Backing Equal Futures: Programs that provide skills and pathways to prepare youth (ages 13 to 30) for long-term success and the future of work, including the green economy, digital futures, and STEAM fields such as science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics. Advocacy to support education and workforce development in underrepresented communities.

Backing Small: Support for underrepresented and economically vulnerable small business owners and entrepreneurs, including grants, mentoring support, and technical assistance through established community partnerships. Also including financial literacy education, training, and mentoring for underrepresented individuals and families to build financial awareness, fiscal acumen and success, including at school age grades 5-12, during higher education, or when individuals are entering/re-entering the workforce.

Backing Low-Carbon Communities: Community-led climate projects including through the Green2Gether networks, focused on nature-based intiatives. Disaster relief and resilience building programs and initiatives in extreme weather-prone areas and cities where the American Express team and customers live and work to provide immediate and/or long-term relief to natural and man-made disasters and help create climate-resilient communities.