SUSTAINABILITY REPORT · José Alfredo Restrepo Echeverri Juan Pablo Thomas Restrepo Felipe Román Restrepo Santiago Álvarez Patrón Jorge Bernardo Londoño Gutiérrez Juan Carlos

SUSTAINABILITYREPORT

WORK TEAM OF THE LUKER FOUNDATION

Pablo Jaramillo VillegasManager

Santiago Isaza ArangoEducation Director

Ángela Cecilia Vásquez EscobarDirector of Special Projects

Constanza Orrego GómezLegal and Administrative Director

María Alejandra Gómez UribeHead of Communications

Victoria Eugenia Jiménez CastañedaSecretary of Management

María Camila Arango IsazaEducation Professional

Ángela María Trujillo GutiérrezEducation Professional

Eliana Espinosa Martínez Administrative Professional

Victoria Eugenia Tamayo LozanoHead of Accounting

Daniela Moreno GordonAdministrative and Communications Assistant

Andrea Fernanda Muñoz CuéllarProject Assistant

Claudia Milena Rodríguez ValenciaAccounting Analyst

Fabián Camilo Gallego GutiérrezAssistant of International Cooperation

José Didier Ramírez RincónEducation Project Assistant

Alexandra Vargas RojasNecoclí Social Project Coordinator

Aida Carolina Martínez CorreaNecoclí Education Coordinator

Judith Estella Alzate AcevedoEvaluation Coordinator

Olga Beatriz Pachón JiménezGeneral Services

Hernando Llano DávilaMessenger

WORK TEAM OF MANIZALES CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO

Alejandro Ortiz Díaz Director

WORK TEAM OF MANIZALES MÁS

Marcela Escobar ArangoDirector of Manizales Más

Alejandra Cardona BuitragoCommunications Coordinator

Óscar Villegas DuqueCoordinator of Empresas de Alto Potencial

Lina Marcela Flórez LoaizaAcademic Coordinator

Katerine Betancur GranadaCoordinator of Projects in Municipalities

Angie Lorena Bedoya SalazarAdministrative Assistant

Leidy Agudelo RaigosaCoordinator of Special Projects

GENERAL COORDINATIONMaría Alejandra Gómez Uribe

Daniela Moreno Gordon

EDITION Bernardo González

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Azoma Criterio Editorial Ltda.

LUKER FOUNDATIONPBX: (57 6) 875 64 43

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marcela Restrepo MejíaGaia De Dominicis TedescoCecilia María Vélez WhiteJosé Alfredo Restrepo EcheverriJuan Pablo Thomas RestrepoFelipe Román RestrepoSantiago Álvarez Patrón Jorge Bernardo Londoño GutiérrezJuan Carlos Arroyave GiraldoDarío Gómez Jaramillo

CONTENT

4Management Letter

7About this

Report

8The Luker Foundation

10Working Areas

12Stakeholders Participation

15Awards and Recognitions

16Strategic Approach

18Our Work In Education

24Our Work InEntrepreneurship

28Our Work in Special Projects and Other City Initiatives

37Our Work in Partnership with Luker

41Economic Aspect

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L U K E R F O U N D A T I O N S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y R E P O R T 2 0 1 8

MANAGEMENT LETTER

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was a year of great challenges for Luker Foundation. We share with joy the news of being chosen by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, among 90 projects throughout the country, to strengthen the cocoa chain in Colombia. The 6.2 million dollars budget project intends to benefit more than 900 farmers over five years.

During several months our team worked hard in collaboration with CasaLuker, Palmas del Casanare, Saldarriaga Concha Foundation, ENEL-Emgesa and Universidad EAFIT on a joint proposal to present ourselves in this call, whose main purpose was to leverage private sector investment and expertise to generate sustainable development in areas of Colombia affected by the conflict.

Inspired by the Chocolate Dream (Sueño de Chocolate), Luker Foundation, CasaLuker and the project allied institutions, we will contribute to improve the income of the populations of Urabá Antioqueño, Bajo Cauca and Center-south of Huila, by strengthening the cocoa production chain and

promoting entrepreneurship in those territories, as grounds for the construction of a lasting peace in 16 municipalities in those areas.

The project, which we have called El Efecto Cacao (the Cacao Effect), is committed to the improvement of agricultural per formance through good practices and implementation of business crops under an agroforestry scheme, the socio-entrepreneurial strengthening of cocoa producers associations and generation of capacities in people to improve their social inclusion and economic development.

Undoubtedly, this news fills us with pride and makes us face great challenges in 2019.

On the other hand, we continue to work hard on the goal we set ourselves to make Manizales a leading city in education and entrepreneurship. This is how in 2018 we achieved significant progress in each of the projects in which we participated.

In Active Urban School we went from covering 56% in 2017 of public

urban schools to 62% in 2018, thus demonstrating an improvement in the development of the social and emotional skills measurement, thanks to the alliance with OECD and the World Bank.

In University at your School (La Universidad en Tu Colegio – UTC)- we reached 41% of students in 10th grade of the city, who escalated 20 more points in the Saber 11° tests compared with students from public schools in the city who have not implemented the program. In five years we have enrolled more than 4,300 young people in high-quality technical programs. Access to tertiary education in official schools that have the UTC project increased from 33% to 80%.

