Coordinamento Torino Pride APS appreciates the active participation of partners and corporate 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 critical that we maintain our independence and avoid partnerships that are not compatible with our values.
This document applies to all collaborations partners and sponsors of Coordinamento Torino Pride activities including, but not limited to, financial support, participation in events with their own signs and logos, collaborations on individual events.
1. Values and mission statement
As an organization rooted in a 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 politics or operation of Torino Pride, which remain independent. Because of our commitment to transparency, all partners and sponsors are listed on our website on the pages related to the various initiatives.
2. Causes of exclusion
The institution will not accept support or collaboration with entities and companies whose commercial or other objectives conflict with our values and goals, or who might promote inaccurate or misleading messages about our commitment to those goals and values.
All partners will be subject to a reasonable due diligence process under which the entity will seek to understand any potential risks of the partnership.
There are sectors that are inherently incompatible with a healthy and happy society and planet. Therefore, we will not enter into agreements with:
- Companies in the fossil fuel extraction sector or the processing and sale of fossil fuels if they do not adopt, through sustainability governance, a mix of sustainable energy sources that demonstrates a concrete commitment to the ecological transition.
- Companies that manufacture or promote tobacco products.
- 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.
- Companies that promote alcohol in a way that does not comply with the standards set by current regulations in relation to consumption, advertising, marketing and age of sale.
- Companies that produce in countries where homosexuality and/or trans* identity is illegal or prosecuted, unless the company has a stated policy and provides support to LGBTI+ advocacy organizations in that country.
- 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. - Companies and entities that directly or indirectly violate recognized international treaties or standards on environmental protection.
- Companies and realities that have enacted homo-lesbian-bi-trans-a-phobic, racist, xenophobic, ableist, fatphobic, misogynistic, sexist or, in general, discriminatory behavior toward any marginalized minority or subjectivity.
In addition to the areas listed above, the institution has problems forging partnerships with:
- Companies with proven poor ethics with respect to labor rights and environmental sustainability.
- Companies with a proven poor reputation with respect to ethical sponsorship and marketing actions such as, for example, greenwashing and pinkwashing.
- Companies with a proven poor reputation with respect to issues of diversity management, equality and/or inclusion within their corporate culture.
- Companies and entities that adopt unethical business methods and practices with spillover at the expense of people and communities with low socioeconomic status.
- The list in this document is not exhaustive and an assessment will be made 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.
- Under no circumstances will the institution promote corporate products or services, the visibility of the support received will always be carried out according to the terms agreed upon in the sponsorship agreement.
- The institution will not accept from a corporate partner more than 10 percent of the current year’s budget (or, if different, the year in which the funded initiative is planned) 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.
- Corporate sponsorships with a value over 2,500 euros must be approved internally by our board of directors.
- Contracts with partners must allow the entity to be able to withdraw from any partnership where new developments result in a violation of the provisions of this Partnership & sponsorship ethics policy document.
This document will be updated by supplementing and amending it whenever deemed necessary by the organization.