Acting now to re-enchant our future: our 2022 activity report

With this new activity report, we’d like to share the abundance of ideas, innovations and solutions, and above all the tremendous mobilizations we’re supporting to re-enchant our future. Illustrated with personal accounts and in-depth articles on the issues of our time, this document retraces our achievements and our commitments to creating a philanthropy that is open, bold, caring and trusting. Happy reading!

A philanthropic approach combining patronage, investment and support

As part of its areas of intervention, which are Sustainable Food and Citizen Art, the Foundation’s teams, supported by volunteers and experts, mobilise all the levers at their disposal on a daily basis.

In 2022, we distributed €12 million in France and Spain to 196 projects through sponsorship. To change practices in depth and strengthen these projects, we have devoted 1.5 million euros to support, networking, the organisation of events and the production of publications. Our Cartae programme has thus grown with the commitment of experts to support the consolidation of structures, training in fundraising, mediation practices and citizen participation…

In addition, the Foundation is committed to encouraging emerging or consolidating entrepreneurial projects through an ambitious impact investment policy, which was awarded the Instit Invest Special Jury Prize in December 2022.

Thanks to these different levers of intervention, we are betting on the change of scale of the actors of Sustainable Food and Citizen Art and their ability to move the lines in their sector or in a given territory, by promoting interactions and cooperation.

Encouraging food and agricultural processing

The year 2022 has once again revealed the fragility of our agricultural and food systems, which are plagued by periods of intense drought and major geopolitical tensions. The combined effect of these factors has dramatic consequences for the poorest but also for producers. In this context, we have shown our flexibility and have continued our work by increasingly supporting our partners in the field, but also those who analyse and debate possible paths for an ecological and social future, in particular through foresight and reflection (for example within the Global Alliance for the Future of Food).

In line with our action over the past 10 years, we have worked on the issue of food insecurity by supporting and highlighting alternatives to conventional models. These initiatives federate, spread and claim to be able to contribute to ensuring a right to quality food that respects people and ecosystems.

As for our TETRAA program, conducted with AgroParisTech, the 9 pilot territories involved have begun their third year of collaboration to sustain and accelerate their transition dynamics. The themes addressed are multiple: agroecology, social justice, social and solidarity economy, resource preservation, circular economy, knowledge sharing, food democracy… They will be at the heart of our next Sustainable Food Meetings, scheduled for October 10, 2023.

Art as a powerful tool for social change

With the gradual shift from the pandemic crisis to a crisis of meaning, the fragility and fractures of our society raise the question of the renewal to be breathed into our lives and our world. In 2022, we wanted to contribute to this challenge, on our modest scale, by continuing our commitment to those who make art a catalyst for social change. Whether through music, visual arts, theatre, dance, literature or any other form of expression, the arts bring people together, inspire creativity, bring comfort and hope. They even go far beyond when they are participatory and collaborative by inviting artists and inhabitants, of all ages and origins, to create and imagine together.

We wanted to amplify their voices and messages so that these committed approaches receive the attention they deserve. The second edition of the Committed Citizen Artist Award honored 5 artists who put their talents and energy at the service of actions including the most vulnerable in France, Spain and Cameroon. They can be found, among other game-changing artists, in our collection of podcasts ” The Voices of Citizen Art “, illustrating the diversity of fields of action: education, mediation and cultural democracy, collaboration with science… They express our values: joy, confidence, high standards, curiosity and atypism, by cultivating and celebrating crossovers that are as unexpected as they are happy.