Accenture France Foundation
The Accenture France Foundation is implementing the Skills to Succeed program, which aims to develop the skills of 3 million people around the world by 2020, to help them find employment and entrepreneurship. To this end, it has announced that it will mobilize more than 5,000 days of skills sponsorship per year in France. The Foundation has also set up Acces Inclusive Tech, a joint venture specializing in the digital sector, with the aim of "reintegrating the most vulnerable people into the workforce through digital technology by mobilizing them in transformation projects with a strong IT component". In particular, it supports the following programs French Impact which aims to federate the ecosystem of "tech & science for good" players and ShareITthe "tech for good" acceleration program at Station F run by Ashoka.The Foundation for Action against Exclusion (FACE)
The Fondation agir contre l'exclusion (FACE) was created on the initiative of 13 founding companies to prevent and fight against all forms of exclusion, discrimination and poverty. Organized as a network, FACE brings together more than 5,650 companies of all sizes and works in collaboration with all the stakeholders concerned by its public utility mission: institutions, associations, qualified personalities, researchers, etc.It has supported or is supporting the Mix'it project (winner of the Transformateur Numérique), the Alliance pour l'emploi des jeunes dans le numérique (which aims to develop and test an innovative training and support methodology for digital professions with 300 young people under 30 from disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Paris region), the Grande École du Numérique, and the Money Deal project (an application for better budget management), the Learneet project (which aims to support 110 young dropouts (NEET) in Seine-Saint Denis aged 16 to 25, to help them discover the use of digital job search tools and enable them to achieve greater autonomy in this regard), and the WI-Filles program (an introduction to digital uses, professions and skills, aimed at young girls aged 14 to 16).
AFNIC Foundation
The purpose of the Afnic Foundation for Digital Solidarity is "to support the development of a solidarity-based Internet, training and awareness-raising in its use, by supporting local and structuring digital solidarity initiatives and research projects on the theme of digital solidarity".In March 2018, it launched a call for projects around the theme "a digital for a more equitable society". This call for projects concerns actions aimed at setting up new forms of collaboration or directly involving beneficiaries who are far from digital in their personal or professional practices.
Bouygues Telecom Foundation
The Bouygues Telecom Foundation has set itself three areas of intervention in France: solidarity, culture and the environment. In 2018, the Bouygues Telecom Foundation will focus its cultural patronage on writing and digital technology. The Writing & Digital call for projects supports initiatives that promote access to written cultural productions via digital means. The projects must concern the acquisition of reading and writing, access to texts for audiences with disabilities, the development of unpublished archive collections or the dissemination of innovative literary creations to the general public.Cetelem Foundation for inclusion through digital sharing
The Cetelem Foundation for Inclusion through Digital Sharing is committed to 11 partners and supports general interest projects selected according to three main areas of intervention: access, proper use and digital sharing.It supports the following associations and initiatives:
- AGIRabcd is committed to supporting people in difficulty and fighting against the exclusion of vulnerable people. Following the emergence of new needs among people in difficulty confronted with the widespread use of digital technology, the Cetelem Foundation is supporting AGIRabcd in the development of its "made-to-measure" digital solidarity projects.
- The Agence nouvelle des solidarités actives (Ansa) is a non-profit association created in 2006 to implement local, experimental and innovative actions to fight poverty and exclusion. It is in this context and in cooperation between Ansa and the Foundation that the "Pilotbudget" program was born.
- The Apprentis d'Auteuil, committed to prevention and child protection. The Cetelem Foundation is working with them on a project to develop digital technology in schools as a means of reducing social inequalities and promoting professional integration.
- The association Artis Multimédia sets up socio-educational workshops with the aim of encouraging the mastery of computer tools as well as the good use of Internet resources.
- Culture Prioritaire offers educational and cultural services to 14-18 year-olds from working-class neighborhoods in Paris, with the aim of promoting their access to higher education and the professional world. The Cetelem Foundation has helped Culture Prioritaire to implement the PassAvenir platform, which helps to identify suitable and effective career paths.
- The Association for Training and Reinsertion Assistance (FAiRe): The Foundation carries with it the #MedNum94 project, which aims to develop the digital mediation sector in the Val-de-Marne.
- The Homeless Plus application which allows the geolocation of homeless people in order to bring them direct help. Its objective is to create a vast network connecting homeless people and volunteers, in order to provide adapted help to the most needy, fighting against social exclusion and waste. The Foundation supports the development of the V2 of the application.