Likewise, with Manizales Campus Universitario we reached and raise awareness 26,000 students across the country through university fairs, achieving a 53% increase in the enrollment of higher education in Manizales over the last ten years. We are the second city in the country in Saber Pro tests and the first with the largest number of teachers with doctorate nat ionwide, proportionally to the city’s size.

2018

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The project Manizales Más conti-nues positioning itself better, both in Colombia and internationally. The 17 selected High Potential Companies increased their sales by more than 25% on average; 28 new entrepreneurs were trained to grow their businesses; 537 univer-sity students from different careers were trained to be entrepreneurs, 624 university students participa-ted in practical training on how to create their own business and 11 entrepreneurs from La Dorada and Riosucio received high quality training for the growth of their businesses.

Also, in 2018 we continued working in alliance with CasaLuker to

strengthen the rural development model in Necoclí - Antioquia, with a significant and impactful commitment to the region, where the Foundation puts its knowledge, work and resources at the disposal of that municipality.

Finally, I would like to thank all the partners and beneficiaries of the projects who encourage and motivate us to be better and, of course, the wonderful work team of the Luker Foundation, collaborators, members of the board of directors and members of advisory committees for their contributions and constant work in each of the projects that not only impact our city but the country.

The achievements reached and recognitions received in 2018 belong to all, thanks to the union of wills, efforts and knowledge.

Let 2019 be a year of challenges and important breakthrough for all.

Thank you.

ManagerPablo Jaramillo Villegas

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consecutive year we present our Sustainability Report. As in previous years, it includes the main outcomes in each of our work areas, reported under the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) methodology, especially those works indicated in the NGO journal and therefore the work performed in the economic and social aspects is explained. This short version contains a summary of the complete document, which can be downloaded from our website in www.fundacionluker.org.co/informedesostenibilidad2018, as of April 5, 2019.

ABOUT THIS REPORT

FOR THE EIGHTH

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

From left to right: Santiago Álvarez Patrón, Gaia De Dominicis Tedesco, Juan Carlos Arroyave Giraldo, Juan Pablo Thomas Restrepo, Pablo Jaramillo Villegas (Manager), Marcela Restrepo Mejía, José Alfredo Restrepo Echeverri, Darío Gómez Jaramillo, Cecilia María Vélez White, Felipe Román Restrepo and Jorge Bernardo Londoño Gutiérrez.

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THE LUKER FOUNDATION

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is a private non-profit organization of business origin in Sucesores de José Jesús Restrepo & Co. S.A. - CasaLuker S.A., incorporated on November 24, 1994.

We have reached 24 years of work and this experience allows us to affirm that an educated and enterprising person transforms and generates development. In the last year we continued encouraging education and entrepreneurship that position Manizales as the city with the best opportunities in Colombia.

As a general assessment of our 2018 achievements, we can affirm that the projects we developed along with our allies continued to be strengthened so that our city stands out at the national and international levels.

Besides the achievements mentioned in the Management Letter, it is worth mentioning that Bancolombia recognized the Luker Foundation for the significant results in its three lines of work: Education, Entrepreneurship and Work with CasaLuker, and was set as an example at regional and national level. This and other recognitions fill us with pride and encourage us to continue working for both our region and country.


GABRIEL CADENAPRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MANIZALES

“The Luker Foundation has demonstrated that its management has impacted the social fabric of the city, by carrying out programs that nobody would have dreamed of without Luker Foundation’s initiative”.

T H E L U K E R F O U N D A T I O N

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WORKING AREAS

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EDUCATIONIt aims to make Manizales the first in education. The work in Necoclí, (in Urabá, in the north of Antioquia) has been included in this mission. In that area we implemented the experience of Active Urban School (New School for rural areas) in the educational institutions of the area of influence of the cocoa production agroindustrial project that CasaLuker develops in that municipality.

Thanks to Active Urban School, Universidad en Tu Colegio y Aprende, students develop skills and strengthen competences to be better prepared and face the real world.

With Manizales Campus Univer- sitario, an alliance with the six main universities of the city, the Mayor ’s Office and other companies and organizations, we have put Manizales as the university capital of Colombia on the national agenda, and together we have joined efforts to

strengthen ourselves and become the destiny of own and foreign students.

ENTREPRENEURSHIPManizales Más is an alliance for the integral development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the capital of Caldas, thanks to which the necessary conditions for creating and growing companies are generated.

It is a consolidated public, private and academic alliance, which in 2018 reached six years thanks to the conviction of its managers about the value of uniting knowledge and action to transform the economic model of the city.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Since our beginnings, we have supported the work of Manizales institutions that focus their work on improving the living conditions of the vulnerable population in areas such as health, nutrition, housing, education and the

elderly, all of which is possible thanks to the legacy of the main benefactor of our Foundation, Inés Restrepo Mejía.

OTHER CITY INITIATIVES

Based on our interest in making Manizales a better city for all, we support initiatives that contribute to the construction of citizenship and the conformation of better informed and more participative citizens. Manizales Cómo Vamos and Estoy with Manizales are examples of this interest.

PROJECTS DEVELOPED IN ALLIANCE WITH CASALUKER

Luker Foundation and CasaLuker share their roots, their knowledge and their experience for the consolidation of a social model of community development surrounding the cocoa production project developed by the company in Necoclí.

we focus our work on three main lines: Education, Entrepreneurship and Projects with CasaLuker. Also, we support other initiatives and social projects of the city that contribute to generate better conditions for our communities.

