Swiss Re Foundation
Swiss Re Foundation
The Swiss Re Foundation eflects the social and humanitarian values of Swiss Re. Together with our partners and Swiss Re employees, we support efforts to strengthen societal resilience in countries where we operate and in targeted developing regions.
To advance innovative solutions to the world’s climate and health challenges, we offer tailored financing and access to Swiss Re expertise, build actionable evidence and amplify impact through collaboration with aligned partners and with Swiss Re employees.
Our focus areas
To concentrate our efforts and increase our impact, we've defined priority themes that apply to our activities both at Swiss Re locations and in selected developing regions.
Our strategic commitments
The Swiss Re Foundation’s first ten years allowed us to lay the groundwork for an effective future. With a clear understanding of how we can advance our vision of a more resilient world, we’ve developed a resilience framework, sharpened our thematic scope and improved our understanding of what we can offer our partners to achieve social impact.
The Foundation creates value on three levels:
- Entrepreneurial solutions: We support entrepreneurial solutions in the early, seed and growth stage. We want the solutions we support to grow beyond grant dependence and to scale impact through revenue-based business models. Entrepreuners for Resilience and Shine are two flagship initiatives supporting enteprises from validation, development (Shine), or growth and expansion(E4R) stages of existence.
- System efficiency: We back initiatives that improve the efficiency of systems for climate resilience and healthcare delivery and demonstrate their value to governments and funders of non-profit organisations that are willing to finance or integrate them into their own operations.
- Local charities: We support local charities near Swiss Re locations that promote climate and health resilience and actively engage Swiss Re employees as volunteers.
Our corporate volunteering programmes
An important partner of ours is Swiss Re, our parent organisation, which not only funds the Foundation but also gives us access to the knowledge and networks of Swiss Re employees and clients. Our growing portfolio of employee volunteering opportunities fall into three clusters:
- Lending a hand – hands-on volunteering programmes to support charity partners near Swiss Re locations that address challenges in our focus areas through Community Days.
- Sharing skills – competence-based expert engagement to mentor and support selected partners over a longer period.
- Shine – developing business plan with early-stage social entrepreneurs while also giving Swiss Re experts an opportunity to realise their inner-development goals.
We collaborate with entrepreneurial changemakers and partners in the public and private sectors to build resilience, favouring initiatives that provide human-centric, scalable market solutions and create actionable evidence.
