This year's 14th edition of the report prepared by the Responsible Business Forum features 23 CSR initiatives of Citi in Poland. The "Responsible Business in Poland. Good Practices" publication is the only elaboration of this kind which sums up the most important CSR initiatives in Poland.
811 practices were entered for this year's edition of the report. They can be submitted only by companies, and the final decision about the qualification of the initiative to the report is made by the Expert Committee (Komitet Merytoryczny) composed of representatives of the Responsible Business Forum. This year the applications were sent by 136 enterprises. Among the awarded initiatives as many as 23 belong to Citi in Poland - 5 more than in the previous year. For the first time the report encompassed new programs implemented by The Citi Handlowy Leopold Kronenberg Foundation: Citi Microentrepreneurship Award, Santa's Assistant, Hi - Tech Startup, Conference of the Network of Entrepreneurial Women and the survey "Poles' Attitudes Towards Saving".
We are infinitely glad that our initiatives were included in the report. They clearly demonstrate the strategic attitude of the company towards social responsibility management. When we were mentioned in the report of the Responsible Business Forum for the first time, we managed to enter only one project. Since then our projects not only grew in numbers, but also built a brand recognizable on the market. Our this year's result of 23 good practices is composed also of novelties, which makes us especially happy, because it is a proof that we are maintaining a high level and still have good ideas, says Krzysztof Kaczmar, President of The Citi Handlowy Leopold Kronenberg Foundation. This is another award which is a sign of acknowledgement towards our achievements in this field - in March we became the laureates of the second edition of "Ethical Company" competition organized by Puls Biznesu.
The report "Responsible Business in Poland. Good Practices" is a prestigious publication, the only one of this kind in Poland. It is a review of companies active in the field of CSR, summing up the most important actions in this area. This year's edition is record-breaking in terms of CSR practices number - 811 (last year - 684). The report features 452 examples of new actions of companies (last year - 420) and 359 long-term ones, i.e. those described in the previous editions and being continued in 2015 (last year there were 264 of them). There are several trends which followed in each subsequent edition of the publication. For many years, the number of small and medium enterprises submitting their initiatives is constantly rising. For several years, the majority of those initiatives are pursued in the "community involvement and development" area.