AT THE LUKER FOUNDATION,

W O R K I N G A R E A S

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STAKEHOLDERSPARTICIPATION

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INTERNAL Founding Family

General Assembly

Board of Directors

Luker Foundation Collaborators

CasaLuker Collaborators

EXTERNAL Citizenship of Manizales

Partners

Programs Beneficiaries

Governments (municipal, departmental, national)

Suppliers

Universities, colleges and research centers

Communities in the areas of influence of some agricultural projects of CasaLuker

Programs Participants, initiatives and social mobility of the city

Other foundations

LUKER FOUNDATION STAKEHOLDERS

is committed to achieving a positive impact through its actions and projects both in the city of Manizales and country. That is why it gives great importance to communications and good relations with its beneficiaries, suppliers, collaborators and with citizens through mechanisms that allow evaluating, adjusting or innovating the interventions conducted for the success of projects.

The work performed jointly with the organizations of the city is fundamental to implement the common good initiatives. These agreements are the ones that have allowed both its own projects and the projects of the city stand out. That is why it also maintains a close dialogue with those who participate in various alliances to work at the local level, work that is also performed along with national and international partners.


S T A K E H O L D E R S P A R T I C I P A T I O N

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• Acopi• Actuar Microempresas• Major’s Office of Necoclí• Andi• Association of cocoa producers of the Necoclí

municipality - Asoprone• World Bank• Inter-American Development Bank – IDB • Caldas Family Welfare Fund - Confa• Chamber of Commerce of Manizales, Caldas• Cargill de Colombia Ltda.• CasaLuker • Caldas Development Corporation – CDC • Centro Colombo Americano• CHEC• CINDE• Colegiatura del Café S.A.S.• Comité Intergremial de Caldas• Conaced• Coopsaludcom• Sagrada Familia Corporación• Corporación Universitaria Remington• David Kenneth Brealy• EAFIT• Education Soul S.A.S• ENEL -Emgesa• Fenalco • Findeter• Bolívar Davivienda Foundation• Carvajal Foundation• Corona Foundation• Éxito Foundation• Empresarios por la Educación Foundation• Manuel Mejía Foundation• Saldarriaga Concha Foundation• Sura Foundation• Governorate of Caldas• Harvard University• Incubar

PARTNERS AND BENEFICIARY ORGANIZATIONS IN 2018

• Journey Company• Kabushiki Kaisha Royce• Luc Deltour - Delgiro BVBA• Agriculture Ministry• Mayor’s Office of Manizales – Town Hall • Palmas del Casanare• Parquesoft• Pots&co• Prest • Caldas Entrepreneurship Network• Shinya Negami - Fino de Aroma CO• Unitécnica Manizales S.A.S.• Universidad Autónoma de Manizales• Universidad Católica de Manizales• Universidad Católica Luis Amigó• Universidad de Caldas• Universidad de Manizales• Universidad del Norte• Universidad Nacional - Sede Manizales• Uwe Dengel

BENEFICIARY ORGANIZATIONS

• Luisas de Marillac Association• CDI Caracoles de Colores• Clínica San Juan de Dios – Orden Hospitalaria San

Juan de Dios• Corporación Alberto Arango Restrepo – CEDER • Fesco• Alejandra Vélez Mejía Foundation• Batuta Foundation• Hogar de Paso Mi Jesús Foundation• San Ezequiel Moreno Foundation• Hogar San Judas Tadeo• Caribia Education Institute • Ravasco Institute• Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary• Nutrir• Betania Social Work• Adorers Nuns of Colombia• Major Seminary Nuestra Señora del Rosario

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Bancolombia recognized the Luker Foundation for the outstanding results in its three lines of work: Education, Entrepreneurship and Work with Casa Luker, and was set as an example at the regional and national levels.

The Profesores de Alto Potencial program won second place in the 4th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Excellence Awards (Awards for excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation teaching) held in Aveiro (Portugal). 36 initiatives from different parts of the world competed, and this program was the only Latin American program selected.

Babson College, the number one university in entrepreneurship in the world and its Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform program, awarded Manizales as a city and to Manizales Más as the program that articulates and dynamizes the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the city. It is the first prize that this prestigious institution awards to an ecosystem in the world, for the Scale Up

methodology use and the outstanding economic and social impacts in the city and the region, as well as for serving as inspiration and example for Latin America and the world.

In addition, we received several requests for replication of the Aprende project material. Efigas, a gas trading company in the coffee region, wishes to apply the 1st grade methodology in three municipalities of Caldas, Quindío and Risaralda. The Secretary of Education of Bogotá also requested the adaptation and replication of this project. Gases del Caribe Foundation expressed its interest in applying this same methodology as a pilot project in some schools in the southwestern area of the country and thus move forward in the implementation of the program La Universidad en tu Colegio (the University in your school).

On the other hand, the University of Quindío requested authorization to use the methodology of the Cómo Vamos (How We Go) in Higher Education report in Manizales.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

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STRATEGIC APPROACH

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As a result of that work our mission was defined: “Generate economic and social development by working with national and/or international alliances, with transformative and high-impact projects in education and entrepreneurship that empower individuals, institutions and communities”.

And our vision as follows: “The Luker Foundation has the capacity and knowledge to transform communities, and is recognized for the relevant achievements in education and entrepreneurship”.

