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The paper presents the results of two evaluation activities that foster reflection on the operational strategies implemented, as well as the main challenges and opportunities that arise during intervention implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Article in Italian] L’Associazione Internazionale degli Idrogeologi IAH Italy diventa grande. A partire dal 1° gennaio 2024 l’Associazione è iscritta al Registro Unico Nazionale del Terzo Settore (RUNTS).

By promoting the use of monuments in functions useful to society, the Venice Charter assigns reuse a fundamental role in guaranteeing the conservation of the architectural heritage; at the same time, the document places limits on the transformations that new uses imply, legitimising interventions based on the compatibility of the new functions with the physical characteristics of the buildings. At the end of the 20th century, the evolution of scientific debate led to the definition of new strategies for reuse, in the light of the concept of sustainable development and a vision of the architectural heritage as a catalyst of multidimensional value. This implies the need to evaluate the quality of the project according to parameters that are not exclusively related to material respect. The theoretical statements formulated find expression in the projects developed by the Third Sector, which today assume great relevance thanks to programme agreements and funding. This paper therefore intends to carry out an examination of the reuse projects promoted by non-profit organisations. Through a comparison with the principles expressed by the Venice Charter, it questions the criticalities that emerge from initiatives that see the participation of the Third Sector as proponent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this paper is to investigate the hybridization dynamics of the Third sector at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. The progressive contamination between the State, market, family and Third sector spheres has long been subject of interest of the scholars. This paper aim at analysing these dynamics through the case study of Fondazione Banco Alimentare (Italian Food Bank Foundation). The case helps in investigating the impact of the pandemic on the role, logics and actors that make up the Third sector (both organizations and people) and its relation with the other subsystems. The empirical analysis shows that the pandemic and its consequences has enhanced the role of Fondazione Banco Alimentare, thanks to its relevance during the food emergency that also increased its visibility in the media. There are more institutional and non-institutional donors, more beneficiaries and help requests that resulted also in an accelerated professionalization and training of volunteers and employers. In conclusion, the Italian Food Bank and its network dealt with processes of digitalization, institutionalization and professionalization. These transformations resulted in a new positioning of the organization in the public sphere and redefined its relationship between local, national and European institutions.

This article aims to take stock of the evaluation tools currently in use in the private sector - including both the private for-profit sector and the third sector - to assess the contribution to the achievement of publicly relevant environmental and social goals. A very rapid evolution is underway in this sector, from accountability tools aimed at accounting for the organization' commitments, to more complex systems focusing on outcomes. The latter aim not only to assess the impact, but also to provide structured evidence so that citizens can make informed choices, and in the meanwhile to fuel the evaluation demand. Private sector evaluation shares many of the aims of public policy evaluation: a greater connection between the two worlds is essential as well as it is desirable to identify actors capable of translating their respective demands into common knowledge goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The development of the Third Sector in Republican Italy has never been analyzed in depth in recent historiography. Its growing employment importance could now constitute a new research field for labour history. This essay aims to demonstrate why it is so significant and it will do so firstly by reconstructing the terms of the debate on nonprofits and labour and on the regulation of voluntary work in flexibility, secondly by analyzing the impact of European policies on the non profit care services marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main question of this essay concerns the role of cultural mediation in hosting practices for migrants. The analysis of mediators’ interviews aims to underline the State approach to management of international flows of people. Despite the institutional preference for control practices, the study of the host system for refugees and asylum seekers shows the key role of third sector and civil society in promoting inclusion projects: building cultural ties is actually desire, project, stubborn determination of social workers and researchers.

