Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic reaffirmed the urgency to address the vast and growing inequities facing our global society, from financial security and access to basic human necessities to affordable housing and economic opportunity. Throughout 2021, Citi and the Citi Foundation accelerated and expanded investments in communities around the world, helping to support a more inclusive recovery and more equitable future. Building on our longstanding leadership in financial inclusion, we expanded the scope of our social finance efforts to maximize our impacts and to help achieve the $500 Billion Social Finance Goal we set as part of our overall $1 trillion commitment to sustainable finance by 2030. We invested $1 billion in a broad suite of initiatives designed to help close the racial wealth gap in the United States and to increase economic mobility through Citi and the Citi F oundation’s Action for Racial Equity commitment. And we increased our invest - ments in the Citi Impact Fund , more than half of which went to minority-owned and women-owned c ompanies. We also continued to support COVID-19 relief and recovery efforts globally while staying f ocused o n o ur l ong-term p riorities, including affordable hou sing and the Citi Foundation’s s trategic g rantmaking e fforts . Investing in Our Communities 2021 Highlights $500B Social Finance Goal Committed to reach 15M households, including 10 million women, by 2025 $59B in social finance activity globally in 2020 and 2021 Issued inaugural $1B Citi Social Finance Bond offering $1B invested in initiatives to help close the racial wealth gap 68% of asset allocation directed to women and/ or racially/ethnically diverse founders of companies through the Citi Impact Fund $5.64B financed for affordable housing projects in the United States $100+M in grants provided by the Citi Foundation Announced our Contents ESGatCiti SustainableFinance SustainableProgress Equitable&ResilientCommunities Talent&DEI RiskManagement&ResponsibleBusiness Appendices CITI 2021 ESG REPORT 61
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