Finally, the values of the organization were agreed upon as follows:

with the accompaniment of an external advisor, the Board of Directors of the Luker Foundation reviewed our organization’s mission. That study analyzed the Foundation’s performance in its focus areas, Education and Entrepreneurship, and the line of work with CasaLuker was incorporated.

IN 2015

We are convinced that an educated and enterprising person transforms and generates development for himself/herself and his/her community. Our projects in Education and Entrepreneurship and their results show us that this commitment manages to impact lives and change realities.

LUKER FOUNDATION IS

ETHICALHonest in its relationships with others and with itselfConsistent in compliance with its principlesTransparent in its actions RESPONSIBLEIn the pursuit of excellenceIn the austere management of its resourcesIn the evaluation of its results and impacts

RESPECTFULOf the differences and democratic pluralityOf the dignity and rights of our beneficiaries, partners and collaboratorsOf the institutionality, the normativity and the law

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OUR WORK IN EDUCATION

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018

Two educational institutions, San Juan Bautista La Salle and the Francisco José de Caldas Technological Institute, adopted the model.

In total, 23 official educational institutions of the city are part of the Active Urban School model (62% of the city’s urban public institutions).

480 STUDENTS havebeencertifiedinthedifferenttrainingenvironmentsofferedintheScientificRoute. With the AUS Model, Manizales, together with ten other cities around the world, participated in the pilot

of the Evaluation of Social and Emotional Skills, led by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD.

The TEACH instrument pilot was carried out to analyze the level of implementation of the model in educational institutions and, based on the results, define the action plans.

The Ministry of Education - Luker Foundation alliance was strengthened. The program received national and international internships interested in knowing the model’s main

achievements and benefits.

Active Urban School (AUS) strengthens the student’s ability to “learn to learn” through an active, participatory and collaborative process, also developing leadership, communication, autonomy and research skills, among others, by implementing active pedagogies.

ACTIVE URBAN SCHOOL

MARÍA NAZARETH CAÑÓN GALINDO PRINCIPAL OF SAN JORGE SCHOOL

“Luker Foundation has fostered a connection between work environment and professional satisfaction with the implementation of the pedagogical model Active Urban School, through which teachers and students develop socio-emotional skills that generate human development and bonds of brotherhood”.

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It facilitates the access of students from public educational institutions participating in the Active Urban School project to technical education programs, in coordination with secondary and technological education.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018

21 educational institutions are part of the project.

1245 NEW YOUNG PEOPLE enrolled in technical programs, for a total of 4337 enrolled since 2014. 320 new young people enrolled in the technological level, for a total of 728 young people enrolled

since 2016. 13 technical programs implemented. 8 technological programs implemented. Access to higher education rose from 33% to 80% in the beneficiary schools, while the control group

went from 36% to 41% in the same period. A better average performance has been achieved in the Saber 11° Tests, reaching significantly higher

scores compared to the control group (+19.48 points). Significant transformations in the life project of young people. Real approach strategies between the education sector and the productive sector. The strengthening of the Middle School curriculum began. The implementation of the pilot of a Labor Linkage strategy with the productive sector began.

THE UNIVERSITY IN YOUR SCHOOL

MARÍA GÓMEZ OSPINA PRINCIPAL OF ANDRÉS BELLO SCHOOL

“Active Urban School and Universidad en Tu Colegio are very important contributions so that our children and young people achieve better opportunities to build their life projects; be better human beings, better people, with higher self-esteem and better quality of life for their families”.Ph

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The program designs, leads and evaluates innovations to strengthen basic skills of students of official educational institutions of Manizales.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018

More than 16,000 children diagnosed through Language and Mathematics tests.

1,020 STUDENTS benefited with the 1st grade reading learning

program. 102 students from grades 2-5 benefited with

remediation tutorials in reading fluency and comprehension.

200 students benefited with a pilot of pre-school reading preparation materials.

280 2nd grade students benefited from the Prest Matemáticas program, an innovative mathematics teaching methodology adapted from Canada.

2,880 families of students from grades 2-5 benefited with information about their children’s educational process and suggestions on how to improve their performance in Reading and Mathematics.

9 schools shared significant experiences in topics such as academic management and community management.

In this project we have learned to transfer to the Colombian context, successful international educational experiences (from Cuba, Canada, Spain and the United States), making the necessary adaptations and adjustments.

With the Aprende project it has been possible to establish a culture of measurement in the organization, thanks to the technical support of multilateral entities such as the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank and Harvard University.

PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC REINFORCEMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN – APRENDE


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MANIZALES CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO

It seeks to generate systematic and deliberate efforts to contribute to the development of Manizales as a world-class University Campus, through a public, private and academic alliance.

ACTIVE URBAN SCHOOL

UNIVERSIDAD EN TU COLEGIO APRENDE MANIZALES CAMPUS

UNIVERSITARIO

Students 20.972 1565 16.200 12.000Teachers 990 147 52 NA

TABLE 1 BENEFICIARIES OF EDUCATION PROJECTS

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018

Manizales had 47,000 students in 2018. Face-to-face enrollment has grown 53% over the last ten years. Manizales is the second city in the country in Pruebas Saber Pro.

