We're Made To Move Communities

Secondary and post-secondary education

Our signature social impact program, Made to Move Communities is a global student challenge inspiring creative, STEM-based solutions to real-world mobility issues. Since 2020, Otis mentors have delivered quality STEM learning experiences to hundreds of secondary and post-secondary students through a guided 8-week program. To date, students in more than 20 countries and territories have identified and developed solutions to eliminate mobility barriers in their communities – addressing challenges from the impact of COVID-19 to aging populations and climate change.

Building STEM skills & interest

Primary and secondary education

STEM Kits enable Otis volunteers to reach younger students at scale through a hands-on, project-based experience offered to schools, afterschool programs and community groups. The program runs in North America and Latin America with plans for future global expansion.

Raising little engineers

Primary education

Since 2010, colleagues at Otis Hong Kong have introduced local students to technical engineering skills and helped to nurture an early passion for STEM subjects through The Little Engineers program. Otis volunteers even opened a STEM-focused section of the library at the C.C.C. Heep Woh Primary School in support of the program.

Investing in the next generation of innovators

Asia Foundation and Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology

Otis APAC partnered with The Asia Foundation and postsecondary students from the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT) to launch a three-month robotics competition under the theme of 'Urban Mobility.' Three teams emerged as top winners with innovative solutions to tackle traffic congestion and healthcare access challenges – each receiving grants for new, additive STEM programming in their schools.

Advancing social equity and inclusion

Special Olympics

Around the world, Otis colleagues enthusiastically support our sponsorship of the Special Olympics, which provides year-round sports training for youth and adults with intellectual and/or physical disabilities. Colleagues serve as coaches, volunteer at Summer and Winter Games, and in these country-level relationships we are proud to provide grant support.

Supporting colleagues in crisis

Otis Colleague Disaster Relief Fund

The Otis Colleague Disaster Relief Fund provides immediate financial assistance following major natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Colleagues are invited to contribute to the fund to directly support their peers in times of need, and apply for personal assistance for qualifying events.

Furthering colleagues’ causes

Matched giving

We are actively expanding our matched giving program to benefit more service-minded colleagues in countries around the world. Otis colleagues can contribute to eligible charitable organizations, advancing the causes they are most passionate about - and have their impact doubled.

Otis Americas

The always-staggering costs of housing and transportation, coupled with the recent economic fallout, have made it even more difficult for many families to put food on the table. The Otis team responded to this urgent need by donating their time to sort and pack food and personal items at Feeding Palm Beach County.

Otis APAC

Since 2017, Nippon Otis Japan has organized colleague volunteers to support the Ronald McDonald House inside the University of Tokyo Hospital, which hosts families traveling for treatment of sick children. Volunteers spend the day cleaning the facility, including high-traffic areas like the entrance and guest suites, as well as tending to air conditioners and balconies, to help create a more comfortable stay for families during their time of need.

Otis China

Otis volunteers provided mentoring support for a scholarship program to encourage and enable more female participation in STEM careers. To date, 160 female university STEM students have benefited from the program through financial grants, support from female mentors at Otis, as well as opportunities for future internships and employment.

Otis EMEA

For nearly a decade, Otis Spain has hosted a solidarity race around its plant in Leganés. The event benefits the Ana Carolina Díez Mahou Foundation and its Primera Estrella (or First Star) program, which supports children with mitochondrial neuromuscular genetic diseases and their families. Over 900 people of all ages, including more than 700 Otis colleagues, participated in the race, both in-person and – for the first time – online.

Otis Global

Through the Lifting the Law program, members of the Otis global Legal team and University of Connecticut Law School faculty and students collaborate to teach teens at Boys & Girls Club of Hartford about the law and legal profession. The 8-week program culminates in a visit to the law school and instruction in mock trial rooms.