Investor Presentaiton
47 Cargill 2020 Annual Report
Cargill
Foundation
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Community engagement and development
The purpose of Cargill - nourish the
world in a safe, responsible and sus-
tainable way - inspires the mission of
the Cargill Foundation to promote safe,
sustainable and accessible food to the
communities in where we are. Created in
1973, the Foundation has Cargill Agrícola
S.A. as the main sponsor and has a
curator and fiscal Council, besides an
independent Board of Directors.
Social strategy
As our social pillar, the Foundation's strategic plan reflects
our corporate planning and is guided by the nine topics
established globally as priorities for Cargill to be a world
leader in sustainable nutrition (see the Strategy chapter,
page 12). Currently, we have defined three fields to develop
our projects:
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Sponsorship to communities in which we are inserted
Corporate volunteering
Support to social-environmental projects created by uni-
versities, structured in 2020 to be implemented in 2021.
The Foundation intends to leverage progress among com-
munities and, for this, we have standardized processes to
move forward with projects, executed with local partners,
and clear deadlines regarding the end of this support. These
projects receive technical and financial support to develop
their initiatives during a period varying between 12 and 24
months. The projects that extend beyond this period involve
communities that also require to create access to basic
issues, like health and education. The purpose is, by the end
of the cycle, for communities to be self-sufficient.
Every year we choose up to 15 projects, selected based on
the transformational impacts they can provide to the com-
munities. These are added to the 33 projects underway, at
different levels, which we support in 19 states. We allocate
up to R$ 200,000 per project. In 2020, the actions sup-
ported by the Foundation during the seventh bidding edition,
reached 65,000 people. Among the priority topics are family
inclusion and female, indigenous populations and refugee
inclusion.
In another front, the Foundation seeks to form an eco-
system for new generations to act in an entrepreneurial
fashion regarding social-environmental issues. Focused on
university projects, the Alimentação em Foco (Food in the
Spotlight) Award is in its fifth edition and chooses 15 proj-
ects annually. The participants receive financial support and
mentoring by Cargill volunteering professionals to create
and structure their projects. By the end of one year, each
team presents the results achieved by their solutions at the
National Enactus Brazil Meet (Eneb - Encontro Nacional
Enactus Brasil) and become candidates for the prize offered
by the institution.
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