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AmCham Cares

AmCham CARES recognizes AmCham member companies in Singapore that have demonstrated a strong understanding of the link between responsible business operations and positive societal impact, and that conduct business in a way that creates both long-term economic and social value for Singapore. The program is a platform to benchmark, and share best practices, as well as encourage member companies to improve their current corporate social responsibility programs.

2019 AmCham CARES Awards Ceremony

We were honored to host Her Excellency Mdm Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore as the guest-of-honor to recognize the 2019 AmCham CARES Awards recipients. The awards ceremony was part of our 46th Annual General Meeting on April 26th. To learn more about the Award Ceremony, please see press coverage here.

The awards submissions survey are tabulated by the AmCham Social Impact Taskforce. In 2019, CSR programs were assessed on four main factors – communications, measurement, strategy, and sustainability. If you would like to explore ways that your company can participate next year, please contact Tabitha Goh.

Objectives of AmCham CARES Award

AmCham CARES is not a competition. It requires companies to meet certain criteria with their pre-existing CSR programs. AmCham CARES is a great way to benchmark, share best practices, and look at ways to improve companies’ current CSR programs. The aims of the AmCham CARES Awards are to:

Raises awareness of CSR and corporate citizenship among AmCham members;
Recognizes firms with best practice programs;
Gathers information about best practices to share with all AmCham members; and
Demonstrates continued AmCham leadership among chambers in Singapore.

2019 AmCham CARES Awards

In 2019, 64 companies were recognized and honored at the AmCham 46th Annual General Meeting on April 26, 2019. The award was presented by Her Excellency Mdm Halimah Yacob, President of the Republic of Singapore. To view the full list of 2019 AmCham CARES recipients and som their CSR stories, click here.

For more information about the program, contact us at csr@amcham.org.sg.

AmCham Singapore aims to raise awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) among members as one of the most active business chambers in Singapore. The AmCham CARES program recognizes member companies in Singapore that have demonstrated a strong understanding of the link between responsible business operations and positive societal impact, and that conduct business in a way that creates both long-term economic and social value for Singapore.

A platform to benchmark and share best practices, AmCham CARES encourages member companies to improve their current CSR programs. These programs are assessed on four main factors – communications, measurement, strategy, and sustainability.

In recent years, we were honored to host Mdm Halimah Yacob, President of the Republic of Singapore, and Minister Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Health and former Minister for Education, as the guests-of-honor to recognize the AmCham CARES Awards recipients during our Annual General Meeting.

In 2022, Minister Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Education was our guest of hour for the award ceremony.

To date, we have awarded over 300 certificates of recognition to AmCham member companies for their outstanding corporate citizenship.

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AmCham CARES 2021

Read the 2021 Press Release

Our Charity Partners

AmCham Local Charity Partnership

AmCham’s Local Charity Partnership Program highlights small local charities to our members who are looking at different ways to support worthy causes in Singapore and those in our community who need a helping hand. Singapore is our home and we are committed to work toward a more inclusive future for all.

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Care Singapore

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Established in 1997, CARE Singapore is a boutique charity focused on empowering youths. Appointed by the National Council of Social Service as one of three centers of specialization, CARE Singapore excels in utilizing strengths-based approaches in designing programmes for youths, particularly youths-at-risk.

CARE Singapore is passionate about caring for the mental health of young persons and the community around them. In 2019/20, we conducted 1864 therapy sessions for more than 550 students and helped over 1800 persons through our helpline during the circuit breaker.

Our youth work division engages over 1,200 students from 10 – 15 years of age and all support help us run these programmes more effectively.

CARE’s core values spells FIRE. Join us to fan these flames of love and spread warmth to those who need it.

CORE Values
- Faith
- Innovation
- Resilience
- Excellence

Our mission: Helping youths succeed!

BMDP

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Since 1993, the Bone Marrow Donor Programme has been providing a chance of survival to hundreds of patients suﬀering from terminal blood-related diseases, in the form of a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated marrow donor.

BMDP manages Singapore’s only register of volunteer bone marrow donors and with a slim chance of ﬁnding that perfect matched donor, we are fully committed to building the local donor register into a national asset to help all Singaporeans have that second chance at life.

What we do at BMDP directly impacts life and death, hence our promise of “A donor for every patient”. We reach out to all sectors within our community to share this message and empower people with the choice to save a life. Knowledge may be all it takes to give patients with blood-disease a chance at tomorrow.

For partnership opportunities and awareness sessions for your company, please click ‘email’ below.

Community Chest

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As the hallmark of care and share, Community Chest has been uniting the community to fundraise and serve those in need, since 1983. Community Chest supports about 80 social service agencies to meet underserved, critical social needs. As its fundraising and operating costs are covered mainly by Tote Board Group, 100% of your contributions goes towards empowering the lives of:

Adults with disabilities
Children with special needs and youth-at-risk
Families in need
Persons with mental health conditions
Vulnerable seniors

Company Of Good

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Company of Good connects organisations with a community of like-minded corporate givers to build capabilities in integrating doing good with business strategy and goals.

