While we know the task at hand – rebuilding with coral reef programs in the area – and we know how to do it – we have the expertise and have trained a team to carry out the work – funding is another crucial issue and sponsorship is what is required to take our very achievable aims and turn them into reality. The alternative is unthinkable: the coral reefs of the UAE cannot be left to die, taking hundreds of marine species with them, purely for lack of funding.
The money is out there, in the hands of people who care about this, and so we have devised corporate sponsorship programs to empower those with the means to help us. This is simply another branch of our operation. Sponsors are as vital to the cause as the marine biologists masterminding it and the Reef Rescue Team who put the plans into practice. By undertaking a corporate sponsorship program, businesses can play a key role in the success of Project REEFrame. We need private and corporate sponsors to make this happen, and your help is vital and profoundly appreciated, regardless of scale.
Sponsor Coral Rescue
For instance, a company or a private individual can play a part by enabling us to rescue a coral from the seabed, plant it on our nursery tables and nurture it so that it gains strength, grows and thrives, ready to take its place back on a reef where it can do what nature intended, providing a safe, healthy environment for marine creatures – and so the natural life of a UAE coral reef goes on. All that is needed is some generous financial help from those who have the means and the will.
Opportunities exist for sponsors to take responsibility for the creation of nursery tables or UAE artificial reefs: this kind of tangible participation shows sponsorship as the very real action it is, rather than a somewhat nebulous gesture in a column of figures. Sponsorship is action, it can make things happen.
Corporate Sponsorship Program Examples
Here in the UAE, businesses and private individuals are very active in their support for environmental issues by means of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programs and we are proud to play our part in facilitating such initiatives. In a very gratifying regional trend, corporations are developing ESG (Environmental, Social and Governmental) frameworks that give form and meaning to such thoughtful and responsible initiatives.
Look under the Corporate Social Responsibility Programs here on the website for examples of how you could join the growing movement of putting finances to good use in this area of paramount importance. The best news is that because Project REEFrame is a science based project, there is a full monitoring programme in place that delivers quarterly reporting on the impact that your sponsorship has created – perfect for ESG reporting! In addition, we create imagery of every structure, every month. So whether you would like to share your project with employees or with the world, you will have some great photo and video footage to rely on.
Discover the Benefits of Corporate Sponsorship Programs
While the obvious benefits of corporate sponsorship programs are felt by the object of the sponsorship – in this case the coral reefs themselves and the marine environment in general – experience has shown that businesses providing the sponsorship gain considerable benefits in terms of morale and employee engagement, as well as public admiration from their customers and stakeholders.
The increasing awareness of environmental issues as something we should be all contributing to in some way is making corporate employees ever keener to see their efforts channelled in a worthwhile direction, rather than purely in pursuit of business success. As a welcome side-effect of this, employees who feel some pride in the actions of their employers are more likely to perform diligently and to remain loyal.
In this way the benefits of corporate sponsorship programs are felt as part of a holistic process in which the doing of good deeds is all part of the way we should and do behave.
