About Re&Act

Re&Act is a legally independent charity. It was

• Created in response to strong employee interest to support their communities.

• Designed to harness the resources and know-how of the corporation while garnering the commitment and generosity of Roche individuals and affiliates across the organisation.

Re&Act focuses its activities early childhood education, capacity building, and youth development in low and middle income countries.

While Roche as a company can assess and deploy a range of resources for both emergency and continuing needs, Re&Act reviews project opportunities for which employee donations can be applied.

Re&Act is consistent with the Roche Corporate Policy on donations and non-commercial sponsorship which

• Emphasizes projects assuring impact, innovation, sustainability and quality partnering

• Focuses on a small number of projects where the contributions can make a real difference

• Prioritizes humanitarian assistance for lasting improvement in lower income countries

• Includes both in-kind and financial contributions

Re&Act pools individual employee interests and contributions and monitors needs and changes over the longer term. We guarantee that all money donated is invested appropriately and in a sustainable way. Re&Act is a legally independent trust, founded and supported by Roche and its employees, which oversees global charitable donations.

Our goal is to provide sustainable support for selected projects and charitable organisations around the world. We do this in three ways:

• Managing donations

  We manage and monitor donated funds to ensure they are properly used (e.g. money collected through the Roche Children’s Walk).

• Humanitarian programmes funding

  We maintain relationships with key charitable organisations to identify opportunities for support of long-term projects.

• Responding to global emergencies

  We work to channel employee funds to support humanitarian needs and community restoration in the event of natural disasters or other global emergencies.

Re&Act is governed by an independent committee made up of members from the global Roche organisation.