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Circle Economy UA

€ 239,000
15 months
Ongoing

General operating support to strengthen key function within Circle Economy.

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ABA Rule of Law Initiative

€ 453,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Advance workers’ access to labour justice and rights to non-discrimination, freedom of association, and payment of remuneration owed, with a principal focus on the apparel and textile sector.

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ABCR

€ 33,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

General operating support to ABCR, to strengthen the organisation and the civil society sector in Brazil.

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ABVTEX

€ 180,000
18 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strengthen and expand the ABVTEX Certification Programme and its transparency, in order to promote more accountability and improve working conditions in the Brazilian apparel supply chain.

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Action for Social Advancement

€ 245,000
3 months
Ongoing

Covid 19 Emergency Fund to Action for Social Advancement

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Action for Social Advancement

€ 433,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve farmer livelihoods through organic cotton production in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Action for Social Advancement

€ 570,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Expansion of organic cotton in the tribal region of Madhya Pradesh with key emphasis on value chain integration of producers through producers collectives.

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Action for Social Advancement

€ 474,000
3 years
Ongoing

Institutional Support for Promotion of Farm-Based Rural Livelihood Initiatives with Smallholders in India.

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Action for Social Advancement

€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Manage the Organic Cotton and Fairtrade Secretariat in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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ADM Capital Foundation

€ 32,500
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Research the key challenges faced by Chinese fashion manufacturers.

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Aga Khan Foundation

€ 187,000
3 months
Completed

Covid 19 Emergency Fund support to Aga Khan Foundation

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Aga Khan Foundation

€ 1,400,000
4 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Transition of marginal, tribal farmers to organic cotton production in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Aga Khan Foundation

€ 4,300,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Provide loans from a community-managed fund to smallholder cotton farmers in India to install dip irrigation units for improving water use efficiency.

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Aga Khan Foundation

€ 83,500
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Promote Better Cotton production practices using water efficient farming techniques.

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Aga Khan Foundation

€ 1,617,000
3 years
Ongoing

Expand on the on-going program by continuing to support farmers in practicing organic farming, strengthen the farmer institutions, and enable these institutions with better markets

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Aid by Trade Foundation - Cotton Made in Africa

€ 293,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Promote sustainable production in Africa identifying locally available and efficient bio-pesticides and promoting their uptake.

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Alain Schraner- Modefica

€ 102,000
11 months
Ongoing

Fibres for Textiles: A Systemic Perspective to Sustainable Paths For Circular Fashion.

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Aliança Empreendedora Association

€ 116,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Promote decent working relationships in the textile sector with Latin American immigrants, through entrepreneurship.

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Alinha

€ 29,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop and implement technology able to trace the production of clothing, ensuring respect for decent working conditions.

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Alumni Coppead Associação Dos Ex Alunos Do Instituto Coppead De Admnistração

€ 154,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Increase transparency in the fashion industry through the use of Blockchain.

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Alumni Coppead Associação Dos Ex Alunos Do Instituto Coppead De Admnistração

€ 39,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Identify relevant stakeholders to advance transparency in the Brazilian fashion industry: (a) Mapping of the ecosystem of organizations that promote or advocate for more transparency in the private sector and (b) Mapping of stakeholders that oppose transparency.

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American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences

€ 17,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund to American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences.

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American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences

€ 245,000
2 years
Ongoing

Follow up study on socio-economic & environmental outcomes of organic cotton farm initiatives in Madhya Pradesh.

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American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR)

€ 223,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Assess the socio-economic impact of three cotton cultivation systems - BCI, conventional and organic cotton on smallholders in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute

€ 250,000
1 year

Challenging Debt for Fossil Fuels

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Anti-Slavery International

€ 100,000
5 months
Ongoing

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Anit-Slavery International

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Anti-Slavery International

€ 298,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support the initiative "European Action to Reduce Forced and Child Labour in Global Supply Chains."

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Arlénica

€ 166,000
13 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Mexico Fashion Transparency Index

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ArtEZ University of the Arts

€ 25,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Sponsorship of a two-day conference presenting c research and a wide range of critical fashion practices to help redefine the fashion industry as a force for good.

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Ashoka

€ 2,900,000
4 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Identify and nurture social entrepreneurs working to transform the apparel industry through the "Fabric of Change" partnership.

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ASPTA

€ 271,000
25 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Contributing to the strengthening of agroecological family farming value chains in the semi-arid region of Brazil through strategies to access markets and generate income in the Territory of Borborema (Paraíba State).

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Associacao Avina

€ 180,000
12 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Collaborative Advocacy Network (RAC) aiming to strengthen the capacity of Brazilian Civil Society Organisations to do advocacy connected to the causes of transparency and accountability, human rights, environmental protection and new business models.

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Associacao Avina

€ 59,000
7 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Collaborative Advocacy Network (RAC) aiming to strengthen the capacity of Brazilian Civil Society Organisations to do advocacy connected to the causes of transparency and accountability, human rights, environmental protection and new business models.

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Associação Direitos Humanos em Rede - CONECTAS

€ 12,000
8 months
Ongoing

Monitoring laws approved during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: description, mapping and impacts on human rights

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Associação Direitos Humanos em Rede - CONECTAS

€ 337,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Advocacy for best practices in combating forced labour and the protection of migrant workers.

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Associação Franciscana De Solidariedade - Sefras

€ 21,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the creation of a Hotspot program to combat forced labour in São Paulo

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Associação Franciscana De Solidariedade - Sefras

€ 405,000
2 years
Ongoing

The Network to Promote Decent Work is a collective project to combat forced labour in various sectors, including the fashion industry in the city of São Paulo, promoted by a network of civil society organizations, and partners of public entities.

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Associação Franciscana De Solidariedade - Sefras

€ 60,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for Sefras

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Associação Rede Dinheiro e Consciência

€ 95,000
9 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

To structure an innovative investment vehicle that catalysis positive impact businesses and projects, at the same time that attracts conscious investors aiming a healthy and sustainable value chain in the fashion industry.

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Awaj Foundation

€ 1,300,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Awaj, together with Impactt empowers women leaders in the apparel sector, through advanced training in negotiation and advocacy.

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Awaj Foundation

€ 832,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Awaj, together with Impactt empowers women leaders in the apparel sector, through advanced training in negotiation and advocacy.

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Awaj Foundation

€ 12,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Exchange of knowledge between the advocacy groups in Myanmar and Bangladesh on advocacy practices for women in garment industry.

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Awaj Foundation

€ 90,000
25 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen Awaj Foundation's communication capacity

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Awaj Foundation

€ 144,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Emergency Fund support to Awaji Foundation

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Azavea

€ 1,100,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Establish long-term operations and scale use of the Open Apparel Registry (OAR).

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Banco do Brasil Foundation

€ 6,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

The main objective of this initiative is support the Social Technologies Award 2019. This award aims to identify, certify, reward and disseminate Social Technologies and Innovations to overcome challenges in rural organic production regarding two main categories: (i) Women and agroecological production (Gender lens); (ii) Community Governance and Organic Cotton (Rural community lens).

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Bangladesh Apparel Exchange Ltd

€ 26,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Gold level sponsorship of Bangladesh Fashionology Summit 2019

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Bangladesh Apparel Exchange Ltd

€ 25,000
2 months
Completed

Sponsorship of Bangladesh Fashionology Summit 2020: Third Edition.

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Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity

€ 32,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Create awareness around GBV, empower women and factories to fight GBV and advocate for a legal framework against GBV in Bangladesh and a binding ILO Convention internationally.

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Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity

€ 95,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Empower workers, especially female workers, to use social media as a tool to organise and raise their collective voice.

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Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS)

€ 117,000
5 months
Ongoing

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to BCWS.

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Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST

€ 38,000
18 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Research on compensation court cases for workplace injuries and deaths in Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)

€ 670,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Empower individual workers, in particular women, to increase their voice and raise concerns before factory management and seek legal protection of their rights, thereby increasing access to justice.

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Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)

€ 325,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Increase access for Bangladeshi garment workers to legal aid services and advocate for further legal reforms to protect their rights.