9 OUT OF 10 MANIZALES STUDENTS are enrolled in a Higher Education Institution (IES) with high quality accreditation. Manizales is the city of Colombia with the highest percentage of PhD professors (15.4%). It is the second city in the country with employed graduates (84% of employability). It is the city of Colombia with the highest proportion of foreign students (41.3%). In 2018, the number of students reached at university fairs increased by 57%, from 17,250 in 2017 to

27,233. New university allied to the program: Uniremington.

MORE THAN 27,000 people reached with the promotion of bicycle use in Higher Education Institutions and companies in

the city. Monthly cycle tours with 250 participants average. There are currently more than 12,000 university students in the city who have the ‘Zona Manizales

Campus Univesitario card’, receiving special benefits in the city’s commerce. In 2018, international experiences of universities that serve as inspiration for new city development

projects were referenced. A collective project that contributes to the consolidation of the University City is expected to be designed by 2019.

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ACTIVITY LUKER FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTION

OTHER CO-FINANCERS CONTRIBUTION

TOTAL 2018 SOCIAL INVESTMENT

Strategic Investment in Education in the City MCU $ 304.886.222 $ 506.831.617 $ 811.717.839

Educational Innovations APRENDE $ 369.046.247 $ 317.690.148 $ 686.736.395 UTC Higher Education $ 855.778.485 $ 1.898.486.873 $ 2.754.265.358 EAU $ 586.112.498 $ 719.479.388 $ 1.305.591.886 General Education $ 189.723.036 - $ 189.723.036

TOTAL $ 2.305.546.488 $ 3.442.488.026 $ 5.748.034.514

TABLE 2 INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT


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OUR WORK IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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It is a public, private and academic alliance for the comprehensive development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem of both Manizales and the region. It creates the necessary conditions to create and make companies grow training them through different programs, thus consolidating them as high potential companies, since the knowledge along with action transform the economic model.

MANIZALES MÁS

SANTIAGO BOTERO MENTOR OF MANIZALES MÁS PROGRAM

“It is hard to find in the city any other institution that is able to do what the Luker Foundation does in a generous and determined way: endorses the actions, generates trust and gets support from the different actors of the city and the region”.

PROGRAMS

High Potential CompaniesThis program offers training designed to help increase companies sales and profits. It makes entrepreneurs to have an accelerated growth, which results in new skills, knowledge, coaching and networking.

Corporate Coaching ProgramIt invites business or corporative individuals with great experience to establish long-term relationships with developing entrepreneurs, thus sharing their experience and reducing the risks of growth.

High Potential ProfessorsThese two programs develop capacities for teaching entrepreneurship in professors of the partner universities of Manizales Más, contributing to

the strengthening of the Human Capital and Entrepreneurship Culture components of the Manizales ecosystem.

Addventure MásIt is an intensive acceleration experience aimed at early stage companies, which face the main growth challenges for this type of entrepreneurship over six weeks.

Start Up MásIt aims at finding and strengthening new business initiatives of undergraduate, postgraduate and graduate students and administrative staff belonging to the partner universities of Manizales Más.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018

High Potential Companies 2018 grew by an average of 27%.

154 new jobs generated by those companies. More than $ 29 billion in sales.

624 ENTREPRENEURS participated in the Startup Plus program during

2018. 537 students participated in the Entrepreneurship

Route. 14 High Potential Professors lead the trans-

formation of entrepreneurship in universities. Competitiveness tables were trained in effective

presentations and strategy: dairy products, musaceae and bananas, tourism, ICT and biotechnology, among others.

Intervention in the municipalities of Riosucio and La Dorada to initiate the dinamization of those ecosystems along with Governorate of Caldas. The trained companies achieved a 26% growth.

The joint training with Innpulsa, a national dynamist of the entrepreneurship ecosystems, allowed to know in depth this ecosystem and its actors’ development.

The articulation of small entrepreneurs with large companies was also achieved, supporting the effort of the Governorate of Caldas to make these alliance and the growth of companies visible.

The visibility of Manizales Más and its ecosystem in the international sphere was promoted: Leeds, United Kingdom; Istanbul, Turkey; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Xela, Guatemala; Boston, USA and Temuco, Chile. In Colombia in Caribia, Popayán, Cartagena and Medellín, where we participated in Prodem, which brings together Latin-American experts in entrepreneurship.

The Entrepreneurship RouteIt is a training program aimed at strengthening and developing skills in entrepreneurship that allows students to think and act in an entrepreneurial way.

Sell moreIt is a program designed to strengthen the sales process and lead companies to growth through training that strengthens business skills and capacities.

Grow moreIt is a training program designed to help growing the sales and profits of companies in the municipalities of Caldas . It also seeks to expand the ecosystem capacity searching for developing companies.

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High Potential Companies 17Addventure Más Companies 14Profesores de Alto Potencial 14Students in Entrepreneurship Route 537Entrepreneurs in Startup Más 624Companies in Crecer Más 11Companies in Vender Más 16

TABLE 3 BENEFICIARIES OF MANIZALES MÁS




General entrepreneurship $ 846.564.777 $ 1.384.153.225 $ 2.230.718.002 Communications $ 59.233.629 - $ 59.233.629

TOTAL $ 905.798.406 $ 1.384.153.225 $ 2.289.951.631

TABLE 4 INVESTMENT IN MANIZALES MÁS

PARTNERS OF MANIZALES MÁS METHODOLOGIES CREATED IN COOPERATION WITH:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND AWARDS

Certif icate of Merits. The 4th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards. Case History : “Innovate Teachers Focused on Entrepreneurship, a Peek to “Profesores de Alto Potencial Program”. Universidad de Aveiro, Portugal.

