Guidelines 2023-2024

The first focus concerns interventions to support poverty from the point of view of proximity and reception of people in a state of socio-economic fragility to guarantee "first aid" interventions. Since 2018, the Charity Fund has contributed to the achievement of the social objectives of the Intesa Sanpaolo Business Plan (“Food and shelter program”) supporting initiatives against food poverty, that is to say aimed at covering or increasing the number of meals distributed by charitable structures throughout the country, through central donations. Food intervention is therefore excluded for this type of donation.
For further information, consult page 6 of the full Guidelines document.

The second area of action concerns projects carried out by state schools which provide free training for students in socioeconomic difficulty, favoring innovative methodologies. More consideration will be given to interventions integrated into the curricular timetable, preferably co-planned with children/teenagers and intended to be implemented in a network with other local Organisations. It is required that the intervention methodology has already been tested.
For further details on the activities that the Charity Fund intends to support, consult pages 6-7 of the full Guidelines document.

The third area of action concerns support for young people who are neither employed nor in education or training (NEET) and young people who leave school or training activities early (ELET), so that they can get out of this condition through training and job placement in sectors with better employment opportunities. Interventions involving the co-planning of the institution with the beneficiaries will be taken into greater consideration.
For further details on the activities that the Charity Fund intends to support, consult pages 7-8 of the full Guidelines document.

The fourth and final area of action in the social area concerns support for women and minors who are victims of violence and for those who are the object of serious discrimination based on ethnicity, origin, religion, gender identity and sexual orientation, physical and cognitive disability, both offline and online through activities such as:

• Psychological and legal support for victims
• Interventions aimed at developing self-esteem and economic independence
• Migrants’ integration projects 

For further details on the activities that the Charity Fund intends to support, consult page 8 of the full Guidelines document.

The Fund's intervention focuses on all those medical research projects which aim to improve people's lives.
For this Area only, the deadline for submitting requests on the platform is May 31st of the reference year. The projects will be evaluated by external experts in the subject matter (referees) only if started in the year in which the donation request is presented. 

The Charity Fund focuses on studies that deepen or reveal forms of social discomfort or needs of the fragile. The research activity must lead to interventions that aim to solve the problem and/or respond to the identified needs. A limited part of the Research Area resources will be allocated to social research.

At least 50% of the resources allocated internationally are given over to this type of priority intervention. In 2022, a context analysis was carried out by the local banks, to map the most relevant social problems/needs in the respective countries. This analysis has evidenced certain common themes which the Charity Fund will treat as a priority.
For further details on the common themes identified, consult page 11 of the full Guidelines document.

There is a particular attention for the following topics:

• Food insecurity;
• Inequality in the right to health;
• Educational poverty;
• Economic development and professional training;
• Women and youth empowerment;
• Racial discrimination.

For these projects, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis the amount that can be dedicated to the purchase of durable goods and equipment. If the expenditure receipts cannot be recovered, the presentation of a third-party audit report on the project costs will be accepted. For projects of an amount equal to or greater than € 80,000 external Monitoring and Evaluation by a University is not required.