Organisations can sign up for initiatives such as the Company of Good Fellowship and Champions of Good, a national platform recognising leadership and partnerships in doing good for the community.

We are part of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC), which is the steward of the City of Good vision for Singapore. The City of Good vision is supported by initiatives for People, Organisations and Leaders.

WINGS

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Society for WINGS (WINGS) is the only non-profit Institution of Public Character (IPC)* in Singapore singularly focused on helping women in their later years to age well, by embracing lifelong learning and active volunteerism.

WINGS’ focus is on three key pillars of well-being: Physical, Mental & Emotional and Financial. Since its founding in 2007, more than 22,000 women have attended workshops conducted by WINGS and 700 participated in volunteer activities.

For 2022, WINGS will focus on digital initiatives which empowers senior women to use digital knowledge and skills to stay connected with family, friends and the community. WINGS’ women will be encouraged to become active digital ambassadors / volunteers to inspire other women to embrace going digital and help the less fortunate create meaningful legacies using digital tools.

Since 2020, WINGS has been conducting customized corporate workshops for employees of organizations as part of outreach efforts to create awareness and more impact in the community. To date, more than 700 employees have benefited from these workshops focusing on mental health and resilience.

Vision
Ageing well. Living well.

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WINGS empowers women to age well, by staying healthy, being financially secure and staying socially engaged.

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talenTtrust

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talenTtrust is a charity with a difference. Our mission is to help other local charities become more effective and efficient on a strategic level. To do this, we create opportunities for corporate businesses and their employees to engage in high-impact, skills-based-volunteering projects.

Our programmes range from participating in charity masterclasses and 1-day workshops to 12-month peer-to-peer mentoring projects, all organized and facilitated by our in-house project managers. 

If your organization wants to engage in CSR with real depth and impact that doesn't drain your in-house resources, you can learn more and get in touch below.

United Womens

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United Women Singapore (UWS) is a local non-profit organization that advances women’s empowerment and gender equality to build a pipeline of women leaders and influencers in Singapore. The organization works towards narrowing the gender equality gap through education and raising awareness and advocacy on issues such as anti-violence and bridging the gender pay gap with the support of key stakeholders including corporate partners, government agencies, academia, the diplomatic community, non-profits and community groups and the wider community.

United Women Singapore has an Institution of Public Character (IPC) status and all donors are able to claim tax relief from their assessable income based on the amount donated, at prevailing deduction rate.

United Women Singapore, including its affiliates, directors, employees or agents are not affiliated to, authorized representatives of, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to UN Women and/or the United Nations.

VisionSave

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The VisionSave campaign serves as a bold and transformational effort by the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) and Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) to leverage philanthropic investments in paving the way for a holistic delivery of eye care.

Established in 2016, VisionSave was conceptualised to aid us in our quest to improve the lives of our patients. Its goal is to save sight and transform the lives of patients.

Funds received will go towards supporting five core areas that drive our efforts to innovate and translate medicine in the most impactful manner, ensuring cost-effective and optimal outcomes for every patient.

Provide financial assistance for needy patients with sight-threatening diseases
Nurture future leaders in eye care through scholarships and training
Drive awareness through public education and community outreach
Support research and innovation to better diagnose and treat eye diseases

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WILLING HEARTS

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Willing Hearts is founded in 2003 with the mission of serving the underprivileged, the needy and the marginalized members of our society. We are registered as a society with MHA in 2005 and as a charity with NCSS in 2008.

We are a secular, non-racial, non-religious, non-partisan and non-affiliated charity serving all in need across Singapore.

We delivers more than 10,000 free meals 7 days a week across Singapore.. Beneficiaries includes elderly (many living alone), chronically sick people, low-income families (many living in rental flats), broken families (divorced, crime, drug, gambling, alcohol issues). During this CORVID 19 pandemic, we also serve some migrant workers, stranded students, homeless persons and persons whose income has been affected by pandemic situation.

Willing Hearts mission is “Citizens helping fellow citizens” principle. Therefore, for sustainability, we depend on 2 main pillars, namely volunteers and public donations.

Willing Hearts is managed by a committee of 7 volunteers, assisted by a pool of regulars’ volunteers and through the encouragement of volunteerism by the Government, tens of thousands of volunteers from all walks of lives putting their hands in.

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VIVA

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The VIVA Foundation for Children with Cancer (VIVA) is a Singapore-based charity which focuses on saving lives of children with cancer through research, medical care and education in Singapore, Asia and beyond.

VIVA works with leading researchers and healthcare professionals, supported by multisectoral partners and donors, to effect systemic change to raise cure rates so that every child has a greater chance to live.

VIVA continues on its trajectory of enabling systemic change, and the next frontier is through the VIVA Hub for Integrative Care at Level 3 of the Novena Specialist Center. We intend to promote multi-pronged care, data collection and research for greater understanding of childhood cancer survivorship, as well as training in cutting-edge advanced cell and gene therapy.

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