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Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)

€ 75,000
5 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for BLAST

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Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE foundation)

€ 25,000
20 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Occupational Health and Safety Initiative for Workers and Community in Bangladesh Apparel Sector.

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Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE foundation)

€ 99,000
7 months
Ongoing

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE foundation).

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Baobá Fund

€ 45,000
18 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Core support to develop organisational capacity on communications, leadership and safety/security.

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Bauhaus der Erde

€ 2,600,000
2 years
Ongoing

Phase one funding for Bauhaus der Erde.

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Better Cotton Initiative

€ 2,000,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Investing in the transformation of sustainable cotton production in key geographic areas.

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Better Cotton Initiative

€ 60,000
3 months
Completed

Covid 19 Emergency Fund supprt for BCI.

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Better Cotton Initiative

€ 1,500,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the Better Cotton Initiative in standard upgradation, increasing uptake and embedding the standard in national and quasi-national legislation.

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Better Cotton Initiative

€ 100,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund for BCI's support of IPs

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Biomimicry Institute

€ 95,000
5 months
Completed

Using natural ecosystems to evolve the fashion industry.

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bioRe Foundation

€ 195,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Research and propagate high performing organic cotton seeds in India.

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Blockforce

€ 80,000
0 months
Ongoing

Support for organisational development of Blockforce.

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BRAC University

€ 62,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support a pilot project to map all apparel factories in two sub-districts of Bangladesh.

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BRAC USA

€ 1,800,000
6 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

The project will be first ever programme to map RMG factories across all 20 garment-producing districts in Bangladesh, including direct and indirect exporters, subcontractors, and manufacturers.

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Brazil Foundation/Womanity Foundation

€ 36,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Create an online platform that maps and analyses the ecosystem of initiatives aimed at women’s empowerment and gender justice.

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Breakthrough

€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Core support for Breakthrough.

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Breakthrough

€ 450,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Build a response system to tackle sexual harassment and gender based violence in the workplace within the apparel supply chain.

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Breakthrough

€ 99,858
13 months

Support the development of a strong response system to gender-based violence and sexual harassment and shift normative values and behavior in a community in Faridabad, India.

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BSR

€ 311,000
3.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Adapt HerRespect curriculum for use in India, and partner with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) to mobilise manufacturers to prevent gender based violence.

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BSR

€ 100,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Expand transparency information in north and southeast Asia to reduce environmental impacts of the apparel supply chain.

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BSR

€ 488,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop and pilot tools to effectively monitor and measure the impact of their activities on gender equality and women's empowerment in supply chains.

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BSR

€ 99,000
1 year
Ongoing

Expansion of the “Interactive Map for Business of Anti-Human Trafficking Organizations” as a unified resource for business and stakeholder partnerships.

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BSR

€ 100,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop a study on the feasibility of a labour arbitration transparency mechanism.

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BSR

€ 350,000
18 months
Ongoing

A Systemic approach to realising positive impact for job opportunities and quality in circular fashion.

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Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

€ 240,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support to explore corporate legal accountability in social auditing.

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Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

€ 70,000
6 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

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Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)

€ 80,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support Cambodian civil society organisations to work together defend garment workers' rights.

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Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)

€ 1,970,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Educate women workers and unions on how to use data as a basis for negotiation to improve working conditions in Indonesian apparel factories.

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Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)

€ 80,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support Cambodian civil society organisations to work together to defend garment workers' rights.

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CAMI - Migrant Support and Pastoral Centre

€ 9,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency Funding for CAMI

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CAMI - Migrant Support and Pastoral Centre

€ 302,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

 Empower immigrants and their families, in particular involving sewing workshops and informal work activities in the garment sector.

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Campanha Nacional pelo Direito à Educação

€ 163,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Advocacy against child labour: an advocacy initiative part of the 100 Million for 100 Million campaign.

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Canopy

€ 380,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support a collaborative campaign to drive the production of sustainable viscose for the apparel industry.

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Canopy

€ 1,700,000
5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support CanopyStyle to engage with brands and viscose producers, and look for alternative sources of fibre to support circular economy initiatives.

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Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) - Game Changers Fund

€ 2,000,000
3 months
Ongoing

A ‘Game Changer Fund’ for European city policies on embodied carbon, circular material flows, and wood construction

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Carbon Tracker Initiative Limited

€ 1,500,000
3 years

Aligning Capital Market Actions with Climate Reality

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Care USA

€ 1,400,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Build the resilience of urban populations in Dhaka, Bangladesh to humanitarian emergencies.

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Care USA

€ 500,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Educate women workers and unions on how to use data as a basis for negotiation to improve working conditions in Indonesian apparel factories.

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Care USA

€ 500,000
9 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Protect refugee women and girls from gender-based violence and build their resilience.

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Catholic Relief Services

€ 500,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Provide an environment of safety and support for women and children in the Rohingya Refugee Settlements - including reduction in sexual and gender based violence.

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CDHIC - Center for Human Rights and Immigrant Citizenship

€ 44,000
8 months
Ongoing

Funding to commbate forced labour in the fashion industry.

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CDHIC - Center for Human Rights and Immigrant Citizenship

€ 83,000
10 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Preventing and combating Forced Labour of migrant workers in the fashion industry in the city of Guarulhos, through community strengthening and local advocacy efforts.

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CDHIC - Centre for Immigrant Human Rights and Citizenship

€ 76,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the implementation Brazil’s new migration law (No. 13.445) in order to protect the rights of migrant workers, particularly in the apparel supply chain

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Center for Global Development

€ 170,000
12 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Researching "beyond aid" solutions for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh

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Centre for Responsible Business

€ 97,000
1 year
Ongoing

Support evidence-based policy innovations for promoting the transition towards circular apparel in India.

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Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

€ 465,000
3 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Empower workers and civil society to shape the implementation of NAFTA 2.0 and hold governments accountable to their commitments on labour protections and gender equity.

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Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

€ 60,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Research the challenges faced by Syrian refugees working in the apparel industry in Turkey.

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Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

€ 61,000
4 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

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Child Helpline International

€ 480,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support of the "Free Their Voices" campaign, giving a voice to 40 million children worldwide.

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China Labour Bulletin (CLB)

€ 42,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen workers’ bargaining power by anchoring unions within garment factories in Karnataka, supporting regular and constructive collective bargaining processes, empowering women leaders and sharing experiences with other organisations working on similar goals.

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China Labour Bulletin (CLB)

€ 300,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Build the foundation for effective dialogue on labour in Asia, through south-south solidarity.

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China Labour Bulletin (CLB)

€ 780,000
4 years
Ongoing

Building greater solidarity between workers in Global South countries through workplace organizing

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Cidade Escola Aprendiz

€ 103,000
7 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Pilot model that aims to elaborate a protocol for the prevention and eradication of child labour in regions where the apparel industry is most present, focused on school inclusion and on engaging local public services to better identify cases and provide appropriate assistance.

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Circle Economy

€ 300,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support brands to overcome the internal and external barriers of implementing a circular business model by guiding them through a Circular Innovation Process.

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Circle Economy

€ 256,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Expand the "Circle Textiles Programme" to establish a commercial and scalable model to "close the loop" on textiles.

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Circulate Capital

€ 87,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation

General support to Circulate Captial

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Climate Strategies

€ 765,000
2 years
Ongoing

Just Transition of oil & gas in UK, Norway and Denmark.

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Climate-KIC

€ 500,000
1 year

Embodied carbon neutral, circular, and wooden large scale demonstrations in Milan and Madrid

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CNI

€ 23,500
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Convening "Circular Economy and the Industry of the Future" that discusses the main issues faced by the industry when trying to incorporate circularity principles and to develop new markets and supply chains envisioning the industry of the future.

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Collectively

€ 90,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Inspired collective, corporate action by mobilising millennials to become more sustainable consumers.

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Copenhagen Consensus

€ 1,200,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Informed policy and funding decisions in Bangladesh, using evidence about the type of social investment that has the most impact.

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CottonConnect

€ 7,500,000
7 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve farmer livelihoods through organic and more sustainable cotton production in India, Pakistan, and China.

