Community support

AEGON and its employees around the world support a wide range of good causes and charitable organizations. These vary from research into cancer and other serious illnesses to education for disadvantaged children and financing music and the arts. Most of AEGON's charitable donations in the United States are channelled through the AEGON Transamerica Foundation. In most countries, AEGON will also support employee initiatives with additional company funds.

In 2009, AEGON donated a total of EUR 7.3 million, down from EUR 10.7 million the year before, and equivalent to 3.6% of the company's net income for the year. In 2008, AEGON's donations included two one-time gifts in the United States, totalling EUR 3 million[1]. 

Of total donations in 2009, most went to projects and organizations in the following areas:

• Health & safety
• Colleges, education & sport
• Civic & community

In 2009, the leading recipients of donations from AEGON were:

Figures have been rounded

In total, the United States accounted for almost 65% of AEGON's donations in 2009.

[1] Of this amount, USD 2.5 million was donated to Johns Hopkins University to fund a professorship in prostate cancer research and a further USD 500,000 to the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.