Coordinamento Torino Pride appreciates the active participation of corporate partners and sponsors who provide essential support, resources and finances to enable us to carry out our events and activities for the LGBTIQIA+ community. However, it is essential to maintain our independence and avoid partnerships that are not compatible with our values.

This document applies to all partner and sponsor collaborations of Coordinamento Torino Pride activities including, for example, financial support, participation in events with their own signs and logos, collaborations on individual events.

1. VALUES AND MISSION

As an organization rooted in the culture of equality and human rights, our values run through everything we do and this includes our partnership and sponsorship agreements. We want to achieve the highest possible ethical standard that we apply when considering a potential partner or sponsor.

A genuine commitment to LGBTIQIA+ equality cannot be viewed through a narrow lens that excludes other human rights, social justice and equality issues, and our ethical standard reflects our unwavering commitment to the broadest spectrum of equality and human rights causes, through an intersectional approach.

The entities that officially participate in our events, partners and sponsors do not influence the policy or operation of Torino Pride which remain independent. In consideration of our commitment to transparency, all partners and sponsors are listed on our website on the pages relating to the various initiatives.

2. GROUNDS FOR EXCLUSION

The organization will not accept support or collaboration with entities and companies whose commercial or other objectives conflict with our values and objectives, or that may promote inaccurate or misleading messages about our commitment to these objectives and values.

All partners will be subject to a reasonable due diligence process according to which the organization will seek to understand any potential risks of the partnership.

There are sectors that are intrinsically incompatible with a healthy and happy society and planet. Therefore, we will not enter into agreements with:

  1. Companies in the fossil fuel extraction sector or the transformation and sale of fossil fuels if they do not adopt, through sustainability governance, a mix of sustainable energy sources that demonstrate a concrete commitment to the ecological transition.
  2. Companies that manufacture or promote tobacco products.
  3. Companies that manufacture or sell weapons, except those made for recreational purposes (e.g. sport shooting) subject to controlled sales to prevent their purchase by individuals, regimes or organizations with violent and belligerent intent.
  4. Companies that promote alcohol in a way that does not comply with the standards established by current legislation in relation to consumption, advertising, marketing and sale age.
  5. Companies that produce in countries where homosexuality and/or trans* identity is illegal or persecuted, unless the company has a declared policy and provides support to LGBTI+ advocacy organizations in that country.
  6. Companies and entities that financially or in any other way support regimes or organizations that violate human rights.
    Entities that directly or indirectly violate the European Convention on Human Rights or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  7. Companies and entities that directly or indirectly violate international treaties or standards recognized on environmental protection.
  8. Companies and entities that have implemented homo-lesbian-bi-trans-aphobic, racist, xenophobic, ableist, fatphobic, misogynistic, sexist or, in general, discriminatory behavior towards any minority or marginalized subjectivity.

In addition to the sectors listed above, the organization has problems establishing collaborations with:

  1. Companies with a proven poor ethics with respect to labor rights and environmental sustainability.
  2. Companies with a proven poor reputation with respect to ethical sponsorships and marketing actions such as, for example, greenwashing and pinkwashing actions.
  3. Companies with a proven poor reputation with respect to diversity management, equality and/or inclusion within their corporate culture.
  4. Companies and entities that adopt unethical business methods and practices with repercussions at the expense of people and communities with a low socio-economic status.
  5. The list in this document is not exhaustive and an assessment will be carried out on each potential sponsor or partner from time to time.

3. FINAL TERMS

In addition to what was previously established, these final provisions are added.

  1. The organization will not in any case promote corporate products or services, visibility of the support received will always be made in accordance with the terms agreed at the time of the sponsorship agreement.
  2. The organisation will not accept from a corporate partner more than 10% of the current year’s budget (or, if different, the year in which the funded initiative is scheduled to take place) so as not to risk compromising its integrity. This does not include money raised through employee and customer fundraising as part of any corporate partnership agreement.
  3. Corporate sponsorships with a value greater than €2,500 must be approved internally by our board of directors.
  4. Contracts with partners must allow the organisation to withdraw from any partnership where new developments involve a breach of the provisions of this Partnership & sponsorship ethics policy.

This document will be updated, supplemented and amended whenever deemed necessary by the organisation.