Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo (FCSP) was established for philanthropic purposes, to promote cultural, civil and economic development, on the strength of its assets and heritage.

The Foundation pursues three goals: Culture, People and Planet, which are in turn divided into 14 missions.

The decision to adopt these three goals stems from FCSP’s desire to align itself with the international shared framework of the United Nations, which established the 2030 Agenda in 2015, asking individual countries to adopt the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the associated 169 targets, as well as the whole philosophy that led to them being formulated.

Sustainable development is our goal and the ideal continuation of a journey begun in 1563, when seven citizens formed the religiously-inspired civic association that took the name of “Compagnia di San Paolo”, with the clear philanthropic aims of helping the poorest people of Turin. Almost 500 years later, with a rich, complex but coherent history behind it, FCSP now operates in Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta in the sectors permitted by Italian legislative decree 153 of 17 May 1999; under the terms of its Constitution, it chooses its areas of intervention every three years.