April 28, 2023 – Every month, around 78.000 Mercedes-Benz employees donate the cents of their net salary to a good cause. The company is doubling the sum. Since 2012, more than 14 million euros have been donated to more than 2,000 charitable projects in 75 countries. In 2022, it was a total of around 740,000 euros.
"ProCent" involvement in practice
The proposals for aid projects come from the Mercedes-Benz employees. After checking for feasibility, a group of decision-makers made up of equal numbers of works council and company confirms the subsidies. Half of the funds go to regional, charitable projects at the plant sites and the other half to overarching, charitable projects in Germany and abroad, for example in environmental, animal and nature conservation, or benefit children, young people and people with disabilities.
Below is a selection of projects from previous years:
2022
With the purchase of a professional gastro espresso machine, Mercedes-Benz is supporting the regional 46PLUS espresso mobile in Stuttgart and the surrounding area. The espresso mobile is run by young baristas with Down syndrome who have prepared themselves well for their new part-time job. In the future, it will be used to go to weekly or annual markets, club festivals or company celebrations. Behind this is the association 46PLUS Down-Syndrom Stuttgart e.V
In Northern Germany, ProCent supports the Förderverein Pädagogik bei krankheit Hamburg e.V
As part of the DRK-Kreisverband Tübingen e.V., the local association Kirchentellinsfurt-Kusterdingen of the German Red Cross (DRK)
The municipality of Bondorf in the district of Böblingen opened the forest kindergarten "Waldfüchse Bondorf" in 2022. ProCent supports the project "Healthy Nutrition - from Sowing and Planting to the Finished Dish" project to teach children about sustainable and healthy nutrition.
Achilles International Germany
2021
The Björn Schulz Foundation
The German Life Saving Society (DLRG)
The Kimbondo association
The "Angels Home for Children"
Previous Projects
In the rural and secluded mountain region of Mugu, the non-profit association Asha21
Mercedes-Benz ProCent is supporting the association "Joint Aid Management Deutschland e.V."
For the welfare of wolves, lynxes and bears, the FOUNDATION for BEARS
The Bremen Child and Youth Welfare
The orphanage "Springs of Hope Children's Home"
Integra Mittelbaden