Driving change through social impact
Driving change through social impact
Project Management for Social Change
At PMI, social impact means using our project management skills to make a difference.
By partnering with not-for-profits and driving targeted initiatives, we aim to create sustainable, long-lasting improvements in communities across the globe.
Our efforts align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), focusing on areas like education, health, sustainability, and economic stability. Through strategic volunteerism and Project Management expertise, we empower communities and transform lives.
How Project Management Helped One Man Escape Homelessness—And Launch a Movement
Discover how Homeless Entrepreneur and PMI Barcelona Chapter use project management to scale impact, end homelessness, and build hope—one step at a time.
From Risk to Resilience: Project Management Strengthens Learning in Rural India
PMI West Bengal builds a rural library in Sundarbans, using project management to drive literacy, resilience, and community impact.
Project Managers Without Borders
Project Managers Without Borders (PMWB) connects skilled Project Managers with not for profit organizations to drive impactful change worldwide. By providing essential project management expertise, PMWB helps not for profit efficiently execute crucial initiatives, maximize their impact, and enhance their operations. Join us in supporting sustainable development and creating lasting positive effects in communities worldwide.
Weaving Futures in Guatemala
PMWB helped Weaving Futures, a nonprofit breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala, create an agroecological farm to grow food and income for the community.
Making Panama's Roads Safer
Fundación Educación Vial had a mission to make Panama’s roads safer, but no roadmap to success. PMWB Latin America helped the non-profit create a strategic business plan.
Refreshing Water in Puerto Rico
PMI Educational Foundation
For over 30 years, the PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF) has equipped youth with essential project management skills to help them thrive. By engaging in pro bono work and partnering with youth-serving non-profit organizations, PMIEF volunteers empower the next generation to lead successful and impactful lives. Join us in fostering educational growth and creating brighter futures for young people around the world.
Helping Special Olympics Ukraine Triumph
With facilities destroyed by war, Special Olympics Ukraine was able to rebuild their programs and support athletes, coaches, and volunteers with partnership from PMIEF.
STEM Racing: Driving Project Skills for the Future
Our multi-year partnership with STEM Racing is empowering the next generation of project leaders, focusing on STEM-based projects and teaching project management as a life skill.
The Africans: Equipping Youth with Project Management Skills
Care International, Junior Achievement, African Leadership Academy–PMIEF is helping nonprofits maximize the potential of the world's largest and fastest-growing youth population by equipping young Africans with project management skills.
Local Initiatives with PMI Chapters and Organizations
PMI chapters and the organizations you work for offer various opportunities to pledge your project management skills toward social good. Engaging with local initiatives allows you to make a direct impact within your community and use your expertise to support critical projects.
PMI Lebanon Chapter: Rebuilding Community in Lebanon
When a massive explosion ripped through the Port of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital was left in chaos - and uncertainty. The PMI Lebanon Chapter doubled down on its efforts to support the NGOs rebuilding the community.
Bringing Agile to Rural Startup Entrepreneurs
To help rural business owners solve local problems, the PMI Taiwan chapter devoted more than 700 volunteer hours to launching a business coaching program to teach agile methodologies and management capabilities to entrepreneurs.
Improving Economic Opportunities with Infrastructure
Members of the PMI-Pearl City, Hyderabad chapter partnered with India’s Ministry of Rural Development to make projects in remote areas more efficient and learned that sometimes project management takes a village.
Impact across Social Sectors
From sustainability to global health, you’ll find projects and Project Professionals delivering impact across social sectors. Explore just a few examples of positive social change and collective benefit powered by project management.
Sustainability
PMI learning, insights, and standards will help you develop the skills to make an impact in sustainability. Make sustainability a success factor on any project you lead.
Infrastructure & Giga Projects
When catastrophic flooding cut Vancouver off from the rest of Canada, a team of Project Managers used an approach based on PMI’s PMBOK® Guide to reopen critical routes quickly.
Global Health
In this episode of our Shift Code podcast, Jennifer Lotito, President & COO at (RED), explains how a lean, purpose-driven team builds partnerships, harnesses AI, and uses project management for nonprofit success.
STEM Innovation
Young innovators are using project management to bring STEM ideas to life—from AI-powered agriculture to environmental education. They’re proving that the right skills turn passion into impact.
UN Goals: Sustainable Development
PMI has partnered with the United Nations and committed to driving its 17 Sustainable Development Goals with social impact initiatives focused on education, health, sustainability, and economic stability.