Italy

 

- Word for volunteering : Volontariato.

- Words for associations: Organizzazione no profit, organizzazione senza scopo di lucro (non profit organisations), ONG, organizzazione non governativa (non-governmental organisations).

 

In Italy, the term ‘volunteerism’ refers to all types of activities, whether formal or informal, full-time or part-time, at home or abroad. It is undertaken out of a person's own free-will, choice and motivation, and is without concern for financial gain. It benefits the individual volunteer, communities and society as a whole. It is also a vehicle for individuals and associations to address human, social or environmental needs and concerns.

 

For further information, see the report of the European Commission about volunteering in Italy.

 

Fondazione Italiana per il Volontariato, FIVOL

 

The Fondazione Italiana per il Volontariato (FIVOL) was founded in 1991. FIVOL works mainly in the fields of research and training, developing the culture of solidarity. In 2001, together with the Abele Group, it suggested a document of merit for volunteerism, which was adopted by most volunteerism organisations and more recently also by many local councils. FIVOL studies the phenomenon of volunteerism and documents its evolution using a data bank which contains more than 13,000 organisations. Every year, it develops research into specific topics regarding volunteerism and the problems it is devoted to. Besides this it has an archive for the use of researchers. FIVOL is also involved in an intense activity of training, addressed to workers of the field and especially to their trainers, as well as operatives in the public sector who often find themselves working with volunteers. It publishes manuals, cds, various training material and is involved in interesting works in schools, spreading the concept of civil commitment and solidarity among students and giving support to their teachers. It publishes a monthly magazine, the Rivista del Volontariato (Volunteerism Magazine). At an international level, it keeps contact with the most important European and Mediterranean centres, as well as those in the rest of the world.

 

Fondazione Italiana per il Volontariato, FIVOL

Via Nazionale 39

IT-00184 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 47 48 11

Fax: +39 06 48 14 617

E-mail: informazioni@fivol.it

Web site : http://www.fivol.it

 

Associazione Guide e Scout Cattolici Italiani (AGESCI)

 

Agesci is an educational association of scouts composed by 155.000 boys and girls and about 30.000 "leaders" working as voluntary educators. Scouting is based on the principle that no education exists without shared experience. Generally young adults, youngsters and leaders walk together, live together their experiences, constructing every day a path leading to knowledge, criticism, responsibility, to respect towards the individual and the environment. Service is the meaning of the leaders' choice, adults who accept to voluntarily dedicate their time and their competence to younger guys entrusted to them. The Catholic choice and the belonging to the Italian Church is explicit. The groups in Italy are over 1800: a deep-rooted reality in each region.

 

Associazione Guide e Scout Cattolici Italiani (AGESCI)

Piazza Pasquale Paoli 18

00186 Roma

Tel. : +39 06 681661

Fax : +39 06 68166236

E-mail: Infoscout@agesci.it

Web site: http://www.agesci.org

 

Associazione nazionale Pubbliche Assistenze (ANPAS)

 

The main purposes of Anpas are: the setting up of a more equal and based-on-solidarity society through the safeguard of the individual rights and the recognition of the human capacity of devoting oneself to the aid and the assistance to others; the safeguard, the assistance, the promotion and coordination, inside the nation as well as in foreign countries, of the organised voluntary service; the developing of a solidarity culture and the safeguard of the citizens rights. It represents 826 associations of social assistance, daily devoted in medical emergency, first aid, social activities and civil defence with the help of 90.000 volunteers, 2.700 ambulances, and the support of 700.000 members.

