PHILANTHROPYBNP Paribas Foundation: 40 years serving those who take action
Created in February 1984, the BNP Paribas Foundation has supported, throughout its four decades of existence, more than 4,200 projects benefiting nearly two million people.
A major player in corporate philanthropy, under the aegis of the Fondation de France (Foundation of France), the BNP Paribas Foundation contributes to the financing of impactful, socially committed projects. It acts in three main areas in the service of the general interest: solidarity, the environment and culture. Regarding solidarity, it focuses on equal opportunities and social inclusion. On the environment, it supports scientific research through its Climate & Biodiversity Initiative, the largest environmental philanthropic programme in France, while raising public awareness. Finally, it promotes culture through the most innovative artistic creations in contemporary dance and circus, jazz and hip-hop and through a greater access.
Through calls for projects, the BNP Paribas Foundation helps an ecosystem that is both associative and scientific and that strives to build a better future. For years to come, the Foundation will continue to give power to those who take action. More than ever, it intends to support and develop the players and talents who contribute to the development of just and sustainable transitions by supporting high-impact innovative projects. Always with the same mindset: audacity and determination.
Mosaïc, an office building transformed into a third place
In the heart of the city of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine in France, BNP Paribas Real Estate is co-owner, with Novaxia Investissement, of an office building in which renovation work is planned within two years. Pending the work’s effective launch, these vacant premises were made available for the next 20 months to 59 social and solidarity economy players, associations and artists in exchange for a particularly attractive monthly fee. The establishment of this community third place, named Mosaïc, led to a call for applications, organised by the transitional urban planning agency Liveo, to welcome future occupants within 2,500 square metres of improved space. This is the second solidarity third place that BNP Paribas Real Estate has launched, following the one set up at the former AP-HP (“Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris”, Greater Paris University Hospitals) headquarters, which has hosted, in the heart of Paris, 450 associations, artists, craftspeople and other structures of the social and solidarity economy since 2023.