The foundation in actions

60 000 rebonds is a federation of associations that helps men and women who have dared to undertake a new professional project, even though they have lost everything (job, work tools, assets and self-confidence).

With a community of more than 1,200 volunteers and around thirty permanent employees in 10 regions of France, as well as in the French West Indies and Guyana, the supported entrepreneur benefits from a free, tailor-made scheme, with twofold individual support provided by a coach and a sponsor, supplemented by monthly group sessions.

Since 2012, the 1,200 volunteers of the 60,000 Rebonds association have been working to change society's view of failure by helping these entrepreneurs to rebuild their lives and move on to a new professional project.

750 entrepreneurs rebounded in 2022 and the association plans to support 1,000 in 2023. Thanks to support that can last up to 24 months, 96% of them bounce back (50% in the workforce and 50% in entrepreneurship).

What is the association's current challenge? To increase its visibility, measure and improve its impact, digitalise and green its support.

The Renault Foundation is committed to supporting 60 000 Rebonds in the accompaniment of 60 entrepreneurs (50% men and 50% women) in the automotive and mobility sector (VSEs, IPTs) throughout the country, with a focus on the Renault Group's employment areas for 30 of them.

Since 2020, ARCE AVENIR FEMMES has been helping women aged 45 and over and those in precarious employment to find work.

ARCE AVENIR FEMMES works to promote the professional inclusion of senior and disadvantaged women, helping them to regain their place in the workplace, escape poverty and become more independent.

To help unemployed women aged 45 and over find work, the Renault Foundation has become a partner of the ARCE AVENIR FEMMES association and is committed to financing the Power program, a 3-month introductory course in finishing trades for a group of 10 unemployed women.

Created in 2019, the association ARPEGE INSERTION accompanies the integration through economic activity of people far from employment by working on the main obstacles of health, housing and mobility in the city of Maubeuge and the Val de Sambre life and employment area and the secondary establishment in Armentières

In the autumn of 2021, the Association will set up a mechanical garage to repair and maintain used vehicles and offer them for hire to disadvantaged people who do not have or no longer have a vehicle to get to their place of work or training.

To promote the employability of the most vulnerable people, the RENAULT Foundation has become a partner of the ARPEGE INSERTION association, committing to finance 24 driving licences and the rental of 20 vehicles for 300 days of rental per year.

Founded in 2018, the Article 1 association aims to fight against inequalities in access to employment among young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Article 1 accompanies students at the end of their studies, from high school to the professional world, to succeed to the extent of their ambitions and potential.

Article 1 does everything in its power to promote their professional integration and strengthen their employability, thanks in particular to personalized support that enhances and develops their cross-disciplinary skills and soft skills. 

The Renault Foundation is involved in supporting 1200 young people, including about 570 in the Hauts de France and Normandy regions through workshops set up in two major Renault Group regions: the mining areas of Hauts-de-France and four departments in Normandy.

Created in 2008, the nonprofit C'POSSIBLE advances the professional integration into the world of work and in society of young people from vocational and technological high schools.

C’Possible provides them with reference points, concrete knowledge about the professional world and helps them to envision an inspiring professional pursuit.

Within the framework of the partnership with the Renault Group Foundation, the association has set up two programs to support high school students in Ile de France :

The 1st program "Parcours Insertion Pro" (“Pathway to professional integration") will benefit 40 young people from vocational high schools.

The 2nd program "Ouvrons le champ des possible" ("Opening a world of possibilities") created for Renault and its Foundation, will benefit 20 high school students.

Founded in 1998, ENTREPRENEURS DU MONDE support the socio-economic integration of people in very precarious situations in Africa, Asia, Haiti and France.

They help them to undertake, to access energy and to adapt to climate change in order to become emancipated. To achieve its mission, Entrepreneurs du Monde create and incubate local organisations until they become autonomous in four areas: social microfinance, access to energy, support for the creation of very small enterprises (VSEs)/professional integration and agro-entrepreneurship.

They have recently experienced access to housing and employment activities in the Rouen metropolitan area, France.

Thanks to the support of the Renault Foundation, the Association will accompany 20 homeless people in the integration of a sustainable and adapted housing and in the return to employment.

The association "Solidarité Nouvelle face au Chômage" provides job seekers with support, human and personalized assistance.

Its network of volunteer coaches offers weekly meetings to recreate social ties and move forward with professional reconstruction.

Within this framework, the Renault Foundation provides financial support, via local branches, the accompaniment of 300 job seekers, particularly in the employment areas of the Renault Group in France, as well as the provision of computer equipment for the association's collective workshops in Normandy, Hauts de France and Ile de France.

Created in 2007, the WAVE association (WoMen and Vehicles) supports professional integration in the automotive world.

The association is aimed at all employees of all companies in the automotive and mobility sector: manufacturers, importers, equipment manufacturers, distribution and repair networks, service providers.

WAVE wishes to contribute to making the wide variety of jobs in the sector known and promoted to women. Within the framework of the partnership with the Renault Group Foundation, the association has set up a programme to support vulnerable women over 45 who are actively seeking employment.

This WISE (Women in Senior Employment) programme will support 24 women for 12 months via modules of coaching, training and mentoring. This programme should enable women to return to work, primarily in the automotive and mobility sector.

The "Ecoles de production" offer young people between the ages of 15 and 18 qualifying training based on the teaching method of "do it to learn".

Students learn a job by making products or offering services, responding to real customer orders.

There are 34 production schools in France, that prepare 930 students for state vocational diplomas (CAP, BAC pro or professional certifications).

The Renault Foundation supports these schools, which enable young people who have dropped out of school to train for jobs in which recruitment is difficult, particularly in the automotive sector.

In concrete terms, the Foundation provides training equipment (milling machines, workbenches, exhaust gas extractors, etc.) to two "Ecole de production" in Lille and Lens in the automotive section, in the Groupe Renault’s employment catchment areas. This new equipment facilitates the daily work of the students and their teachers in the workshops.

Since 1962, AFEJI has been fighting against all forms of exclusion. Today, AFEJI Hauts-de-France is active across the entire social, health and medico-social sectors: physical disability, intellectual deficiency, behavioral disorders, psychological suffering, family and social difficulties, access to and return to employment, dependency, exile.

To promote the employability of young people suffering from disabilities, exclusion and socio-professional integration, the RENAULT Foundation has become a partner of the AFEJI association and is committed to co-financing 50 driving license in the association's establishments in the Hauts de France region supported employment workplace for disabled people, therapeutic educational and pedagogical institute,, accommodation facility for foreign minors).

Founded in 2001, the Habitat et Humanisme association works to promote housing, integration and the renewal of social ties for vulnerable people shattered by erratic life path. 

In 2019, the association set up a program called Thrasos, within its Refugee Unit. Its aim is to support beneficiaries of international protection towards sustainable employment thanks to a solid training.

The Renault Foundation decided to help the association by removing many obstacles faced by refugees such as mobility and the mastering the French language. This is why, it decided to co-finance support for driving licenses and French language courses for professional purposes. 

Created in 1674, the Institution Nationale des Invalides is a public institution under the supervision of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, open to the public hospital service. This institution is a place of recognition and reparation specializing in the care of war wounded from all battlefields and conflicts. A medical structure of excellence, it is a strong symbol of the Nation's commitment to the duty of reparation. It is the "Maison des Invalides": a place for rehabilitation and social reintegration, in a personalized and coordinated process

To help with socio-professional reintegration in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, the RENAULT Foundation is committed to supporting 25 people (severely war-wounded and associates) in their socio-professional reintegration via flash training and adapted driving courses.