The Maisons du Monde Foundation also participated in the 1% For the Planet Philanthropic Associations Meeting in October, bringing together the 1% network to raise funds for 41 environmental associations. The Foundation participated in awarding the collective prizes, and awarded two "Coup de Coeur" and "Coup de Pouce" prizes on this occasion.

In the report you can read about all the forest conservation projects (11 projects), wood reuse projects (6 projects) and community actions (4 programs), including four new projects selected during the 2017 call for projects.

Download it here (only french).

In 2018, 1% of companies in France implement ARRONDI, and Maisons du Monde is one of them! For this new edition, all the partners were able to celebrate the 20 million micro-donations made since the start-up began operating!

microDON is a Social and Solidarity Economy start-up that develops innovative solutions to facilitate and promote social commitment. The solutions are designed to encourage and enable everyone to be an actor of change easily and at their own level.

The ARRONDI cash desk round-up scheme gives us the opportunity to educate our customers on the Maisons du Monde Foundation, and show them how they can make their purchases meaningful by donating and co-funding environmental and social projects such as forest conservation.

Selected during the 2018 call for projects, NGO’s receive support from the Maisons du Monde Foundation for a period of three years. Following the selection of six projects by the panel of experts of the Maisons du Monde Foundation, the company's employees voted for 4 associations to be supported by ARRONDI for the year 2018!

In 2017, thanks to the generosity of our customers we won  the prize for the best store participation rate in 2017 with 56% of participation. More than one customer out of two rounded up their purchases by a few cents. Thank you to our store colleagues for their dedication and our customers for their generous donations: this prize recognises the collaborative work of the community!

Selected during the 2018 call for projects, Ishpingo will receive support from the Maisons du Monde Foundation for a period of three years.

Following the selection of six projects by the panel of experts of the Maisons du Monde Foundation, the company's employees voted for the associations to be supported by ARRONDI for the year 2018, and Ishpingo was one of them!

Ishpingo is an NGO that focuses on preserving natural resources and helps Kichwa indigenous communities manage their natural resources more sustainably.

The funds collected via Arrondi will make it possible to:

• Regenerate and protect the forest resource;
• Train beneficiaries in productive and organic farming;
• Build, equip and legalize the fruit processing plant;
• Develop fair trade production, processing and marketing chains for fruits from reforestation.

Starting on July 9, make a round-up at the register micro-donation at any Maisons du Monde store in France and support the Ishpingo project.

(Re)discover the previous project which you supported from April to July. Thanks to your donations, Envol Vert received €94,928,22 to protect the last remaining forest habitat of the cotton-top tamarin monkey in Colombia.

Up until 12 November 2018, associations can apply for the Maisons du Monde Foundation’s new call for projects “Forests & Climate, Wood & Climate”.

Under the aegis of the Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme, since its creation in 2016, the Maisons du Monde Foundation has supported projects based on two themes:

• Protecting forests and their biodiversity in southern countries
• Recycling wood materials in France and Europe

Trees lie at the heart of all the projects supported. In addition to being a source of raw material, trees are a source of life. They provide ecological services, are social places in some communities, and are one of the climate’s best allies.

Deforestation is responsible for 12% to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet forests are one of the best solutions for capturing and reducing greenhouse gases. In parallel, at the end of the production chain, 345 million tons of waste is generated every year in France. In this view, many structures are attempting to give it value, especially wood materials, by capturing deposits destined for recycling.

For its selection committee in February 2019, the Maisons du Monde Foundation is launching a call for projects on the theme “Protecting forests” and “Recycling wood” with “climate” as the dominant theme. Projects justifying a climate component will be given priority (reduction, adaptation). Special attention will be paid to associations that show vision and a project that can be replicated, as well as a method for monitoring and measuring its impact (trees, volume of greenhouse gas avoided, capturing of waste deposits, etc.).

The 2019 call for projects is open until 12 November inclusive. Associations can apply to the Foundation for funding of €20,000 to €30,000 a year in the frame of a 3-year partnership.

Project sponsors can download the funding application form and all the documents required on the Foundation’s website and submit their project by e-mail: fondation@maisonsdumonde.com.

For this 2nd edition, 50 candidates from 17 different schools sent us their projects: Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, Pivaut, STRATE, Politech Orléans, Condé Lyon, Boulle, Condé Paris, ENSAAMA, ESMOD Paris, CREAPOLE ESDI, Ecole Supérieure de Design des Landes, ENSCI, Académie Charpentier, Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès, Condé Nice, Bellecour école and ESADSE.

At the start of February, our designers, stylists and product managers pre-selected 11 projects for the furniture category and 5 projects for the decoration category. At the end of February, a jury of eco-design experts, including our partners Eco-mobilier, FSC®, EVEA, Eco TLC, supported by the ADEME and the Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme, rated the environmental reduction efforts described by the students.

Effervescence at the Bellevilloise in Paris last week for the Rencontres Associations et Philanthropes (RAP): over two days, 40 associations came to present their projects to the patrons brought together by the 1% for the Planet network.

In France, this network gathers 170 companies and €5 million paid annually to support environmental causes.

Over these two days, the associations had the opportunity to pitch on one of the seven themes:

• Agriculture, soil and food
• Ecocitizen movements
• Biodiversity
• Active education in contact with nature
• Rivers and oceans
• Climate and energy
• Heath and Environment

Thanks to fund-raising by the 1% for the Planet prior to the event, the best projects were financed immediately. The associations discovered the winners at the closing event on Wednesday 10 October.

For the third year running, the Maisons du Monde Foundation took part in the associations’ presentations and financially supported several projects. Alongside other major patrons (Léa Nature Foundation, Caudalie, Laiterie Vrai, Nature et Découvertes Foundation, Fondation de France, etc.) and through the participation of Fabienne Morgaut, Director of the Foundation, Lisa Mimoun, Project Coordinator, and Marion Martin, CSR reference network coordinator, the Maisons du Monde Foundation contributed to awarding a collective prize for each theme.

