Above, from left to right:
- In November, Hiroshi Kanno, Partner and Managing Director of Boston Consulting Group Tokyo, travelled with a team to Nepal to see Save the Children’s achievements on the ground (Credit: Boston Consulting Group)
- Your involvement enables us to support children like Kiki in Swaziland. Staff member Thandiwe Nkonyane works with Kiki and other children in the Kamkhweli area Neighbourhood Care Centre (Credit: Graeme Williams / Panos / Save the Children)
- Save the Children and IKEA staff meet in India to discuss the IKEA Social Initiative
- Save the Children staff in Zinder, Niger, load food and medicines ready for delivery to chronically poor and malnourished families in local feeding centres. (Credit: Amadou Mbodj / Save the Children)
We cannot build a better world for children without your help. Your support enables us to secure real and lasting change for millions of children around the world.
Save the Children would like to thank all the companies, individuals, foundations, governments, non-governmental organisations and international institutions that support our work.
Save the Children seeks to engage in meaningful dialogue with the corporate sector, to build strong relationships based on mutually-defined objectives, and to work together to reach, protect and support more children worldwide. A partnership with us will further your corporate social responsibility aims, and will involve innovative project delivery and accountable monitoring and reporting.
Please contact us at info@save-children-alliance.org to discuss working in partnership with Save the Children.
Here, we outline some of the ways that corporate partners contributed to our work in 2008.
Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a major pro bono partner for Save the Children. Our relationship, in place for almost 20 years, enables consultants to dedicate their time and expertise to work with us on a number of global and national projects. A successful annual secondment programme is in place, focusing on change management and financial analysis.
Our partnership allows the BCG team to apply skills normally associated with business consultancy to a different goal - improving the way we create change for children. In 2008, BCG consultants also provided invaluable analysis and support in the process of determining our strategic direction for 2010-2015.
Bulgari
Bulgari began supporting Save the Children's Rewrite the Future campaign in 2009 to highlight the importance of quality education for children affected by conflict. The luxury brand has raised more than €6 million to benefit the campaign, through sales of a unique and simple silver ring and pendant - with the Save the Children logo engraved in the inside - and the auction of an exquisite collection of jewels and watches.
The exciting partnership between Bulgari and Save the Children will continue for two more years in 2010 and 2011: Bulgari has committed €8 million to support Save the Children's key strategic interventions, beginning with the response to Haiti's devastating earthquake. Learn more about this partnership
IKEA
Save the Children and IKEA have worked in partnership since 1993. We helped IKEA develop their code of conduct on child labour, underlining the company's commitment to responsible corporate behaviour. Together, we are helping to realise children's rights to a healthy and secure childhood and a quality education.
A key aspect of our partnership is an annual campaign, where one euro (US$1.50) is donated for every soft toy sold by Ikea in the two months before Christmas. The One Euro is a Fortune campaign benefits 40 Save the Children programmes in 20 countries. In 2008, it generated over US$8 million globally.
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GS Home Shopping
GS Home Shopping has worked with us in support of child survival and health since 2005. In 2008, the company contributed US$200,000 for medical treatment of rare diseases in children from low-income families.
It also actively promoted our Knit One, Save One campaign via its TV Channel, online retail channels and stores, and donated US$180,000. Thanks to the campaign, Save the Children received 80,500 knitted caps for newborns, secured 12,000 new donors and a pledge of US$1 million in the Republic of Korea to improve infant survival rates in Mali.
Intensa Sanpaolo and Fondazione Cariplo
Project Malawi, promoted and founded by Intensa Sanpaolo and Fondazione Cariplo, is an ambitious development programme targeting AIDS in Malawi. By increasing access to early childhood development services and strengthening psychosocial support for children affected by HIV and AIDS, the programme is giving children a chance to develop their potential.
Nokia and the Nokia Siemens Network
We are working with Nokia and the Nokia Siemens Network to respond to drought in southern Ethiopia.The project, co-funded by Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ethiopian government and Save the Children, is proof that multi-sector alliances can be successful. The initiative, which is bringing sustainable solutions to 70,000 people, involves six community-managed water points, health and hygiene instruction, and promoting children's rights and educational opportunities.
Reckitt Benckiser
A major partner since 2003, Reckitt Benckiser is supporting child survival programmes for children under five in Angola and Tanzania. Their outstanding Save 100,000 Lives campaign was launched in the UK in 2006 with a target of US$1.6 million, which was subsequently increased to US$2.4 million and reached in December 2008. Reckitt Benckiser aims to raise a further US$5.5 million over the next five years.
Save the Children also benefits from generous annual contributions of US$150,000 towards our Children's Emergency Fund.
Baker & McKenzie
During 2008, law firm Baker & McKenzie provided invaluable help with our ongoing work to protect the Save the Children logo and brand around the world. The firm, a long-term Save the Children corporate partner, provided pro bono legal advice on trademarking and other areas.
