Overview of all grants
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.
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.
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.
Aconsa A.B.
€ 14,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Size Matters: Scalability of business case programs in the garment industry.
Action for Social Advancement
€ 245,000
3 months
Ongoing
Covid 19 Emergency Fund to Action for Social Advancement
Action for Social Advancement
€ 433,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Improve farmer livelihoods through organic cotton production in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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.
Action for Social Advancement
€ 474,000
3 years
Ongoing
Institutional Support for Promotion of Farm-Based Rural Livelihood Initiatives with Smallholders in India.
Action for Social Advancement
€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Manage the Organic Cotton and Fairtrade Secretariat in Madhya Pradesh, India.
ADM Capital Foundation
€ 32,500
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Research the key challenges faced by Chinese fashion manufacturers.
Aga Khan Foundation
€ 187,000
3 months
Ongoing
Covid 19 Emergency Fund support to Aga Khan Foundation
Aga Khan Foundation
€ 1,400,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Transition of marginal, tribal farmers to organic cotton production in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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.
Aga Khan Foundation
€ 83,500
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Promote Better Cotton production practices using water efficient farming techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
€ 17,000
3 months
Ongoing
Covid-19 Emergency Fund to American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences.
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.
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.
Anti-Slavery International
€ 100,000
5 months
Ongoing
Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Anit-Slavery International
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."
Arlénica
€ 166,000
13 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Mexico Fashion Transparency Index
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
Associação Franciscana De Solidariedade - Sefras
€ 60,000
3 months
Ongoing
Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for Sefras
Associação Rede Dinheiro e Consciência
€ 95,000
9 months
Ongoing
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.
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.
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.
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.
Awaj Foundation
€ 90,000
25 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Strengthen Awaj Foundation's communication capacity
Awaj Foundation
€ 144,000
5 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Emergency Fund support to Awaji Foundation
Azavea
€ 1,100,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Establish long-term operations and scale use of the Open Apparel Registry (OAR).
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).
Bangladesh Apparel Exchange Ltd
€ 26,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Gold level sponsorship of Bangladesh Fashionology Summit 2019
Bangladesh Apparel Exchange Ltd
€ 25,000
2 months
Completed
Sponsorship of Bangladesh Fashionology Summit 2020: Third Edition.
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.
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.
Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS)
€ 1,100,000
5 months
Ongoing
Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to BCWS.
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.
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.
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.
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
€ 75,000
5 months
Ongoing
Covid-19 Emergency Fund support for BLAST
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.
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).
Baobá Fund
€ 45,000
18 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Core support to develop organisational capacity on communications, leadership and safety/security.
Better Cotton Initiative
€ 2,000,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Investing in the transformation of sustainable cotton production in key geographic areas.
Better Cotton Initiative
€ 60,000
3 months
Ongoing
Covid 19 Emergency Fund supprt for BCI.
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.
Better Cotton Initiative
€ 100,000
3 months
Covid-19 Emergency Fund for BCI's support of IPs
Biomimicry Institute
€ 95,000
5 months
Completed
Using natural ecosystems to evolve the fashion industry.
bioRe Foundation
€ 195,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Research and propagate high performing organic cotton seeds in India.
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.
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.
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.
Breakthrough
€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Core support for Breakthrough.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BSR
€ 100,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Develop a study on the feasibility of a labour arbitration transparency mechanism.
BSR
€ 350,000
18 months
Ongoing
Research into the job opportunities and quality in circular fashion and futures scenario planning.
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
€ 240,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Support to explore corporate legal accountability in social auditing.
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
€ 70,000
6 months
Covid-19 Emergency Fund support to Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
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.
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.
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.
CAMI - Migrant Support and Pastoral Centre
€ 9,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Funding for CAMI
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.
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.
Canopy
€ 380,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Support a collaborative campaign to drive the production of sustainable viscose for the apparel industry.
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.
Care USA
€ 1,400,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Build the resilience of urban populations in Dhaka, Bangladesh to humanitarian emergencies.
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.
Care USA
€ 500,000
9 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Protect refugee women and girls from gender-based violence and build their resilience.
Catholic Relief Services
€ 500,000
1.5 years
Ongoing
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.
CDHIC - Center for Human Rights and Immigrant Citizenship
€ 44,000
8 months
Ongoing
Funding to commbate forced labour in the fashion industry.
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.
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
Center for Global Development
€ 170,000
12 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Researching "beyond aid" solutions for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Collectively
€ 90,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Inspired collective, corporate action by mobilising millennials to become more sustainable consumers.
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.
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.
Council on Economic Policies
€ 1,500,000
42 months
Ongoing
To explore eonomic policy solutions that strengthen individual opportunity, social cohesion and environmental stability.
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
€ 150,000
13 months
Ongoing
Developing product standard training guidance
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).
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.