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Council on Economic Policies

€ 1,100,000
44 months
Ongoing

Evaluation for economic policy solutions that strengthen individual opportunity, social cohesion and environmental stability

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Council on Economic Policies

€ 1,500,000
42 months
Ongoing

To explore eonomic policy solutions that strengthen individual opportunity, social cohesion and environmental stability.

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Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute

€ 150,000
13 months
Ongoing

Developing product standard training guidance

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Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute

€ 134,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Revise the "Social Fairness and Water Stewardship" criteria of the newest version Cradle to Cradle Certified standard (Version 4.0).

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Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute

€ 400,000
1.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Increase the accessibility of high-quality, actionable data about chemicals to companies, to enable positive decisions earlier in the design process.

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Danish Fashion Institute

€ 434,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Sponsorship of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit.

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Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong

€ 104,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Raise awareness of rights on migrant labour and gender protection in vocational schools in China.

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Derechos Infancia México A.C. (REDIM)

€ 50,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Advocate for the inclusion of forced child labour within the fashion industry in Guanajuato's political agenda.

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Derechos Infancia México A.C. (REDIM)

€ 99,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Inclusion of forced & child labour within the fashion industry in Guanajuato’s political agenda

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH

€ 3,500,000
44 months

Expand on the on-going program by continuing to support farmers in practicing organic farming, and enable improved market linkages

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)

€ 1,900,000
2.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Improve the livelihoods of 16,500 smallholder cotton farmers in Tanzania through transition to organic farming and forging strong link to markets.

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Diaconia

€ 280,000
18 months
Ongoing

Consolidating agroecological production in the Brazilian semi-arid region.

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Diaconia

€ 250,000
18 months

This initiative will build on Diaconia's work with cotton farmers in phase 1 of our partnerships and aims to create and then leverage a network of stakeholders including organic producer institutions, brands, public agencies, civil society, universities, international organisations working towards a shared agenda of people & planet thriving.

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Diaconia

€ 75,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strategic planning and diagnostics of a plan to strengthen and expand cotton production in agroecological consortia in semi-arid regions.

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Diaconia

€ 791,000
25 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strengthen and expand agroecological intercropping cotton growing in 7 territories (6 states) of the Brazilian semi-arid region, with prospects for development of family-based social organisations and approach to the fair trade and organic market.

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Diaconia

€ 52,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency Fund - 2020

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Dignificando el Trabajo AC

€ 6,000
4 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Dignificando el Trabajo AC.

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Doughnut Economics Action Lab

€ 33,000
7 months
Ongoing

To accelerate an economic transformation that promotes human flourishing on a thriving planet.

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Dutch Green Building Council (DGBC)

€ 95,000
7 months
Ongoing

Development of a “Framework for circular buildings – In-Use”

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Ecopreneur.eu

€ 75,000
2 years
C&A Foundation

Strengthen advocacy for strong circular economy policies in Europe, including those concerning the fashion industry.

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Ellen MacArthur Foundation

€ 915,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Make Fashion Circular - a pre-competitive collaboration for industry leaders to stimulate the change needed to create a circular textiles economy.

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Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF)

€ 475,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop an action plan towards a "circular fibres economy", through systems analysis and engagement of a core group of partners.

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Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bangladesh/GIZ

€ 2,999,000
42 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Building worker advocacy for Employment Injury Insurance (EII) in Bangladesh’s Apparel Sector.

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Embrapa Cotton

€ 37,000
28 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Develop a mobile app for checking, monitoring and supporting decision-making for the sustainable management of agroecological-based cotton cultivation.

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Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation (EMReF)

€ 44,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Produce a study of Myanmar’s garment sector, focusing on worker demographics and communities, and their engagement with technology.

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EON Group Holdings Inc

€ 88,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

To write a draft standard for digital identification of apparel and footwear products to enable an apparel and footwear recycling, repair, rental and recommerce.

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EON Group Holdings Inc

€ 432,000
13 months
Ongoing

Create and accelerate the adoption of a global standard and digital system for the identification and management of apparel products in the circular economy.

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Equiception

€ 455,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Pilot a technology and disclosure mechanism to test effectiveness in improving conditions for refugees working in the garment industry in Turkey.

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ESPLAR - Research and Assessment Centre

€ 21,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency Fund - 2020

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ESPLAR Research and Assessment Centre

€ 274,000
37 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Increase certified organic cotton production by smallholder farmers for the organic market.

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Ethical Trading Initiative

€ 100,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve working conditions in Bangladesh by driving improved purchasing practices through Better Buying and promoting changes in business models.

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Ethical Trading Initiative

€ 94,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve workplace gender inequality through the development and implementation of ETI’s gender strategy.

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Ethos/DIEESE/Reporter Brasil

€ 130,000
1 year
Ongoing

Promover um Fórum Intersetorial de Diálogo Social para a melhoria das condições de trabalho do pólo produtivo de confecções de Pernambuco à luz do ODS 8.

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Ethos/DIEESE/Reporter Brasil/Inpacto

€ 108,000
9 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

To foster an Intersectoral Social Dialogue Forum to improve working conditions in the Pernambuco apparel production hub in light of SDG 8.

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European Climate Foundation

€ 99,000
5 months

Working with Material Economics to ensure a more circular economy is at the core of the European Green Deal.

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European Coalition for Corporate Justice

€ 1,399,000
3 years
Ongoing

This partnership supports a civil society coalition to advocate for robust laws at both European and national levels and increase public awareness on human rights and environmental due diligence and corporate accountability.

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European Environmental Bureau

€ 1,300,000
2 years
Ongoing

To deliver an advocacy agenda for a circular economy in line with sustainable development goals.

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European Environmental Citizens' Organisation for Standardisation (ECOS)

€ 100,000
13 months
Ongoing

European technical standards for sustainable construction.

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European Venture Philanthropy Association

€ 70,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support for the EVPA Corporate Social Investment task group.

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European Venture Philanthropy Association

€ 380,000
5 years
Ongoing

Support for the Corporate Social Investors initiative.

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Evidence Aid

€ 601,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strengthen evidence-based practice in the global humanitarian sector.

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Fair Labor Association

€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Collect, benchmark, and disclose aggregate wage data for Bangladesh and Turkey.

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FASE

€ 967,000
4 years
Ongoing

Strengthen women’s rights organisations and groups so they are able to implement initiatives and jointly advocate for the rights of informal apparel workers in three Brazilian states.

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FASE - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (MT)

€ 86,000
21 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support and train grassroots women rights organizations to empower women garment workers in Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro. Once mobilised and more aware of their rights and their position within the garment industry supply chain, the objective is to mobilise these women so they may articulate demands and actions towards better working conditions.

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FASE - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (MT)

€ 86,000
21 months
Completed

Support women's rights grassroots organisations to conduct a survey with informal female apparel workers in Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro, expand their knowledge on their the apparel supply chain, and organise themselves to collectively undertake action that may result in better working conditions.

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FASE - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (MT)

€ 38,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for Federacao De Orgaos Para Assistência Social E Educação - Fase.

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FASE - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (MT)

€ 39,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to FASE - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (MT).

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FASE - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (MT)

€ 967,000
4 years
Ongoing

Strengthen women’s rights organisations and groups so they are able to implement initiatives and jointly advocate for the rights of informal apparel workers in three Brazilian states.

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FASE - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (MT)

€ 276,000
42 months
Ongoing

Agroecological Cotton: sustainable production by means of cultural and economic strengthening of Mato Grosso’s peoples and communities.

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Fashion Revolution Brasil

€ 800,000
3 years
Ongoing

Core support for the strengthening of Fashion Revolution Brasil, which will ensure the movement's main initiatives for the next three years (2020-2022), including: three editions of the FTI, among others.

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Fashion Revolution Brasil

€ 155,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support for the 2019 Fashion Transparency Index and institutional strengthening of the Fashion Revolution movement in Brazil.

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Fashion Revolution CIC

€ 1,200,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Core Funding for Fashion Revolution's four-year strategy

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Fashion Revolution CIC

€ 450,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support for Fashion Revolution to develop and scale a transparency index to rate global brands on their level of public disclosure.

