Madrid | March 14, 2024
The Corresponsables Foundation, a benchmark in corporate social responsibility communication, has recognized Envera on the cover of its Corresponsables 2024 Yearbook for its social work in accompanying people with disabilities and its impact on corporate sustainability through social responsibility, the development of ESG criteria and its contribution to 11 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda.
El Anuario ha sido entregado por Marcos González, presidente y fundador de Corresponsables, y recogido por Enrique Grande, director general de Envera, durante la clausura de su Jornada 'La evolución y tendencias de la sostenibilidad y la comunicación responsable' que ha tenido lugar este jueves en el auditorio de IESE en Madrid y que ha contado con más de 700 asistentes y casi 200.000 personas en streaming.
Together with Envera, Corresponsables has also recognized companies, organizations and entities that are benchmarks in their sector for the sustainability practices they carry out, such as ENAIRE, Ineco, Grupo Viajes El Corte Inglés, Iberdrola and Leroy Merlin, among other large organizations with which Envera also collaborates on a regular basis to develop social projects, create jobs for people with disabilities and corporate social volunteering, among other initiatives.
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABILITY
The Jornada de Corresponsables hosted four forums in which innovative best practices were presented and topics related to the importance of sustainability were discussed.
Tal y como apuntó Sofía Martín, directora de Comunicación de Fundación SERES, "los indicadores de sostenibilidad van a estar a la altura de los financieros y generan confianza si los comunicamos de la forma correcta".
Otro de los ponentes fue Carlos Arango, director general de la Fundación EY y miembro de la Junta Directiva de DIRSE, quien apuntó la necesidad de que "la sociedad debe entender la importancia de la sostenibilidad, es pura supervivencia y crecimiento económico para las empresas".
AT THE SIDE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO TAKE THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD WITH DIGNITY
Envera is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1977 as an initiative of Iberia employees, mothers and fathers of people with intellectual disabilities. Since then, Envera accompanies these people so that they can take their place in the world with dignity through their social and labor inclusion.
More than 46 years later, today Envera is an organization open to the whole of society, serving 5,000 people with intellectual disabilities and their families each year and providing stable employment for more than 850 people, thanks to the joint work it carries out with more than 400 organizations from the business and public sectors that support its work.
In fact, Envera leads the Competitive Social Responsibility Committee of Madrid Foro Empresarial, where it helps companies to develop their CSR, ESG and sustainability plans as a strategic element.where it helps companies to develop their CSR, ESG and sustainability plans as a strategic element.
