Collections of donations or equipment, calls for projects, sponsorships, sponsorships, awareness-raising, skills sponsorship... There are many solidarity actions to be carried out with your company with associations.

Do you think it's time to take action and involve your employees? Would you like to know more about the various solidarity actions? Are you wondering how to set them up? Discover 10 ideas for inspiring solidarity actions to get you started!

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Solidarity Actions in Business: What You Need to Know

To have a stronger societal impact and fight against Loss of Meaning at Work, many companies engage their employees in their CSR approach. Among the CSR commitments? Solidarity actions with associations!

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Understand the concept

Carrying Out Solidarity Actions in Associations Allows You to Mobilize Your Employees Around Major Sustainable Development Challenges : environment, education, integration, inclusion, etc.

It's up to you to choose the cause and the different formats on which Engaging Your Teams.

In this article, you will find mission ideas to engage your employees With Associations, on or off work time.

Do you need inspiring themes around which to mobilize your employees? Discover our 10 Ideas for Causes to Defend So they can find theirs!

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The different types of actions to be carried out in business

Did you know that there are many opportunities to get involved in business? Here is a quick overview:

Short-term missions:

• One-off volunteering: This Type of Mission Takes the Form of a Skills Sponsorship short (for example: helping a young person write their CV), helping missions (for example: distributing a meal to the most likely) or team building (for example: collecting waste as a team).
• Collecting donations in kind: It is a mission format that consists in recovering equipment of all kinds. For example, as part of the renewal of your computer equipment, your teams can get involved by organizing a collection of computers or hygiene products and redistributing them to associations.
• Challenges and awareness-raising: These short activities of about 30 minutes and carried out alone or in groups, allow you to become aware of a specific theme. For example, they can take the form of solidarity consumption (such as “suspended coffee”) to offer necessities to people in need.
• Financial donations: One-off donations, vacation donations in euro equivalent, rounded off from salary... are all possibilities to further help associations. To understand everything about donations to associations, Check out this article.
• Calls for projects and voting campaigns: Vote for example for a project in favor of people with a loss of autonomy.

Long-term missions:

• Long-term skills sponsorship: This commitment is generally made at the end of the career, on a full-time basis over an average of one to two years. It takes the form of a service or a loan of labor. For example, employees can offer their skills to help the association of their choice develop a project.

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Also to read:
The tax deduction for corporate skills sponsorship
‍CSR approach: 5 reasons to start
‍3 examples of sustainable development actions

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The causes most supported by businesses

Here are the top 3 most popular causes:

• Education, integration and employment: Many employees are committed, for example, to the education of young people from increasingly backgrounds, the integration of disabled people or even employment assistance.
• Social action: Providing meals to the most difficult and fighting isolation are among the sensitive issues that fully involve businesses and employees.
• The environment: It is not only a trending topic, it is also and above all a matter of urgency. Employees are aware of this and many are mobilizing for the environment.

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10 examples of solidarity actions in business

The Altruist in You Wants to Take Action, but is Wondering What Can You Actually Do? To help you, we offer several examples of missions by causes. Follow us!

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Education, integration and employment

Do you want to commit yourself to education, integration and employment? We help you find inspiration!

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1 — Support a young person during their studies and change their destiny with Article 1

” Later, I Will Be an Airplane Pilot! “Yes, but lo and behold, not everyone has the chance or the opportunity to pursue higher education.

What if you transformed the destiny of a young person?

With draft Article 1,” Orientation, academic success and professional integration do not depend on social, economic and cultural origins ”!

Support a young person during their studies through:

• Looking for internships or jobs
• Writing Sumes and Cover Letters
• Preparing for interviews
• The Organization of Work and Revision Planning
• And much more!

Wherever you are, you can carry out these solidarity actions in favor of equal opportunities.

So that socio-cultural differences are no longer a disability for young people, join the volunteers ofArticle 1 association !

Did you know that? Integration and employment also requireInclusion in business people with disabilities. Find Out How to Take Part In The inclusion of people with disabilities in companies In all simplicity.

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2 — Boost women's digital job search with Social Builder

Is Equal Opportunities a Subject Close to Your Heart? Do you master digital tools? Are you a teacher and a volunteer? This mission is undoubtedly made for you!

With the Social Builder Project, help women from all walks of life to Find a job in digital technology.

Your mission? Support them remotely in:

• Writing CVs, cover letters, spontaneous applications...
• Preparing for interviews
• Optimizing their LinkedIn profile
• Practical and technical questions

Join the Many Volunteers of Social Builder !

Do you want to be fully committed to gender equality? Here are several Ideas for Women and Leadership Be one!

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3 — Carry out a solidarity action with Konexio: An apprenticeship, a job, reintegrated people

Switch on the screens, see the faces light up and contribute to the fight against insecurity and loneliness: it's possible with Konexio !

