"Perspectives 2011" - Sustainability and Annual Report (pdf)

Introduction Company profile and strategyService portfolio Communication and social responsibilityP Stakeholder dialogueP Regional growth partnershipsP Economic valueq Community engagementCommunity engagement) www.munich-airport.com/sponsoringDonations and sponsorshipsAs a responsible corporate citizen, we help our hostregion by providing both financial and in-kind supporton a voluntary basis to around 500 projects in fieldslike social welfare, education, sport and culture. In 2011,we had agreements in place to support 74 sports clubsin the Erding and Freising districts. To underscore ourcommitment to promoting youth sport and to giveclubs a solid basis on which to plan ahead, these agree -ments have terms of several years.Another important area of our sponsorship work centerson supporting educational institutions – throughthe provision of funding to purchase books for schooland community libraries, for example. Other financialsupport includes contributions to projects promotingthe integration of migrant children, and funding foradult and youth education in community colleges. Werecently signed our first donation agreement with aterm of three years, with Kastulus Secondary Schoolin Moosburg, to help with the purchase of new booksand to enable the school to plan new education projectsmore reliably.FMG currently helps to finance an intensive, full-daytuition program outside the mainstream school systemfor youngsters with severe educational difficulties. Theprogram aims to advance students’ social and emotionalgrowth, partly through outdoor education andlabs, to give them the grounding they need in orderto integrate better socially and, at the same time, preparethem for school-leaving exams or a vocationaltraining course.We also help fund a wide range of cultural activities inthe region, supporting everything from professionalorchestras and theatre ensembles to music schools,school orchestras, and concerts. In 2011, for example,we again sponsored the Erding Jazz Festival.Numerous social welfare organizations and initiatives,too, receive funding, including Lebenshilfe Freising,which supports people with disabilities, several agen -cies in the Erding district that distribute food to peoplein need, and the aid agency Caritas in Freising.Donations and sponsorships in 2011Percentage of overall budgetEducation13%Culture21%Sport36%Social welfare30%Donations funded with flextime creditIn early 2011, FMG’s executive management andworks council agreed to roll out a new charitable givingmodel under which employees’ flextime credit “lost”by not being taken as time off during 2010 could begifted to social welfare initiatives at its equivalentvalue. This raised a sum of €51,500, which was donatedto 11 social welfare organizations in the airportregion, including food distribution agencies in the Er -ding and Freising districts, a day center in Erding foryoung people and adults with learning difficulties, thewomen’s shelter in Erding, and the organization LebenshilfeFreising.76