Our Social Agenda

At Sabancı Holding, we are strongly committed to making a positive impact on society and the environment. We follow our core values closely and have created a wide-ranging approach to social responsibility that affects every part of our work and the communities that we operate in.

We achieve this through offering SDG-linked products and services, being a responsible employer, and fostering volunteering programs across our employees and their families.

We mobilize our resources strategically to get involved in projects that tackle important social and environmental issues. These projects are designed to mirror our values and priorities and linked to the nature of our businesses, aiming to improve the lives of diverse communities.

Sabancı Holding is dedicated to fostering a positive impact not only through its diverse business portfolio but also through the varied contributions of its Sabancı Foundation, Sabancı University, and Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum.

Community Investments

Sabancı Group Community Investments drive social transformation through Sabancı Volunteers Mobilization, the roof program bringing together all Group companies under several projects, through corporate foundation support providing resource allocation to Sabancı Foundation and through Group companies’ stand-alone CSR initiatives focusing on numerous impact areas on Sustainable Development Goals.

Over the past three years, Sabancı Volunteers dedicated a total of approximately 170 thousand hours to activities as part of Sabancı Republic Day Campaign. In other words, Sabancı volunteers compressed 19 years of work into just three calendar years with their incredible commitment
In 2023, Sabancı Volunteers received an award from one of the most reputable international organizations in recognition of their exceptional work and broad impact. Sabancı Holding won the prestigious global award, the “International CSR Excellence Gold Award 2023,” for its Sabancı Republic Day Campaign.

Sabancı Foundation

During its 49- year history, Sabancı Foundation has built more than 120 institutions - schools, dormitories, teachers’ centers, medical facilities, sports complexes, cultural centers and social facilities - in 78 districts across Türkiye. Since 2007, the Foundation has supported 238 projects carried out by civil society organizations nationwide.

Having provided more than 54 thousand scholarships over the last 49 years, Sabancı Foundation encourages and recognizes success with awards in education, the arts and sports. The Foundation’s primary areas of activity include education, social change, culture, and the arts. The Foundation focuses particularly on women, young people, and people with disabilities within these activities.

The Foundation is the first organization from Türkiye to sign the International Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change.

Sabancı University

Sabancı University executes numerous future-shaping strategic initiatives toward its vision: becoming a leading global research university. The University is committed to educating self-confident individuals who embrace universal values, show compassion for the needs of society while focusing on creating solutions, internalize cooperation in creation and development, and are open to continuous development.

Sabancı University ranks among the top universities in Times Higher Education (THE) 2024 World University Rankings

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM)

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum is an institution that delivers transformative cultural experiences. SSM is committed to preserving, researching, developing and interpreting its collections and the holistic art heritage of Türkiye while creating common values with all its stakeholders in its exhibitions and events.

Financial Inclusion

At Sabancı Group, we aim to design our financial products and services in a simple, accessible, and inclusive manner, especially for underserved groups. We incentivize unbanked people to utilize our products and services to ensure that they have access to useful and affordable financial services while they can realize their transactions in a secure and practical way.

Our insurance and pension products aim to protect our customers from potential financial risks and to encourage them to make long-term savings. We tailor our financial products and services to the special needs of different groups such as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), women, disabled adults, and young/elder people