With the Konexio Project, Ko-Sign in and Facilitate a computer literacy workshop for marginalized people and disconnected from the world of work.

What skills are required? To choose from:

• A Good Knowledge of Basic Computer Tools
• Mastering office tools
• Mastery of HTML, CSS or Javascript

Knowing a few English words is a plus. And of course: a hint of patience, a touch of pedagogy and a good pinch of enthusiasm are essential!

Solidarity actions and workshops are to be carried out in Paris, Lille or Bordeaux, over one to two weekly evenings for about 5 weeks.

Join the Volunteers of Konexio and mobilize!

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Social Action

Discover our examples of solidarity actions to help the most.

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4 — Meet Homeless People with Entourage

” I Would Like to Talk to Him, Take the Plunge... ” Every morning, you see this homeless person and you would like to say a few words to them.

The Entourage Association is a Association That Helps the Homeless. It Encourages and Encourages Volunteers to Create Lasting Close Relationships with People in Precarious Situations. Talk to a homeless person for a coffee, a summer picnic, or a game of chess.

Join 90,000 Volunteers atEntourage ! At their side, acting in business becomes” As simple as hello ”!

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5 — Do a solidarity action with Les Petites Cantines: for a canteen open to all

It's simmering, it's simmering! In a relaxed atmosphere where laughs and smiles are shared, put your cordon-bleu talents to work.

With the Petites Cantines project, creating social ties around a gourmet moment becomes child's play!

On the menu? Meals and services accessible to all and a collective moment for Break the Isolation of the Numerous Guests.

The principle of Small Neighborhood Canteens ? Offer sustainable, participative meals at free prices.

In Annecy, Lille, Paris, Lyon or Strasbourg, join the many volunteers and members of Les Petites Cantines!

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6 — Sweat during an inclusive run with Kabubu

Do you think that welcoming and including refugees is more essential than ever? So Why Not Participate in a Multicultural Running with Migrants and Refugees From all continents?

With the Kabubu Project, the idea is to:

• Deconstructing prejudices
• Enabling Everyone to Find Their Place
• Creating Friendships Across Cultural and Linguistic Barriers
• Ensuring that language and culture are no longer obstacles to social and professional inclusion

And all this through the collective practice of sport!

In Paris or Lyon, Do a Solidarity Action and Come Sweat with Team Kabubu !

A new running session is organized every week.

Discover Even More Good Reasons to Act for Refugees.

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7 — Collect the stories of our elders with Contes Rendus

Moments out of the present time that are too often extinguished with those who tell them... Become a collector of stories and cultivate the memory of our elders.

With the Contes Rendus project, collect these personal and unique stories and Break the Isolation of the Elderly.

The idea? No articles to write! Neighborhood stories are collected in video format and posted on the collaborative platform, quite simply.

These solidarity actions can be carried out everywhere in France.

Young and old, Join Contes Rendered and its network of volunteer collectors.

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8 — A Seat at the Table for the Most Accibed: Get Involved with the Salvation Army

” As long as women cry, I will fight,

As long as children are hungry and cold, I will fight... ”

Like William Booth, founder ofSalvation Army, would you like to help the most? This mission is made for you!

With the Salvation Army Project, these are Hundreds of Meals Distributed Every Evening. No skill is required, except the desire and the pleasure of sharing.

Do you live in Paris, Nice, Lyon or their surroundings? Are you available between 17:30 and 19:30? Support the Salvation Army Foundation In its solidarity actions.

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9 — Solidarity actions with Initiatives of Change France: cultural outings in the company of an exiled person

Leaving your country, often giving up everything... and finding yourself totally alone in the face of adversity. Life events that many migrants and refugees face.

What if you opted for a bet (s) of 2?

With the Initiatives of Change France project, **Contribute to socio-cultural inclusion.

Paris (s) daring, Paris (s) enchanted, take advantage of a visit to Paris as an excuse to meet, share cultures, learn a language.

An opera, a museum, a festival, a visit to a neighborhood or a Parisian monument, a simple café on a sunny terrace and the Paris (s) is a success.

With half a day every 15 days for 3 or 4 months, Support the solidarity actions of the Changement France association !

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Environment

Act for the environment by carrying out a sporting and productive mission!

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10 — Collect biowaste by bike trailer with ELLSA

Get on your bike trailer for half a day and shape the world of tomorrow! Head to the restaurants, shops, businesses and schools in Acheres (78).

There you will collect biowaste, an excellent resource for compost from the city's huge vegetable farm.

And with the ELLSA project, A Vegetable Farm in the Heart of Acheres, it's possible!

The Integraterre project, it is 7 hectares of industrial wasteland that are transformed over the years with the precious help of citizens.

Be part of the 6,000 people already aware of Solidarity actions ofELLSA.

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Discover the complete catalog of solidarity actions!

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