Transversal cooperative projects
The Foundation supports transversal initiatives which participate in the production and/or dissemination of good practices, resources and knowledge useful to actors in the human development sector.
Vers le Haut is the first french think tank focused on youth’s education. They analyse and capitalise all the successful field activities implemented by different education organisation. From that, they generate practical propositions to build an education system adapted to the challenges of the 21th century.
Initiated by Ashoka and designed in collaboration with young people, a network of associations, foundations, companies, and a sociologist, the "Youth Assembly" is a learning experience that brings together young people aged 16-24 and decision-makers from other generations to better understand the issues affecting young people and to reflect together on how to define success in the 21st century.
In 2022, the Foundation renewed its partnership with Passerelles & Competences to structure and perpetuate its "Volunteering for Governance" project, to support more associations and generate real transformations in their boards of directors, thereby leveraging the impact of their organizations.
Break Poverty Foundation is working on a study entitled "Preventing poverty: how parenting support can make a difference", which aims to identify relevant approaches to parenting support. The study will serve as a decision-making tool for sponsors wishing to get involved in making parenting support an effective tool for preventing inequality.
Action Tank is a non-profit association under the French law of 1901, co-created by Martin Hirsch and Emmanuel Faber in 2010. It acts as a laboratory for social innovations, bringing together companies, associations, public players and academics around a common objective: to combat poverty and exclusion in France. It is currently working on the “Innovating through data in child welfare” project, which aims to generate inspiring examples of dynamic observation, piloting and proof, in partnership with several départements, to help improve the social impact of child welfare.
La Fabrique du Nous (based in Marseille) supports and implements initiatives that create social bonds. Their project, called “L’école du Nous” (The School of Us) aims to unite youth players to address the challenges of learning about otherness. Conceived as an educational alliance, “L’école du Nous” will bring together schools, associations, teachers, local authorities, the French Ministry of Education, parents, foundations, etc. At the end of 2023, the Pierre Bellon Foundation supported support to “L’école du Nous” in order to produce a pedagogical engineering the benefits of learning about otherness at school, to lay the foundations for large-scale on a large scale, and to analyze and share the method.
We have also provided support to
Le Cercle Éducation du Centre Français des Fonds et Fondations