Highlights
Sharing our results
Highlights: Our 2019 numbers
Overall
portfolio
Our financial commitment to our core programmes remained consistent in 2019.
As a founding philanthropic partner of Fashion for Good, C&A Foundation made significant investments early on which drove the foundation’s overall investment increase in 2016 and 2017. In the time Fashion for Good has established itself as a leading innovation platform in the sector, it has welcomed 18 corporate partners to the coalition. This allowed C&A Foundation to reduce our direct investments in Fashion for Good in recent years, while watching the positive social and environmental impacts of the innovations continue to grow.
Investment by programme in 2019
€47.5m
total grants
Working Conditions
11.3m committed to enabling just and dignified working conditions through 22 initiatives
Forced & Child Labour
8.6m committed to eradicating forced and child labour in the supply chain through 21 initiatives
Sustainable Cotton
7.3m committed to improving the lives and livelihoods of small cotton farmers
Circular Fashion
7.1m to promote a circular economy through 19 initiatives
Disaster & Risk Reduction
6.4m committed to humanitarian and disaster risk reduction initiatives
C&A Together
2.7m committed to the C&A Together programme in European retail countries giving 142 grants to local communities in need
Other strategic grants
2.4m committed to other strategic grants supporting a range of initiatives addressing gender justice and coalition building
Engagement & Volunteering
€1.7m committed to supporting engagement and volunteering activities which more than 30,000 C&A colleagues took part in
Our 2019 partnerships
We have always been inspired by the energy, ideas and action of our partners around the world. Most of our relationships and remaining funding commitments to C&A Foundation’s partners will continue under Laudes Foundation.
In Mexico, where Laudes Foundation will not establish a presence, C&A Foundation partners will continue to receive core support for two years, allowing time to secure other donor support. Laudes Foundation has also established a €4 million Exit Fund which will provide transition support to Mexican civil society organisations working on the advancement of labour rights in the country. The fund will run until December 2023.
45
new partnerships*
16
Circular Fashion
12
Working Conditions
14
Forced & Child Labour
3
Sustainable Cotton
41
renewed partnerships*
3
Sustainable Cotton
10
Working Conditions
7
Forced & Child Labour
4
Sustainable Cotton
17
Strengthening Communities
*Partners that received more than €50,000 in funding. Overall, strengthening communities has awarded more than 150 grants as a result of Inspiring World and C&A Together initiatives.
Active* grants by region/country
We know that change happens when we engage locally – with communities in apparel-producing countries, and with the grassroots civil society partners who serve them.
That’s why, in addition to collaboration and collective action initiatives, our partnerships with global reach represented 49% of our active grants in 2019.
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Turkey
Pakistan
China
Indonesia
Mexico
Asia
Bangladesh
Brazil
Africa
India
Turkey
€ 435k | Working Conditions |
Pakistan
€ 907k | Sustainable Cotton |
China
€ 890k | Sustainable Cotton |
€ 105k | Working Conditions |
€ 607k | Strengthening Communities |
Indonesia
€ 1.8m | Working Conditions |
€ 165k | Strengthening Communities |
Mexico
€ 2.1m | Working Conditions |
€ 1.5m | Forced & Child Labour |
Asia
€ 1.8m | Working Conditions |
€ 2.4m | Forced & Child Labour |
€ 294k | Circular Fashion |
€ 63k | Strengthening Communities |
€ 2.3m | Other Strategic Initiatives |
Bangladesh
€ 5.4m | Working Conditions |
€ 50k | Other Strategic Initiatives |
€ 2.9m | Strengthening Communities |
Brazil
€ 2.6m | Sustainable Cotton |
€ 1.4m | Working Conditions |
€ 3.3m | Forced & Child Labour |
€ 491k | Circular Fashion |
€ 46k | Strengthening Communities |
€ 872k | Other Strategic Initiatives |
Africa
€ 2m | Sustainable Cotton |
€ 589k | Strengthening Communities |
Europe
€ 9.6m | Circular Fashion |
€ 3.2m | Strengthening Communities |
India
€ 97k | Circular Fashion |
€ 9.4m | Sustainable Cotton |
€ 1.3m | Working Conditions |
€ 9.9m | Forced & Child Labour |
€ 950k | Strengthening Communities |
€ 450k | Other Strategic Grants |
*Active grants represent programmatic or core support grants only.