charities
The associations and the projects we support
We are extremely proud to collaborate with non-profit associations in supporting social inclusion and health projects. Because business is not just about making profits: it also involves social responsibility.
I Bambini delle fate per l’inclusione sociale
I Bambini delle Fate is a social enterprise that has been providing financial support since 2005 for social inclusion projects and pathways run by local partners for the benefit of families affected by autism and other disabilities.
Associazione Sosteniamo Insegnando
This non-profit organization promotes and carries out projects in poor African countries that give young persons over 18 years of age the chance to learn a job. For around 20 years now it has been active in Kenya, building wells to provide water, as well as helping children via sponsorships, and assisting the elderly by procuring food and other comforts for them. The association is currently at work in Nyahururu, a town some 200 km north of Nairobi and located 2400 m above sea level.
Fondazione Benedetta D’Intino Onlus
The mission of the Benedetta D’Intino foundation is to improve quality of life for psychophysically challenged children in Italy and around the world, using every means available to promote their care, assistance and integration into the family and society. Over 3500 psychological support programmes are delivered per year to children, adolescents and parents, and more than 1800 Augmentative and Alternative Communication courses to children from all over Italy. Each programme is based on an analysis of the children’s life context conducted by professionals with specific training and long experience in the treatment of individuals with psychophysical distress and disabilities. The Benedetta D’Intino non-profit foundation sends out a cultural challenge calling for early intervention.
Fondazione Novella Fronda Onlus Salute del Cervello
The objective of the Foundation is to promote knowledge of brain disease, based on high level scientific research and focusing on certain of the most widespread disorders affecting the general population. Problems affecting children and adolescents: cognitive, substance use/addiction (alcohol, tobacco smoke, hashish, cocaine and others) and behavioural (gambling, IT addictions related to smartphones, video games and other sources). Problems affecting adults: substance and behavioural addictions.
Fondazione Ricerca Biomedica Avanzata Onlus
This non-profit organization enjoys a reputation as one of the international hubs of excellence for research in the field of cell and molecular biology. Working in close partnership with the University of Padua, the City Hospital and local private centres of excellence, the Foundation aims to be an engine of scientific, cultural, economic and social growth for the area in which it operates. The main theme of the research projects is the study of cell signalling. Understanding the mechanisms by which cells communicate with one another is of paramount importance in identifying the causes of many diseases still incurable today, and consequently in developing new treatment strategies.
De Leo Fund Onlus
This non-profit organization offers a welcome and an embrace especially to all those who are dealing with the immense pain of a traumatic loss. The De Leo Fund initiative was founded in 2007 by Cristina and Diego De Leo together with Federica Zoppellaro and Arianna Caldon. It was set up to support the human, existential and psychological condition of anyone who has suffered a traumatic bereavement (traffic and workplace accidents, suicide, homicide, natural disasters, human error). The founders embarked on this path in the firm belief that it is useful to share stories, memories, experiences and feelings with those who are suffering the same kind of distress. Grieving — working through bereavement — is the process of finding a way to combine the memories of a loved one with the legacy of emotions and experiences the person left behind. It is a process that, over time, can make the loss less painful.
Cooperativa Sociale Magnolia
The Magnolia cooperative runs four social, welfare and educational services provided to persons of adult age with physical and cognitive disabilities, and psychosensory disorders. There are currently 3 Day Centres and a Community Residence providing shelter to some 80 guests overall. The core element of the Service is the acceptance of a Personalized Plan, renewed annually with the aim of responding over time to the diversified personal needs of each individual involved. Daytime activities, depending on the service, are varied in nature, and include workshops dedicated to ceramics decoration, terracotta, assembly projects (in collaboration with external firms), small scale woodworking, and tending small plants and greenhouse flowers.
Gruppo Asperger Veneto
It was the parents of persons with relational and communication difficulties — though not diagnosed as autistic at the time — who were behind the foundation of this charity in 2003. The principles driving its activity are: scientific guidelines, involvement of individuals with autism in the choices that affect them, and self-advocacy. The Gruppo Asperger works in conjunction with other organizations for the protection of people with autism and disabilities, making its own specific contribution. From the start, it has sought to provide a nationwide response, contributing over the years not least to the creation of regional associations with which it shares aims and principles: in the Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy and Veneto regions. Other projects are concerned more with maintaining the basic autonomy of the individual, and with the search for multi-sensory languages other than the usually verbal form.
Fondazione Alessandra Miotto Onlus
On 3 May 2016, following the premature death of Alessandra Miotto from stage 4 glioblastoma, the ALESSANDRA MIOTTO NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION was established at the wish of her family. Promoting a number of initiatives exclusively with social solidarity as the end in view, the Foundation aims to perpetuate the memory of Alessandra Miotto as an exemplary mother and wife, an entrepreneur who took an active part in the life of the community, and a woman attentive and sensitive to the needs and wants of other people. Ever mindful of the needs of children, in 2017 the Foundation enthusiastically joined forces withAssociazione Team for Children Onlus a non-profit association that works with the doctors of the Paediatric Oncohaematology ward, and its President Chiara Girello Azzena. And the Foundation is no less active in the Padua area as a patron and promoter of art and culture, having collaborated with the Diocese of Padua on the creation of the Museo Paradiso at the Piove di Sacco Cathedral.
Community Dentistry Centre at the “Immacolata Concezione” hospital in Piove di Sacco
A three-year educational project on the subject of dental care and treatment for paediatric patients with autism or autism spectrum disorders. The project concluded in March 2024.
