Truist Foundation

Building better lives

Truist’s purpose is to inspire and build better lives and communities. By partnering with nonprofit organizations across our markets, we're helping them innovate and make a meaningful difference in the lives of those they serve.

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“What do big ideas”

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“mean to small business?”

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“Economic mobility,”

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“strength,”

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“resilience.”

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“They mean more care for communities”

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“and better lives”

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“for small business owners”

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“and their families. So in other words,”

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“big ideas mean everything.”

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Building career pathways to economic mobility

We’re investing in organizations, programs, and initiatives that help systemically disadvantaged workers navigate the employment journey. Our emphasis is on organizations that are closest to the most impacted communities.

Our goals:

Enable and equip frontline workersDisclosure 1 and unemployed adults, specifically women and Black, indigenous, and people-of-color, with the tools and resources they need to move into middle-skillDisclosure 2 jobs that provide economic mobility and more pathways for people to thrive. 

Our focus areas:

  • Helping workers navigate employment resources
  • Building capacity of reskilling and upskilling programs
  • Strengthening access to high quality employment and worker protections
  • Improving coordination and sharing knowledge within the workforce system
  • Advocating for employer practice change

Strengthening small businesses

We’re opening more doors for racially and ethnically diverse and women-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs by investing in the network of solutions and organizations that support them.

Our goals:

Strengthen the supports that allow minority and women-owned small businesses to become more financially sustainable and resilient by eliminating structural barriers to growth, and improving knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation within the small business ecosystem.

Our focus areas:

  • Increasing access to capital
  • Increasing access to technical assistance support and educational programs for entrepreneurs
  • Building small business networks and mentorship programs to enable more knowledge sharing
  • Researching and developing new products, technologies, and service innovations for small business
  • Increasing equity and inclusion in private and public practices and policies that impact small businesses

Truist Foundation leadership

Lynette Bell

Truist Foundation President

Kathy Farrell

Chair

Jason Cagle

Board Member

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Amy Collins

Board Member

Sherry Graziano

Board Member

Kimberly Moore-Wright

Board Member

Ernie Reigel

Independent Board Member

Ingrid Saunders-Jones

Independent Board Member

 

Bobbi Silten

Independent Board Member

 

Ankur Vyas

Board Member

 

Do you share our passion for helping people achieve more?

We’re opening more doors for racially and ethnically diverse and women-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs by investing in the network of solutions and organizations that support them.

Let's work together to build better lives. For questions, call us at 833-307-2351, or send us an email at truistfoundation@truist.com