Danish Fashion Institute
€ 434,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Sponsorship of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit.
Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
€ 99,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Raise awareness of rights on migrant labour and gender protection in vocational schools in China.
Derechos Infancia México A.C. (REDIM)
€ 50,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Advocate for the inclusion of forced child labour within the fashion industry in Guanajuato's political agenda.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Doughnut Economics Action Lab
€ 33,000
7 months
Ongoing
To accelerate an economic transformation that promotes human flourishing on a thriving planet.
ECOAR
€ 37,000
4 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Support a feasibility study on new business models to engage migrant women workers
ECOAR
€ 26,000
3 months
Completed
Planning of the project "Initiating Trafficking Junts" which supports female migrant heads of families.
Ecopreneur.eu
€ 75,000
2 years
C&A Foundation
Strengthen advocacy for strong circular economy policies in Europe, including those concerning the fashion industry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EON Group Holdings Inc
€ 44,000
5 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Write a draft standard for digital identification of apparel and footwear products to enable an apparel and footwear recycling, repair, rental and recommerce.
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.
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.
ESPLAR - Research and Assessment Centre
€ 21,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Fund - 2020
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.
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.
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.
Ethos - Institute of Business and Social Responsibility
€ 21,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Funding for Ethos
Ethos/DIEESE/Reporter Brasil
€ 130,000
1 year
Ongoing
To foster an Intersectoral Social Dialogue Forum to improve working conditions in the Pernambuco apparel production hub in light of SDG 8.
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.
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.
European Enviornmental Bureau
€ 1,300,000
26 months
Ongoing
Delivering an advocacy agenda for a circular economy that is working in parallel with the European Commission's Circular Economy Action Plan, released in March 2020.
European Venture Philanthropy Association
€ 70,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Support for the EVPA Corporate Social Investment task group.
European Venture Philanthropy Association
€ 380,000
5 years
Ongoing
Support for the Corporate Social Investors initiative.
Evidence Aid
€ 601,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Strengthen evidence-based practice in the global humanitarian sector.
Fair Labor Association
€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Collect, benchmark, and disclose aggregate wage data for Bangladesh and Turkey.
FASE
€ 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.
FASE
€ 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.
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.
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.
FASE
€ 276,000
42 months
Ongoing
Agroecological Cotton: sustainable production by means of cultural and economic strengthening of Mato Grosso’s peoples and communities.
Fashion Revolution Brasil Institute
€ 800,000
3 years
Ongoing
Core support for the strengthening of Instituto 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.
Fashion Revolution CIC
€ 1,200,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Core Funding for Fashion Revolution's four-year strategy
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.
FASHION REVOLUTION/GVCES
€ 87,500
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Promoting the transparency of supply chains between Brazilian brands and retailers.
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.
FGV/GVCES
€ 56,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Support to a capacity-building programme on Sustainability for future leaders at FGV.
Fibra Design Sustentável ME
€ 34
2 months
Completed
Festival to foster the development of new sustainable economic models in Latin America.
FICAS - International Social Environmental Fund
€ 45,000
8 months
Ongoing
Strengthening FICAS and its activities to empower migrant workers.
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.
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’.
Fondation Terre des hommes
€ 450,000
8 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Integrate nutrition and child protection emergency response for Rohingya support.
Fondo Semillas
€ 362,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Enhance women workers' working conditions and lives in Mexico.
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
Forum for the Future
€ 13,000
3 months
Ongoing
Forum for the Future - Covid 19 Emergency Fund
Forum for the Future
€ 556,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Develop Cotton 2040, a multi-stakeholder initiative to create alignment and traceability in the sustainable cotton sector.
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.
Forum for the Future
€ 25,000
8 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Develop a learning platform for creating systems change.
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.
Forum for the Future Asia Pacific
€ 294,000
18 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Support Circular Leap Asia which enables apparel companies in Asia to pilot circular business models.
Foundation for Educational Innovations in Asia
€ 39,000
4 months
Ongoing
Emergency support in India in response to COVID-19
Frank Bold Society
€ 98,000
13 months
Ongoing
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.
Freedom Fund
€ 100,000
4 months
Ongoing
Emergency Funds in India for COVID 19 Response
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.
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.
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).
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
Fundacion Merced AC
€ 74,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Conduct a working conditions landscape study of the garment industry in Mexico.
Fundacion Solidaridad Latinoamerica
€ 21,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Fund - 2020
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.
Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos
€ 24,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Funding for Fundo Brasil
Fundo ELAS
€ 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.
Geledés
€ 74,000
12 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Institutional Development of Geledés
Gender at Work
€ 13,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Develop a robust gender justice lens across C&A Foundation's programming.
Girl Determined
€ 50,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Enhance the impacts of the girl-centred programmes by effective data capturing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Global Labour Justice
€ 129,000
3 months
Ongoing
COVID-19 emergency fund support for Global Labour Justice.
