“Do good all year round” – that slogan has accompanied socially responsible companies for the last 25 years. The jubilee round of the Competition for the Benefactor of the Year has been launched recently.
The Competition Committee will select the Winners from among the submitted candidates in such categories as partnership cooperation with NGOs, employee volunteering, acting for the benefit of local community, health, diversity, and natural environment protection.
The objective of the Competition for the Benefactor of the Year is to present the partnership cooperation of small, medium-sized and large companies with NGOs which results in unique social or educational campaigns or valuable employee volunteering projects. The competition shows that good is good regardless of the size of a company and funds donated for charity.
‘The history of the competition reflects the history of Polish CSR and people who created it. For 25 years we have been awarding positive impact of companies on local communities, their involvement in charity and support for organizations or institutions, building broad coalitions around a given social goal or uncompromising attitude towards environment protection, people’s health or animal rights,” President of the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland Paweł Łukasiak says. The Academy is the manager of the competition.
In Culture and Education, Local Partnerships, Environment and Climate Protection, Social and Charity Assistance, Openness to Diversity and Healthy Lifestyle categories you can submit private or state enterprises and foundations set up by the companies operating in Poland. Candidates for winners in the above-mentioned categories can be submitted only by NGOs.
In Employee Volunteering category, the enterprises and foundations set up by companies can submit their applications themselves. It is enough to read the competition rules and regulations and fill in the online form on: wniosek.dobroczyncaroku.pl. Each submitted application will be considered by the experts and they will suggest the best candidates. The Competition Committee will select the winners from among those applications that will be suggested by the experts.
The Competition Committee is composed of representatives of the most important organizations and institutions related to development social responsibility of business in Poland, that is: Polish-American Freedom Foundation, UN Global Compact Polska, Polish Donors’ Forum, Business Centre Club, Employers of Poland, the Responsible Business Forum.
25th Anniversary Award
The Competition Committee will grant special awards on the occasion of 25th Anniversary of the Competition. The awards will go to those companies which have cooperated with an NGO in the area of social responsibility for many years. The awards are thus addressed to winners of former 24 rounds of the Competition for the Benefactor of the Year who will be invited by the organizers to present their history of partnership cooperation with an NGO and its results. It is not required that the cooperation between the company and the NGO was continued at the time of submitting the application. Also, you can submit cooperation with other NGO than the one the company cooperated with at the time when it was awarded. The winners will be selected by the Competition Committee which can grant more than one award.
The competition applications can be downloaded from and submitted on: dobroczyncaroku.pl
The Competition is organized by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland.
The Competition is funded by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation.
The procedure correctness of the Competition is supervised by E&Y.
The partners in the 25th are: Polish Confederation Lewiatan, Business Centre Club, Global Compact Network Poland, Employers of Poland, the Responsible Business Forum, and Polish Donors Forum.
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