Giving Back
Committed To Our Communities
Finding ways to give back to our communities is a natural extension of MFA’s consulting work. We focus our giving in three areas that intersect with our work: environmental stewardship, housing and houselessness, and STEM education, with an emphasis on DEI-focused nonprofits and initiatives.
STEM Lessons
We pay our own educations forward by supporting STEM activities in our communities. This takes the form of participating in STEM career days in local schools, organizing a science fair at a local family shelter, and donating to organizations with a STEM focus.
Environmental Stewardship
Working at MFA gives us the opportunity to help clean up some of our communities’ most polluted and distressed properties. But we go beyond our professional work by making environmental stewardship one of the three focus areas of our company’s charitable giving. MFA gives each staff 8 hours of paid volunteer time per year and donates to organizations based on staff nominations.
Housing
Housing and houselessness is one of the three focus areas of our charitable giving program. Along with making one-time donations, MFA also develops relationships with long-term partner organizations. MFA provides employee volunteer time, pro bono work, and other meaningful connections to our partners. MFA’s relationship with Path Home family shelter in Portland, Oregon, is one example of how we seek to use our time and expertise in support of our communities.
Commitment to Community
Ways We Give Back
MFA’s commitment to community takes multiple forms:
- We designate 2 percent of the previous year’s net profits to our charitable giving program.
- MFA staff are paid for 8 hours of volunteer work annually.
- We match employees’ donations for some campaigns.
- We have a company grant program.
Giving Back
Supporting Our Communities
Featured Nonprofit: Path Home
Helping Families Return To Housing In Portland
For nearly a decade, MFA has supported Path Home, a nonprofit committed to helping families with children get back into housing and stay there. We developed this relationship by gauging our staff volunteer interests and aligning them with Path Home’s needs. Beyond financial support, MFA staff have contributed résumé and employment preparation support, wayfinding, landscaping, STEM sessions, home repair, and bike donations.
MFA Kids
Learn, Create, And Explore With MFA Kids
Here at MFA, we are scientists, planners, communicators, and engineers who caught the learning bug at some point in our childhoods. To pay it forward, we developed a series of STEM lessons for kids based on the real-world activities we do every day. MFA Kids is designed to help the next generation of STEM professionals discover how fun it is to experiment, learn, and create.
Contact
General Inquiries
Thanks for your interest in MFA. To learn more about our charitable giving initiatives, please reach out and we will get back to you.