Globescan
€ 64,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Sponsorship of online collaboration forum to support operationalisation of SDG12.
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.
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).
GoodWeave
€ 88,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Strengthen GoodWeave in order to achieve and sustain its growth.
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.
Grameen Shikkha
€ 120,000
4.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Provide vocational training to young Bangladeshis and link them to employment in the apparel sector.
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.
GreenBiz Group, Inc.
€ 39,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation
Sponsorship (supporting-level) of Circularity 19
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.
Grupo de institutos, fundações e empresas
€ 13,500
5 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Identify ways that private foundations can engage and stimulate support to the cause of migrations and refugees in Brazil.
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
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
€ 10,000
2 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Creation of a guide to support companies to source organic cotton.
Hispanics in Philanthropy
€ 70,000
2 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Enhance women workers´ working conditions and lives in Mexico.
Holland Circular Hotspot
€ 10,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation
Sponsorship of Holland Circular Economy Week 2018.
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.
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.
IFC South Asia
€ 504,000
4 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Support of the "Partnership for Cleaner Textile Programme" in Bangladesh.
ILO
€ 111,000
15 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Support the improvement of working conditions for migrants involved in sewing, and combating slave labour.
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.
InPACTO
€ 546,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Support the consolidation of the structure of InPACTO.
Inpacto - National Pact Institute for the Eradication of Slave Labor
€ 40,000
3 months
Ongoing
Support the consolidation of the structure of InPACTO.
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.
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
Instituto Campanha Nacional pelo Direito à Educação
€ 25,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Funding for Campanha Nacional pelo Direito à Educação
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.
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.
Instituto 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.
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.
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.
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente
€ 78,750
18 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Improve labour conditions in the apparel industry in Jalisco, Mexico through innovative participatory innovative solutions design.
Intellecap Advisory Services Ltd
€ 15,000
1 month
Completed
Support to extend inclusive business models.
Intellecap Advisory Services Pvt Limited
€ 256,000
16 months
Ongoing
A model for collaboration and innovative prototyping around inclusiveness in the fashion industry.
International Apparel Federation
€ 30,000
1 month
Completed
C&A Foundation
Sponsorship of 34th IAF World Fashion Convention 2018.
International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)
€ 666,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Improve government procurement of apparel through better standards and practices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
International Secretariat for Chemicals
€ 157,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Chemsec will help to address the information gaps to enable hazardous chemistry to be eliminated from circulation through recycled materials. It will engage with 30 leading EU based companies in the recycling industry to learn more about their situation and position regarding hazardous chemistry in recycled materials. Chemsec will help them to define what type of information and legal changes they would need in order to develop new technologies to produce clean recycled materials.
Investor Watch
€ 1,500,000
37 months
Ongoing
Build on existing analysis of the industry’s nature-related risks and translates this into material financial risk for investors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
KPMG
€ 31,000
5 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
GHG estimation of organic cotton cultivation.
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.
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.
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.
Liberty Shared
€ 97,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Organisational Support to Liberty Shared
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MateriaBrasill
€ 19,000
10 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
The ColaborAmerica festival aims to inspire, connect and create new economic models in Latin America.
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.
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.
Modefica
€ 102,000
11 months
Ongoing
Fibres for Textiles: A Systemic Perspective to Sustainable Paths For Circular Fashion.
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.
Nazdeek, INC
—
C&A Foundation
Assessment of workers labour and human rights in the Textile & Garment Industry in Tamil Nadu and identifying areas for policy intervention.
Nazdeek, INC
€ 18,000
1 month
Ongoing
Emergency funds in India in response to COVID 19
Networks Matter
€ 81,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Promoting labour rights through GSP platform.
New Economics Foundation
€ 4,500,000
54 months
Ongoing
Changing the rules of the economy so that it works for people and planet.
OnionDev Technologies Pvt Ltd
€ 39,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency funds in India in response to COVID 19
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.
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.
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.
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.
Partners in Change
€ 39,000
3 months
Ongoing
COVID19 Emergency response support
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)
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.
Pia Sociedade Dos Missionarios - Missão Paz
€ 37,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Funding for Missão Paz
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.
PRODESC
€ 84,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Enhance women workers´ working conditions and lives in Mexico.
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.
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.
PwC India
€ 34,000
5 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Commissioned a case study on the Drip Irrigation Programme in Gujarat, India.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Redes da Maré
€ 28,000
9 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Warm-up for the Women of the World.
REDIM
€ 99,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Inclusion of forced & child labour within the fashion industry in Guanajuato’s political agenda
Refugee Support Center (RSC)
€ 699,000
1 year
Ongoing
Empowering Refugee Workers in the Turkish Garment Industry: Worker Support Center II
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.
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.
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.
