Corporate Citizen Foundation

The Corporate Citizen Foundation seeks to catalyse corporate collaboration to exercise collective corporate citizenry towards a better, safer and friendlier Asia. It focuses on sustainable community development to increase capacity and resilience of vulnerable communities through livelihood enhancement, risk reduction and disaster preparedness prog... rammes. Sustainability of communities development takes into account the varying risks that threaten continuation of growth. Coastal communities have been identified as the most vulnerable due to effects of climate change and geological menaces including typhoons, cyclones, tidal waves and tsunamis. The CCF is probably the first private sector initiative and alliance focusing on capacity building for vulnerable communities in the areas of sustainable development and disaster management. As the initiator of CCF, HSL Constructor has put in the seed funding of SGD 1 million. Over the next two years, HSL is seconding its Head of Philanthropy to the CCF on a full-time basis; provide full secretarial and technical support through its Philanthropy & Sustainability division and allow the complimentary use of office space for the initial CCF HQ, to support the incubation of the new foundation.Read More