Paris Saint-Germain Foundation: fundraising partnership with Portuguese cultural platform Underdogs

The Paris Saint-Germain Foundation has launched a fundraising partnership with the Portuguese cultural platform Underdogs to finance, through the sale of artistic works, its charity programmes affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, announced the Parisian club on 02/12/2020.

"This (partnership) lays the foundations for a new economic model with the goal of raising €500,000 over three years," said Paris Saint-Germain (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), whose Foundation, created in 2000, is celebrating its 20^th anniversary during the health crisis which is straining its financial resources. "In order to compensate for the money that would have been raised at the annual Gala Dinner, the Paris Saint-Germain Foundation has set up a collaboration with some major names from the contemporary art world that will run over several years," explained the club.

"This project is based on a common model in the contemporary art world: drops. These involve releasing an original, limited edition, numbered work of art whose subject is Paris, on a specific day. What is unusual about it is the Underdogs' support of the…