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Social Responsibility

BM&FBOVESPA is a company strongly committed to social and environmental responsibility, participating in such initiatives as the UN’s Global Compact, a framework for businesses that aims to promote sustained economic growth worldwide and social inclusion. Some of the Exchange’s initiatives are:


Institutional Support
Offers support to charitable institutions by donating equipment, apparel and other products, and by granting educational sponsorship.





Job Training Association
The association is committed to promoting job training among low-income youngsters between 15 and 20 years of age. The objective is to encourage social inclusion, by strengthening the teens’ self-esteem, ethical values, and their rights and duties as young adults.



Environment and Social Investment Exchange (BVS&A)
The BVS&A is a world pioneering program designed to support Educational and Environmental projects by Brazilian NGOs. Since its creation in 2003, BVS&A has donated BRL 8.02 million directed at implementing 61 projects.




Noberto Bobbio Research Center
The center promotes the legacy of the Italian master Noberto Bobbio in Brazil and studies and debates related to democracy and citizenship. The center has a library with more than one thousand books, including the complete works by Bobbio, which can be consulted for free.



Athletics Club
The club has 90 athletes specializing in such track and field modalities as running, long and high jump, shot put, discus throw, among others. The club offers the athletes financial support and all the training and infrastructure for the athletes to develop their skills.



Sports and Cultural Space
The Sports and Cultural Space, located in the Paraisópolis community, in São Paulo, has a sports court and a library, and offers sports training, after school tutoring, art, music, and ecology classes for approximately 800 children and youngsters between 6 and 18 years old.
The BM&FBOVESPA Cultural Space, located in downtown São Paulo, offers art exhibitions from Brazilian and international artists, with free admission to the general public.

Corporate Sustainability Index - ISE
ISE is a benchmark in the Brazilian market for socially and environmentally responsible investments; and promotes sustainable practices in business.





In Good Company
This website, www.emboacompanhia.com.br, brings together projects of companies listed on the exchange that operate in a socially responsible way, in order to provide greater visibility to these projects.




Global Compact
BM&FBOVESPA is the first Global Compact signatory company, an initiative by the United Nations intended for the private sector, jointly with the United Nations’ agencies and social players, to contribute to the advancement of social corporate responsibility practices, thereby building up a more sustainable and inclusive global economy.
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