The Company has intended to keep a close relationship with society, trying to help and listening to the local community to develop their own projects, in a relation of trust conquered with consistency and long-term vision.
This way, the company supports initiatives and several social projects aiming at contributing to economic development and the improvement of quality of life in its area of influence, from which Serra, Vitória, Vila Velha, Viana and Cariacica, in Vitória's Metropolitan area, are in the foreground.
The priority has been to the educational field, always seeking to promote employability, profit generation, citizenship, and respect to the environment.
Projects concerning health, urban development, security and culture are also supported, usually developed in association with other companies, governments and governmental bodies.
The demand analysis is grounded in pre-established* criteria, from which the following can be highlighted:
*- the entire selection process (requests flowchart, criteria and importance of each skill when hiring, among others) it is based on guidelines established on The Technical Standard " SUPPORT FOR EXTERNAL SOCIAL ACTION" - PT-COI-COIN-00-0001
I - Budgetary Availability;
II - Project inclusion level: the project must aim the transformation of society. Its goals must provide permanent transformation of beneficiaries;
III- Sustainability: the project should follow a direction as to guarantee its total or partial sustainability, that is, there should be a plan to generate and/or seek resources in the short, medium and long terms.
The proposing organization should show the ability to diversify its partnerships and sources of income, as well as to transparently manage its resources. This way, we highlight how important it is for such organization to be certified as an OSCIP (Public-interest non-governmental organization) or a Federal Public Utility, being able to seek governmental resources and manage them with the transparency required by the Government.
IV - Network: the project should promote its potentialities by exchanging or multiplying knowledge with other projects, governments and other agents. Due to the complexity of social issues, the participation of society as a whole is required in order to find the solution for such problems. Thus, the organization should show that it is not isolated from other agents related to the community and that its actions are inserted within a greater project aimed at social transformation.
V - Partnerships: participation/involvement of other social agents in the project's development and support (government, companies and other third-sector institutions);
VI - Coverage area: region under direct influence of ArcelorMittal Tubarão, privileging the highest number of beneficiaries.
Types of supported requests:
- Social Project: the budget for the following year is established no later than July of the previous year. This way, social projects must be forwarded from March to June, preferentially in electronic format. In exceptional character, and before previous communication, they may be forwarded by post mail, in the requesting institution's stamped paper.
- Requests for sporadic support (implicate a single disbursement): these can be supported in the same year, provided they are forwarded at least 60 days in advance.
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Project structure: the projects are expected to contain the information listed below.
- History of the proponent organization
- Introduction
- Context
- Justification
- Objective
- Target audience
- Beneficiaries
- Access to the project (Dissemination and communication plan, project means of publicity, criteria for participation in the project)
- Public Benefits
- Methodology and Work Plan
- Result Monitoring
- Organization's structure (human/physical resources)