It cannot be said enough: associations need financial support. However, donations are complementary to other types of assistance that businesses can provide. Skill sponsorship is one of them. Indeed, your employees can offer their expertise by engaging with associations during their working time.

While skills sponsorship is becoming an increasingly attractive practice for businesses, many do not know how to start this type of project. So we are going to introduce you 10 examples of skills sponsorship missions to offer to your employees.

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What does skills sponsorship consist of?

As soon as a company offers its employees to make their know-how available to associations during their working time, it carries out skills sponsorship. It is an experience that benefits all the stakeholders involved:

• The association benefits from free expertise;
• The employee is living a unique social experience that will provide them with new skills;
• And the company is improving the well-being of its employees at work.

This type of commitment also allows employees to maintain their wage rights and continue to receive their salary. On the business side, the tax deduction for skills sponsorship is also interesting from a financial point of view.

Thanks to skills sponsorship, employees can carry out missions of general interest, short or long term, depending on the model chosen by the company and the needs of the association.

Over a short period of time, skills sponsorship missions generally take place in a few hours and involve a wide range of activities. As for long-term sponsorship, it offers missions that are directly related to the employee's professional skills and can last an average of one or two years.

Do you want to mobilize your employees? We present to you 10 associations who defend different causes: fight against precariousness, inclusion or environmental protection... Engage your employees in a mission that suits you!

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Bringing warmth to the most disadvantaged people

One is the other is an association created in 2003 and whose aim is to provide support to people in precarious or excluded situations. In this spirit, it offers hot meals, cooked and served at the table, every Thursday evening, Saturday and Sunday lunchtime as well as on public holidays.

The association is also fighting against food waste by distributing unsold items to families in financial difficulty every Friday. To help him, One Is the Other needs volunteers to cook and distribute meals alongside him.

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Why participate in this mission?

It is an opportunity to share moments of comfort with the beneficiaries of the meals. The mission is perfect for those who have little availability, it only takes a few hours of your time: between 4 and 7 hours. And your employees can even join a team with their colleagues!

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Joining forces to help nationally

The Food Banks are a network composed of 79 Food Banks and 31 branches. Their aim? Collect as much food as possible, in particular to save them from waste and distribute them to all their partners.

The food is then distributed to millions of people in precarious situations across France. On the occasion of their annual national collection, your employees can mobilize by participating in the collection, sorting and preparation of food orders.

Also to read: ‍
Skills sponsorship: definition and specificities

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Why participate in this mission?

The national collection is a major solidarity event that takes place every year, on the last weekend of November. It is time to do your part, by getting involved alongside the other 110,000 volunteers deployed for this large-scale operation.

Of course, it is possible to get involved with Food Banks all year round! The national location of this mission allows your employees to mobilize wherever they are and the duration of the missions is approximately 3 hours.

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Becoming a mentor for a person with a disability

The APF France Handicap is intended to break Isolation of people with disabilities. The association organizes events, citizen debates or petitions in order to defend the rights of these people.

You can also suggest that your employees get involved by becoming a mentor for a person with a disability! Thanks to their professional skills, the employee will be able to help him in his job search.

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Why participate in this mission?

Your employees will be able to monitor the professional reintegration of the person they will support. It is an experience as rewarding for her as it is for the employee. In addition, the flexibility of the mission makes it possible to organize one to two mentoring sessions per month depending on availability.

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Fostering inclusion through sport

The association Special Olympics France is part of the International Special Olympics Movement, which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s.

Present in 200 countries, the movement includes around 5.7 million athletes worldwide. The objective of Special Olympics France is to enable people with mental disabilities to thrive through the practice of sport.

The association is also setting up a health program that allows these people to access care adapted to their situation. To support their cause, your employees can participate in a solidarity race to finance sport and health programs.

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Why participate in this mission?

For its double benefit! It is a great opportunity to celebrate inclusion while pushing its limits. This solidarity event is divided into 12 races that take place throughout France. Enough to mobilize regardless of its location!

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Encouraging the integration of women into the digital world

Social Builder is an association dedicated to the support and inclusion of women towards digital jobs and skills. She follows around 75,000 women to guide and train them in digital technology through courses adapted to different profiles.