 

Associazione nazionale Pubbliche Assistenze (ANPAS)

Via baracca 209

50127 Firenze

Tel.: +39 0553 03821

E-mail: segreteria@anpas.org

Web site: http://www.anpas.org

 

Associazione per l'autogestione dei servizi e la solidarietà (AUSER)

 

A voluntary association for the promotion of solidarity and of active citizenship, constituted by elder and young people united together by mutual purposes: being helpful to others, opposing solitude and social alienation. The association's aim is to spread the culture and the practice of solidarity, the fight against every kind of social exclusion, improving the quality of life in general terms as well as in the belonging communities. It is open to every citizen, without any age limit, stimulating him to be a leading actor through self-managed programs and projects. It was constituted in 1989 and since 1995, AUSER has become a national recognised institution with solidarity purposes. The active volunteers are 60.000 distributed among 1000 offices on the whole national territory. Volunteers carry out solidarity actions for elder people, assistance and aid for Alzheimer's patients, and similar activities.

 

Associazione per l'autogestione dei servizi e la solidarietà (AUSER)

Via Nizza 154

00198 Roma

Tel. : +39 06 8440771

Fax : +39 06 84407777

E-mail: nazionale@auser.it

Web Site: http://www.auser.it

 

Centro informazione educazione allo sviluppo (CIES)

 

This is a non-governative organisation (Ngo) involved in the setting up of multicultural societies founded on the full integration of immigrants. It was born in 1983, thanks to the initiative of a group of teachers and workers in the field of cooperation in order to reduce the great difference between the North and the South of the world. In these years, they have been involved in different fields to spread knowledge in immigrants' native countries and to favour their integration in Italy working in schools, collaborating with institutions and local bodies, organising exhibitions, debates, reviews on public awareness of development issues and setting up training courses for foreigners.

As in other European countries, CIES has set up special agreements with institutions and local bodies forming 500 people speaking 50 different languages

 

Centro informazione educazione allo sviluppo (CIES)

Via Merulana 198

00185 Roma

Tel. +39 06 77264611

E-mail: cies@cies.it

Web site: http://www.cies.it

Centro Sportivo Italiano (CSI)

CSI was born in 1944 thanks to the initiative of "Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica". It is an association for the promotion of sports as a moment of education, human maturity. CSI favours sport as a moment of aggregation, mean of human promotion, instrument of solidarity and social developing. In this view, it is addressed also to the "last" and to the "poor", to the less talented ones, to disabled people, to socially excluded sectors in areas exposed to social risk, to elder persons, to women: the ones who are normally excluded from competitive and high level sport. Volunteers operating inside the organisation carry out animation activities for children and young people through sport.

Centro Sportivo Italiano (CSI)

Via della Conciliazione 1

00193 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 68404550

Fax: +39 06 68802940

E-mail: csi@csi-net.it

Web site: http://www.csi-net.it

 

DON ORIONE SEV 84

 

SEV - Servizi Esperti Volontari (Expert Volunteers Service) is an Ngo recognised by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1991. Since the eighties, it has been active in cooperation and developing projects, thanks to the activity of its members and of its large number of volunteers.

Nowadays, collaborating with local and non local organisations, SEV 84 works on projects in health, educational and professional training field for children and young people in exclusion conditions, in Italy and around the world, with a particular attention to people in the poorest conditions such as disabled, elder persons and women. The Ngo dedicates a wide section of its work to development education issues, especially on questions such as exploitation of minors, peace, sustainable development, fair trade.

 

DON ORIONE SEV 84

Via Cavour, 238

00184 Roma

tel. +39 06 4746148

President Don Luigi Pastrello

E-mail: info@fondazionedonorione.it

Web site: http://www.fondazionedonorione.org

 

Federazione Italiana per l'Educazione Continua (FIPEC)

 

FIPEC is an association for the social promotion of extra scholastic formation institutions. It interprets the new structure of Italian formation and it is present at international level through the organisation of meetings, seminars, study workshops on permanent formation. Members, Third Age universities, operate with total independence on their competence's territory in organising courses, journeys, cultural visits, publications, studies, presentations, with the aim of a long-life learning: a path evolving "from knowledge to competence". It is a member of the "European association for the education of adults (Helsinki, Barcelona)". The organisation has 191 offices, 34 associated universities, 36.461 members and 42.047 participants (2001).