- Voisin malin, created in 2010, aims to give residents of working-class neighborhoods a place in society by relying on their talents and their ability to create quality relationships with their peers. The Cetelem Foundation is a partner of the association in its "Neighbors Connected" project, which aims to develop the digital skills of everyone, through the training of residents-trainers and then the residents themselves.
- The association Votre École chez Vous, which provides home schooling for sick or disabled children and teenagers. The Cetelem Foundation is working with the association to develop their virtual classrooms in order to provide all students with disabilities with the best possible conditions for studying.
EDF Group Foundation
The EDF Group Foundation promotes social inclusion and in particular the social integration of young people and education. It supports, in particular, the National Federation of Production Schools (a national campaign for the direct prevention of risky behaviors related to digital technology) and the Academy of Technologies Foundation, for its project to train teachers in technological and vocational high schools and to create a digital learning path for designing and building a drone.In order to promote access to scientific and technological culture, it supports the association "la main à la pâte" (in order to encourage the practice of science and technology in the classroom in an attractive, creative, contemporary and formative way), to the Fondation des technologies and the Tuteur Intelligent pour Nouvel Apprenant program (a project to train teachers in technological and vocational high schools in the Grand Est region and to create a digital learning path to design and manufacture a pilotable drone and its digital twin in these schools) and to support the Fam Lab (the first mobile FabLab in Ille-et-Vilaine, providing access to new digital machines in rural areas).
FDJ Corporate Foundation
The Fondation FDJ is committed to promoting equal opportunity through games in two areas: education and integration. It supports innovative and inclusive fun and educational methods to help young people in difficulty learn and reveal their potential. It supports, in particular, the " Digital Travellers " program, "to bring digital technology within everyone's reach via free introductory workshops and training in coding and digital issues", as well as the "Let's communicate differently!" program of the Red Cross, which enables people with disabilities who are unable to communicate verbally to do so alternatively via fun and adapted digital tools.On October 11, 2018, the FDJ Corporate Foundation organized a roundtable discussion around the question " How to ensure that digital technology multiplies the impact of philanthropy? ", in the presence of the RATP Group Foundation, Bibliothèques sans Frontières and the France Télévisions Group Foundation. According to Isabelle Delaplace, Executive Director of the FDJ Foundation, "In just a few years, digital technology has changed the codes of the non-profit sector and of general interest. Not only has digitalization enabled the creation of new tools for organizations, but digital technology is now at the heart of the strategy of many of them, and for some it has even become a field of action in its own right.Digital technology has infiltrated the Fondation FDJ's fields of action. One million euros has been devoted to digital-related projects since the beginning of the year, representing more than a quarter of its total budget over the same period.
Free Foundation
The purpose of the Free Foundation is " to reduce the digital divide. If this notion referred a few years ago to an equipment deficit among part of the population, we note that these inequalities have continued in the use that is made of the computer tool " . In September 2017, the Free Foundation launched a call for projects (the second) on the theme of "autonomy and digital technology". It wished, in making this call, to highlight digital mediation projects that would aim to increase digital skills and use of tools to these people ". The Free Foundation had launched in March 2018 a call for projects to encourage " collective intelligence to serve the digital transition of the territories." The funding awarded by the foundation will be used for the organization and consolidation of the network (e.g. meetings dedicated to collective work, salary of a coordinator, experimentation of tools allowing the sharing and dissemination of collaborative practices etc)France Télévisions Group Foundation
The France Televisions Group Foundation aims to "support organizations or actions that enable young people with barriers (from children to young people under 25 years of age, impediment due to the social, economic, geographical environment, physical or mental disability, placement under judicial protection of youth, hospitalization ...), to be initiated or prepared for the audiovisual and digital professions." She had launched in September 2017, in collaboration with the participatory funding platform Ulule, the call for projects"Social inclusion of young people through digital" to support and accompany associations working for the social inclusion of young people through digital and promoting their entry into working life.France is committed Foundation
Created in 2017, the France s'engage Foundation is an extension of the La France s'engage social innovation support program initiated by the French government in 2014. Its aim is to promote the involvement of civil society in innovative, solidarity-based initiatives that are useful to the greatest number. It promotes, through these initiatives, living together around local services and sustainable development of territories. Among the winners of the 2018 call for projects were, in particular Auticiel - AMIKEO (a social and solidarity economy start-up that designs, develops and distributes applications for people with mental disabilities or autistic or cognitive disorders), Reconnect (which offers people living in precarious situations access to digital communication technologies through a "Solidarity Cloud"), ViensVoirMonTaf (which offers schoolchildren in the Priority Education Network (REP) access to a pool of companies via a dedicated website, in order to find an internship in the third year of secondary school).Foundation of France
The Fondation de France "acts in all areas of general interest by responding to the needs of vulnerable people, with actions that promote their social integration and respect their dignity and autonomy, as well as by developing solutions that bring innovation and progress, whether in medical research, the environment, education, culture or training.In 2018, the Fondation de France launched two calls for projects around the theme "Employment and activity: innovative and supportive solutions for an inclusive digital society" to support innovative approaches that remove barriers (related to the person, the territory or the sector of activity) for access to a work-related income. Two lines of work were favored in 2018: "securing pathways through cooperation and mutualization" and "Digital skills and work".