Encourage your employees to support the professional reintegration of these women by becoming a mentor alongside Social Builder.

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Why participate in this mission?

Not only will your employees have the opportunity to support a great project and help a woman pursue her professional ambition, but they will also use and develop their digital knowledge with their mentee.

As employees, they will even be able to add new soft skills essential to the business world to their CV (ability to listen, patience, management, etc.).

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Inspiring young people to help them find their way

The association Come and see MONTAF fight against social determinism and early school leaving.

How? By offering third-year internships with caring professionals who are motivated by the project. You guessed it, this is the mission offered to you by Vensvoir Montaf.

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Why participate in this mission?

We all know how difficult it is for high school students to find their career path. So overseeing an exploration internship that will inspire students and motivate them to engage in higher education is a philanthropic mission not to be missed!

Knowing how to train young people is also a skill that is valued in the world of work.

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Using new technology to help children with cancer

Draw High-Tech for me is an association that uses new technologies to fight against pediatric cancers. It sets up various levers to meet this objective:

• Moments of escape offered to children to discover new technologies such as virtual reality headsets;
• Support for research on pediatric cancers thanks to BigData and AI;
• Training for caregivers who want to learn about these technologies.

Your employees can act for this cause, by supporting children in handling the animation tools offered by Dessine-moi la High-Tech.

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Why participate in this mission?

This mission allows your employees to share light moments with these children affected by cancer and bring them some comfort. If they are fans of new technologies, it is also an opportunity to discover innovative tools.

The mission is achievable in sessions of 3 hours, during the week or at the weekend.

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Supporting young people in the realization of their professional project

The Institute of Commitment supports young people who have participated in a volunteer program by helping them to value their commitment and to structure their professional project.

In this spirit, the Institute of Commitment organizes competitions and offers 700 laureates every year professional support and financial support that allows them to develop their future project.

Your employees can put their skills at the service of these young people by examining their applications using an evaluation grid.

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Why participate in this mission?

To discover exciting projects and to help young people reach their professional goals. By offering a few hours of their time, your employees can review 5 applications.

They have the opportunity to study the files at their own pace and to break up the mission into several short sessions.

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Understanding the sea to better protect it

Planet Sea acts to protect marine biodiversity by including citizens in its approach. This association created the national participatory science program Biolit, which aims to analyze the evolution of coastlines.

To do this, Planète Mer organizes excursions to the coast with motivated citizens who will make observations and take photos. The data collected is then transmitted and analyzed by scientists in order to better understand how the seaside reacts to the various pressures it is subjected to.

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Why participate in this mission?

It is essential to understand how our environment works in order to protect it. So what could be better than getting some fresh air while helping science? This mission is an opportunity to discover your territory from a new angle!

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Waste less to better distribute our food

The Missing Link collects surplus food every day and redistributes it to its partners in order to donate them to people in precarious situations. Your employees can mobilize by participating in anti-waste collections with this association.

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Why participate in this mission?

10 million tons of food are lost or thrown away every year even though 8 million people cannot afford to eat according to their needs.

Supporting these people and protecting the planet by limiting food waste is a mission with two challenges for even more impact!

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And long-term sponsorship in all of this?

As mentioned above, long-term sponsorship is organized differently since the employees involved will join an association for a period of 6 months to 2 years.

This model is often offered as a springboard to retirement for senior employees. This is the case at BNP Paribas Fortis!

By forging partnerships with several associations, this bank allows its employees to contribute their skills to causes that are important to them while continuing to work in the company.

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What to remember

In 2021, according to the Admical barometer:

• Nearly 9 corporate sponsors practised financial sponsorship;
• 1/4 offered in-kind sponsorship;
• And only 15% practiced skills sponsorship.

This form of societal commitment is therefore still underdeveloped, even if it is becoming more and more talked about.

Loss of a workforce, HR costs, fear of an early resignation of employees... Alleviating corporate fears is a necessity for skills sponsorship to really take off.

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In particular, you can deploy Komeet's solutions to support you in launching a sponsorship program.

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