Fondation la France s’engage

Mission

The Foundation’s aim is to promote the engagement of civil society in innovative, mutually beneficial initiatives serving the greatest number of beneficiaries. In this way, it fosters social cohesion around local services and sustainable territorial development in France. Each year, it identifies and rewards the most innovative projects in all areas of sustainable development. The projects are accelerated by the Foundation, which provides them with funding and support over a three-year period to enable them to scale up and spread.

Geographic Focus

France (including oversea territories)

Programme Areas

• The major areas of expertise of La France s’engage are the following :
• Social innovation – year after year we detect and select the best local social innovations in France when they are still at an early stage and help them to expand
• Social impact – when integrated into the La France s’engage program we make sure that the grantees assess their social impact, strenghten their methodologies and reach out to an accrued number of beneficiaries in new territories while increasing the quality of their services and impact
• Capacity Building – La France s’engage provides unrestricted funding for a period of three years. This allows them to use funding exactly how they need it (whether on HR, technology, material, etc…) to develop their capacities. But beside funding the grantees enter a three-year program of capacity building by external suppliers and partners of La France s’engage addressing specifically the needs and wants of our grantees and help them strengthen their governance, legal aspects, social impact measurement, scale changing and many more targeted services to help them grow.
• Community network – entering the community of La France s’engage (248 actual and past grantees operating in different fields and regions) is a real asset for the new grantees. La France s’engage acts as a broker and accelerator fostering the peer-topeer networking, the gathering at events, the capitalization on specific topics, the funding through its networks of private and public donors and the facilitation with administrative stakeholders. We also intend the network of La France s’engage to be a happy and engaging one.