Cigna Group

In 2024, we launched our new, multi-year philanthropic and community engagement initiative that places a sharper focus on achieving better health and vitality in key regions—building healthier communities. This approach not only aligns to our environmental, social, and governance vision of advancing better health for all, particularly the Healthy Society and Healthy Workforce pillars, but it also incorporates connection points to our enterprise strategy; our approach to fair opportunity and inclusion; and the enterprise health equity strategy. Collectively, community programs at The Cigna Group encompass The Cigna Group Foundation, corporate giving, and employee giving and volunteerism.

Anchored by extensive customer and community research and data insights, as well as philanthropic best practices, The Cigna Group Foundation’s investments are focused on three commitment pillars: improving youth mental health; supporting veteran mental health, with a focus on housing stability; and reducing barriers to health equity through a dedicated impact fund. The Cigna Group Foundation committed more than $27 million over three years, partnering with local and national nonprofit organizations. More than 60 grantees were selected in 2024 across the three grant programs in ten priority states: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas.

Improving Youth Mental Health Grant Commitment: These grantees, including national partner Boys & Girls Clubs of America, are delivering programs in schools, clubs, and health centers that directly reflect the much-needed support and care in a post-pandemic world. Examples of programming include providing services such as grief counseling and acute response and treatment, as well as promoting positive social and emotional well-being within underserved communities.

Improving Veteran Mental Health Commitment: New grantees in this commitment pillar, including national partner Habitat for Humanity, will aim to improve veteran mental health through a specific focus on housing stability. Grants will increase pathways to permanent housing, including mortgage assistance and building new houses for veterans and their families, and enabling efforts to act as a navigator for complex processes utilizing targeted case management and outreach for government financial assistance programs.

Reducing Barriers to Health Equity Commitment: Guided by data from the Evernorth Research Institute, our newly established Health Equity Impact Fund initially includes 15 grantees in two communities who will aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity and diabetes and increase access to care, respectively.

In addition to program grants, the Foundation also responded in 2024 to natural or human-caused disasters and other societal crises, donating approximately $500,000 toward essential support for nonprofits responding with critical aid in local communities. This included supporting communities impacted by the multiple hurricanes in Southeast United States, as well as community efforts after school gun violence in Georgia and Wisconsin. The Cigna Group Foundation is also proud to support employees and donated more than $3 million in connection with matching gifts on personal donations, recognition for participation in a healthy lifestyle event, rewards for volunteer time, and the dependent scholarship program.

Our philanthropic and community engagement initiatives prioritize nurturing a culture of service and purpose for The Cigna Group employees to volunteer together, as well as heightening awareness of resources available for self-led volunteerism. Our workforce is demonstrating tremendous pride and engagement in how they show up for their communities, reflected in the approximately 90,000 volunteer hours logged in 2024. This represents a nearly 30% increase in employee volunteerism year-over-year and equates to approximately $5.6 million in economic value.