Down Foundation services for for-profit companies and firms
If you choose our services, you are also supporting the future!
The Down Foundation is a service organization that, in addition to health, education and social services for people with disabilities, as well as employment, also offers and provides services to professionals, parents, open market players and any interested parties. The goal of this is to bring the cause of people with disabilities closer to non-professionals, to teach them how to relate to our disabled fellow human beings in an inclusive society. In addition to general attitude formation, open market players can utilize the foundation's services in many ways, for example, in order to employ people with disabilities or those with altered working capacity for other reasons, or in order to fulfill the environmental and social criteria of the ESG. By using the services of the Down Foundation, you support a non-profit social service organization. The foundation uses the income from the purchased services to support people with intellectual disabilities and their families. We are happy to customize the Foundation's services to best suit the needs of you and your team.
1. Training for companies (minimum 4 hours)
- Mental Accessibility – the basics of an inclusive attitude (accredited adult training)
- Universal services – principles and practice of inclusive behavior and communication
2. Interactive trainings for company employees
- Crafts with the Down Foundation's clients with intellectual disabilities (3–4 hours) (e.g. leatherwork, felting, pottery, papier-mâché, jewelry making)
- Playful and athletic team competition with the Foundation's clients in mixed teams (4 hours).
- Inclusive family program with children on Margaret Island (or other agreed location): a joint weekend program for the company's families with children aged 0–10 and families raising children with Down syndrome (4–5 hours)
3. Service and training for inclusive workplaces – employing employees with intellectual disabilities
- Employment placement: preparing future employees, adapting the job, preparation of colleagues, management training, job coaching
- Training for managers: Inclusive employment for workplace health (2–3 hours)
- Employee training: training for colleagues of employees with intellectual disabilities – What is worth knowing if our colleague has an intellectual disability? (3 hours)
- Individual training of workplace mentors (several times, according to individual needs)
4. Volunteering at the Down Foundation:
Contact work and administrative tasks:
escorting, transportation, organizing and participating in leisure programs, participating in vacations as a helper, offering professional work: participating in fundraising, relationship building, communication, office tasks, transportation and maintenance work, etc.
5. Guest at the Down Foundation
- Visit to sheltered workplaces (minimum 2 hours)
- Guest accommodation in residential units (minimum 3 hours)
6. Participation in the distribution of the Foundation's artisanal products – available here in the webshop
- Ordering and purchasing unique consumer goods from the Foundation:
products made from waste and by-products, products made from the customer's own waste and by-products, ceramic products: bowls, pots, pots, papier-mâché: flower pots, small pieces of furniture, bowls,
small leather items: key chains, figurines, pen holders, cases, etc.
jewelry, paper decorations, etc.) - Ordering a gift voucher or a promotional gift from the Foundation
- Organizing sales/fairs at the company