 

Federazione Italiana per l'Educazione Continua (FIPEC)

Via del Corso 101

00186 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 692043312

Fax : +39 06 69923286

E-mail: info@fipec.it

Web site: http://www.fipec.it

 

FOCSIV, Volontari nel mondo

 

FOCSIV is a federation of 56 Christian NGO involved in the promotion of the globality culture and in the cooperation with Developing Countries. In the last 30 years, 14.000 Italian volunteers have operated with the federation for two or more years' developing projects.

At the moment, it is present with 532 volunteers in 77 countries with 402 projects.

FOCSIV - thanks to the work of experts and the collaboration of its volunteers - develops a function of institutional representation in the Italian Government and Parliament, European Union and United Nation, in a close link with worldwide networks of similar organisations being a connection among the associated Ngo.

 

Volontari nel mondo, FOCSIV

Via San Francesco di Sales 18

00165 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 6877867

Fax: +39 06 6872373

E-mail: fosciv@fosciv.it

Web site: http://www.focsiv.it

 

Gruppo Abele

 

Since 1966, Gruppo Abele has been working on the streets, facing social discomforts in its different forms: drug addiction, prison, Aids, immigration. Nowadays, its activity is developed in three sectors: solidarity, culture, work. There are communities, lodgings, crisis centres, welcome and orientation desks always trying to collaborate with the public service. The cultural aspect is essential, offering instruments of prevention, information, formation, research directed to all sensitive persons and not only to the workers in this sectors. Here lies the meaning of a library, a publishing house, a centre for study, some revues, the intervention in schools, a centre for the managing of conflicts. The work sector is composed by 6 social co-operatives united in a consortium since 1998.

 

Gruppo Abele

Via Giolitti 21

10123 Torino

Tel. : +39 011 8142711

Fax : +39 011 8395577

E-mail: segreteria@gruppoabele.org

Web site: http://www.gruppoabele.org

 

Seniores Italia Partner per lo sviluppo

 

Seniores Italia - Partner per lo sviluppo is a non profit association founded in 1994 thanks to the initiative of Fivol and Fondazione Agnelli, with the collaboration of some of the most important Italian industrial groups with the aim of contributing to international cooperation, to the development of the Third Sector in Italy. Members of Seniores Italia come from the field of productive economy, important companies, handicraft and services activities, Italian administrative institutions offering their ethic and professional patrimony for social voluntary activities.

Since its foundation, the association has had important contacts with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in particular with the General Direction for Development Cooperation.

 

Seniores Italia Partner per lo sviluppo

Via Nazionale 39

00184 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 4819540-1

E- mail: seniores@tin.it

Web site: http://www.senioresitalia.it

 

Unione Italiana Sport Per tutti (UISP)

 

UISP is a democratic non-profit association. It promotes and organises sport events for everyone as a right of each citizen and organises activity centres for minors and young people, non professional activities for Third Age. With 160 Committees and 27 Leagues in the whole nation, it operates for the safeguard of health and environment and for social solidarity. Uisp is a member of international networks of sports for everyone: Csit, Fispt, Isca, Cess, Tafisa e Uespt.

Volunteers participate to activities often consisting in direct interventions on the occasion of sporting conventions.

 

Unione Italiana Sport Per tutti (UISP)

Largo N. Franchelucci 73

00155 Roma

Tel. : +39 06 439841

Fax : +39 06 43984320

E-mail: uisp@uisp.it

Web site: http://www.uisp.it

 

Volontariato internazionale donna educazione e sviluppo (VIDES)

 

VIDES is an Ngo with institutional purposes of solidarity and promotion of educational, informative, technical and professional initiatives and activities related to programs of human, cultural, social and economic development in Italy and in foreign countries with a particular attention to the questions of social justice and equality in human rights. VIDES carries out projects in collaboration with scholastic institutions and social services. It organises training courses for voluntary service through a direct experience "on the field" as "street educators" and "intercultural educators". Working camps are organised in Italy during summer for a two or three weeks period in collaboration with civil and religious authorities, with associations or groups belonging to that area. Proposals are addressed to young people to carry out solidarity actions at a national as well as an international level, either for short periods (1 to 3 months) either for longer time (1 to 2 years).

