Philanthropic Programs

Following the summer of 2020, AbbVie made a $5 million donation to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Equal Justice Initiative to address issues in our criminal justice system. Since then, we’ve sought to meet the moment by funding longer-term philanthropic investments.

In 2020, AbbVie made a $35 million commitment to support COVID-19 relief efforts of global disaster relief partners including Direct Relief, Feeding America and International Medical Corps. 

We expanded our support for COVID relief in 2021 by partnering with the Lake County Health Department, the cities of North Chicago and Waukegan, and North Chicago Community Partners to enhance access to vaccines within under-resourced communities.

Another key component of AbbVie’s COVID-19 philanthropic response in 2021 was empowering AbbVie employees to volunteer to support COVID-19 relief efforts. In Illinois, nearly 600 AbbVie volunteers lent their medical and non-medical expertise to help administer more than 12,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination clinic in Lake County and contributed to an additional 7,000 vaccinations at a mass vaccination site in Chicago. Additionally, in Puerto Rico, employees partnered with Direct Relief and VOCES Puerto Rico Immunization and Health Promotion Coalition to process 4,000 vaccination records to help local government efforts.