Statutory areas of operation of KGHM's Polish Copper FoundationFinanced projects
Health care and promotion of a healthy lifestyle
  • Research and diagnostic programs
  • Blood donation and hemotherapy
  • Upgrading specialist laboratories and expanding hospital wards
  • Purchasing equipment and specialist medical equipment
  • Supporting medical institutions and fecilities, academic conferences and medical symposia
Science, education, schools and upbringing
  • Equipment for educational laboratories in kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, secondary schools, and universities
  • Ediucational and social scholarships and prizes
  • Academic publications, popular science and educational and training publications
Holidays for children and youth
  • Establishing new educational laboratories and upgrading the educational base
  • Educational programs
  • Academic symposia and conferences
  • Scout camps, summer camps, sleep-away schools
Regional heritage  
Preserving national traditions 
  • Promoting mining and smelting traditions in the Copper Basin
  • Organising community-building meetings in order to preserve mining and smelting traditions
Promoting Polish national identity and developing national, civic and cultural awareness
  • Organising St. Barbara’s Day celebrations
  • Celebrations to commemorate anniversaries of the discovery of the copper ore deposit by J. Wyżykowski, DSc
  • Mining conferences and congresses
  • Documenting the history of the copper industry
  • Supporting institutions which promote mining and smelting traditions
Supporting ethnic minorities
  • Tourism and recreation for children and young people from the former Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic
  • Ethnic minority festivals
Supporting European integration and contacts and collaboration between societies
Promoting sports and physical culture
  • Supporting sports clubs and associations
  • Educational aspect of sports and physical fitness (for children and yought)
  • Promoting sports and physical fitness among children and yought
  • Modernisation and expansion of sports and sports and recreational facilities
Protecting cultural heritage and tradition
  • Long-term and comprehensive revitalisation of religious and non-religious sites
Protecting environmental heritage
  • Conservation, revitalisation and rebuilding of historic buildings
  • Conservation of movable items and fittings in buildings
  • Purchases of valuable items for museums
  • Protecting historic buildings from damage
Culture
  • Art and cultural events
  • Music and video recordings
  • Supporting film productions and art workshops
  • Purchasing equipment for cultural institutions
Art  
Social care, including assisting families and individuals in need, and creating equal opportunities for such families and individuals
  • Purchasing fuel, clothes, food for orphanages, institutions assisting the homeless or persons with substance abuse issues, charity canteens, and providing food to underprivileged children 
  • Subsidising rehabilitation holidays, supporting physical activity by the disabled, and supporting occupational therapy workshops
Supporting the disabled
  • Financial and technical support for organising charitable campaigns aimed at obtaining funds for those in need of medical treatment
Charity activities  
Ecology and animal protection  
Rescue and protection of people
  • Introducing the Health Promotion and Environmental Hazards Prevention Program of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A :
  • organising therapeutic and healthcare-related holidays for children and yought
  • rehabilitation and sports sessions at swimming pools
  • regular monitoring
Public order and safety and counteracting social pathologies
  • Environmental education of children and yought
  • Rescue and protection of people (purchase of equipment for volunteer fire brigades, police forces)
  • Training and prevention activities
Support for victims of catastrophes, armed conflicts and wars in Poland and abroad
Health protection
  • Costs of purchasing medicines, treatment and rehabilitation of the disabled
  • Assisting in purchasing rehabilitation and orthopaedic equipment
Social care, including assisting families and individuals in need, and creating equal opportunities for such families and individuals
  • Rehabilitation holidays and medical treatment abroad
  • Eliminating architectural barriers in the apartments of disabled people
  • Assisting those leaving orphanages for them to become independent
  • Purchasing school accessories and schoolbooks