The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 109 GOVERNANCE AND OPERATIONS Chaired by Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet, fund supports initiatives throughout France the endowment fund is run by a Board of Directors (i.e. mainland France and overseas France). – comprising the same members as the Board of Directors of the organising committee – that Its hallmark is getting stakeholders to work sets its strategy, decides on support and agrees together: on the amounts to be allocated to projects. • Federations on the Games programme are It is made up of the members of the Paris 2024 encouraged to design collective projects Board of Directors. A selection committee – involving other general interest stakeholders. comprising public bodies, representatives from the sporting movement, athletes and qualified • Eligible public stakeholders are encouraged figures – helps the Board of Directors carry out to design projects with the sporting its role. The Paris 2024 Impact and Legacy team movement and must call on it concerning prepares and implements the strategy sports management. of the endowment fund and oversees project • Applicants for the Impact 2024 call for proposals support and impact assessment. must apply as part of a group with at least one The Paris 2024 endowment fund works to promote stakeholder from the sporting movement. social impact through sport. The winning projects can be led by the Olympic and Paralympic This methodology aims to strengthen long- federations on the programme at the Paris 2024 term cooperation between the sporting Games, public stakeholders, as well as all movement and public authorities and maximise stakeholders (athletes, associations and local the impact and sustainability of the projects authorities) of general interest. The endowment supported. IMPACT 2024 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The French National Sports Agency, Paris stakeholders; 2024, the French National Olympic and • help circulate tools and best practices for Sports Committee and the French Paralympic sustainable action across multiple regions; and Sports Committee launched a joint call • report on the impacts and effects on the for proposals in 2020, Impact 2024, for sports money invested. stakeholders and associations that harness sport for social innovation. The first such call for proposals in 2020 received 1,200 submissions. Around 1,000 This annual call for proposals aims to: projects were selected and will be able to use • develop innovative solutions to address the Impact 2024 signature in compliance with new issues; the rules governing its use. These include five • promote local synergies between local national projects and 50 regional and local authorities, local clubs and regional sports projects that will receive a total of €1.7 million in funding.