The CMA CGM Corporate Foundation
 
A corporate foundation focused on children in the PACA region and Lebanon

A socially aware supporter of humanitarian and artistic causes, the CMA CGM Group set up its Corporate Foundation in 2005 for projects intended for children. Engaged initially in humanitarian and cultural sponsorship, the Foundation has refocused its activities towards humanitarian and social projects in the Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur (PACA) region in France, and Lebanon.

The corporate foundation is led by its President Naïla Saadé supported by a project manager, Sophie Beau, and an assistant, Isabelle Billet.
CMA CGM Corporate Fondation

As its president explains:

«The Foundation’s objectives are to improve the wellbeing of underprivileged children (infants, young children and adolescents). It supports learning, educational, social and medical projects for children living in precarious circumstances, or with disabilities or who are suffering from a long-term illness.»

Legally independent, the Foundation is financed solely by its founders through an initial endowment of €5 million.

Projects supported by the Foundation in 2011
Projects supported from 2005 to 2010
  • Défi Sport: sports activities for disabled people Association
    Défi Sport
  • Le Rire Médecin: a clown “doctor” at the bedside of a child in hospital Association
    Le Rire Medecin
  • Massabielle: community centre built in the northern suburbs of Marseille Association
    Massabielle
  • Mira Europe: training a guide dog for young blind people Association
    Mira Europe
  • La Voix de la Femme Libanaise – IT room in the medical-community centre in Fanar La Voix de la
    Femme Libanaise
  • Basilique de Notre-Dame de la Garde: restoring ex-votos in Marseille’s Notre-Dame de la Garde basilica © Robert Valette Basilique Notre-dame
    de la Garde
  • Centre interrégional des Grands Brûlés (AP-HM): funding for a Mother-Child sterile room in a severe burns unit Centre interrégional
    des Grands Brulés


The Foundation has also been committed since 2007 to the long-term sponsorship of three festivals which are internationally renowned.

It has also acquired a contemporary art collection numbering around 20 works, which are on show in the CMA CGM Tower for staff members of the Group to appreciate.

Foundation Prize

In 2007 the Foundation created the CMA CGM Corporate Foundation Prize, awarded every year by Mrs Naïla Saadé to an association for a humanitarian project.

Foundation Prize


CMA CGM Corporate Foundation

4, quai d'Arenc - 13002 Marseilles
Tel: +33 (0)4 88 91 97 97
Fax: +33 (0)4 88 91 97 96
E-mail: fondation@cma-cgm.com