Corporates

Current Corporate Funds

The SAP Business Objects Fund

In 2008 Business Objects, the largest business intelligence company in the world, (now part of SAP), with over 200 staff in Dublin established ‘The Business Objects Fund’ at The Community Foundation for Ireland.

Speaking about the projects Claire Gillissen-Duval from SAP outlines the benefits of the partnership. “Since 2003 we have partnered with strong community foundation organisations through the world, to advise us on our local grant making to support education for vulnerable children and youth. These include The Vancouver Foundation in Canada, Fondation de France in France, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in the USA and The Berkshire Community Foundation for the UK. It has been a great pleasure to work with the Community Foundation for Ireland."

"We were amazed by the level of commitment, support and advice provided by this organisation throughout the grant process. Our contacts perfectly understood the object/mission of our corporate foundation, knew very well the charity network locally, therefore identified appropriate charities in the Dublin area that were willing to apply for funding. The Community Foundation then initiated the first contacts with them and even organised the visits for our employees who were involved in the granting process. They were strong advisors during our corporate decision making meeting and eventually communicated our decisions to the charities that had applied for funding.If we had to rank the Community Foundation for Ireland amongst our other partners, they would certainly come among the first for all the reasons detailed before and for their high professionalism. We're now looking forward to working again with them for the next grant cycle!” By the start of 2010, over €42,000 in grants, have been made from this fund."

Projects funded have an educational focus and grants were made for a specific intervention in response to a demonstrated need. Recipients have included Fatima Regeneration Board, Our Lady of Victories School in Ballymun, An Síol CDP, Deansrath Family Centre and Athenry Adolescent Support Programme.

The Xilinx Community Fund Europe

The Xilinx Community Fund Europe at The Community Foundation for Ireland was established in 2006. By early 2010 over €280,000 in grants had been made from this fund. The company matches employee donations to charity and these account for a lot of grants made. Additionally the fund has a particular focus on projects in the local community which have an emphasis on Science, Technology and Education. Some recent grant recipients include Talbot Senior National School in Clondalkin for technology equipment, the Salesian Sisters in Ballyfermot for a Children’s Health project, and DCU Educational Trust for four educational scholarships. Speaking about their fund a spokesperson for the company said “We in Xilinx have been very pleased with our relationship with The Community Foundation for Ireland, they have been extremely professional in all our dealings with them and have greatly simplified the process of grant giving both for Xilinx and for the grant recipients."