Fondation Agir Contre l'Exclusion (FACE) is a private foundation in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...

. The aim is to help young people from humble backgrounds to join the

private sector The private sector is the part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is owned by private groups, usually as a means of establishment for profit or non profit, rather than being owned by the government. Employment The ...

Overview

It was founded by

Martine Aubry Martine Louise Marie Aubry (; née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste'', or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord ...

in 1993.Élisabeth Laville, ''L'entreprise verte : Le développement durable change l'entreprise pour changer le monde'', Pearson Education France, 2009, p. 13

/ref>Patrick Refalo, Rémi Remondière, Nicole Frazier-Bouzouaoui, ''Concours d'entrée éducateur de la PJJ: Protection judiciaire de la jeunesse'', Elsevier Masson, 2009, p. 16

/ref> The founding partner companies were AXA,

Groupe Casino Casino Group or Casino Guichard-Perrachon is a French mass-market retail group. It was founded on 2 August 1898 by Geoffroy Guichard under the corporate name Guichard-Perrachon & Co. Casino Group is the source of many innovations such as the f ...

Club Med Club Med SAS, commonly known as Club Med and previously known as Club Méditerranée SA, is a French travel and tourism operator headquartered in Paris, specializing in all-inclusive holidays. Founded in 1950, the company has been primarily ow ...

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Danone Danone S.A. () is a French multinational corporation, multinational food-products corporation based in Paris. It was founded in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed on Euronext Paris where it is a component of the CAC 40 stock market index. Some of t ...

, Darty, FIMALAC, Euro-RSCG-Havas,

Lyonnaise des Eaux Lyonnaise or Lyonnais may refer to: * Lyonnais (masculine) and Lyonnaise (feminine), something from or relating to Lyon, a city in France * Gaule Lyonnaise, French name of Gallia Lugdunensis, a province of the Roman Empire * Lyonnais, a historica ...

Péchiney Pechiney SA was a major aluminium conglomerate based in France. The company was acquired in 2003 by the Alcan Corporation, headquartered in Canada. In 2007, Alcan itself was taken over by mining giant Rio Tinto Alcan. Prior to its acquisitio ...

, RATP,

Renault Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufacture ...

, and Sodexho. Its current President is Gérard Mestrallet, the

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GDF Suez Engie SA is a French multinational utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of energy transition, electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear, renewable energy and petroleum. ...

.FACE Board of Directors

Bernard Kouchner Bernard Kouchner KBE (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs ...

is a board member.

References

External links

Official website
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