Il contributo tratta della posizione reciproca di sussidiarietà e Terzo settore alla luce della Costituzione italiana, argomentando che le caratteristiche autenticamente innovative della sussidiarietà le novità in tema di legislazione sul Terzo settore sono sistematicamente depotenziate dalla lettura pro-concorrenziale che deriva dal diritto dell’Unione europea. La novità apportata da sussidiarietà e Terzo settore viene interpretata, anche dal legislatore stesso, come una aggiunta ai principi costituzionali non in grado di incidere con decisione sugli aspetti fondamentali del mercato e della pubblica amministrazione

La riforma del Titolo V della Costituzione e l’introduzione del principio di sussidiarietà hanno consolidato il ruolo del Terzo settore nell’ordinamento italiano. Il Terzo settore, collocandosi sul piano della sussidiarietà orizzontale, assume una rilevanza politica nella società civile come occasione di partecipazione. Anche nel recente Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza al Terzo settore viene attribuito un ruolo di rilievo. A questo proposito è interessante verificare quali sono gli sbocchi più recenti del Terzo settore specialmente per la tutela dell’ambiente e dell’energia. A questo proposito, la partecipazione del Terzo settore alla costituzione delle comunità energetiche merita un approfondimento non solo nell’ordinamento italiano ma anche in altri ordinamenti europei.

The essay uses Maria Eletta Martini's unpublished papers to reconstruct a lesser known aspect of the health reform of 1978: the recognition of social and health voluntary service sanctioned by articles 1, 45 and 71. It does so by analyzing the «legislative premises» and «political-cultural issues» of the question, placing particular attention on the thrusts coming from civil society, on Catholicism and on political differences around the role of private assistance, autonomies and public assistance and charitable institutions (Ipab). Within the debate on a framework law for assistance, this paper not only highlights an important step in reconstructing the institutionalization processes of the components of the Third sector, but also projects an eye on the evolution that the services offered by voluntary organizations experienced in the gradual italian welfare crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the history of Italian associations, the field engaged in the international dimension has been and still represents today, from the height of over forty years of life, one of the sectors with the longest operating experience. The article intends to identify the structural and organizational characteristics of the Tuscan voluntary organizations that operate at an international level; the values, the culture and the social missions of these organizations; the human, material and symbolic resources available to them. In particular, the research seeks to identify the paths, the types of activities carried out, highlighting if and how these realities are placed in the different operational approaches of International Solidarity and Development Cooperation, within the complex system of decentralized regional cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present evaluation analysis was conducted using a goal-free logic on 205 projects, implemented in different areas of Southern Italy benefiting from the financial support of the "CON IL SUD (FCS) Foundation", with the aim of highlighting some of the positive changes (expected or unexpected, direct or indirect) triggered by mid-long term projects, analysed using the Positive Thinking Approach as a research framework. In situations characterized by high levels of complexity, it is difficult to forecast how a change will manifest itself; therefore, the evaluative research should identify positive changes even when they occur unexpectedly. The author focuses on the different types of relational contexts in which the projects were embedded, with particular attention to how certain types of links between project partners and other stakeholders contributed, along with other factors, to generating local development in the territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A digital container where the measure is the body. The experience of a psychoeducational group in a pandemic period The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic has brought forward significant social changes, severing ties between the other and the institution. The health system was forced to operationalize a reorganization of its model through which normal services are delivered. The need to guarantee the continuity of interventions that use the relationship as a central tool in clinical work has led to a re-thinking of the tools used in the social-health system. The purpose of this article is to provide evidence of an innovative experience of online readjustment of group devices, preferred tools of psycho- educational work with adolescents responsible for the territorial services of an NGO. Physical distancing was used as a measure of an area within which to develop new definitions of the self and new autonomies. The configuration to online meetings sketched the borders of a new relational territory, those of which potential remain unexplored. The importance of keeping alive these relationships during lockdown has required the use of new tools, rendering it possible to access new modes of connecting in a digital space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to investigate the hybridization dynamics of the Third sector at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. The progressive contamination between the State, market, family and Third sector spheres has long been subject of interest of the scholars. This paper aim at analysing these dynamics through the case study of Fondazione Banco Alimentare (Italian Food Bank Foundation). The case helps in investigating the impact of the pandemic on the role, logics and actors that make up the Third sector (both organizations and people) and its relation with the other subsystems. The empirical analysis shows that the pandemic and its consequences has enhanced the role of Fondazione Banco Alimentare, thanks to its relevance during the food emergency that also increased its visibility in the media. There are more institutional and non-institutional donors, more beneficiaries and help requests that resulted also in an accelerated professionalization and training of volunteers and employers. In conclusion, the Italian Food Bank and its network dealt with processes of digitalization, institutionalization and professionalization. These transformations resulted in a new positioning of the organization in the public sphere and redefined its relationship between local, national and European institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an ethnographic study of volunteering of asylum seekers in Italy. The volunteering of asylum develops in a close relation with the Third Sector and reception system’s practices of gratuitousness and discourses of solidarity. Volunteering by asylum seekers presents some important features, related to the methods of recruitment and the competition that support it. Although these mechanisms are powerful, participation in volunteering remains fragile, and forms of collective solidarity and resistance can thus arise against this form of free work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to provide some insights on the significance of the principle of solidarity, the beating heart of voluntary action, within the recent reform of the Third Sector in Italy. If and in what way it has been exploited for the purpose of a greater approach towards market policies. Having been thoroughly investigated, we will therefore not dwell on the multiple significance of the third sector nor will a detailed comment be made on the individual regulatory provisions and their meaning, which would require a much larger space. While briefly introducing some points addressed by the reform, the analysis of other topics will be omitted, addressed by the delegation law and by the Code, including the one concerning changes in legislation on the subject of civil service and the introduction of the "universal civil service". all with the clarification that it will be a merely introductory topic on the subject.

