Collective Action
We explore new forms of collaboration to address our society's most critical challenges
In the current context of growing inequalities, companies can and must be a key player for social cohesion. To achieve this, we support people in vulnerable situations through our foundations. This involves both the efforts of people from within our company as well as collaboration with bodies and organizations that have been leading the way on these issues for years.
Through our Collective Action pillar we seek to carry out actions that contribute to giving back everything we can to society, by reinvesting where it is truly needed, making a difference through volunteering, and building alliances.
Giving back to society
We commit to donating at least 20% of the company's total profits every year, allocating at least 10% to the Ferrer Foundations and the rest to other social and environmental organizations.
At Ferrer, we have been fighting for social justice through charitable donations for over 30 years. However, it was in 2020 when we suddenly saw the growing inequality that we were (and still are) experiencing, that we began to make a more significant contribution since we consider that companies can be a great agent of change and social cohesion.
In 2023, this resulted in donations of more than 9.5 million euros to social and environmental projects.
The main organizations we collaborate with:
Ferrer Foundations
(in 2023, 88% of the total)
Other organizations
(in 2023, 12% of the total)
Ferrer Sustainability Foundation
The Ferrer Sustainability Foundation is a Ferrer foundation created in 2020 to respond to the social needs and food emergency that already existed, but were aggravated by the COVID-19 health crisis.
It aims to improve lives, advocating for a more equitable and just society through the promotion of social cohesion, economic progress, and environmental conservation. In line with what we have done in recent years, we are working on two main projects that seek to address different social and environmental problems: Ferrer for Food and Green for Good.
Ferrer-Salat Music Foundation
We are working in two areas: the search for artistic excellence and the construction of a social base. We want to take music out of the concert halls where not everybody is able to go and make it more accessible for everyone. We want music to be a useful and accessible asset. Our projects understand music as a transformative tool.
Music education, both inside and outside the school environment, contributes to personal development. Professional music scholarships can be crucial for ensuring that students are not forced to miss out on study hours and opportunities in the professional sphere.
Finestres Foundation
The Finestres Foundation was created with the aim of promoting literary creation and providing future opportunities to authors from different fields and backgrounds, placing special emphasis on the creation of fiction in Catalan and Spanish, and comics in Catalan. The Finestres Foundation has four main pillars - Finestres Fiction Awards, Finestres Essay Awards, Promotion of Comics, and the Finestres Literary Residency.
With the conviction that reading is one of the most powerful drivers of change to alleviate social inequalities and a tool to understand the turbulent times in which we are living, the Finestres Foundation wants to protect and enhance writing, thought and art, by supporting artists during their creative process and providing them with the tools they need for their intellectual growth.
Ferrer Talent Foundation
The Ferrer Talent Foundation is empowering a new generation of tennis players to develop deep ecosocial awareness, based on the conviction that this vital attitude will give meaning to their career as professional athletes.
The Foundation is the framework upon which the Carles Ferrer Salat Tennis Empowerment Center has been created, a High Performance Center and Social Impact Representation Agency that provides full scholarships to the players with the greatest international potential to ensure that economic limitations will not be an impediment to their development.
Making a difference through volunteering
In 2020, we launched the first edition of the Volunteering Program, a project linked to all of Ferrer's strategic pillars to make it easier for members of the company to get involved in activities that contribute to fighting for social justice.
Volunteering Program
Objectives:
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To raise awareness of sustainability issues among Ferrer's employees.
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To offer the Ferrer team a meeting space and opportunities to mobilize, take action, and generate changes in society.
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To create an environment of cohesion and exchange between people from different Ferrer departments.
Days for good
Every year we celebrate Days for Good, a series of volunteering days with activities linked to the social and environmental aspects of our strategy. Since 2021, this has been the most important annual event in which we have carried out corporate volunteering and awareness-raising activities worldwide, aligned with the company's strategic pillars and the following objectives:
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To motivate Ferrer employees to develop their activism, enhancing the sense of belonging.
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To increase the visibility of our social and environmental strategy, as well as the Group's foundations, both internally and externally.
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To launch new regular activities, available on the Volunteering Portal following the Days for Good.
Joining forces and building alliances
One plus one equals two. Under this premise, we at Ferrer have set ourselves the goal of influencing other people and organizations around us, so that the combined result of every small action is greater all the time. We are members of strategic business groups and we are building long-term alliances to multiply efforts aimed at fighting for social justice.
B Corp
We are working to ensure that our daily actions and decisions transcend the boundaries of the organization and actively contribute to generating a more just, equitable, and inclusive society. Since 2022, we have been an active member of the B Corp Community, a movement that brings together companies from all over the world that share the common goal of “using the power of business as a force for social and environmental good.” In Spain, we are part of the group of large B Corp enterprises, which meets quarterly to exchange experiences and points of view and address challenges collectively.
Barcelona + B
In 2022, we joined Barcelona City Council, EADA Business School, and B Lab Spain, as a strategic partner in the Barcelona+B alliance, a public-private partnership project aimed at social and business transformation to promote a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive city.
Barcelona+B was one of the first initiatives in Spain created to improve the social and environmental impact of companies and citizens to turn us into the main agents of change and positive transformation. This initiative is also integrated into a broader network - the +B Cities Global Network, which mobilizes a range of stakeholders including citizens, companies, public institutions, universities, and foundations.
Other memberships and partnerships: