Vote for the Socially responsible organization of the year

Established in 2011, this award recognizes an EDHEC graduate for an outstanding career and his/her social and/or economic impact within an organization/NGO or social enterprise. He/she may be an entrepreneur in the field of social economy. This association/NGO or company has citizenship and social and environmental responsibility at the heart of its business values. Open to the world, it advocates active solidarity.

Within this entity, this EDHEC :
- Plays a prominent role and has contributed greatly to the development of this association/NGO or social enterprise
- Can be successfully materialized and a major project, impacting socially and/or economically.

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ATD-QUART-MONDE, Bruno Dabout (GE 1982), Regional Officer North America, Mouvement International ATD Quart Monde

Comment Bruno a –t-il contribué au développement d’ATD Quart-Monde ?

ATD Quart Monde is an international movement without political or religious affiliations. The movement was created in association with persons in situations of serious poverty and develops projects geared to eliminating misery by ensuring access to fundamental rights. Initiatives are focused particularly on facilitating access to knowledge and culture and on giving a voice to people (street libraries, arts and knowledge festivals, people’s universities, etc.). It also runs a publishing and research activity with people in situations of exclusion. The movement strives at local, national and international levels to ensure the most deprived are heard and represented, and that the fight against serious poverty is considered a priority (actions targeting political and professional institutions and the general public). ATD Quart Monde’s objective of working together to help those suffering from severe poverty implies it gets as close as possible to the people it is trying to help. This means that permanent volunteers live in the neighbourhoods where they work. “Our people frequently live in highly-disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The experience is highly challenging, but always a passionate one, both lived from the standpoint of a parent and a member of society". The school of life!
How has Bruno contributed to ATD Quart-Monde’s development? 
After graduating from Edhec in 1982, Bruno Dabout joined ATD Quart Monde as a permanent volunteer in 1985. His different assignments have led him to live with his wife and two children in Paris, in the Paris suburbs, in Bangkok and, for a period of three years, in Jersey City opposite New York City, then New Orleans and the suburbs of Washington DC. 
Bruno has worked alternately on designing and leading projects designed to fight poverty, and on fund-raising and managing the association’s finances, and sometimes performed both functions at the same time.  
Few of the people he has encountered in the association have graduated from a business school and his training has been extremely useful. In particular, he held overall responsibility for all financial and managerial matters for the whole of the ATD Quart Monde movement for a period of 10 years. His responsibilities embraced 35 countries, an overall budget of €15m and tens of thousands of volunteers. In 2007, following an audit by France’s public accounts body, the Cour des Comptes, the  body’s erstwhile president, Philippe Seguin (now deceased), acknowledged 10 years of efforts that enabled the association to progress from “honesty to honesty plus financial transparency and an accounting and administrative organisation that seeks to operate with the same stringency as a commercial company”.
Following this recognition, Bruno accepted a posting as Regional Officer for North America. The assignment has required him to support and assist ATD Quart Monde’s teams and groups in North America, to the extent that he now has worldwide responsibility for applying one of the three ongoing priorities that guide ATD Quart Monde’s projects and activities worldwide, namely to promote an economy that respects both people and the planet.    
http://www.atd-quartmonde.org/ 
http://www.atd-quartmonde.fr/

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Ca me regarde, Ségolène Delahalle (GE 1999), co-founder

ÇA ME REGARDE is a cooperative (SCOP) whose mission is to assist companies in developing their civic involvement based on the strength of the collective. Its main business: design, organization and promotion of solidarity projects (in the form of training and events), made ??in France, in conjunction with associations working against instability and to protect the environment. 
Thus in business, a seminar, training, a team bonding day, or a working time reduction can all have positive impact. It is for a company's employees to participate in partnership with the association, to show to themselves and other shareholders what they are worth - a real win/win concept.
Consistent with the integral aims of its business,
ÇA ME REGARDE has a chosen method of governance and cooperation. Co-gendering (male-female equality), judicial statute (SCOP) promoting internal democracy, the establishment of a collaborative brainstorming workshop open to stakeholders, are examples of the commitment of ÇA ME REGARDE. 
Ségolène Delahalle is co-founder of ÇA ME REGARDE with Arnaud Fimat?, following 11 years experience in internal and external business communciations – She is a fighter who goes all the way: 20 years of pre-national handball … A top tennis player….Always try to put things across in life - Like a breath of fresh air! Listen to interviews with Ségolène on France Info andTF1 here: 
To see more, go to: Cameregarde.com

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INSTITUT TELEMAQUE, GAELLE SIMON (GE 2000), Executive Director

Institut Télémaque is a not-for-profit association set up in 2005 in partnership with France’s Ministry of Education and chaired by Henri Lachmann, the former chairman of Schneider Electric. The association seeks to foster social mobility by providing assistance up to baccalaureate level to outstanding and motivated young persons originating from disadvantaged environments.  As part of the Télémaque project, the  young person receives support from an educational mentor (a member of the school) and a corporate tutor (a voluntary employee from one of the association’s corporate partners). Both roles involve broadening the young person’s horizons (“social mobility facilitators”) and assisting in the choices regarding his/her future career. 
The Institut Télémaque in figures: 
- 500 young people assisted since the association’s creation 
- 31 corporate partners : 1000 MERCIS, ADECCO, FONDATION APRIL, AXA, BIOMERIEUX,  BNP PARIBAS, CAISSE DES DEPOTS, CANAL +, CEA GRENOBLE, DARTY, EDF, FONDATION FDJ, FONDATION HSBC POUR L’EDUCATION, GDF SUEZ, KERING, LA POSTE, MAZARS, MOBILIS,  NEXITY, REXEL, SANOFI, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, GROUPE SEB, SFR, SNCF, SOLVAY, TECHNIP, TOTAL, UBS, VEOLIA, ZARA
- 1,000 employees and educational mentors have committed to the programme since inception 
- 3 sites: Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes and Nord Pas de Calais
- Around 100 schools in 3 regions 
- A team of 10 supported by 3 top business leaders: Henri Lachmann, National President (former Chairman of  Schneider Electric), Thierry Mulliez, President Télémaque Nord Pas de Calais (President of the Association Familiale Mulliez), Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise, President Télémaque Rhône-Alpes (Chairman of Groupe SEB)
Gaelle has been involved in the association since 2006, first as a project manager then as an Executive Director since 2008. The association has grown substantially since its creation. After gaining  four years of experience with Renault as a project manager for the company’s trade shows in France and abroad, Gaëlle switched to the non-profit sector and joined the Institut Télémaque in its early days (when only 10 young people were receiving assistance and there was only 1 corporate partner). 8 years later, the project is an undoubted success: over 500 young people have been assisted through support from more than 30 companies (around 20 of which from the CAC 40) and from more than 1,000 employees and educational mentors! Underpinned by the success achieved in the Ile-de-France region, two more centres have been created in the Rhône-Alpes and Nord Pas de Calais regions. The association has become much more professional since its inception, whether in terms of events, digital communication, the use of assessment tools or the multiplication of partnerships with cultural and not-for-profit bodies, etc.). 
"Institut Télémaque is a project that works, as witnessed by our outstanding baccalaureate results (97% success rate including 79% of “good” passes). It is highly rewarding to witness the success of these young people who possess the ability and the talent, but who lack an environment conducive to their success and who frequently self-censor" adds Gaëlle, who continues to contribute to the project with the same enthusiasm and determination shown over the last eight years.

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