Home care has been the preferred form of care in Europe since the late 1990s. The existing diver- sification within this macro-category, both at the level of the services offered and at the level of the providers, makes it difficult to conduct an effective comparative analysis. This contribution con- cerns a reflection on the role of Third sector actors in the emergence of new forms of taking care of the elderly patient, highlighting some weaknesses attributable to the current organization of welfare policies and identifying innovative dynamics, and also improvements, in the new govern- ance structures and in the joint actions of private actors (profit or not-for-profit) and public bodies.

The importance attributed to the figure of volunteering in the recent code of the Third Sector induces us to reflect on the deeper nature of this activity. Volunteering activity, in fact, is closely related to gratuitousness and gift. In going deeper into this concept, the article opens with the analysis of gift in Paul Ricoeur, who reworked the theory of gift in Marcel Mauss intersecting it with the theme of recognition. The “gift” was a concept used to emphasize and enhance the social economy, especially by the Social Doctrine of the Church, giving an esteemed recognition to so- cial solidarity cooperatives. The latter are a significant part of the third sector and are considered as the expression of a civil society. All this is inserted and operates within a system based on the principle of subsidiarity which recognizes and promotes the social articulation in which those very intermediate bodies of society that operate in order to satisfy certain needs from the point of view of social solidarity find themselves.

In this paper, the Author analyzes, from a philosofical point of view, the important work of the Third sector in terms of promoting values. The focus is on the hypothesis of the relationship be- tween solidarity and the specific social meaning by Lukàcs. This paper also analyzes the topical issues such as the necessity of a revaluation of the social and economic theories on the social ex- clusion, the concept of “entrepreneurship” and the welfare state; the relation between the concept of the social development and the contemporary social movements; the idea and the lawful basis of the voluntary organizations and their european origins.

The Author focuses on the employment law profiles of the Third Sector Code. After a systematic overview of the phenomenon of volunteering, particular attention is paid to the new “general” definition of volunteering, of which the Author underlines the systemic reflections. The paper il- lustrates then the complex and problematic relationship between “market” work and “off-market work” in Third sector entities as outlined by the Code.

