Social responsibility

The Umckaloabo Foundation

Since it was first established over a decade ago, the Umckaloabo Foundation has supported educational projects for children and young people in southern Africa. Hand in hand with the charitable organization Nangu Thina, we have successfully completed several successful projects such as establishing schools and nursery schools.

All in all we have committed nearly six million euros to this work. We want to increase the amount by a half million a year with the objective of supporting educational initiatives in southern Africa with a total of ten million euros by 2030.

Several colleagues in Karlsruhe have also become active volunteers on behalf of the Umckaloabo Foundation. We streamline and coordinate this support in a workgroup so we can inspire more of our colleagues to get involved and to anchor our sense of social responsibility more solidly within our company.

Schwabe Community Grant - working together for our region

Furthermore, as one of the largest employers in Karlsruhe, we want to help make this part of the world a place with a high quality of life — in no small part because the our company headquarters is located in the same city that many of our employees call home. This is how we become involved as good corporate citizens in our region.

We particularly want to encourage the ideas and the sense of commitment that is present in the Schwabe Group and which manifests in a wide range of volunteer activities. This is why the Schwabe Group awards the Schwabe Community Grant twice a year in which it gives €1000 each to five different projects. In doing so, we support social, environmental and cultural work where Schwabianers are active. Together we can achieve more while also honoring the dedication of our employees.

Not all Schwabe employees call the Karlsruhe region their home, which is why we also support initiatives for employees who live in other parts of the world.

The Schwabe Corporate Grant for Schwabe employees around the world

The Schwabe Group encourages the charitable work of its employees around the world, and as a result it initiated the Schwabe Corporate Grant. The Grant awards up to €3,000 to a maximum of five groups in which Schwabe employees are actively involved. Everyone in the Group is welcome to apply, regardless of whether they work at an international site or in Germany.

Employees who actively contribute their time to a social, cultural or environmental initiative are invited to submit their application in the spring. Our employees’ volunteer work has many faces: for example, employees are active in inclusive theater groups or sports clubs, local or global environmental initiatives, educational projects for children or social endeavors such as a neighborhood assistance program or hospice services.

Schwabe CSR Award for companies of the Schwabe Group

Our international affiliated companies also fulfill their sense of corporate social responsibility, and some already have many years of experience with these kinds of projects. We want to create greater awareness for local corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities whilst also expressing our appreciation for our companies’ and employees’ commitment to important causes. Employee workgroups are often the driving force behind these efforts. The companies’ activities range from educational initiatives on a domestic level to environmental campaigns all the way to large-scale CSR concepts involving several people and many different projects.

Since 2019 we have granted the Schwabe CSR Award to a company in the Group to honor the most successful or innovative project for children and young people in the field of education, sports, culture, health or the environment.