This year, the Foundation chose its “favourite” project from the “eco-citizen movements” category and provided €10,000 of funding for the Reporterre association, an independent media that works with young journalists in order to lend a voice to the inhabitants of working-class neighbourhoods about the challenges of climate change and ecological issues.

The third edition of the Awards welcomes the home design and DIY magazine Marie-Claire as a new partner. Alongside the eco-organisations Eco-mobilier and Eco TLC, the association FSC France, the consultants EVEA, the participation of ADEME and the Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme, Maisons du Monde aims to promote young talent of the future through sustainable creation. The brand wants to initiate a change in behaviour by raising awareness about eco-design (training of buyers), taking into account of the sustainable management of wood at the heart of the product offering and the identification of sustainable products with a view to selling them.

With the Awards, students or young graduates from French design and fashion schools are invited to study the eco-design of furniture and decorative products (all materials, including textiles) by integrating the steps in the product’s life cycle (choice of material, transport, end-of-life) and innovating in order to reduce the impact on the environment without reneging on style.

For this new edition, Maisons du Monde wants students to follow two “trends”: Hygge or Workshop. Since 2016, 29 schools and more than 100 students have already taken part in the Awards and some of the prize-winners have seen their project marketed by the brand.

• .Two main prizes: one for the “Furniture” category and one for the “Decoration and household linen” category: a cheque for €2,500€, the chance of a work placement with the Maisons du Monde Designer teams and the creation of the prototype.
• A FSC® France special prize: Maisons du Monde FSC® certified furniture worth €600.
• The “Like it” public prize: all of the pre-selected projects will be presented on the Maisons du Monde Facebook page: the project that receives the most “likes” wins €500 in Maisons du Monde gift vouchers.

The winning items could be commercialised by Maisons du Monde, within the framework of partnerships to be set up between Maisons du Monde and the winner(s).

Each year, the Maisons du Monde Foundation is supporting projects based on three major themes: preserving forests, recycling wood and acting for the environment. After its annual selection committee in March, the Maisons du Monde staff members were asked to choose their four “Favourite” projects. These projects will be financed by the Foundation and also supported by the ARRONDI operation at checkouts. Among them, AICO La Manufacture will benefit from donations from Maisons du Monde customers!

The brand offers its customers the chance to round up their purchases in order to support an environmental cause: forestry preservation in southern countries or association working to recycle wood. Rounding up has become a permanent feature in French stores since 2017: this generosity-based mechanism is supported by customers who round up their purchases more than one time out of every two!

At the end of October, customers in stores will discover the AICO La Manufacture association, based in Prades, Pyrénées Orientales France, and its wood recycling project. Its goal: helping unemployed women to get back to employment and acquire new competencies: craftsmanship with wood.

With this project, AICO La Manufacture hopes to offer these long-term unemployed women a place in society by restoring their confidence (skills, creativity) and presenting the products created to the general public.

The Maisons du Monde Foundation has decided to support this project for three years with a joint environmental and social vocation.

The funds collected at checkouts with Arrondi will help to:

• Increase the reuse of furniture recovered from bulky waste (via the customisation and reconstruction of this furniture)
• Acquire a workshop and a storage room for this activity
• Train the association’s employees and hire a technical assistant
• Raise awareness among the general public with activities and courses on wood recycling

The Maisons du Monde Foundation's mission is to support associations that contribute to the safeguarding of forests and biodiversity, for and through local populations.

Each year, following the Foundation's selection committee, the company's staff choose their "favourite" projects, which will be financed by the Foundation and supported by customers through the "ARRONDI en caisse" scheme.

Every time customers go through the check-out, the store teams suggest rounding up the amount of their purchase to support an environmental cause: the preservation of forests in southern countries, or the recycling of wood-based products.

Since December, Tchendukua is the association benefiting from micro-donations made by Maisons du Monde customers (Tchendukua means "where thought converges"). This association works in Colombia in Sierra Nevada, a region with rich biodiversity but where only 17% of the original forests are still intact. This region is inhabited by four peoples, including the Kogis and the Wiwas, who have lost a large part of their territories.

The association's plan is to help the Indians legally recover their ancestral lands, and thus safeguard their cultures and special relationship with their environment.  

In partnership with Marie-Claire Idées, the eco-organisations Eco-mobilier and Eco-TLC, the association FSC France, the life cycle analysis consultants EVEA, and with the participation of the ADEME and the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, these Awards aim to promote you talent of the future, commit to changing behaviour by raising awareness of eco-design, include the sustainable management of wood at the heart of the product offering and identify sustainable products with a view to selling them.

47 students took part in the third edition of the Awards, representing 13 design, fashion, and art schools from all over France. They presented eco-design furniture or decorative accessory projects. The students show great creativity to reduce impacts on the environment, without overlooking style!

The jury selected 10 projects in the “furniture” category and the “decoration” category/ At each step in the product’s life cycle, the students showed great ingenuity by proposing innovative uses (double functionality, lifespan, etc.), sustainable sources (FSC® certified wood, recycled materials, etc.) or simple assembly methods for users.

From 1 to 30 April 2019, the 10 pre-selected projects will be presented on Facebook in the frame of the “Like it” public award. Web users are asked to vote for their favourite project by liking the student’s photo. The winner will receive a €500 gift voucher for FSC® certified Maisons du Monde furniture.

All the winners will be revealed next October in Paris at the official award ceremony attended by the project’s partners and design experts. Prototypes of the “furniture” and “decoration” projects will be presented to the participants.

Vote for your favourite project here!