Promoting health and well-being, or planning the action and innovation of the responses that must be given to the population living in a specific area, cannot be done regardless of the capacity for action and governance that the administrations have. The framework of this article aims to repre- sent the effort that the Lazio Region has made and continues to make to ensure equity and appro- priateness in regional social policies. The regional law n. 11/2016, respecting the principle of sub- sidiarity, recognizes and facilitates the role of Third sector entities by promoting their active par- ticipation in the programming, planning and concerted implementation phases of social interven- tions, as well as in the evaluation of the quality of the services offered. The “Regional Social Plan” is the key instrument with which the Region implements these policies and in it we can find aware- ness and concreteness of action.

The Third Sector is assuming an ever greater role in various social spheres, in particular with an increasingly important role in the construction of welfare policies. In 2017 the Third Sector was reformed with a single text, regulating all types of organizations defined "Third Sector Entities (ETS)". It is possible to identify in the contents of the reform an attempt to link ETS and welfare, as well as between welfare policies and territorial imbalances. However, at the moment it seems that the ETS are not playing a decisive role of agents of change. Rethinking local social policies with an active role of the ETS and tracing new profiles is strategic for the future of the welfare state in Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the growth of the intertwining between politics and the third sector, the scientific debate of the last decades seems to focus increasingly on the economic relevance of the nonprofit actors. Even within such a bias, however, both international and Italian literature have never completely neglected the political dimension, although not always focusing explicitly on it. The article, therefore, aims to systematize the approaches and topics that characterize the literature that have explored it. The analysis will be carried out along four main dimensions: the relation with the state and the regulation of the sector, the level of politicization of the organizations, the socialization function and the «direct» political role covered by the organizations within and outside the institutional arenas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author describes his clinical experience in an Extraordinary Reception Center (CAS) for migrants, highlighting the organizational context and the relationship with the institutions. Starting from the migration theme, the clinical-psychological activities are described in connection with the complex forms and group levels operating, explicitly and implicitly, in the service. Finally, the constructs of "uncanny" and "relational perversion" are identified as useful for promoting a reflective reinterpretation of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to provide some insights on the significance of the principle of solidarity, the beating heart of voluntary action. We focus on the recent reform of the third sector in order to see- if and in what way- it has been exploited for the purpose of a greater approach towards market policies. Since this topic has been already investigated, we will not dwell on the multiple significance of the third sector nor a detailed comment will be made on the individual regulatory provisions and their meanings. While briefly introducing some points addressed by the reform, the analysis of other topics will be omitted, those addressed by the enabling act and the Code, including the one concerning the changes in the legislation on civil service and the introduction of the "universal civil service". A final clarification is that this work will be a merely introductory investigation on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the 6th edition of Franco Fasolo's days, essential educational and research meeting organized by COIRAG and open only to members or graduated. Main topic of 2019 edition was the internal institutional changement in COIRAG, due to a new Legislative Decree (n.117/2017). It forces the Association to selfexplore different methodologies to launch a deep reorganization process. This project aims to an evolution into an institution able to aggregate, design and supply services with public interest. Switching by medium and wide group works, partecipants focused themselves on different topics, turning on a generative and developmental debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, capitalist society has entered a deep recession. The state and its citizens are increasingly far apart, and the traditional parties do not fulfill their function of representation of the needs of citizens. Europe is undergoing an economic crisis but also a crisis of values. The balance between economic and social development are not balanced (Massé, 1964), and the reinvention of a new model of state, is already a necessity. The result of the processes of globalization, the role of government and citizen participation have been marginalized and increasingly subordinated to the dictates of the market. This paper aims to analyze a new concept of governance based on the relationship between state, market, Third Sector, and citizenship in order to clarify what is the best way of responding to social needs. The emphasis on the concepts of dialogue and participation as these show the relationship between the state, the market and the public, through an effective and efficient guidance and intervention in its governance (Canales, 2002).

