Schott OFT Collaborates with Charities in Southeast Asia to Develop New Giving Opportunities.

Online, July 25, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Established charities have been selected by Schott OFT (www.schott-oft.com) to participate in the new Giving Opportunities Program. The program will support new concepts as well as using the reach and knowledge of existing charities to engage people in giving.

The Giving Opportunities Program will enable charities to take innovative approaches to giving to a larger scale.

The program responds to the feedback from established charities about the need for practical and financial support to help develop new partnerships around innovations in giving. It will use the successful approaches to open innovation that are increasingly common in commercial organizations to accelerate the pace and scale of impact of innovation in giving.

The ambition for the Schott OFT Charitable Foundation's program over the next year is to support a group of charities with pan Asian reach and who want to use their expertise, networks, assets and capabilities to find new ways to engage more people in giving that supports their mission. This could include finding new and more powerful ways of maximizing donations, getting more people involved in giving their time or unlocking idle and under-used resources and assets for social goals.

All Schott OFT employees volunteer one day per year to get involved in Schott OFT Charitable Foundation's projects.

Trevor Sing, director of Public Services Schott OFT said, "The Giving Opportunities program sets its sights firmly on working with charities that have identified big challenges they want to work on to increase giving. The charities that have been selected into the program have demonstrated a real appetite and ambition to work with people and ideas from outside the sector to develop high-impact solutions and take great innovations in giving to scale."