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Fashion Revolution/GVCES

€ 87,500
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Promoting the transparency of supply chains between Brazilian brands and retailers.

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Fashion Roundtable Organisation Ltd

€ 56,000
9 months
Ongoing

Organisational development support

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Fauna & Flora International

€ 100,000
3 years
Ongoing

Tackling microplastic fibre pollution through collaborative, cross-sector action.

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FGV - DIREITO SP

€ 59,000
7 months
Ongoing

Building a model of due diligence in human rights together with a group of brands, so that companies in the Brazilian fashion industry can prevent, evaluate, measure, control and remediate situations of forced labour in their supply chains.

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FGV/GVCES

€ 56,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support to a capacity-building programme on Sustainability for future leaders at FGV.

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Fibra Design Sustentável ME

€ 34
2 months
Completed

Festival to foster the development of new sustainable economic models in Latin America.

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FICAS - International Social Environmental Fund

€ 45,000
8 months
Ongoing

Strengthening FICAS and its activities to empower migrant workers.

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FICAS - International Social Environmental Fund

€ 76,000
9 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

The project aims to strengthen migrant groups that work in the fashion supply chain to identify cases of forced labour and seek better working conditions.

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Finance Watch

€ 200,000
0 months
Ongoing

Climate Risks & Development of National Networks to Update Financial Prudential Regulation.

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Folha de São Paulo

€ 29,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Three debates broadcast live and covered by Folha de S. Paulo newspaper on the ‘#Circular Economy’, ‘Sustainable Agriculture’ and ‘Forced Labour and Immigration’.

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Follow This

€ 400,000
2 years
Ongoing

Support to Follow This on their work on fossil fuel resolutions

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Follow This

€ 100,000
7 months
Ongoing

Core support to Follow This - Climate Change

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Fondation Terre des hommes

€ 450,000
8 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Integrate nutrition and child protection emergency response for Rohingya support.

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Fondo Semillas

€ 362,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Enhance women workers' working conditions and lives in Mexico.

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Forum for the Future

€ 1,200,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Catalysing sector-wide dialogue and action to prepare for a changing climate, and continuing to build uptake of sustainable cotton by new brands and in new geographies

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Forum for the Future

€ 13,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Forum for the Future.

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Forum for the Future

€ 98,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Cotton 2040 Standards Convening on Traceability and Impact Data - Facilitating alignment and harmonisation of sustainable cotton standards

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Forum for the Future

€ 998,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support Forum for the Future to strengthen its ability to create systems change in the apparel industry and beyond.

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Forum for the Future

€ 25,000
8 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop a learning platform for creating systems change.

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Forum for the Future

€ 20,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Create better understanding and guidance to develop strategies on the future of sustainability in apparel.

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Forum for the Future Asia Pacific

€ 294,000
19 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support Circular Leap Asia which enables apparel companies in Asia to pilot circular business models.

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Foundation for Educational Innovations in Asia

€ 39,000
4 months
Ongoing

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Foundation for Education Innovations in India.

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Frank Bold Society

€ 98,000
13 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

The project aims to set transparency requirements in EU law for key industries, including the apparel sector, by providing extensive analysis of quality of companies' disclosure and coordinating leading NGOs, investors and standard setters.

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Frank Bold Society

€ 370,000
3 years
Ongoing

The initiative aims to strengthen corporate human rights and environmental reporting requirements in EU law.

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Freedom Fund

€ 100,000
4 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Freedom Fund in India.

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Freedom Fund

€ 2,400,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Conduct a feasibility study to establish a large-scale, comprehensive initiative to address forced labour in Tamil Nadu.

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Freedom Fund

€ 6,400,000
6 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Implement a comprehensive hot-spot approach to eliminate bonded and child labour from the spinning mills of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Freedom Fund

€ 475,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Implement the multi-partner hotspot approach to eliminate child labour from the fashion supply chain in Jaipur (Rajasthan).

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Freedom Fund

€ 4,860,000
3 years
Ongoing

Driving systemic reform of the apparel sector through frontline interventions and global strategies

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Fundacion Avina

€ 65,000
13 months
Ongoing

Create an accountability and transparency mechanism through the use of civic technology and open data in order to enhance labour rights protection in the garment industry in Mexico

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Fundacion Merced AC

€ 74,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Conduct a working conditions landscape study of the garment industry in Mexico.

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Fundacion Solidaridad Latinoamerica

€ 21,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency Fund - 2020

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Fundo Ângela Borba de Recursos para Mulheres

€ 10,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for Fundo Ângela Borba de Recursos para Mulheres

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Fundo Ângela Borba de Recursos para Mulheres

€ 405
1.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen women's rights organisations to end Gender-Based Violence in the Apparel Supply Chain through re-grant of up to 20 CSOs and the promotion of meetings with key stakeholders from the cotton field to the end of the supply chain.

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Fundo Brasil

€ 304,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Provide technical and financial support for the monitoring and training of civil society organisations working to combat child labour in the fashion industry.

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Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos

€ 24,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos.

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Geledés

€ 74,000
12 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Institutional Development of Geledés

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Gender at Work

€ 13,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop a robust gender justice lens across C&A Foundation's programming.

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Girl Determined

€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Enhance the impacts of the girl-centred programmes by effective data capturing.

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Glasgow Caledonian University New York

€ 188,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support of the Fair Fashion Centre and their efforts to empower apparel companies to embed sustainable business practises across business functions.

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Global Fund for Women

€ 220,000
1 year

Global Fund for Women is working to strengthen feminist principles, practices and infrastructure for sustainable crises response, including immediate COID-19 support through dedicated funding in their communities.

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Global Fund for Women

€ 1,600,000
5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Establish a collaborative to strengthen organisations working to end gender-based violence against women apparel workers in South Asia.

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Global Fund for Women

€ 222,000
13 months
Ongoing

Partnering with Women’s Funds to Strengthen Feminist Principles, Practices and Infrastructure for Sustainable Crises Response.

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Global Labour Justice

€ 27,000
2 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Sponsorship of women leaders from different countries (India, Mexico, and others) to participate in ILO's second phase negotiations towards a convention and recommendation on gender-based violence.

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Global Labour Justice

€ 75,000
0 months
Ongoing

Supporting women to lead the fight to end gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace through organising, advocacy and practice

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Global Labour Justice

€ 129,000
3 months
Ongoing

COVID-19 emergency fund support for Global Labour Justice.

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Globescan

€ 64,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Sponsorship of online collaboration forum to support operationalisation of SDG12.

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GoBlu

€ 180,000
2.5 years
Ongoing

BluHub: A Sustainability Information Hub for The Fashion Industry.

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Good World Solutions

€ 449,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Use mobile technology to enable workers' voices to be heard in garment factories in Bangladesh.

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Goodweave

€ 2,800,000
3.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Implementation of Phase II in the initiative to End Forced & Child Labour in Apparel & Fashion Jewellery Supply Chains (Home Based Workers).

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GoodWeave

€ 80,000
3 months
Ongoing

COVID19 emergency response fund

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GoodWeave

€ 88,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strengthen GoodWeave in order to achieve and sustain its growth.

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GoodWeave

€ 1,300,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Pilot a market-driven approach to eliminate child labour in the homeworker sector in India.

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Grameen Shikkha

€ 120,000
4.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Provide vocational training to young Bangladeshis and link them to employment in the apparel sector.

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Grameen Shikkha

€ 204,000
5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Provide vocational training to young Bangladeshi on practical skills and link to employment in the apparel sector.

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Green Finance Institute Ltd

€ 550,000
27 months

Financial mechanisms to accelerate investments in a decarbonised built environment

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GreenBiz Group, Inc.

€ 39,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation

Sponsorship (supporting-level) of Circularity 19

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Grupo de institutos, fundações e empresas

€ 180,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

General operating support aiming to strengthen GIFE's capacity to foster collaboration across the philanthropy sector and improve the political-institutional framework for social investments in Brazil.

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Grupo de institutos, fundações e empresas

€ 13,500
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Identify ways that private foundations can engage and stimulate support to the cause of migrations and refugees in Brazil.

