Pacific Life LIFEvest program got 200+ HS students closer to making dream of college a reality

Life Goals
Products

back
- Annuities Pacific Life offers a variety of annuities designed to help grow, protect, and manage retirement savings turning it into steady, reliable lifetime income based on your personal preferences and goals.
- Life Insurance Life insurance is most commonly used to help protect your family from any financial effects of your and/or your spouse's death. Protect your family's financial well-being with life insurance, which can pay a death benefit to help replace a lifetime of your loved one's lost earning potential.
- For Institutions Whether you’re looking for a de-risking strategy for your company’s pension plan, want to provide financial security to your retirees, or looking for a strong investing partner, Pacific Life has the solutions and experience to help you succeed.
  - Overview
- Workforce Benefits Pacific Life is revolutionizing employee benefits by empowering you with a premier, comprehensive, friction-free, digitally native experience.
- Additional Solutions
Insights
About Us

back
- About Us Whether you’re protecting your loved ones or growing your assets, you’re highly invested in your financial future. And so are we. When you purchase life and retirement insurance, you’re buying a promise. A promise that today, tomorrow or ten years from now, we’ll be there. For more than 150 years, we’ve fulfilled that promise. Our clients trust Pacific Life to protect what matters most to them—their families, their businesses, their futures.

The Pacific Life LIFEvest program got 200+ underserved high school students closer to making their dream of college a reality

5 mins

This summer, high school students hoping to be the first in their family to graduate college received financial literacy skills through the 2023 Pacific Life LIFEvest program

5 mins

Pacific Life LIFEvest Program

As a part of the Pacific Life Foundation’s commitment to investing in Financial Security initiatives, this summer, employees had the opportunity to volunteer with high school students from all over Orange County who are determined to be the first in their family to attend college. Hosted by the University of California, Irvine, the Pacific Life LIFEvest Program is a week-long program that allows low-income 9^th and 10^th graders the opportunity to experience college campus life, while learning important life skills.

Financial Literacy and Beyond

During the program, students explore potential careers, learn about managing their money and preparing for college, and practice skills ranging from networking to presenting. They also have an opportunity to visit the corporate headquarters of companies based in Orange County, including Pacific Life, where they enjoy a four-course dinner and learn about important social etiquette skills. Students leave the program with clear career and college goals, as well as experience creating a budget, investing, and planning for retirement.

“ Thank you to the entire Pacific Life team for planning and hosting our LIFEvest group. It was such a memorable experience that came with many life lessons and skills I’ll take into my future. I'm truly grateful for the opportunities that Pacific Life has provided to students like us and will always pay it forward, remembering the lessons and performing to the best of my abilities. „

Katie L., 2023 LIFEvest Fellow

We are grateful to the 60 Pacific Life employees who volunteered at LIFEvest this summer. They played an important role in the program – serving as mentors and offering guidance while students created budgets, practiced their networking and social skills, as well as listened and provided feedback on their Life Plan presentations. The first summer cohort of students had the privilege of hearing from Jay Orlandi, Chief General Counsel, who shared his experience of going through high school and college, as well as his own career journey. The last cohort attended a panel discussion led by Faculty Director Chris Schwarz, where Adrian Griggs, Chief Operating Officer, Vibhu Sharma, Chief Financial Officer, and Tere Segarra, Vice President, Pacific Life Foundation, shared their high school and college experience, as well as how they each found themselves in the careers they have today.

“ Our team of actuaries was thrilled to have the opportunity to participate in a program that is educating diverse communities on the importance of financial security. It was inspiring to meet with the students and hear about their college and career ambitions, and at the end of the week, it was rewarding to see their progress toward one day achieving these goals. „

Laura Hanson, AVP Actuary and Actuarial Diversity Champion

About LIFEvest:

The Pacific Life LIFEvest Financial Literacy Program, hosted by the Center for Investment and Wealth Management at the UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business, is a weeklong summer on-campus training program dedicated to teaching underserved students currently enrolled in 8th and 9th grade about financial literacy. Students who apply live in Southern California, and come from low-income, diverse, and underrepresented communities in Orange County, Los Angeles, and Riverside. More than 90% of them would be the first in their families to go to college.

In 2019, the Pacific Life Foundation made a 10-year, $2 million commitment to the LIFEvest program. With a shared vision to support underserved communities with financial education, the program strives to strengthen an understanding in financial matters, expose students to a college campus, encourage admission to a college or university, explore various career fields, and inspire confidence and success in all areas of life.

Pacific Life LIFEvest Program

Financial Literacy and Beyond

READ MORE

Pacific Life Foundation Announces $9 Million Charitable Giving Program for 2024

Pacific Life LIFEvest program got 200+ HS students closer to making dream of college a reality

Meet the 2023 Life Lessons College Scholarship Winners

The Pacific Life Foundation Announces New Multi-Year Partnerships

The Pacific Life Foundation Awards $2.5 Million Through its 2023 Annual Grant Cycle

Pacific Life Foundation Awards Ten Life-Changing College Bound Scholarships

Pacific Life Foundation Honored by the American Red Cross with Corporate Hero Award

Pacific Life Receives Prestigious Giving Is Living Award

Pacific Life Foundation Makes $2M Grant to CHOC

2022 3Ts of Education Grants Celebrate Nearly $10M Given Over Past 25 Years

Pacific Life Foundation Commits $2 Million to Combat Food Insecurity

Pacific Life Foundation Donates $1 Million to American College

Pacific Life Foundation Donates $1.5 Million to Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast

Pacific Life Foundation Honors Human Options at the Annual Grants Reception

Pacific Life Foundation Receives the 2019 Shalimar Innovator Award

Pride and Principals: 3Ts of Education Grants

Pacific Life Receives 2019 Vin Jorgensen Corporate Partnership Award from Hoag Hospital Foundation

The Pacific Life Foundation Grants $2 Million to UCI’s LIFEvest Financial Literacy Program

Pacific Life Foundation Donates $250,000 to Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast

Pacific Life, KaBOOM! & Business Partners: Rolling Up Our Sleeves for a Great Cause!

Pacific Life Recognized with The Civic 50 Legacy Company Award

Pacific Life Proud Recipient of the Arnold O. Beckman Award from Discovery Cube Orange County

Three Cheers for 3Ts of Education! 20 Years. $7.7 Million.

Home Is Where The Heart Is

The Children’s Hospital of Orange County

Pacific Life Foundation Branch School Age Center Now Open in Huntington Beach