Introduction Company profile <strong>and</strong> strategyService portfolio Communication <strong>and</strong> social responsibilityP Stakeholder dialogueP Regional growth partnershipsP Economic valueq Community engagementCommunity engagement) www.munich-airport.com/sponsoringDonations <strong>and</strong> sponsorshipsAs a responsible corporate citizen, we help our hostregion by providing both financial <strong>and</strong> in-kind supporton a voluntary basis to around 500 projects in fieldslike social welfare, education, sport <strong>and</strong> culture. In 2011,we had agreements in place to support 74 sports clubsin the Erding <strong>and</strong> Freising districts. To underscore ourcommitment to promoting youth sport <strong>and</strong> 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 school<strong>and</strong> community libraries, for example. Other financialsupport includes contributions to projects promotingthe integration of migrant children, <strong>and</strong> funding foradult <strong>and</strong> 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 books<strong>and</strong> 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 <strong>and</strong> emotionalgrowth, partly through outdoor education <strong>and</strong>labs, to give them the grounding they need in orderto integrate better socially <strong>and</strong>, 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 <strong>and</strong> theatre ensembles to music schools,school orchestras, <strong>and</strong> concerts. In 2011, for example,we again sponsored the Erding Jazz Festival.Numerous social welfare organizations <strong>and</strong> 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, <strong>and</strong> the aid agency Caritas in Freising.Donations <strong>and</strong> sponsorships in 2011Percentage of overall budgetEducation13%Culture21%Sport36%Social welfare30%Donations funded with flextime creditIn early 2011, FMG’s executive management <strong>and</strong>works 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 <strong>and</strong> Freising districts, a day center in Erding foryoung people <strong>and</strong> adults with learning difficulties, thewomen’s shelter in Erding, <strong>and</strong> the organization LebenshilfeFreising.76
Workforce <strong>and</strong> work environmentEnvironmental <strong>and</strong> climate protectionFinancial reviewSustainable developmentVoluntary work by airport employeesMany people who work at Munich Airport volunteertheir time to help those in need or in difficult circumstancesas a result, say, of unexpected life events ora natural disaster. Some of these airport workers aremembers of aid organizations; others assist peopleon a purely personal basis. The FMG Group activelysupports initiatives of this kind, in part by making itsinfrastructure available to employees.Help in many different areasRun by employees <strong>and</strong> friends of FMG, the organizationFlughafenverein München e. V. has been raisingfunds for charitable <strong>and</strong> philanthropic initiatives for15 years now. In October 2011, for instance, in thespace of just 48 hours, it succeeded in collecting40 tons of relief supplies to send to the victims of aserious earthquake in eastern Turkey.A charity golf tournament in 2011, the fourth organizedby Flughafenverein, managed to raise €11,500 forStiftung Sehnsucht, a foundation engaged in nationwidechild <strong>and</strong> youth addiction prevention programsin schools <strong>and</strong> communities.In August 2011, Flughafenverein München e.V. joinedforces with the organization Navis e.V. to help thevictims of a devastating drought in northeast Kenya.Through the initiative, they were able to supply twodrinking water treatment plants <strong>and</strong> provide medicalaid to the population. Navis e.V. is a privately run aidagency that specializes in disaster relief, both inGermany <strong>and</strong> abroad. Flughafen München GmbHbecame an official member in January 2012.Aid for TanzaniaA customs officer at Munich Airport is working tosupport the inhabitants of Kit<strong>and</strong>ililo, a poor villagein Tanzania. His home community of Ismaning, nowtwinned with Kit<strong>and</strong>ililo, regularly collects relief supplies.The officer has personally accompanied them toTanzania several times to make sure they get throughto where they are needed. Flughafen München GmbHhelped promote a fundraising campaign launched atthe airport to benefit the village.77