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Healthy Building Network

€ 490,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Increase the accessibility of high-quality, actionable data about chemicals to companies, to enable positive decisions earlier in the design process. - Phase I

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Healthy Building Network

€ 300,000
1 year
Ongoing

Core support to enable ChemForward to learn and scale.

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HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation

€ 10,000
2 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Creation of a guide to support companies to source organic cotton.

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Hispanics in Philanthropy

€ 70,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Enhance women workers´ working conditions and lives in Mexico.

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Holland Circular Hotspot

€ 10,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation

Sponsorship of Holland Circular Economy Week 2018.

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House of Denim

€ 200,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the creation of a centre committed to craftsmanship, innovation and sustainability in the denim industry.

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Humanity United

€ 2,200,000
10 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Create the Working Capital Fund, an impact investing fund to stimulate new tools to reduce forced labour and exploitation in supply chains.

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Icebreaker One Ltd

€ 380,000
7 months
Ongoing

Empower decision-makers to mandate, measure and act upon the data-flows that enable net-zero.

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IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative

€ 3,242,079
5 years
Ongoing

Regenerative Production Landscape is an innovative place-based intervention to foster agricultural ecosystems which conserve and enhance natural resources and build community resilience whilst enabling businesses to source responsibly

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IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative

€ 207,000
8 months
Ongoing

Building a Landscape Program in Madhya Pradesh - Scoping Stage in 2020

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IFC South Asia

€ 504,000
4 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support of the "Partnership for Cleaner Textile Programme" in Bangladesh.

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ILO

€ 111,000
15 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support the improvement of working conditions for migrants involved in sewing, and combating slave labour.

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IMIFAP

€ 26,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Design of a lobbying and advocacy strategy to promote the comprehensive well-being of workers in the Mexican textile industry.

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Influence Map

€ 1,900,000
4 years
Ongoing

Holding corporations accountability for lobbying which is not compliant with the Paris Climate Agreement.

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InPACTO

€ 546,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support the consolidation of the structure of InPACTO.

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Inpacto - National Pact Institute for the Eradication of Slave Labor

€ 40,000
3 months
Completed

Support the consolidation of the structure of InPACTO.

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InSpring Limited

€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Pilot a project to harness the voice and ideas of young people to support the circular fashion movement.

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Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

€ 240,000
1 year
Ongoing

Support to the IEEFA global debt unit.

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Institute for Future-Fit Economies

€ 50,000
6 months
Ongoing

ZOE’s project aims to ensure that European COVID-19 medium-term and long-term recovery policies are in line with the implementation of the Green Deal and a just transition.

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Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)

€ 550,000
2 years
Ongoing

Dignity in the built environment through pilots, policy change and industry and investor engagement

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Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

€ 90,000
2 years
Ongoing

To build the intellectual and policy case for green credit guidance policies to be adopted by central banks and financial supervisors to support the transition to a net-zero carbon economy

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Institute for Sustainable Communities

€ 168,000
5 months
Ongoing

Agricultural Waste & Residue as Textile Fibre Feedstock

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Instituto Campanha Nacional pelo Direito à Educação

€ 25,000
3 months
Completed

Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for Campanha Nacional pelo Direito à Educação.

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Instituto Ecoar Para A Cidadania

€ 37,000
4 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support a feasibility study on new business models to engage migrant women workers

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Instituto Ecoar Para A Cidadania

€ 83,000
1 year
Ongoing

Develop a methodology that is capable of empowering seamstresses who live and work in vulnerable situations in order to enable them to enter the sustainable fashion market.

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Instituto Ecoar Para A Cidadania

€ 37
4 months
Completed

A multi stakeholder initiative that focuses on building a new business model for empowering migrant workers, especially women, living in São Paulo.

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Instituto Ecoar Para A Cidadania

€ 26,000
3 months
Completed

Planning of the project "Initiating Trafficking Junts" which supports female migrant heads of families.

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Instituto Ethos De Empresas E Responsabilidade Social

€ 72
3 months
Ongoing

Emergency Funding for Ethos

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INSTITUTO PHI PHILANTROPIA INT

€ 16,000
1 year
Completed

Support to FIIMP - Foundations & Institutes for Impact, a joint initiative bringing together 22 Private Foundations to learn, track and understand the results of philanthropy investments in impact businesses, by trying out different financial instruments and supporting the impact investing ecosystem.

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Instituto Reos

€ 13,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

A multi-partner initiative at national level to address and transform the main challenges facing the garment sector in Brazil.

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Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente

€ 79,000
18 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Improve labour conditions in the apparel industry in Jalisco, Mexico through innovative participatory innovative solutions design.

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Intellecap Advisory Services Ltd

€ 15,000
1 month
Completed

Support to extend inclusive business models.

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Intellecap Advisory Services Pvt Limited

€ 256,000
16 months
Ongoing

A model for collaboration and innovative prototyping around inclusiveness in the fashion industry.

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International Apparel Federation

€ 30,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation

Sponsorship of 34th IAF World Fashion Convention 2018.

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International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)

€ 666,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve government procurement of apparel through better standards and practices.

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International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)

€ 404,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Standardise the industry-wide disclosure of supply chain information across the apparel sector.

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International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)

€ 250,000
1 year
Ongoing

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International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF)

€ 20,000
7 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Provide legal support to Worker Rights Defenders in Bangladesh through an Emergency Fund.

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International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF)

€ 429,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strengthen the leadership role of workers, especially women workers, in the development, implementation and governance of initiatives for improving working conditions in Bangladesh and Cambodia.

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International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF)

€ 429,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strengthen the leadership role of workers, especially women workers, in the development, implementation and governance of initiatives for improving working conditions in Bangladesh and Cambodia.

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International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF)

€ 99,000
1 year
Completed

To advocate for remedy in response to freedom of association violations in Bangladesh and Cambodia and promote an enabling environment for and compliance with the Bangladesh Accord.

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International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

€ 1,700,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen Corporate Responsibility to Eliminate Exploitation, Slavery and Trafficking in Supply Chains (CREST) - with emphasis on ethical recruitment in the target countries Bangladesh, India and Thailand in the apparel supply chain.

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International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

€ 1,700,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Addressing the issue of responsible recruitment in the apparel supply chain in Myanmar and thereby preventing Forced Labour.

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International Secretariat for Chemicals

€ 157,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Address the information gaps to enable hazardous chemistry to be eliminated from circulation through recycled materials.

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International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific

€ 248,000
2 years
Ongoing

Carrying out a campaign for the universal ratification and domestication of the norms and standards of ILO Convention (C190) to create momentum for advocacy to address gender-based violence against women (GBVAW) in the world of work.

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Investor Watch

€ 1,500,000
3 years
Ongoing

Build on existing analysis of the industry’s nature-related risks and translates this into material financial risk for investors.

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Investor Watch

€ 50,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Use Planet Tracker to identify, quantify and work to rectify the disconnect between the capital markets and the sustainability of natural boundaries, in this case within the textiles value chain.

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ISEAL Alliance

€ 99,725
1 year
Ongoing

To support operationalising the Delta Framework within the M&E systems of sustainability standards active in the cotton sector.

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ISPN

€ 424,000
30 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Enhancing sustainable cotton production initiatives in the Cerrado biome in socio-ecological production landscapes, and developing community projects.

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Issara Institute

€ 480,000
2 years
Ongoing

Advancing ethical recruitment and labour management for Cambodian migrant workers in the apparel industry in Thailand and Malaysia.

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Jan Sahas

€ 436,000
3.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Address forced and child labour in an effort to eliminate it in the cotton supply chain in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Jan Sahas

€ 101,000
3 months
Completed

COVID19 emergency response funds to Jan Sahas to support vulnerable families in MP.

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JUST

€ 123,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Assess the impact of an online platform to provide information on companies' social and environmental practices.

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Just Solutions Network Ltd

€ 20,000
2 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Promote social dialogue in the workplace to local stakeholders and global brands in the Myanmar RMG sector.

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Kadinlarla Dayanisma Vakfi

€ 141,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Pilot an initiative to the test effectiveness of empowering women in order to reduce child labour amongst refugees in Turkey.

