Cariplo Foundation, Peppino Vismara Foundation e Charity Fund di Intesa Sanpaolo have made available as well 11 million euro to start, in collaboration with the Community foundations, processes of co-planning for the fight against poverty in Lombardy and in the provinces of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.
Helping families impoverished by economic crises
THEobiettivo of the three institutions is to provide coordinated responses to people's needs in difficulty. The projects developed in this shared design process aim at reduce people's vulnerability and families, with particular attention to families with minor children and those not yet supported by local services.
Le resources available of the co-planning are broken down as follows: 6,2 million from the Cariplo Foundation, 3,3 million from the Intesa Sanpaolo Charity Fund and 1,65 million from the Peppino Vismara Foundation.
The Community Foundations have the task of soliciting the activation of the respective reference territories, taking care of intercepting local requests and aggregating public, private and private social subjects, with the aim of designing and implementing interventions calibrated on real needs of individuals and families.
The interventions deal with all the issues concerning economic poverty: food, work, housing.
The first tranche will consist of 22 projects
The first part of the initiative provides 22 selected projects guarantees contributions for over 7 million euros to the territories of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Mantua, Milan city, North Milan, Pavia, Sondrio, Ticino Olona and Varese, to support system interventions carried out by the networks of public and private social entities that each Community Foundation accompanied and coordinated the design phase.
In the provinces of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, the emergence of networks and the development of projects to combat poverty took place within the framework of the tender “Territorial networks against poverty”. The call made it possible to select 5 projects that will be implemented in the two Piedmontese provinces that fall within the jurisdiction of the Cariplo Foundation, and that will benefit from total contributions of €399.000 for the province of Novara and €453.000 for Verbano-Cusio-Ossola .
“Through co-design we want tackle poverty at the same time strengthen the capacity of the subjects of the territory to work together on shared objectives. This is increasingly necessary to respond to the needs of people and communities, which express different problems that must be read and intercepted more and more "closely". To support and strengthen this network is determining the convergence of other institutional actors, who, like Intesa Sanpaolo and the Peppino Vismara Foundation, recognize this as a crucial investment for the country.” has explained John Fosti, President Cariplo Foundation.
"Intesa Sanpaolo with its own Charity Fund supports the intervention line Territorial co-planning in full harmony with the Cariplo Foundation and the Peppino Vismara Foundation for the fight against poverty. In a context in which the social gap continues to widen, the Fund provides a decisive contribution to the achievement of the social objectives of the Group's 2022-2025 Business Plan to help tackle the problems associated with situations of fragility and inequality" he declared Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, President of Intesa Sanpaolo.