VIDES has a consultative status c/o the United Nations.

 

Volontariato internazionale donna educazione e sviluppo (VIDES)

Via San Saba, 14

00153 Roma

Tel.: +39 065750048

Fax : +39 065750904

E-mail: videsitalia@videsitalia.it

Web site: http://www.videsitalia.it

 

Volontariato internazionale per lo sviluppo (VIS)

 

VIS is an NGO promoted by the "Centro Nazionale Opere Salesian" (National Centre for Salesian Activities). On the national territory, it co-ordinates the typical activities of this sector, through a central office and 8 regional committees. In Italy, it carries out activities for development issues and development education with actions in schools, study weeks, training courses for teachers and educators, but, above all, through its website and its on-line courses concerning international cooperation. Around the world, it promotes human development projects with volunteers taking care about selection, training and assistance for a service of two or more years. Projects are developed in collaboration with Salesians present in schools and in vocational training centres in 130 countries. The educational purposes follow Don Bosco's system: development with education and service to the human being and to solidarity in a perspective of faith.

 

Volontariato internazionale per lo sviluppo (VIS)

Via Appia Antica 126

00179 Rome

Tel. : +39 06 51 62 91

Fax : +39 06 51629299

E-mail: vis@volint.it

Web site: http://www.volint.it

 

 OTHER CONTACTS

Centro Nazionale per il Volontariato

Via A. Catalani, 158

55100 Lucca C.P. 2002

Tel.: +39 583.419500

Fax : +39 583.419501

E-mail : cnv@centrovolontariato.it

Web site : http://www.centrovolontariato.it

 

Associazione Amici di CINI

V. Villa 12

37125 Verona

Tel.: +39 045 8301918

 

Associazione Volontari Dokita

Via della Luce, 46

00153 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 58330755

Fax: +39 06 5882897

E-mail: dokita@edl.it

 

Centro Cooperazione Sviluppo

Via Dante, 2/68

16121 Genova

Tel./Fax: +39 010 5704843

E-mail: info@ccsit.org

Web site: http://www.ccsit.org

 

Centro Servizi per il volontariato

E-mail : info@cesv.org

Web site : http://www.cesv.org

 

CIPSI -solidarietà e cooperazione

via F.Baldelli, 41

00146 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 5414894

Fax : +39 06 59600533

E-mail: cipsiroma@cipsi.it

Web site: http://www.cipsi.it

 

COCIS

Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni non governative per la Cooperazione Internazionale allo Sviluppo

Vicolo Scavolino 61

00177 Roma

Tel.: +39 06 69924112

Fax : +39 06 69924399

E-mail: cocis.roma@iol.it

 

G.A.V.C.I. - Gruppo Autonomo di Volontariato Civile in Italia

c/o Villa Tamba - Via della Selva Pescarola 26

40131 Bologna

Tel./Fax +39 051 6344671

E-mail: gavci@iperbole.bologna.it

Web site: http://ospiti.peacelink.it/gavci

 

La Gabbianella

Via Cesare Balbo, 4

00184 Roma

Tel./Fax: +39 06 483381

E-mail: la.gabbianella@tiscali.it

Web site: http://www.lagabbianella.it

 

Osservatorio nazionale per il volontariato

dr.ssa Sabina Polidori

Tel. +39 06 3675 4478

Fax: +39 06 3675 4353

E-mail: spolidori@welfare.gov.it

Web site: http://www.welfare.gov.it

 

Terra Nuova

Via Urbana, 156

00184 ROMA

Tel.: +39 06 485534

Fax: +39 06 4747599

E-mail: tnuova@cambio.it