Social
We take a long-term perspective in empowering students from disadvantaged backgrounds, committed to industry-academia collaboration and talent cultivation, with the hope of injecting new vitality into Taiwan’s societal resources.
Social Investment
In 2024, KGI Financial launched a new volunteer project titled "Regional Revitalization Changemakers" in collaboration with 17 high-quality local revitalization organizations across Taiwan, aiming to identify the challenges faced by these groups. Employees with relevant expertise are invited to join and form volunteer teams, engaging directly with local communities to understand their needs and co-creating solutions alongside the revitalization organizations. KGI Financial has also established a cross-group "Regional Revitalization Resource Matching Committee" as an integrated platform to respond to the needs of the revitalization organizations. The volunteers, demonstrating empathy and professionalism, assisted the revitalization groups in organizing finances, optimizing the business model for corporate collaboration, and connecting over 80 internal and external resources. By the end of 2024, the Group had contributed over 7,500 service hours and generated more than NT$2.4 million in revenue for the revitalization organizations.
List of Performance and Target
ITEM
PERFORMANCE
TARGET FOR NEXT YEAR
Promote Intergenerational Collaboration
Promote Intergenerational Collaboration
ITEM
Regional Revitalization Changemakers
PERFORMANCE
- Empower corporate volunteers to leverage financial and other expertise in assisting 17 local revitalization organizations across Taiwan in optimizing their business operations. This includes providing financial management tools, corporate ESG collaboration plans, angel investor fundraising consultations, and brand marketing strategies. Additionally, 81 business collaboration opportunities within and outside the Group have been established, generating over NT$2.4 million in additional revenue for the revitalization organizations.
- Drive engagement through action, bringing relational populations into local communities; throughout the year, the Group has facilitated over 3,200 in-person and online participations in township activities, enhancing the visibility of local micro businesses' brands.
TARGET FOR NEXT YEAR
- Gather internal corporate strengths and use employees’ expertise and social skills in support of social innovation and local development in order to build a regional revitalization supporting system.
Take Care of the Elderly
Take Care of the Elderly
ITEM
Support Plahan to realize a mutual-aid and self-supporting elderly community
PERFORMANCE
- Support Plahan in promoting cultural care and community symbiosis, combining long-term care concepts with cultural care and innovatively introducing literary activities centered on couplets to enhance emotional communication and cultural understanding among caregivers, care recipients, and community residents. A total of 436 people participated.
- Support the establishment of a rehabilitation center within the community, acquiring seven rehabilitation exercise devices to provide elderly individuals with a space for aging prevention and injured individuals with recovery equipment.
- Organize volunteer teams to assist Plahan in designing the Lokah su! Cultural Care Hostel, promoting local cultural care excursions, connecting local industries, and increasing opportunities for youth to stay or return to their hometowns.
TARGET FOR NEXT YEAR
- Support the Plahan team in continuously building an exemplary model of long-term care that fosters intergenerational harmony and well-being for the elderly, and assist them in establishing a local industry business model to attract more young people to return to their hometowns.
Seek Common Good with the Disadvantaged
Seek Common Good with the Disadvantaged
ITEM
Volunteer service
PERFORMANCE
- In 2024, the total number of volunteer service hours reached 87,243 hours, average service hours per person reached 9.7 hours, benefiting over 10,000 people.
TARGET FOR NEXT YEAR
- To achieve 7-8 volunteer service hours per person per year
Seek Common Good with the Disadvantaged
ITEM
Scholarship for Skilled Vocational High School Students
PERFORMANCE
- In 2024, there were 64 applications, totaling NT$2.43 million, which benefited 97 students.
- By organizing the promotional program, "Spotting Talent," which invited benefitted students to lecture for woodworking, boxing, badminton, dance, etc. 113 people have benefited.
TARGET FOR NEXT YEAR
- Intermediate-term: Continue to sponsor high school and college/university students with advanced skills
- Long-term: Continue to cultivate diverse talents
Seek Common Good with the Disadvantaged
ITEM
Love Starting from Elementary School
PERFORMANCE
- In 2024, a total of 215 schools and 508 underprivileged students were provided assistance in New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Pingtung County, Yunlin County, Nantou County, Chiayi County, and Penghu County.
TARGET FOR NEXT YEAR
- Constant devotion and expansion of care region, assisting disadvantaged students in attending school and supporting disadvantaged students with special talents, helping them grow up without worries.
Coexist with the Environment
Coexist with the Environment
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Rewood Partnership Project
PERFORMANCE
- In 2024, three tons of pruned street tree branches were diverted from incineration and instead processed into 300 kilograms of wood vinegar and 300 kilograms of charcoal, which can serve as raw materials for future everyday products.
TARGET FOR NEXT YEAR
- Continue to foster collaboration between government and social enterprises to implement corporate social responsibility and promote circular economy.
Financial Inclusion
We have long cared for the needs of disadvantaged groups and social enterprises. Through the core businesses of subsidiaries, we devote to provide sustainable financial assistance. In recent years, in combination with the opportunities raised from emerging risk, we have continued to develop various products and services related to social welfare in order to create maximum social benefits and give back to society.
Industry-College Collaboration
To actively cultivate the next generation of financial talent, KGI Financial Group continues to invest in collaboration with universities and colleges, aiming to enhance students’ financial knowledge and help them accumulate practical experience through the following programs. In 2024, a total of 573 students participated in the industry-college collaboration initiatives.
- Summer Intern Program : offering junior undergraduate students and first-year master‘s students from local and international universities the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the company’s operations over the summer. This program allows students to participate in important projects and explore potential career paths, helping to identify future talent for the financial industry. .
- Industry-College Collaboration Program : Collaborating with universities and colleges to establish industry-college programs, offering internship opportunities to senior undergraduate students and second-year master’s students. The initiative aims to cultivate entry-level talent for the financial sector, with outstanding interns having the opportunity to transition directly into full-time positions upon graduation.
- Corporate Mentor : Partnering with universities and colleges to serve as corporate mentors, assisting students in gaining insights into future employment trends and aligning with workplace demands. The initiative demonstrates the Group’s commitment and responsibility in nurturing talent.
- Corporate Visit : Organizing corporate visit activities to help students gain a deeper understanding of the practical operations of the financial and insurance industries while exploring potential career paths.
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Employee Wellbeing
Employees are an important asset of the company. We provide a comprehensive system to achieve work-life balance.