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Kamara Strategies Ltd

€ 1,468,000
30 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Building resilience for labour rights organisations in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, India and Mexico.

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KPMG

€ 31,000
5 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

GHG estimation of organic cotton cultivation.

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LaborVoices

€ 75,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Use mobile phone technology to collect workers' insights to combat forced labour and human trafficking in Turkey.

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LaborVoices

€ 596,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Enable workers' to speak out anonymously about their working conditions in garment factories in Turkey using mobile phone technology.

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Latin American Solidarity Foundation

€ 581,000
5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Develop, implement and systematise a model of cotton production based on family farming that is resilient in semi-arid conditions and can be scaled and replicated in other regions.

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Liberty Shared

€ 97,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Organisational Support to Liberty Shared

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London Waste and Recyclig Board

€ 296,000
4.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Design and implement circular business model pilots with leading brands/retailers and sharing publicly key parameters of the business cases.

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M Myanmar Agri Ltd.

€ 18,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Test imported seeds with farmers and government, as well as creating an organic farming group.

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MADE-BY

€ 100,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Reveal through new insights how circular retail business models can improve mental well-being of young women.

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MALHA

€ 72,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop trend reports and co-brand courses designed to disseminate innovations in new, sustainable and collaborative fashion.

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MATERIABRASIL

€ 87,000
4 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve the online and open source platform that acts as a knowledge hub and a benchmark for choice and transparency on responsible manufacturing and consumption of materials and products in various sectors.

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MateriaBrasill

€ 19,000
10 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

The ColaborAmerica festival aims to inspire, connect and create new economic models in Latin America.

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Microfinance Opportunities

€ 454,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Collect and disseminate detailed information on the financial lives of garment workers in Bangladesh.

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MISSÃO PAZ

€ 298,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Integrated approach aimed at improving the living conditions, access to rights and working conditions of immigrants, with a focus on vulnerable and exploited Latinos in the workplace, particularly in the fashion sector.

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MUDEM

€ 382,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Provide Syrians with access to justice and knowledge to combat workplace abuses in the textile industry in Turkey through an interactive website.

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Nazdeek, INC

€ 25,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Assessment of workers labour and human rights in the Textile & Garment Industry in Tamil Nadu and identifying areas for policy intervention.

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Nazdeek, INC

€ 18,000
1 month
Completed

Emergency funds in India in response to COVID 19

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Nazdeek, INC

€ 214,605
2 years
Ongoing

Building leadership of women advocates in Textile and Garment industry of Tamil Nadu

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Networks Matter

€ 81,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Promoting labour rights through GSP platform.

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Networks Matter

€ 168,000
2 years
Ongoing

Promoting labour rights and environmental protection in GSP and Free Trade Agreements

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New Economics Foundation

€ 4,500,000
54 months
Ongoing

Changing the rules of the economy so that it works for people and planet.

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Ocean Wise Conservation Association

€ 1
14 months
Ongoing

Conduct research into microfibre source, transport and fate in the oceans, and drive design and policy solutions.

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OnionDev Technologies Pvt Ltd

€ 39,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency funds in India in response to COVID 19

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OnionDev Technologies Pvt Ltd

€ 856,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Provide a voice-based social media platform to enable worker organisations in India to reach greater numbers of workers, enable knowledge exchange and opportunities for collective effort.

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Open Apparel Registry

€ 1,602,000
5 years
Ongoing

Core support to Open Apparel Registry.

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Organic Cotton Accelerator

€ 3,670,000
0 months
Ongoing

Core support to develop a fit-for-purpose secretariat, including building HR & administrative capacity, rolling out new governance, and enabling OCA to continue formalising and delivering programmes.​

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Organic Cotton Accelerator

€ 40,000
3 months
Completed

Covid - 19 Emergency Fund support to Organic Cotton Accelerator.

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Organic Cotton Accelerator

€ 1,100,000
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Remove barriers to increase organic cotton production and strengthen market demand through a multi-stakeholder platform.

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Organizacion Internacional para las Migraciones

€ 91,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthening capacities of state government, civil society and private sector In Puebla.

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Oxfam GB

€ 500,000
9 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Address the needs of the Rohingya refugees focusing on access to water, sanitation, protection and food security.

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Partners in Change

€ 73,000
5 months
Ongoing

Community & Worker-Monitored Covid-19 Accountability System.

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Partners in Change

€ 39,000
3 months
Completed

COVID19 Emergency response support to Partners in Change.

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Partners in Change

€ 445,000
3.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Help school children influence the public procurement system in Delhi (NCR) and improve transparency in business practices to address child labour in the domestic apparel supply chain (particularly in the school uniform sector) 

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Peers for the planet

€ 168,000
21 months
Ongoing

Supporting Climate Change Agenda Within The House of Lords

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Pesticide Action Network, UK

€ 99,000
2 years
Ongoing

Support to ensure cotton sector sustainability efforts benefit smallholder cotton farmers and the environment

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Pesticide Action Network, UK

€ 340,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Commissioned a case study on the use of pesticides in conventional and sustainable cotton.

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Pia Sociedade Dos Missionarios - Missão Paz

€ 37,000
3 months
Ongoing

Emergency Funding for Missão Paz

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Popular Education Research Group (Maquila Solidarity Network)

€ 99,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support for MSN, to strengthen labour movement in Mexico, including capacity building for grassroots organizations, advance the transparency agenda among brands, forge leadership of women workers, and continue the analytical work on the implementation of Mexico Constitutional Labour Reforms.  

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PRODESC

€ 84,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Enhance women workers´ working conditions and lives in Mexico.

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Proyecto de Derechos Economicos Sociales y Culturales

€ 394,000
25 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen the leadership of women that work in the garment industry to improve their working condition and defend their human rights.

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PUM Netherlands senior experts

€ 12,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

 Create a study to determine the best approach to reduce pollution and improve working conditions in Savar Tannery Industrial Park, Bangladesh.

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PwC India

€ 34,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Commissioned a case study on the Drip Irrigation Programme in Gujarat, India.

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Ramboll Denmark

€ 340,000
13 months
Ongoing

Baselines, benchmarks and targets for embodied carbon in buildings across Europe

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Rare Inc.

€ 2,750,000
3.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Accelerate organic cotton cultivation in China by helping farmers make the transition, through skills training and enhancing market access.

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Reclaim Finance

€ 250,000
1 year
Ongoing

Dismantling financial support to fossil fuels, with a focus on European central banks and regulatory framework.

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Rede Asta

€ 82,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

This initiative aims to empower female artisans and seamstresses so that lack of knowledge or awareness around human relations and rights issues does not become a barrier to their autonomy.

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Rede Asta

€ 15,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Pilot test of implementation of the NEST compliance programme for seamstresses working in small production and/or domestic settings, in order to ensure better working conditions.

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Rede de Desenvolvimento Humano (Redeh)

€ 99,000
1 year
Ongoing

Building the Future Now! - AMB facing the impacts of the pandemic and planting alternatives

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Rede de Desenvolvimento Humano (Redeh)

€ 100,000
1 year

Strengthen AMB's (Brazilian Women Network) solidarity, diligence and actions to face the impacts of Covid 19 and build alternatives to current crises.

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Redeh - Human Development Network

€ 300,000
2 years
Ongoing

Supporting five thematic working groups within a network of seamstresses (The Women Workers of Friburgo Network), capable of local advocacy to uphold labour rights of apparel workers in the region.

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Redeh - Human Development Network

€ 300,000
2 years
Completed

Monitoring visits to Nova Friburgo, meetings and other activities that are essential to consolidate the Women Worker Network.

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Redeh - Human Development Network

€ 78,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Empower and promote the autonomy of women apparel workers so they can collectively organise themselves to challenge adversity and common challenges in the lingerie and swimwear production hub of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro.

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Redes da Maré

€ 28,000
9 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Warm-up for the Women of the World.

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Refugee Support Center (RSC)

€ 699,000
1 year
Ongoing

Empowering Refugee Workers in the Turkish Garment Industry: Worker Support Center II

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Remake

€ 20,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support of Remake in their goal of bringing garment workers and fashion designers together to create empathy across the supply chain.

