Contribution
Contribution Areas
Contribution Guidelines
Requests for funding
Contribution Areas
To realize the Foundation’s mission, we focus contributions on the following areas:
Insurance-relevant research and education
- Promotion of insurance literacy, risk awareness, risk reduction and management
Emerging social and environmental risk reduction
- Awareness and understanding of emerging social and environmental challenges, the risks they pose to society, and research and education on the means to reduce them
Alleviation of poverty and the consequences of catastrophes
- Access to insurance for marginalized and vulnerable segments of the population both in developed and developing countries
- Immediate relief and long-term efforts to rebuild lives and communities devastated by natural catastrophes, pandemics or war
- Economic and social development and governance improvements in developing countries
Contribution Guidelines
The Foundation makes monetary and in-kind contributions to non-profit organizations with well-defined projects aligned to one or more of our contribution areas.
To invest our resources most responsibly, we select organizations that demonstrate good governance, fiscal and administrative stability and produce measurable results.
Programs and projects are chosen based on their potential to create sustainable value to society. Preference is given to long-term projects and partnerships, particularly those where the foundation is also able to use the financial, managerial, and technical expertise of Zurich Insurance Group and its employees for in-kind contributions, thereby achieving a greater positive impact for society.
To ensure continuous improvement, impact objectives and measures are agreed at the outset of any program or project and jointly evaluated on a regular basis. Progress against agreed key measures is an expected condition of continued funding.
Requests for funding
We actively select our partners and therefore do not accept unsolicited requests for funding.
What we do not support
- Projects which are not aligned with our guidelines
- Short-term projects or one-off grants
- Events
- Non-registered organizations
- General public sector services
- Political parties, candidates or partisan political organizations
- Programs for religious purposes or religious activities
- Advertising, or publications outside the scope of our partnerships
- Refurbishment and renovation of buildings
- Individuals (e.g. education, occupational commitments, financial distress, personal acquisitions)