Second Place. The 4th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards. Case History: “Innovate Teachers Focused on Entrepreneurship, a Peek to “Profesores de Alto Potencial Program”. Universidad de Aveiro, Portugal.

Recognition of Manizales More for the use of Scale Up principles and methodology and for achieving an exceptional economic and social impact in the city and the region, as well as serving as an example and inspiration for other regions in Latin America and the world. Babson College, Boston.

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OUR WORK IN SPECIAL PROJECTS AND OTHER CITY INITIATIVES

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018

THE JOINT WORK of public, private and academic institutions on the active aging allowed to test an innovative model of

intervention and develop the First Ibero-American Active Aging Conference in Manizales, with speakers from nine countries. The event was promoted by Confa in alliance with the Universidad de Caldas, theUniversidadAtónomadeManizales,ActuarMicroempresas,Ceder,Mayor’sOfficeofManizales,Saldarriaga Concha Foundation and Luker Foundation.

Designing a model of care for children and adolescents’ addictions and the signing of the alliance to develop this project with the San Juan de Dios Hospital Order, the San Juan de Dios Psychiatric Clinic and Luker Foundation in 2019, in an attempt to offer a solution to the problem of substances consumption that currently affects our population.

In 2018 the institutions participating in the Special Projects supported by the Luker Foundation continued to contribute to improving the living conditions of very vulnerable communities in the city along with the efforts of many other entities, the articulation of a large number of initiatives and the contribution of benefactors of social causes ensuring their continuity over time.

Thanks to the legacy of our principal benefactor, Miss Inés Restrepo, in 2018, we supported 15 institutions that work in the city for early childhood, the elderly, people with disabilities and children, young people and adults in poverty and high vulnerability. Those institutions mainly offer housing, health, inclusion and elderly programs, which benefited more than 2,300 people in Manizales.

BERNARDO MEJÍA PRIETOBOARD MEMBER OF BETANIA SOCIAL WORK FOUNDATION

“The Luker Foundation has made an important effort in social and economic aspects, of public-private, educational, innovation and new knowledge alliances for the city of Manizales”.

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In 2018 some of the supported projects stand out:

GESTAR FUTURO

I t is an al l iance program that promotes a comprehensive care model during the first thousand days of children’s lives, intended to control the low birth weight and chronic malnutrition of children under 2 years.

This project, which has reached 460 mothers and children since 2013 (more than 1,500 direct and indirect beneficiaries), shows significant progress in reducing child malnutrition. The second cohort that finished the intervention in 2018, shows the following results:

45 of 50 babies were born with adequate weight (WHO).

All babies with low bir th weight evolved satisfactorily.

46 of 50 children with adequate nutritional status at two years.

63% of the children received exclusive breastfeeding.

Gestar Futuro was selected by Save the Children, among 16 experiences, as one of the 4 most representative nationwide to guarantee better conditions in maternal and child health and nutrition within the framework of the Gen project for a healthful childhood led by Éxito Foundation.

ME CUIDO ACTIVO MANIZALES (I ACTIVELY CARE FOR MYSELF MANIZALES)

Colombia is aging rapidly and a model of community care for older people in the country still does not exist. Understanding such challenge from the country perspective, but also as one of the cities with the largest older population in Colombia, we

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SPECIAL PROJECTS N° OF DIRECT BENEFICIARIES

1 Betania Social Work 686

2 Alejandra Velez Foundation 295

3 Nutrir - Proyecto Gestar 200

4 Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary

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5 Instituto Ravasco 594

6 San Ezequiel Moreno Foundation

60

7 Major Seminary Nuestra Señora del Rosario

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8 Order Religious of Religiosas Adoratricess

175

9 Ceder 81

10 Vejez Projects 227

TOTAL 2.371

TABLE 5 BENEFICIARIES OF SPECIAL PROJECTS

partnered with the Saldarriaga Concha Foundation to implement the first pilot of its model of care based on active aging, with a community approach: Me Cuido Activo Manizales.

The model is developed thanks to the alliance between Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Universidad de Caldas, Alberto Arango Restrepo Corporation, - CEDER, Manizales Mayor’s Office, Actuar Microempresas and Saldarriaga Concha Foundation.

The following stands out from the evaluation of beneficiaries of the pilot program:

Participants state to live increasingly calmed. They say that the learnings have helped them improve relationships, establish better ways of communication and deal with daily life conflicts.

Older adults report feeling more recognized within the social spaces wherein they participate.

The promotion of healthy habits helped them value their passage through life and face the changes of old age positively.




Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary $ 33.248.183 $ 24.216.660 $ 57.464.843

Betania Social Works $ 87.668.415 $ 320.009.486 $ 407.677.901 Nutrir $ 114.027.855 $ 318.340.520 $ 432.368.375 Instituto Ravasco $ 68.280.649 $ 6.001.055 $ 74.281.704 San Ezequiel Moreno Foundation $ 74.915.649 - $ 74.915.649 Alejandra Vélez Mejía Foundation $ 96.805.451 $ 283.199.034 $ 380.004.485 Religious Order of Religiosas Adoratrices $ 32.998.649 $ 35.800.000 $ 68.798.649

Contribution to Senior Citizens $ 84.339.985 - $ 84.339.985 Ceder $ 88.367.181 $ 22.600.000 $ 110.967.181 Priestly vocations $ 46.552.649 - $ 46.552.649

TOTAL $ 727.204.666 $ 1.010.166.755 $ 1.737.371.421

TABLE 6 INVESTMENT IN SPECIAL PROJECTS


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MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2018

115 ELDERLY PEOPLE assistedinanutritional,cognitive,physicalandsocialinterventionprogramtoensureadignifiedlife. 380 children and young people with comprehensive support in leisure and free time activities and school

reinforcement sessions in English, Computing and Mathematics.

45 YOUNG PEOPLE ENROLLED in training workshops in Wall Art, Photography and community trainings, as a strategy of empowerment

and social insertion. 80 people in the clothing training school (62 completed the process and 52 found a job), thanks to an

alliance between the ICT Secretariat and Competitiveness of the Mayor’s Office of Manizales, Acopi, Sena, Bolivar Davivienda Foundation, Universidad Católica de Manizales and Luker Foundation.

70 volunteers linked to the project.

COMMUNITY PROJECT SAN SEBASTIÁN - BETANIA

The community of San Sebastian continues to be strengthened through a comprehensive community process that has been monitored for more than five years.

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OLGA DEL SOCORRO SERNA DE QUINTERO DIRECTOR OF BATUTA FOUNDATION

“Thanks to Luker Foundation we have joined the private sector with the public sector and the academy to develop the city and it is thanks to this union of forces that we have such an interesting quality of life and with such impressive indicators. For the Batuta Foundation it has been a fundamental support and we hope to continue counting on it”.

BATUTA, SYMPHONIC MUSIC EDUCATION SCHOOLS OF SAN JOSÉ AND LA FUENTE AND BATUTA MOOG

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2018

Students from the orchestral centers of San José and La Fuente participated in open competitions where they won five seats for a musical residence in France and 12 for ‘Batuta sings to the Colombian Andes’, held in Bogotá.

19 STUDENTS graduatedfromthefirstcourseLaborTechnicianinAdaptationofTechnologiesforAudioandVideo,

as part of the programs offered in the project University at your School. 95% of the graduates of the technical program in audio production of Batuta Moog are employed in

companies and/or projects related to production and sound.

Through the collective teaching of music, Batuta becomes not only a musical learning option, but also a personal and citizen one. On the other hand, teaching other musical genres and technical programs through Batuta Moog allows the Foundation to innovate, thus reaching more people.

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NATALIA ESCOBARDIRECTOR OF MANIZALES CÓMO VAMOS

“The Luker Foundation is an institution that is at the heart of many Manizales’ citizens who work for the city. It has been the catalyst for many projects that are beginning to yield results and position the city as a leader in social progress in Colombia”.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018

8 publications on different city topics, 9 debate spaces and 7 technical tables, reaching about 228,000 people.

THE AIR QUALITY Bureau in Manizales was developed and

led, of which more than 20 public and private institutions of the city participate. From there, early victories have been achieved such as the consolidation of the monitoring system, the design of prototype air quality meters for citizens and the registration of Manizales in the international platform Breathe Life, a global campaign for clean air of the World Health Organization.

The signing of the Pact for Social Progress in the San José neighborhood, signed by allies of the program, guilds, city actors and members of the community in a mural, made it possible to capture their dreams about the capital of Caldas progress and ratified their commitment to work together to reduce gaps and seek compliance with the goals by 2030.

MANIZALES CÓMO VAMOS

This initiative, which reaches seven years in the city, is promoted by the private, social and academic sectors, enabling the development of more effective, transparent governments and more informed citizens, by monitoring and evaluating the quality of life in Manizales.


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ESTOY CON MANIZALES (I STAND FOR MANIZALES)

This par ticipatory process of planning and transforming the city, which is performed thanks to the collaborative work of many stakeholders of the society, has managed to set an objective for Manizales by 2032, in six key lines for the development of the city.

A central theme of convergence between Estoy con Manizales and the Luker Foundation, is quality education, as a requirement for social progress based on knowledge and quality of life and opportunities for all. That’s why in 2018 we managed to make:

OTHER CITY INITIATIVES DIRECT BENEFICIARIES

Batuta 573Manizales Cómo Vamos 5693Other City Initiatives 1300

TOTAL 7.566

TABLE 7 BENEFICIARIES OF OTHER CITY INITIATIVES




Otras Iniciativas de Ciudad $ 238.146.473 $ 456.957.352 $ 695.103.825

TABLE 8 INVESTMENT IN OTHER CITY INITIATIVES

A forum based on stories that would reflect the construction of Manizales as a knowledge campus and develop the project ‘Lets Recognize Our Territory’, as a commitment to value it through appropriation activities with citizens

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Based on the alliance established with Luker since 2014 we were able to prepare and present a proposal to the development agency of the United States - USAID in 2018, aiming at allocating resources from the private sector for rural development and the construction of a lasting peace in our country.

Palmas del Casanare, EAFIT, Saldarriaga Concha Foundation and ENEL - Emgesa also participated in the proposal, which seeks to strengthen the cocoa production chain, helping to improve the living conditions of producers and their families.

