Corporate Social Responsibility Partnerships
As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programme, we partner with organizations on our CSR focus areas including climate change mitigation and adaptation, water, biodiversity, equality and education.
Save the Children
Ensuring children have a safe and balanced start to life is the key objective of our partnership with Save the Children. Building on Fortum’s earlier collaboration with Save the Children in various locations, the current partnership strengthens our efforts to support Save the Children’s work more widely and longer term.
In Finland, we are supporting a programme that provides support to children and families facing challenges, by helping Save the Children fund study materials, distribute food vouchers, and arrange leisure activities. In Sweden and Norway, we are supporting initiatives ensuring that children in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas have access to meaningful leisure activities. In Poland, our support is directed at education possibilities so that Ukrainian refugee children can continue learning despite the continued war.
Sininauhasäätiö (Blue Ribbon Foundation): Activity Tuesday
Blue Ribbon Foundation's clients often face difficult challenges in their lives. Activity Tuesday is the foundation's weekly activity that supports sobriety, helps maintain a life rhythm, and promotes social rehabilitation. Activity Tuesdays offer meaningful encounters, and a sense of accomplishment and community. Activities can include going to the cinema, concerts, cooking, nature, and local trips. The activities are only made possible with donations and volunteering. Activity Tuesday has been proven to improve participants' social skills, reduce substance abuse, and to increase physical and mental well-being.
Städa Sverige
Fortum and Städa Sverige arrange an annual river cleanup day called Älvstädningen with local youth sports teams along the rivers where Fortum operates 111 hydropower plants in Sweden. The sports clubs gain funding for their operations as they are compensated for their efforts and Sweden’s rivers are cleaner as a result. In the twelve years of Älvstädningen, we have collected over 300 tons of waste.
Maskrosbarn
Fortum supports Maskrosbarn in Sweden to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds in their adolescence to help shape their own future. Maskrosbarn supports young people aged 13-19 by organizing, for example, camps, support talks, youth centers and chat support. They also carry out advocacy work, lectures and trainings for professionals.
UN World Food Programme (WFP)
With this partnership, Fortum wants to support effective provision of food assistance in humanitarian crises.
World Food Programme uses food assistance to build peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. WFP has a presence in over 120 countries and territories. It provides life-saving assistance in emergencies and supports sustainable and resilient livelihoods to achieve a world with zero hunger. In 2020, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the important link between conflict and hunger and the critical role that food assistance plays in supporting the first step towards peace and stability.