Bank Millennium Foundation Programs

[GRI FS16] Since 2016, the Bank Millennium Foundation has carried out the “Financial ABCs” project. It is a proprietary financial education program for kindergarten-age children run under the honorary patronage of the Minister of Education and the Ombudsman for Children’s Rights. It has been developed by Bank Millennium employees in collaboration with a non-governmental organization. Its objective is to explain to these young children some basic financial concepts through fun and games. During the workshops organized in kindergartens, children learn the basic financial terms: what money is and how its value is measured, what an ATM and a credit card is, what is the difference between a need and a desire and why it pays to save. The classes are done by volunteers, Bank Millennium employees.

For more than 10 years, the Bank’s employees have been executing and getting involved in various charitable and educational campaigns across Poland, often in cooperation with non-governmental organizations.

The most important volunteerism program is “Millantrop” run by the Bank Millennium Foundation. It is a grant contest for Bank Millennium employees, which rewards the best social campaigns. So far, more than 500 volunteers took part in the initiatives financed by the grant program and they carried out programs for several thousand beneficiaries. Bank employees have been involved in diverse projects, from repair work to education to environmental projects. The volunteers renovated school rooms and a playground next to an orphanage, renovated a common room in a children’s hospital, made a play area in an animal shelter or even built a school sports pitch. The volunteers also conducted financial education workshops for seniors, promoted reading and encouraged young people to participate in sports activities and adopt a healthy lifestyle. They carried out a campaign for an animal shelter and planted a forest.

In 2019, employees of Bank Millennium and of the former Euro Bank became involved in the charitable campaign entitled “Our People 3: Together to the Moon”. It consisted in engaging in sporting activities, adding up the kilometers traveled, and together “walking” the distance between the Earth and the Moon. For each kilometer traveled by an employee, Bank Millennium donated PLN 1 for social goals – for the beneficiaries of the I Have a Dream Foundation and the DKMS Foundation and for grants awarded in the “Millentrop” contest for the best volunteer projects. The “Our People 3” campaign was attended by more than 1,250 people and over PLN 380 thousand was donated for public causes. The campaign was accompanied by numerous competitions that supported the integration of teams from both banks.