The $USD 6,260,000 proposal was approved to be developed between 2019 and 2023, in three sub-regions of the country where CasaLuker in committed to transform cocoa producing territories. This project, called The Cocoa Effect, contributes to the dream of building a model for rural development in the country that Luker promotes through The Chocolate Dream (El Sueño de Chocolate) movement.

The Luker Foundation through its work in Necoclí is part of this dream since 2014, thanks to the contribution and commitment of many national and international partners who believe as we do that it is possible to generate changes in the cocoa regions through innovative initiatives, generating

SERGIO RESTREPO GUTIÉRREZMARKETING MANAGER OF CASALUKER

“The joint work between Luker Foundation and Luker has a profound impact on the development of the country. The Luker Foundation brings important know-how in Education and Entrepreneurship issues, as well as an articulation capacity”.

job opportunities and empowerment in the countryside to improve the lifestyle of farmers and their families.

2018 ACHIEVEMENTS IN NECOCLÍ:

78 hectares of cocoa to benefit 39 cocoa farmers and their families, thanks to a productive alliance with the association of cocoa farmers of Necoclí, Asoprone, and the support of the Government of Antioquia, the municipal administration, CasaLuker and the Luker Foundation.

Thanks to the financing of an English client of Luker in the rural entrepreneurship line, Manizales Más start implementing the pilot “Emprendiendo Sueños” (Undertaking a dream), which seeks to accompany entrepreneurship initiatives that can become early victories for the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in Caribia village of Necoclí.

Based on the experience in education that the Luker Foundation has in Manizales, nearly 800 children and young people were benefited in 2018, with the following results:

27 teachers trained in the Escuela Nueva Activa methodology.

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Project with Casa Luker $ 781.083.074 $ 302.981.328 $ 1.084.064.402

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TABLE 9 BENEFICIARIES OF THE CASALUKER JOINT PROJECT

PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LUKER

DIRECT BENEFICIARIES

Productive Partnership 39Undertaking Dreams project 43Educational projects 756Culture and Community journeys 700‘Rehaser’ project 160

TOTAL 1.698

Provision of schools with furniture and guides to implement the model.

Training of primary school teachers in the literacy strategy and provision of the strategy’s pedagogical material.

Development of leveling and reinforcement tutoring for students with greater educational weaknesses.

Definition of a plan for water supply in schools. A mobility pilot with donkeys and bicycles

that helped children improve attendance and punctuality and strengthen transversal competences in the process, such as animal care, sports and physical activity.

Thanks to a Japanese client of Luker, added to the contribution of the Luker Foundation, works to reconstruct two blocks of classrooms and improve lavatory facilities in one of the school headquarters of the project’s area of influence began.

In the Culture for Peace line, we managed to build and implement a joint proposal with the Saldarriaga Concha Foundation and the Universidad del Norte (Pisotón Program), as a strategy for psycho-affective development and the emotional education of the communities.

In the Community Participation line, a technical study was carried out to restore a community aqueduct in the Caribia village, to solve the access to drinkable water problem, as a strategy for community empowerment and capacity building.

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ECONOMIC ASPECT

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RESOURCES ORIGIN AND MANAGEMENT

The resources of the Luker Foundation come from its assets profitability: financial returns, dividends and leases, which allows it to have financial autonomy and resources for social investment.

FUNDACIÓN LUKER

COFINANCIANTES

$ 2.305.546.488

$ 238.146.473

$ 781.083.074 $ 727.204.666

$ 1.384.153.225

$ 456.957.352 $ 302.981.328

$ 1.010.166.755 $ 905.798.406

$ 3.442.488.026

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT


PROJECT WITH CASA LUKER

SPECIAL PROJECTS

CHART 1 TOTAL SOCIAL INVESTMENT OF 2018

CHART 2 TOTAL SOCIAL INVESTMENT OF 2018


6%

PROJECT WITH CASA LUKER

9%

SPECIAL PROJECTS15%

EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT50%

ENTREPRENEURSHIP20%

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CHART 3 SOCIAL INVESTMENT OWN RESOURCES 2016 - 2018

$ 3.938.904.762 $ 4.159.436.590

$ 4.957.779.107

2016 2017 2018

CHART 4 TOTAL SOCIAL INVESTMENT OF 2016 - 2018

$ 8.927.857.646

$ 10.689.722.392$ 11.554.525.793

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$ 1.661.208.524 $ 1.815.835.557

$ 2.018.594.179

2016 2017 2018

CHART 6 OPERATING COSTS 2016 - 2018

OSCAR RAMÍREZ ARISTIZÁBALMANAGER OF RADIOS Y RINES S.A.EMPLOYER OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UTC PROJECT

“Universidad en Tu Colegio is a program that sows in our youth a better and promising future, managing to develop better human beings, education, skills training and the employment in jobs with high prospects. It allows these young people to be on the path of progress with responsibility and values, thus generating social development in their environment and, of course, the city”

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THIRD PARTIES EXECUTED RESOURCES

OWN RESOURCES

CHART 5 COMPARATIVE SOCIAL INVESTMENT -

OWN RESOURCES VS. THIRD PARTY RESOURCES 2016-2018

$ 3.938.904.762 $ 4.159.436.590

$ 4.957.779.107 $ 4.988.952.884

$ 6.530.285.802 $ 6.596.746.686

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