Veolia Environnement Foundation

It supports non-profit, community-oriented projects contributing to sustainable development, with special focus on outreach, workforce development and environmental conservation in France and internationally. It is unique in that every project that it supports is accompanied by a sponsor, who is a Company employee.

At the same time, the Foundation fosters and encourages employee volunteering, providing the expertise of Company employees to the associations or institutions active in the areas of emergency aid and humanitarian development.

Since its creation in 2004, the Veolia Environnement Foundation has supported over 300 projects in the field of outreach in France and elsewhere, covering such areas as development aid and assistance to children and other vulnerable groups.

Since its creation, the Foundation has supported over 200 projects in the field of workforce development, aimed at helping people outside mainstream society find a stable job, advising them on the transition to work through economic activity.

Since its creation, the Foundation has supported over 200 projects in the field of environmental conservation, covering projects aimed at enhancing awareness of the conservation of natural resources and the protection of biodiversity.

The Veolia Environnement Foundation is unique in that it only supports projects sponsored by a Company employee. The Veolia Environnement employee then automatically becomes the sponsor of his or her project, and pledges, alongside the Foundation's full-time team, to prepare, monitor and evaluate the project.

Following a catastrophe or to sustainably improve the living conditions of the most disadvantaged populations, the Veolia Environnement Foundation makes the professional knowledge and skills of the Company available to the international humanitarian organizations which enlist its aid.

In this area, it relies on Veoliaforce, a network of employee volunteers from the Company's four divisions, who provide their skills during emergency missions or to help implement development projects internationally.