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Solidarity sponsorship

Objectives :
  • Sponsor with expertise and not just funds.
  • Inform and involve staff in the Group's commitments.
Priority :
  • Provide substantial support for projects that foster social integration through education.
2009 highlights :
  • Over € 7,2 million in solidarity sponsorship.
Equality, balanced sustainable development, citizenship and responsibility are all values that today's society expects from companies, hence Société Générale's decision to invest in social and professional integration through education.
Created in 2006, the Société Générale Corporate Foundation for Solidarity devotes its time to over 125 major projects to help young people get their careers off the ground. Since 2008, the Foundation has also supported projects in other countries linked to the vocational training of young people.
Dedicated structures
Since its creation in 2006, the Société Générale Corporate Foundation for Solidarity has dedicated time to over 195 major projects to help young people get their careers off the ground. Since 2008, the Foundation has also supported 11 projects in other countries linked to the vocational training of young people.
Talents et Partage is an independent charitable organisation set up in 1994 by past and present Société Générale staff.
In March 2009, SG Private Banking created the “Fondation 29 Haussmann” to provide clients wishing to be involved in charity with an innovative solidarity structure to support various projects encompassing all sectors and age groups (children, adolescents, adults, the elderly). For its first year, the theme selected by the Fondation 29 Haussmann is “to help children and teenagers in difficulty within their family circle or academically”.
Every year, several hundred volunteers devote their time to ensure the success of the various initiatives launched by the association. In addition, the association also provides financial support to humanitarian projects in which its volunteers are involved.
Overseas, a number of Group subsidiaries have also taken up the cause. In the Czech Republic and Georgia, Komercni Banka and Bank Republic have set up the Jistota Foundation and the Tsiskari charity fund. In Brazil, employees are able to contribute to the charity projects and programmes of the Instituto Société Générale which supports para-education for children, vocational training for young people and the fight against poverty via the creation of craft industry workshops.
Solid partnerships
Over and above the funding it provides, the Société Générale Corporate Foundation for Solidarity forges genuine partnerships with national and international associations :
  • Through its partnership with French organisation, Solidarités Nouvelles Face au Chômage, groups of employees help job seekers in finding work,
  • Set up by Société Générale's Corporate and Investment Banking arm, the Citizenship Program was born out of the partnership between the Foundation and the international charity, Care. Today, three projects in Peru, Mali and Bangladesh chosen by the division's employees are funded by the Foundation (€ 1 million over 3 years) and by employee donations,
  • Launched in 2008, the joint sponsorship provided by Société Générale and the French association Nos quartiers ont des Talents has been an outright success with the Group's staff. With their help, over 430 young people were assisted and guided in integrating the employment market. To date, Société Générale has rallied the highest number of sponsors. The operation which, until now, has been limited to the Paris region was extended further afield and to universities in 2009,
  • Société Générale UK staff have been strongly involved in providing school support to students in the schools near their offices for several years now.
All of these solidarity sponsorship programmes come together during the Group's Citizenship Week. Held for the first time in June 2008, 77 events were organised by Group entities in more than 20 countries. Moreover, keen to further develop its involvement, the Group's Executive Management decided to repeat the event in 2009. A total of 33 countries, including France, took part in the operation, which ran from June 15th to June 21st. The Group’s personnel committed more than 10 841 hours to charitable causes, including 3,446 hours in France, 3 572 in Asia-Pacific, 1 940 in Brazil and 197 in Canada.