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Reporter Brasil

€ 210,000
2 years
Ongoing

Prevention of child and slave labour through the improvement of care provided by public education and social assistance networks to immigrants.

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Reporter Brasil

€ 160,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Train educators and social workers to assist immigrants and prevent slave and child labour.

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Repórter Brasil Organização De Comunicação E Projetos Sociais

€ 1,364,000
4 years

General operating support to provide Reporter Brasil with flexibility to allocate resources to their institutional priorities.

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Repórter Brasil Organização De Comunicação E Projetos Sociais

€ 28,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency Funding for Repórter Brasil

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Rio Ethical Fashion

€ 32,000
Completed
C&A Foundation

International Forum that brings together people to discuss, inspire, create partnerships and spread the values of sustainability in Brazilian Fashion industry

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Royal Holloway

€ 85,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Study and analyze the scalability of Business Case Initiatives in Bangladesh.

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Rutgers Law School, Center for Corporate Law and Governance

€ 34,000
7 months
Ongoing

Drafting human rights-protective model contract clauses and a buyer code for buyers to include in their international supply agreements.

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Save the Children India

€ 102,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency support to vulnerable and at risk families in Madhya Pradesh

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Save the Children India

€ 815,500
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Combat child labour in cotton production in Madhya Pradesh.

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Save the Children Switzerland

€ 1,000,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support the emergency response to the earthquakes in Mexico.

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Save the Children Switzerland

€ 10,000,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Respond to emergencies and building resilience of communities to better cope with future crises through disaster risk reduction training.

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Save the Children Switzerland

€ 383,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Promote the creation of decent employment opportunities for vulnerable youth in Bangladesh by supporting the capacity building of informal employers.

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Saxion University of Applied Science

€ 38,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Research opportunities for chemical recycling of cotton fibre.

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Saxion University of Applied Science

€ 19,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Perform an academic life cycle analysis on chemically recycled fibres.

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SENAI CETIQT

€ 184,000
25 months
Ongoing

Development of data, analysis, open-sourced methodologies to be validated by learning communities and disseminated through an online platform 'Inova Moda Digital' focused on creating a pathway to sustainability and circularity in fashion.

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Sense Organic Import and Trading GmbH

€ 97,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support the training of smallholder farmers in Myanmar on organic cultivation practices.

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sequa gGmbH

€ 43,000
8 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Upscale the usage of an app for garment workers in Myanmar, through which the workers can learn about their rights.

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Sherpa

€ 249,000
31 months
Ongoing

Advocacy and improving legal frameworks for corporate accountability for human rights and environmental impact

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Sheva Nari O Shishu Kallyan Kendra (SHEVA)

€ 22,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Facilitation of a Worker Advisors Panel pilot project.

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Shimmy Technologies, Inc.

€ 365,000
2 years
Ongoing

Upskilling garment workers in Bangladesh in advance of automation.

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Shimmy Technologies, Inc.

€ 89,000
10 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Commissioned a feasibility study to determine whether teaching digital skills to garment workers can unlock new work opportunities in the face of automated garment production.

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SMART Myanmar

€ 10,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Connect women garment workers in Bangladesh and Myanmar to share methodologies on skills development and rights awareness.

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Smile Education and Development Foundation

€ 43,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

To foster inter-communal harmony through building community resilience against rumours and hate speech.

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Social Accountability International, Inc.

€ 97,000
1 year
Ongoing

Living Income and Living Wage Research in India

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Social Awareness and Voluntary Education

€ 94,000
25 months
Ongoing

Promoting Interstate Migrant Workers’ Federation towards Collective Bargaining in Tamil Nadu

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Social Awareness and Voluntary Education

€ 56,000
4 months
Completed

Emergency funds in India in response to COVID-19

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Social Good Brasil

€ 48,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Enhance human skills and exponential technologies so that more people and organizations can work to solve society's problems, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (ODS).

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Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer, A.C.

€ 145,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Improve working and living conditions for women workers in Mexico (phase II).

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Solidar Suisse

€ 862,000
4 years
Ongoing

Building capacity at grassroots to engage in evidence-based bargaining using publicly disclosed data

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Solidar Suisse

€ 210,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Strengthen collective bargaining of worker-led democratic institutions and especially women workers, through the use of publicly disclosed data.

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Solidar Suisse

€ 50,000
8 months
Completed

Covid 19 emergency fund support to Solidar Suisse

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Solidaridad Network

€ 61,000
3.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the "Better Mill Initiative" to reduce the environmental impact of wet processing in China.

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Solidaridad Network

€ 478,000
5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop, implement and systematise a model of cotton production based on family farming that is resilient in semi-arid conditions and can be scaled and replicated in other regions.

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Solidaridad Network Asia

€ 1,000,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Establish an organic cotton hotspot in Maharashtra by engaging 15,000 farmers and other stakeholders.

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Solidaridad Regional Expertise Centre (SREC)

€ 176,000
3 months
Ongoing

Solidaridad - Covid 19 Emergency Fund

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Solidarity Center

€ 263,000
19 months
Ongoing

Raise awareness and train Brazilian garment sector union leaders and workers to better engage in advocacy, social dialogue and legal defence efforts to combat diverse forms of gender-based violence (GBV) and to eliminate workplace discrimination against LGBTQ garment workers.

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Solidarity Center

€ 450,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Research, advocacy, and action to combat gender based violence in the apparel sector.

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Solidarity Center

€ 280,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen skills and foster the capacity of trade union federations and factory-level leaders to enhance negotiations and collective bargaining through the understanding and utilization of publicly available data.

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Solidarity Center

€ 21,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency Funding for Solidarity Center

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Solidarity Center

€ 140,000
13 months
Ongoing

Strengthening women garment workers' capacity to address safety risks as they continue to combat GBVH in their workplaces.

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Solidarity Center Afl Cio

€ 150,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Promoting Women's Labour and Human Rights in Brazilian Garment Sector Unions.

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Sourcemap Inc.

€ 320,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop a global map of apparel factories with the aim of becoming the go-to source on supply chain relationships, collating disparate factory lists into one central, open-source map, listing factory names, address and affiliations. 

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South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM)

€ 10,000
2 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Asses the needs of displaced workers in Hazaribagh, Bangladesh after the government closed down tanneries. 

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Sunrise Project

€ 3,000,000
3 years
Ongoing

SunFund Program: Building the Capacity of NGOs Working to Shift Global Finance

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Sustainable Apparel Coalition

€ 495,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Established a Policy Hub on Circular Economy in the Apparel and Footwear Industry between multiple organisations, including Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Global Fashion Agenda and Federation of European Sporting Goods Industry

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Sustainable Apparel Coalition

€ 495,000
1 year
C&A Foundation

To establish a Policy Hub on Circular Economy in the Apparel and Footwear Industry between multiple organisations, including Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Global Fashion Agenda and Federation of European Sporting Goods Industry

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Sustainable Apparel Coalition

€ 500,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve the Higg Material Sustainability Index (Higg MSI), to help product designers to make better, less impactful choices at the product development stage.

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Sustainable Apparel Coalition

€ 37,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the creation of a five-year strategic plan for the Social and Labour Convergence Project.

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Sustainable Brands

€ 12,000
0 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support for the sustainable fashion hub, giving visibility to the issue and to our partners by discussion on trends.

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Swiss Philanthropy Foundation

€ 2,764,000
3 years
Ongoing

Partners for a New Economy fund aims to create an economic system that prioritisises the long-term health of the biosphere a a central concern, rather than as a discretionary consideration.Core Support to Partners for a New Economy Fund to Partners for a New Economy Fund

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TechnoServe Inc.

€ 207,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Investigate the potential for a viable and thriving organic cotton sector in Tanzania.

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Terre des hommes Deutschland

€ 412,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve the livelihoods of migrant cotton workers in India.

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Terre des hommes Deutschland

€ 800,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Expand rehabilitation services for former bonded labourers, and carry out advocacy India.

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Terre des hommes Deutschland e.V.

