Community Support
Solicitation Title: Community Support
Event Type: Rolling Deadline
Funding Amount: no limit
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/community-requests-guidelines-application
Overview
<div>As the global philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Foundation, strives daily to be responsive to the citizenship priorities in the global communities where we live and work.</div> <div></div> <div>At The Coca-Cola Company, we recognize that we cannot have a healthy and growing business unless the communities we serve are healthy and sustainable. As a global beverage company, we have committed ourselves to improving the quality of life in the communities where we do business. Our community investment priorities reflect the global and local nature of our business and focuses on those global pillars where The Coca-Cola Company can make a unique and sustainable difference: empowering women, protecting the environment, enhancing communities.</div> <div>As a global beverage company, we have committed ourselves to improving the quality of life in the communities where we do business. Our philanthropic priorities reflect the global and local nature of our business and focuses on those priorities where we can make a unique and sustainable difference.</div> <div>Protecting the Environment: We support initiatives providing access to clean water and sanitation, watershed protection in water-stressed regions, education and awareness programs that promote water conservation within communities and industry. We also support initiatives to increase liter abatement, advance recovery and reuse, increase community recycling awareness, and support for research and innovation.</div> <div>Empowering Women: We support programs and initiatives that help women thrive. Our support focuses on fostering women’s entrepreneurship—providing education, skills-based training, and other personal and professional development resources that help women overcome barriers to success.</div> <div>Enhancing Communities: We support initiatives promoting the well-being of communities including: educational scholarships, drop-out prevention programs, youth development initiatives, arts and culture programs, and locally designated critical issues, such as HIV/AIDS education and prevention and malaria in Africa, youth development initiatives in Europe and diversity initiatives in the United States.</div>
Solicitation Limitations: <div>The Coca-Cola Foundation and its affiliated regional foundations do not generally support:</div> <ul> <li>Individuals (For scholarship information, visit The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation website.)</li> <li>Organizations that discriminate based on race, color, sex, gender identity and/or expression, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age or disability..</li> <li>Religious endeavors</li> <li>Political, legislative, lobbying or organizations</li> <li>Programs focused heavily on nutrition, weight loss and/or physical activity</li> <li>Movie, film or television documentaries</li> <li>Website development</li> <li>Concerts or other entertainment events</li> <li>Beauty contests, fashion shows or hair shows</li> <li>Fraternal organizations and related events</li> <li>Local sports or athletic teams</li> <li>Travel or organized field trips</li> <li>Family reunions</li> <li>Marketing sponsorships or cause marketing or advertising projects (For marketing sponsorship requests, visit the Contact Us section)</li> <li>U.S. based local schools, including charter schools, pre-schools, elementary schools, middle schools or high schools</li> <li>U.S.-based organizations that do not have tax-exempt status under Section 501(c) (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code, or the equivalent</li> <li>Organizations formed outside the U. S. that do not have a charitable equivalency status under the laws and provisions of their respective government</li> </ul> Other Information:<p>Posted deadline is arbitrary. Applications are accepted year-round.</p>Last Updated:
RODA ID: 475