Regional Pro-Bono Work - EMEA 

Office: B-M Paris

Organization: ADIE (French organization that helps people excluded from the employment market and ordinary banking services to create their own employment).

Pro bono work: Sponsoring activities worth 3K€/month

Explanation: B-M Paris has chosen to support micro-credits, through activities that support learning new skills.  This association is really well known in France (http://www.adie.org/).

Office: B-M Berlin

Organization: American Chamber of Commerce in Germany (AmCham)

Pro bono work: CSR

Explanation:  The Berlin office supports AmCham in the process of defining a Corporate Social Responsibility Charter. They have developed the first version of the Charter which will now be discussed and refined internally.

Office: B-M Milan

Organisation: UNHCR

Pro-Bono work: Event organization

Description: B-M Milan was asked to help B-M New York with a pro-bono activity for UNHCR.

 Office: B-M Oslo

Organizations: Norwegian Red Cross and Natteravnene (The Night Ravens)

Pro bono work: Reduced hourly rates

Description: The Night Ravens is a humanitarian grass roots movement which aims at preventing violence and abuse. The main idea is that the presence of sober adults calms uneasy tensions. The Night Ravens are spread throughout Norway, divided in 300 groups. All work done on the streets is solely based on volunteering.

 Offices: B-M Bern/Zurich/Geneva

Organization: Make-A-Wish Foundation

Pro bono work: Marketing activities (newsletter, invitation, media contact) for their events.

 Office: B-M Stockholm

Organization/Person: A woman who is suffering from HIV

Pro bono work: PR-work around the launch of a film about HIV which she has produced.

Description: The woman B-M Sweden is working with is a senior advisor for Noaks Ark (a patient organisation) and they are helping her with all her PR Work.

 Office: B-M Brussels

Organisation: EveryChild

Pro bono work: Fundraising (everything from golf events to internal B-M lunches).

Office: B-M Amsterdam