€ 600,000
3 years
Ongoing

Empowerment of girls and young women and introduction of a Mill Codex to employers and their organisations to end exploitative labour conditions in spinning mills of Tamil Nadu.

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Terre des hommes Deutschland e.V.

€ 75,000
3 months
Completed

Emergency funds in India in response to COVID 19

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Textile Exchange

€ 521,000
3.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen the ability of Textile Exchange to collect and disseminate data on organic cotton supply and demand.

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The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE)

€ 250,000
13 months
Ongoing

Changing the metrics for a zero-carbon building stock by 2050: From energy to carbon performance

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The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge

€ 500,000
2 years
Ongoing

The CNMI, at the University of Cambridge, is working to link forest management, timber economies, construction and better buildings to sequester and reduce carbon emissions in the construction industry.

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The Ex'tax Project Foundation

€ 250,000
1 year
Ongoing

General operating support to strengthen key strategic areas.

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The Ex'tax Project Foundation

€ 95,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Assess if putting a price on pollution and resource-use in Bangladesh is feasible and beneficial for the people of Bangladesh.

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The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law

€ 50,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Designed and launched the "Living Wage Innovation Challenge" to identify and support new ways to address unjust wages in the apparel sector.

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The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law

€ 11,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the professional facilitation required to launch a new multi-stakeholder initiative to improve factory working conditions.

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The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

€ 354,000
1 year
Ongoing

Paris Aligned Investment Initiative (PAII)

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The Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House

€ 81,000
5 months
Ongoing

Scoping Group for the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance

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Thinkstep Sustainability Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

€ 45,000
4 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Conduct a lifecycle assessment of Better Cotton, organic and conventional cotton cultivation systems in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

€ 3,400,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support in-depth reporting and the capacity building of journalists to scale their impact.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

€ 789,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support in-depth reporting and the capacity building of journalists to scale their impact.

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Timber Accelerator Hub

€ 94,000
1 year

This project will unlock the potential for mass timber construction, thus helping us meet Paris Agreement targets.

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Trade Union Rights Centre

€ 97,000
1 year
Ongoing

Advocacy on Indonesia's Omnibus Bill

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Traidcraft Exchange

€ 98,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Propose new European legislation focused on purchasing practices.

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Transparentem

€ 1,500,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Increase transparecny in the apparel industry supply chains and as a result spur the eradication of human and environmental abuses.

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UN Women Brazil

€ 22,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Strengthen the UNA Platform in its objective to map organisations and initiatives that work with women's rights to expand their links and enhance the strategic vision of the ecosystem, and increase their effectiveness in the long term.

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UNDP

€ 22,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Philanthropy Platform created to deepen partnerships and achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

€ 22,000
1 year
Completed

Philanthropy Platform created to deepen partnerships and achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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UniEthos

€ 274,000
18 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve, in partnership with C&A, the management of small and medium-sized sewing workshops, promoting the wellbeing of workers and environmental management efficiency.

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University College London

€ 95,000
1 year
Ongoing

Support for the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

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University of California, Berkeley

€ 141,000
1.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Research the industry-wide uptake of the Higg Index and recommend ways to improve it.

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University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

€ 350,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Undertake research on issues of forced and child labour in the apparel supply chain - especially in the home base worker segment.

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University of Delaware

€ 1,300,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop the "Better Buying Initiative", to support factories and reduce risks for workers by improving purchasing practices of brands and retailers.

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University of Sussex

€ 15,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation

Draw lessons from three schemes to pay compensation to injured workers and the families of those killed in recent garment industry disasters and make recommendations for securing workers' right to compensation in future.

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Utrecht University

€ 499,000
4 years
Ongoing

Assess the impact of circular strategies on gender equality, job quality and sustainable livelihood of workers in the fashion value chain.

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Verité SouthEast Asia

€ 28,000
2 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Execute a landscaping study of international migrants working in the Asian and Turkish apparel supply chain.

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Vogue

€ 13,000
Completed
C&A Foundation

The EcoEra Award has the mission of promoting eco-conscious companies and replicating these practices throughout the industry, this year with a specific category for gender justice.

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WageIndicator Foundation

€ 1,322,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Trade unions engage in social dialogue with employers through transparency data at DecentWorkCheck.

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WageIndicator Foundation

€ 493,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Conduct an inventory of wages and working conditions in the garment industry in order to reduce non-compliance with minimum wage and labour law.

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Waste and Resources Action Plan

€ 496,000
3 years
Ongoing

National plan for circular economy in fashion.

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Waste and Resources Action Plan (WRAP)

€ 185,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support of the "Design for Longevity" platform (a part of the European Clothing Action Plan), which aims to inspire designers to design sustainably.

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Water Footprint Network

€ 782,000
3.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Analysed the water footprint of cotton, polyester and viscose throughout the supply chain and recommended ways to reduce it.

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Water Footprint Network

€ 403,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Provide core support to Water Footprint Network to strengthen their methodology and service to the apparel industry.

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Water.org

€ 823,000
3.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the "New Ventures Fund" in order to pilot, disseminate and scale initiatives to address water scarcity, particularly in apparel-producing countries.

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WebAble

€ 150,000
2.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Develop and share the stories of people working in the garment industry in Bangladesh via social media.

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Wood Mackenzie Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

€ 99,000
3 months
Completed

Synthetic Fibre Markets & Sustainability

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World Business Council for Sustainable Development

€ 95,000
15 months
Ongoing

Blueprint for demand-driven decarbonisation and the business case for a circular built environment

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World Green Building Council

€ 1,725,000
2 years
Ongoing

BuildingLife - Whole life carbon roadmaps for the built environment

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World Green Building Council

€ 1,700,000
2 years
Ongoing

Delivering the EU's Green Deal by driving total decarbonisation and circularity in the building sector.

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World Resources Institute

€ 1,359,000
5 months
Ongoing

S-Curves – changing the narrative on the path to net zero

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World Resources Institute

€ 95,000
7 months
C&A Foundation

Roadmap to Net-Zero.

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World Resources Institute

€ 300,000
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Accelerate the testing, implementing and scaling of business models that increase clothing reuse.

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World Resources Institute

€ 895,000
3.5 years
Ongoing

This project, part of the wider ‘Cities4Forests’ initiative run by the WRI and Pilot Projects Design LLC, links 7 European cities and seven dedicated tropical forests – building on the powerful concept of the ‘Sister Cities’ movement.

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World Wide Fund for Nature - Pakistan

€ 97,000
3 months
Ongoing

Covid-19 Emergency Fund Support to WWF Pakistan.

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World Wide Fund for Nature - Pakistan

€ 841,000
3.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve farmer livelihoods through organic cotton production in Pakistan.

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World Wide Fund for Nature – India

€ 567,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Improve farmer livelihoods and promote biodiversity conservation through organic cotton cultivation in forest corridors of Madhya Pradesh, India.

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World Wide Fund for Nature, India

€ 85,000
3 months
Completed

WWF India - Covid - 19 Emergency Fund

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World Wide Fund for Nature, India

€ 497,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

WWF-India: Phase 2 of the Organic Cotton Programme in the Corridor Villages of Satpuda-Pench Tiger Reserve, India.

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WTT

€ 88,000
18 months
Completed
C&A Foundation

Impact challenges: Bringing effective and scalable innovations to smallholder farmers that are producing organic cotton.

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ZDHC Foundation

€ 1,757,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Accelerate and scale ZDHC's global impact by demonstrating the enabling role of chemistry, strengthening ZDHC organisational capacity, deepening geographical support in target regions/countries, and driving continuous improvement in the industry.

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ZDHC Foundation

€ 275,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Support the creation of the InCheck Tool, to help manufacturers create a chemical inventory that helps assess risk and source better chemicals.

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ZDHC Foundation

€ 470,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation

Develop and promote a disclosure platform to reduce discharge of hazardous chemicals from textile factories.

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ZDHC Foundation

€ 110,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Support for ZDHC's strategy to enable the garment industry to achieve zero discharge of hazardous chemicals.

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Zentigrity Solutions

€ 13,000
4 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation

Design for Sourcetrace Dashboard

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