Stewardship in action

The Power of Love is RSM’s annual stewardship campaign, where each office selects a local youth-focused charity to support with fundraising and volunteering opportunities. Offices host various fun events to encourage support from our people, family and friends, as well as team volunteering opportunities to maximize our impact on local communities. We amplify those efforts with an additional match from the RSM US Foundation, and the total impact is announced at The RSM Classic each November.

The Dollars for Doers program supports our people’s passions by magnifying their gifts of time to charitable organizations that support youth in their communities. Individual employees can earn up to a $2,400 CAD grant each. Groups of RSM volunteers have limitless grant-earning potential; the more hours volunteered, the more grant dollars earned.

Since the program’s 2015 inception, the foundation has provided nearly $3 million USD in grants for more than 2,000 individuals and teams.

Launched in 2022, the Community Impact Fund was created to enhance the stewardship efforts of our passionate owners and employees by matching team fundraising efforts and by amplifying relationships with qualifying local charities through one-time grants. This application-based program boosts our commitment to our people by supporting charities that mean the most to them.

In 2019, RSM launched a national relationship with Junior Achievement. This relationship allows RSM the opportunity to expand volunteer and financial support of Junior Achievement and allows our people to educate and empower youth through financial literacy. With more than $2.3 million USD in grant funding, RSM supported the development of the Take Stock in Your Future curriculum and the Stock Market Challenge simulation. The curriculum and simulation allow high school students to gain a deeper understanding of investing and the impact of current events on the stock market. As of 2024, we’re supporting programming in more than 27 local chapters in the U.S. and Canada. Through this relationship, RSM fosters confident, competent future business leaders equipped with real-world learning and skills.

Our value of stewardship calls for us to give back and support the next generation of business and technology professionals by backing U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. We do this through our University Match program, University Impact Fund and scholarships.

University Match

The University Match program, including personal donations from our people and a match from the foundation, has infused more than $3.6 million into 25 schools in the areas where our people live and work. The program has created longstanding funding to ensure students and faculty have the financial support needed to excel.

University Impact Fund

The University Impact Fund provides one-time grants to colleges and universities that influence communities where our people live and work. Funding supports initiatives that help schools empower future professionals in technology, inclusion, and innovation Since its inception in early 2020, the program has supported more than 70 initiatives across the U.S. and Canada.

We are honoured to support business and technology students across the U.S. and Canada by alleviating the financial burden of funding their educations so they can focus on achieving their goals—in school and beyond.

Our University Scholarship program helps build tomorrow’s middle market leaders through one-time campus-based awards that support business and technology students. Each college and university selects and awards winning students on behalf of the RSM US Foundation. Since 2019, we’ve helped more than 420 students pursue their degrees.

In addition to our University Scholarship program, the RSM US Foundation directly awards 31 student scholarships annually with nearly $400,000 through our Power Your Education, First Generation, Power of Inclusion and Power Your Transition programs. Through these programs, we’ve supported more than 130 students.

Active Minds is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization promoting mental health awareness and education for young adults. Since 2020, the RSM US Foundation has committed to supporting the organization’s programming and helping them achieve their dream list of projects. The first being the creation of their online tool, Behind the Backpacks, which allows anyone with internet access the opportunity to view real-life stories that were previously only available to view at the organization’s in-person traveling exhibits. Grant funding has also supported local chapter activation and their Send Silence Packing^® exhibit, which travels across the U.S. to end the silence surrounding mental health and suicide and connects visitors with resources for support and action. 

We are committed to supporting our people affected by federally declared disasters. Our Disaster Relief Fund directly supports our employees to help alleviate the unexpected financial burden caused by disastrous events outside their control.

We proudly support the American Red Cross with an annual contribution toward their domestic and international disaster planning and preparedness programming. This pre-investment in disaster planning and preparedness ensures tens of thousands of Red Cross workers — 90% of whom are volunteers — have the know-how, equipment and technology to turn heartbreak into hope and stand with disaster survivors as they rebuild their lives. Advance support also enables the Red Cross to provide people and communities with the knowledge and resources they need to face emergencies of all kinds, before they happen.