2019 Annual Report of BCause Foundation 1 2019 Annual Report of BCause Foundation TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 5 SUPPORTING CORPORATE GIVING ...................................................................................... 6 TAILOR-MADE CORPORATE PROGRAMS ...................................................................................... 6 Summer for Joy, Autumn for Care Program ................................................................................................... 6 Talent Connections Program .......................................................................................................................... 8 Program: Paysafe ........................................................................................................................................... 9 PROGRAMS IN COLLABORATION WITH MEMBERSIP ORGANIZATIONS ......................................... 9 Charity Dinner, supporting two of BCause Foundation’s charitable funds .................................................... 9 Partnership with the Bulgarian NetworK of the UN Global Compact ........................................................... 10 CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING ..................................................................................................... 11 WORKPLACE GIVING .................................................................................................................. 12 ANNUAL MEETING "RESPONSIBLE COMPANY - RESPONSIBLE EMPLOYEES" ............................... 13 INCREASING ACCESS TO RESOURCES TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS AND CAUSES (FUNDRAISING AND GRANTMAKING) ................................................................................ 15 FUNDRAISING TOOLS ................................................................................................................. 15 Pay-roll giving ............................................................................................................................................... 15 Unified Charitable Number DMS 17777 ....................................................................................................... 16 Platformata.bg ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Giving without boarders ............................................................................................................................... 21 DONOR FUNDS .................................................................................................................. 23 Get Ready to Succeed Scholarships ............................................................................................ 24 Fund to Support Women Victims of Domestic Violence ............................................................. 25 Distribution of the funds ............................................................................................................ 26 Sport for Children with Disabilities Fund .................................................................................... 27 We Can Fund ............................................................................................................................. 28 Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Children Fund ............................................................ 28 ENTREPRENEURSHIP ......................................................................................................... 30 ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS ........................................................................................................ 31 Academy for local entrepreneurs 3.0 ........................................................................................................... 31 Rinker Youth Challenge .............................................................................................................. 33 TRAININGS AND EXCHANGES FOR ENTREPRENEURS .................................................................. 37 SEEDplus – an opportunity for starting young entrepreneurs ..................................................................... 37 Knowledge and sKills for successful business ............................................................................................... 37 Social Entrepreneurship course at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University ...................................................................................................................................................................... 38 ADVOCACY ................................................................................................................................ 39 2 2019 Annual Report of BCause Foundation COMMUNITIES .................................................................................................................. 40 „Helen L. Rinker Ashley” Fund ................................................................................................... 40 DEVELOPMENT OF GIVING ENVIRONMENT ....................................................................... 41 #GivingTuesday ......................................................................................................................... 41 Giving in Bulgaria, report 2019 ................................................................................................... 43 World Giving Index 2019 ............................................................................................................ 44 BCAUSE PEOPLE ................................................................................................................ 46 3 2019 Annual Report of BCause Foundation Mission We encourage people, organizations and communities to change their lives by developing effective giving and social investments. BCause Foundation is an expert organisation, a recognised leader with more than 20 years of experience at national and international level (since 1995) We offer people and companies a choice of causes that are important to them, safe and easy mechanisms for donating (money, effort and time) and satisfaction from the benefits for the society. We focus donor resources and contribute to the financial and organisational strengthening of civil organisations and public institutions such as schools, public libraries, museums and parKs. We promote and support charitable causes. We help donors and social entrepreneurs with customized services with high added value. We influence giving policies and culture and social investment through research, government consulting, promotion of best practices and special communication projects. We actively worK for achieving advance on the Sustainable Development Goals of the Global Compact. Memberships BCause Foundation is a member of Transnational Giving Europe, Euclid NetworK, Global Social Enterprise NetworK, and an associate member of the CAF Global Alliance. In Bulgaria BCause is a founding member of the Bulgarian Donors' Forum, the UN Global Compact and the Bulgarian NetworK, Social Enterprise Forum in Bulgaria and a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum, the Civil Participation Forum and the British- Bulgarian Business Association (BBBA). BCause Foundation was founded on 16th November 1995. Registration number № 20021107001 in the Central register for legal entities with nonprofit aims worKing in public benefit. 4 2019 Annual Report of BCause Foundation INTRODUCTION 2019 was a year of hard work and increased results in all areas of work of the foundation. More money received. More visibility. More support for children, young people, the elderly people, and enterpreneurs. More confidence that giving is becoming part of everyday life of people in Bulgaria and that many people trust our experience and expertise, the causes we support and the user-friendly instruments our hard-working team provides them with. The stories of the year are numerious. The incredible women from #Forthegood who managed to be active here and now with their mission and three campaigns for improving the hospital environment, before the Covid-19 crisis struck us and the whole of Bulgaria learnt about their superpowers. For the recepies from yet another “Summer for Joy, Autumn for Care”: for fish soup, for pain relief or for business, that will help you stay where you were born. The children of Tutrakan gave us the fish soup recipy, the old women from Valkosel received the pain relief recipies from the doctors, and the business recipies smelled of tahini, flowers and hand-made soap. For the regular donations, so vital to the NGOs but also to us, donors, so that we can feel sterling in our everyday lives. That’s why we want to thank our regular donors of small, but regular amounts through the DMS 17777 monthly subsripctions, as well as the new payroll donors from Sofia to Troyan – this year they also supported new causes. For the companies who transferred their employees engagement online to the companies’s pages at platformata.bg. For the anniversary of the CAF World Giving Index, which demonstrates that our hope is rooted in young people. On a different note, that was Rinker’s year. The center, founded at BCause Foundation, dedicated to entrepreneurship and sustainable growth. This year many dreams were shared with us. Hundreds of them, to be more precise. We made it possible for some of them to become actual plans. Browse through