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
Royal Holloway
€ 85,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Study and analyze the scalability of Business Case Initiatives in Bangladesh.
Save the Children India
€ 102,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency support to vulnerable and at risk families in Madhya Pradesh
Save the Children India
€ 815,500
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Combat child labour in cotton production in Madhya Pradesh.
Save the Children Switzerland
€ 1,000,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Support the emergency response to the earthquakes in Mexico.
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.
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.
Saxion University of Applied Science
€ 38,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Research opportunities for chemical recycling of cotton fibre.
Saxion University of Applied Science
€ 19,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Perform an academic life cycle analysis on chemically recycled fibres.
Sefras
€ 21,000
3 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Support the creation of a Hotspot program to combat forced labour in São Paulo
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sheva Nari O Shishu Kallyan Kendra (SHEVA)
€ 22,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Facilitation of a Worker Advisors Panel pilot project.
Shimmy Technologies, Inc.
€ 365,000
2 years
Ongoing
Upskilling garment workers in Bangladesh in advance of automation.
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.
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.
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.
Social Awareness and Voluntary Education
€ 94,000
25 months
Ongoing
Promoting Interstate Migrant Workers’ Federation towards Collective Bargaining in Tamil Nadu
Social Awareness and Voluntary Education
€ 56,000
4 months
Ongoing
Emergency funds in India in response to COVID-19
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).
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).
Solidar Suisse
€ 210,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Strengthen collective bargaining of worker-led democratic institutions and especially women workers, through the use of publicly disclosed data.
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.
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.
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.
Solidaridad Regional Expertise Centre (SREC)
€ 176,000
3 months
Ongoing
Solidaridad - Covid 19 Emergency Fund
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.
Solidarity Center
€ 450,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Research, advocacy, and action to combat gender based violence in the apparel sector.
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.
Solidarity Center
€ 21,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency Funding for Solidarity Center
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.
Solidarity Center Afl Cio
€ 150,000
1 year
Completed
C&A Foundation
Promoting Women's Labour and Human Rights in Brazilian Garment Sector Unions.
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.
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.
Stichting 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.
Stichting Organic Cotton Accelerator
€ 40,000
3 months
Covid - 19 Emergency Fund
Sustainable Apparel Coalition
€ 495,000
1 year
Ongoing
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
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
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.
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.
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.
TechnoServe Inc.
€ 207,000
6 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Investigate the potential for a viable and thriving organic cotton sector in Tanzania.
Terre des hommes Deutschland
€ 412,000
2.5 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Improve the livelihoods of migrant cotton workers in India.
Terre des hommes Deutschland
€ 800,000
4 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Expand rehabilitation services for former bonded labourers, and carry out advocacy India.
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.
Terre des hommes Deutschland e.V.
€ 75,000
3 months
Ongoing
Emergency funds in India in response to COVID 19
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
€ 3,400,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Support of in-depth investigative reporting on modern slavery and human trafficking and also on the training of local journalists on the topic, scaling its impact and reach across six countries and their regions.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
€ 789,000
3 years
Completed
C&A Foundation
Increase awareness of forced labour and human trafficking through media advocacy and training of journalist to cover the issues in India.
Traidcraft Exchange
€ 98,000
1 year
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Propose new European legislation focused on purchasing practices.
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.
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).
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).
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.
University College London
€ 95,000
1 year
Ongoing
Support for the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WageIndicator Foundation
€ 1,322,000
3 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Trade unions engage in social dialogue with employers through transparency data at DecentWorkCheck.
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.
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.
Waste and Resources Action Plan (WRAP)
€ 185,000
2.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Support of the "Design for Longevity" platform (a part of the European Clothing Action Plan), which aims to inspire designers to sustainable design.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
World Resources Institute
€ 95,000
7 months
C&A Foundation
Roadmap to Net-Zero.
World Resources Institute
€ 30,000
—
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Accelerate the testing, implementing and scaling of business models that increase the reuse of clothing.
World Wide Fund for Nature - Pakistan
€ 85,000
3 months
Ongoing
WWF Pakistan - Covid - 19 Emergency Fund
World Wide Fund for Nature - Pakistan
€ 841,000
3.5 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Improve farmer livelihoods through organic cotton production in Pakistan.
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.
World Wide Fund for Nature, India
€ 85,000
3 months
Ongoing
WWF India - Covid - 19 Emergency Fund
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.
WTT
€ 88,000
18 months
Completed
C&A Foundation
Impact challenges: Bringing effective and scalable innovations to smallholder farmers that are producing organic cotton.
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.
ZDHC Foundation
€ 275,000
2 years
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Create and support the InCheck Tool, to help manufacturers create a chemical inventory that helps assess risk and source better chemicals.
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.
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.
Zentigrity Solutions
€ 13,000
4 months
Ongoing
C&A Foundation
Design for Sourcetrace Dashboard