and sustain meaningful work.

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Working with impact entrepreneurs

We enable entrepreneurs with resources, networks and pathways to capital so they can scale innovative business models and tackle the causes and symptoms of social and environmental challenges.

Working with impact entrepreneurs

Accelerating environmental sustainability

We scale the adoption of behaviours, technologies and business models that move us towards a net-positive, circular economy.

Working with impact entrepreneurs

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We connect vulnerable populations with meaningful work, uplift underrepresented entrepreneurs and address inequities caused by the climate crisis.

Equity and inclusion

How do we create impact through EY Ripples?

EY Ripples comes to life through three key activities.

Skills-based volunteering

EY Ripples volunteering and EY Connect Days
 

EY Ripples volunteering is our skills-based volunteering work, including one-time activities, pro-bono projects, and secondments.
 

EY Connect Day is a semi-annual volunteering event where we provide our people with opportunities to impact their local communities.

Volunteering

Eco-Innovators Network 

This employee-led, environmental activism network provides our people with a forum to tackle climate-related challenges, in their own lives, within the firm and with our clients.

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Sustainable Finance Program

This program aims to help impact organizations (non-profits and social enterprises) unlock financing to more flexibly achieve socio-economic and environmental outcomes.

Sustainable finance program

What does our EY Ripples impact look like?

Every EY Ripples initiative is unique. That’s also true for the kind of outcomes our program generates.

What’s the connective tissue? EY Ripples is different from other corporate responsibility programs. It is based on the idea that we can make a larger, more positive difference by sharing the skills we have and working together with other organizations. We encourage our people with the skills, experience and passion to work with an EY Ripples organization, often in collaboration with our clients. This approach offers people chances to innovate, co-create and contribute alongside non-profits and social enterprises.

How does this purposeful work come to life?

How EY and Desjardins are advancing sustainability through alliances

By working together, EY and Desjardins are creating an ecosystem in which more entrepreneurs can directly impact the climate crisis with innovative approaches.

How scaling individual impact helps achieve collective societal progress

Volunteering to support and scale socially minded organizations provides EY people with opportunities to make a positive impact in Canada and beyond.

Why pairing strategic skills with purpose is crucial to reconciliation

By aligning EY capabilities with Elders Knowledge Circle Society goals, these organizations are working together to further reconciliation.


    Skills-Based Volunteering

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    Networks

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    Impact Programs

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