This article takes a fresh look at the challenge that contemporary civil society faces from the rise of ephemeral forms of social engagement, shifting the emphasis from the organizational factors at the centre of the debate on volunteer action towards the cultural variables highlighted by the civic action approach. The current phase of Italy's third sector has been marked both by new associative processes and by their dissociative effects, but without these being adequately explained. The ethnographic perspective here adopted focuses on the scene styles shaping everyday group life, drawing attention to their role in mediating the relationship between the spread of new forms of social participation and the dissociative effects under way. The research undertaken suggests that these effects have a dual origin: first, they derive from the crisis in established models of social activism, especially these models' failure to regulate associative ties; second, the identified dissociative implications are heightened by the organizational approach through which emergent forms of civil engagement are generally managed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reform of Italian law concerning the activities of the so-called "third sector" is bound to have a notable impact on various ecclesiastical entities, especially those involved in the service of Charity in the Church. How is the Church organized internally with regard to the delicate theme of controls on the administration of her goods? This essay seeks to offer a first reflection on the question in the light of new reforms in the civil forum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After the end of the Cold War, the notion of civil society has become part of the scientific discourse, the media discourse as well as the discourse of international organizations. And it has done so despite having different meanings. Indeed, the concept of civil society may refer to the actor of a protest, the project of a mobilization, the open up of a political system dealing with a problem of representation. In other cases, it may also refer to political actors, socio-economic agents, associations or labour unions. In any case, it appears as an ambiguous concept, plural and poorly defined. The aim of this article is to highlight the long historical course of this notion, from the former times and its link to civilization, the modern times and its perceptions as a counter-power, to the contemporary period in which this notion is identified with the third sector. Nowadays, civil society is related to problems of citizenship, citizen participation and public space. Lastly, it poses a fundamental question in all continents, as a consequence of the new information and communication technologies and the globalization of commercial exchanges: is there an international civil society?

After the "glorious 20s" at the end of the last century, the social sciences have arguably lost their trust in the possibility of defining a theory concerning the existence of the third sector. Having lost its political innocence (Kendall) the concept of the third sector seems to have become a strategic unity (Alcock), used firstly by policy makers to privatize social services and secondly by third sector entrepreneurs to gain room in the quasi-markets of social policies. It therefore seems impossible to define a specific field of social action for the sector (Macmillan), and much less to find an ethical specificity of the sector. The author, by analyzing the recent literature, discusses three different perspective on the third sector. A first perspective denies any possibility of existence of a separate sector of society characterized by ethical aims. The second perspective reduces the ethical attitude of the third sector to a narrative used to conceal material interests. While the third perspective attributes to the social relationships sustained by this sector the possibility to generate ethical attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As witnessed by current international debates, volunteering is changing. The paper juxtaposes the concepts of classical "collective" volunteering - collectivist and with an ideological twist - and "reflexive", which points to new forms - individualistic, characterized by the search for selffulfillment and intangible assets. If the former contributed to structure the identity of the volunteer, the latter is bound to the breakdown of individual personalities, fragmented into a chaotic series of social roles lived in watertight compartments. Yet several studies reveal that even among new, "reflexive" volunteers the ideal size and the construction of identity remain a shared and appreciated value. The essay will analyze the volunteering experiences of respondents (by way of a questionnaire administered to a sample of 1,195 students enrolled in various Emilia-Romagna high schools during the academic year 2013/2014, built to represent the proportions by province and type of school), to find confirmations of the transition between traditional and contemporary ways of being a volunteer and the persistence, within them, of a connection with the sense of self and identity building. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last decade the Italian third sector has been affected by major changes that can be grouped as internal ones, to do with organizational and cultural trends, and external ones, related to variations in the institutional scenario, particularly the legislative agenda, to social transformation, and to collective meaning attribution processes. A further type of change can be detected in the social relationships forming within thirdsector organizations and the inter-generational exchanges taking place within them. The data emerging from ISTAT's Census on Non-Profit Institutions point to some (mainly meso-level) changes in social organization and provide a basis for ad hoc processing to highlight inter-generationality as a distinctive trait of the third sector in Italy. The availability of such a large database has made it possible to document in detail some peculiarities of Italian third-sector organizations and highlight some trends that have emerged in the last ten years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]