IMPact Foundation promotes and supports initiatives that have a concrete and measurable impact on individuals and the community. IMPact Foundation’s work focuses on Italy and Africa through: Interventions to combat unemployment and Sociomedical interventions
“Work should be a great joy and is still a torment for many – the torment of being out of work, the torment of doing a job that is pointless, that does not serve a noble purpose.”
Adriano Olivetti
The issue of unemployment is a priority for IMPact Foundation. IMPact Foundation’s attention is directed not only to young people, but also to all categories of people who find themselves excluded from the labour market for various reasons – from migrants, to protected persons, to the newly unemployed. IMPact Foundation’s intervention translates into supporting organisations that provide training services which are instrumental to the development of professional skills offering increased chances of future employment, as well as organisations engaged in actual job placement activities.
Strategic priority is given to identifying structured, long-term activities that enable IMPact Foundation to develop fruitful collaborations with operational partners and joint financiers.
Africa
Current activities
Support for running costs
Client: Mirabilia Dei
Contribution: 20.000
Mirabilia Dei, a social cooperative, was founded with the intention to provide not only accommodation, but a shared living project for people with disabilities or intellectual impairments who, however, have a level of primary self-sufficiency and independence. Besides residential…
Completed activities
I ragazzi della Via Volta
Client: Progetto Itaca
Contribution: € 60.000*
Description: The project, named “I ragazzi della Via Volta,” aims to offer socio-professional rehabilitation and resocializing activities to a group of 20 young adults aged 18 to 35 with a history of major mental disorders. Major mental disorders are defined as schizophrenia spectrum disorders, major depression, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders. Eating disorders, anxiety disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, and addictions are excluded…
Destination Recovery. Innovative solutions towards independence and employment
Client: Progetto Itaca
Contribution: € 42.749*
The “Destination Recovery” project is a pilot project targeted at young people with major mental disorders, whose goal is to test their skills with a view to potential future job placement.
The project has a duration of 18 months and is targeted at beneficiaries aged 18 to 45 years living in the Milan metropolitan area. It aims to offer a group of 20 young adults with major mental disorders an education…
Nursing aide training course for O.S.S. (Socio-Medical Operator)
Client: Comunità di San Patrignano
Contribution: € 150.000
Comunità di San Patrignano is a therapeutic community housing people with drug addiction problems from all over the country free of charge. The community’s approach focuses on the individual and his or her needs and is also implemented by providing the residents with personal and professional growth opportunities to support their social and professional reintegration. In fact, in parallel with its re-education programme, San Patrignano offers a variety of education and training opportunities…
Overheads support
Client: Cooperativa Agricola La Monda
Contribution: € 12.000
La Monda is a community of people who want to concretely experience a form of sociality inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s teachings. It is located in Arcisate, in the province of Varese, and it includes an area of more than 83,000 square metres, partly used for cultivation and partly covered by a forest, and some habitable buildings of about 2,000 square metres…
Overheads support
Client: Job Club
Contribution: € 30.000
Job Club Centres are active job search “gyms” and centres where supply and demand can meet. Job Centres not only support the outplacement of job seekers, but also help them regain self-confidence and forge relationships as part of an “empowerment” path in a coworking space that they can use for their own search activities. The goal is to create a pool of oriented and motivated users profiled by soft skills: a kind of “shared academy” for local SMEs…