Give-It-Away

No freebies, gifts or giveaways. Help us give $65,000 away instead.

When you visit us on campus, we won't be handing out free gifts or giveaways. Instead, we offer something different. For the past four years, we've taken the money that we would have spent on giveaways like free pens, and given you the chance to vote on which non-profit organization should benefit from it.

This year's $65,000 global donation could help rebuild communities, fund education initiatives, or improve healthcare. It's up to you to decide and vote on which organization should receive the global donation.

Read more about the organizations on our shortlist this year.

Since the campaign started, we've already donated over $120,000 to organizations that students like you have chosen to support. That money is at work right now, changing and improving lives across the globe.

Find out about the organizations that we've already helped, and the impact those funds have had.

Here's how it works

This year, we have six non-profit organizations as part of our Give-It-Away campaign, and we have a total of $65,000 to donate.

The organization that receives the highest number of votes by December 1, 2009 will receive a $15,000 donation for the holiday season. The overall winner at the end of the voting period in May 2010, will receive $50,000.

Give-It-Away is part of our Good Venture philanthropic program. But that's just one way that J.P. Morgan is working to make a positive impact. After all, everything we do as a business is geared towards investment in the future. It's who we are. It's the way we've always worked, and it makes good business sense.

Vote now

Voting closes May 2010.

Vote for the organization you think should receive our global donations. The one with the most votes by December 1, 2009 receives $15,000. The overall winner at the end of the voting period, in May 2010, will receive $50,000.

Contact Details

J.P. Morgan's Give-It-Away campaign enables you to vote online for a charity or non-profit organization of your choice to win a cash donation from J.P. Morgan.

We would like to keep you up-to-date with information about the Give-It-Away campaign and future career opportunities or recruiting events at J.P. Morgan which are relevant to you, by email.

Please note that you may only vote once.

Please provide us with the information below and check this box if you are happy to be contacted in this way

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The following organizations are part of our Give-It-Away campaign. Read more to decide which organization should receive this year's global donation.

Adakum Educational Foundation

The mission of the Adakum Educational Foundation is to provide educational and healthcare opportunities for poor and disadvantaged children and their parents in Ghana. Programs are set up to help alleviate hunger, and work to reduce illiteracy, poverty, and poor health conditions. These initiatives include academic and after-school programs at deserving schools and institutions, free school meals to eliminate malnutrition in children, health clinics to educate children and parents on issues such as HIV/AIDS, adult literacy programs, and environmental clean-up projects to reduce Malaria carrying mosquitoes.

Adakum Educational Foundation is supported by J.P. Morgan's team IB, who helped raised $36,000 in 2008 to help construct a health clinic in Ghana and fund the purchase of medical supplies for patients.

For more information, visit www.admef.org

ASHOKA Innovators for the Public

ASHOKA Innovators for the Public has been working with young people for over 28 years, giving them the opportunity, skills and inspiration to tackle the problems they wish to solve. ASHOKA aims to strengthen the growth of social entrepreneurship in Japan by developing its youth as change makers. It empowers young people with the skills and motivation to pro-actively identify and address social challenges, thereby leading Japan effectively into the future. This pilot project is set to launch across Japan in 15 other countries.

For more information, visit www.ashoka.org

El Salvador Project

The charitable El Salvador Project is a student-led initiative Launched in 2001. As a direct response to a series of earthquakes in El Salvador, Central America, a group of ten to fifteen Civil Engineering students from Imperial College London travel to remote parts of the country on an annual basis to aid reconstruction efforts and share engineering knowledge and expertise. Projects have ranged from building simple huts and bridges, to improving infrastructural facilities.

The El Salvador Project was the winning team from our 2009 Good Venture Case Competition, receiving $25,000 to support a six week local community project in the small town of Santa Marta.

For more information, visit www.elsalvadorproject.org.uk

Global Fund for Women

Global Fund for Women works to defend women’s human rights by making grants to support women’s groups globally. Funds are raised from a variety of sources to make grants that promote economic security, support education and leadership initiatives, target poverty and health issues, and help fight trafficking and violence against women. To date, they have awarded over $71 million to 3,800 women’s organizations in 196 countries.

Global Fund for Women is supported by J.P. Morgan Women’s Employee Networking Group, WIN.

For more information, visit www.globalfundforwomen.org

PlayPumps International

PlayPumps International works to help improve the lives of children and their families by providing easy access to clean drinking water, enhancing public health, and offering play equipment to millions across Africa. 1,200 PlayPump® water systems which provide an innovative, uniquely sustainable, and free supply of clean drinking water, have already been donated to communities in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia. By 2010, the combined efforts of PlayPumps International and its partners will place another 4,000 water systems in schools and communities in 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

PlayPumps was the winning team from our 2009 U.S. Asset Management Summer Intern Good Venture Case Competition.

For more information, visit www.playpumps.org

Sandipani Gurukul

For over 25 years, Sandipani Gurukul has been dedicated to supporting underprivileged children who come from broken or destitute families in the underdeveloped Konkan area of India (300km south of Mumbai).

Sandipani ensure children are equipped with food, clothing, books, education, residence, medical requirements, and more. Its main focus is to provide education in a nearby school and more importantly, some vocational training such as agriculture, arts and crafts so that they can grow to be financially self-reliant.

For more information, visit http://home.wanadoo.nl/gsthakur/Photos.htm

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