MAIF Foundation
The MAIF Foundation "finances research to prevent risks that affect people and their property and thus allow for a better development of everyone".The Foundation launched in 2018 launches a call for projects around " risk prevention via Artificial Intelligence and Big Data " The goal being to deepen research in knowledge and provide awareness solutions. The areas sought included: understanding irrational behavior, mobility, connected and autonomous cars, the vulnerable in the face of new mobilities, The sensors, connected objects and Smart Home and personal and private data.
Orange Foundation
The Orange Foundation has made digital solidarity the guiding principle of its philanthropic actions in 30 countries. Its actions aim to "facilitate the social and professional integration of young people and women in difficulty, and of people with autism, through educational programs that are primarily digital".Since 2014, the Orange Foundation has undertaken to promote the concept of Solidarity FabLab for young people in integration "as a lever for their professional project". The 2018 call for projects is aimed at Solidarity FabLabs that have already deployed pathways and are applying again as much as to FabLabs not yet supported by the Foundation.
SFR Foundation
The Fondation SFR wishes to " contribute to the rebalancing of opportunities by supporting associative projects with a strong social impact, which aim to give young people confidence in themselves and in their future.It has entered into a partnership with Emmaus France and participated in the creation of Emmaus Connect, which develops action programs to make digital technology an opportunity for people in social difficulty. It acts via its field program, awareness-raising, training, consulting and, more broadly, social innovation initiatives. Since 2013, SFR has provided the association with financial, human and in-kind support, enabling Emmaus Connect to equip 35,000 people across France with telephone resources and Internet access.
The SFR Foundation also supports "Tous entrepreneurs", a pre-incubation program to support entrepreneurial talent from working-class backgrounds and boost the entrepreneurial spirit, Mozaïk RH (for the launch of DiversifiezVosTalents.com, the first online recruitment platform that goes beyond the CV), and the Rev'Elles association (which offers young girls support to work on their professional project throughout the year).
Societe Generale Foundation for Solidarity
This foundation supports general interest projects in two areas: professional integration of people in difficulty and educational integration of people in difficulty. In 2019, €4 million will be granted to projects in the countries where the Société Générale Group operates. In 2019, the Foundation will allocate €100,000 to projects in France and will support the organizations in their participatory financing campaigns. Among the partner associations is Simplon.co, a network of social digital factories that offers free intensive training in the high-volume technical professions of the digital economy (see Simplon and its partnership with the Foundation)Sopra Steria Foundation
The Sopra Steria-Institut de France Foundation supports non-profit organizations, mainly associations and NGOs, in their use of digital tools and their ability to adapt them to the needs and purposes of a structure or social project. The Foundation's support takes the form of a subsidy for investment in computer equipment and/or application development, as well as the intervention of volunteer experts to assist the association according to the needs expressed: project management, technical or functional expertise, assistance in finalizing technical specifications, installation of equipment, tutoring.Thales Foundation
The Thales Foundation is "focusing on children and their teachers in order to strengthen students' interest, curiosity and abilities in science. The aim is to give young people a taste for innovation and to make them more agile in an increasingly fast-changing world.In particular, it supports the Declick 14's program, which offers a fun way to learn computer programming to middle school students from priority education zones. While learning to master digital tools, they bring these solutions to life in the form of a video game that they must create by coding. It also supports the Savanturiers de l'ingénierie et du numérique program: a research-based learning model sponsored by Thales researchers and engineers who work in pairs with primary and secondary school teachers to help classes implement a scientific project. The goal is to train students and teachers in responsible and creative technological and digital practices and tools, drawing on the methods and ethics of scientific research and engineering.
