Our desire is to help young people and families in difficulty believe that a different future is possible. We give them confidence by offering them another opportunity and reassure them we will be by their side in the journey ahead.
The commitment of the Foundation, from our birth to today.
Funded projects
Young people in training
Volunteers involved
Families taken care of
In this section you will find all the projects we deal with and, if you wish, you can filter them by project type, scope and beneficiary. Remember to click on ‘Apply filters’ to start the search and ‘Reset’ to reset it.
We help young people excluded from the suburbs to discover their potential and activate their passion to build opportunities for the future.
Don Gino personally offers accommodation to those young people who often arrive in Italy alone, confused and in search of balance and autonomy, who have no resources to start over and do not know where to sleep.
We accompany people to plan their exit paths from a situation of hardship or precariousness by offering them temporary accommodation and educational support.
We offer the opportunity to attend university to deserving young people with fragile socioeconomic backgrounds, supporting them with our tutors and mentors throughout the course.
It is a fact that our country is going through a difficult period: more and more young people need help, but those who work with them are often under pressure, with few resources at their disposal and a great deal to do. For this reason, the Catholic University, together with our Foundation and with the…
With BIR’s “Volunteer Camps” we offer boys and girls aged 16 and older international volunteer experiences. The volunteer camps last two weeks and volunteers are in touch every day with children, girls, people with disabilities and communities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, in collaboration with local associations. They are experiences that allow young…
With BIR’s “Inclusive Volunteering” project, we educate young people about the values of citizenship, solidarity and participation. We offer them the opportunity to be protagonists in their area for the benefit of the community. We engage in: Objectives: Beneficiaries: volunteers, young people in detention within the IPM C. Beccaria and youth in fragile conditions involved…
The social housing project provides temporary housing for people who are experiencing a period of vulnerability or social disadvantage and who are at risk of marginalization due to limited personal or financial resources. Among the guests are single mothers with minor children, young people with immigrant backgrounds facing significant difficulties in finding housing, families in…
The Youth Workshop is a meeting place where education, creativity, relationships, and guidance come together. We focus specifically on young people between the ages of 13 and 18: an age group that often stays away from traditional services but has a strong need for someone to listen and for support, even when they don’t show…
In 2024, after more than 20 years of activity within the Beccaria IPM in Milan, Comunità Nuova Onlus became aware that the context of juvenile penal institutions no longer allowed for effective pedagogical action. For this reason, it has chosen to refocus its intervention in the juvenile justice sector, focusing on supporting external criminal execution…
The Social Secretariat of Comunità Nuova Onlus is a point of contact for people and families in situations of socio-economic fragility in Milan’s Municipality 6. Often, people in trouble do not trust the Institutional Services due to diffidence, lack of adequate tools or because they are unable to formulate a request according to the expected…
The Azimuth Day Center of Comunità Nuova Onlus is a semi-residential therapeutic-rehabilitative service dedicated to supporting people with substance addiction problems, located in the QT8 neighborhood of Milan. It accommodates up to 16 adults and offers them a personalized therapeutic program of up to 12 months that respects each guest’s goals, timeframe, resources and fragilities.…
The Youth Center “Ermanno Olmi” by Comunità Nuova Onlus is in Milan’s Municipality 7 and is a place for young people, open five days a week. At the Center we offer after-school activities, study space, music and art workshops, summer center, sports tournaments and trips of a day or more. We design the activities we…
The Barrio’s Social Center of Comunità Nuova Onlus is located in the Barona neighborhood of Milan. It represents a place of aggregation, but also a space where projects aimed at the community are carried out to prevent phenomena of hardship and marginality. In this context we offer minors and young people in the neighborhood and…
In Italy, the NEET phenomenon (young people who are neither in education nor employment) is among the most serious in Europe: in 2022, there were 1.4 million such young people, accounting for nearly 20% of the youth population, with the highest numbers among 17- to 19-year-olds. The main causes are dropping out of school and…
BIR’s “Don Gino’s Volunteering” project offers several opportunities for the activation and training of young people in the city of Milan: Objective: to stimulate pathways of activation and training of young people within the organizations of the community around don Gino. Beneficiaries: young people met in volunteer promotion meetings and workshops, oriented to volunteer proposals…
The project will assign 70 scholarships (35 in Lombardy and 35 in Campania) to help motivated young people without resources apply for degree programs in STEM and economics at Italian state universities. For the Campania region, the partner identified is Impresa Sociale Le Nuvole of Naples. During an initial selection phase, 200 students (100 in…
In cooperation with Assimpredil Ance, Intesa Sanpaolo per il Sociale, Umana, the construction industry unions Feneal UIL, Filca CISL, Fillea CGIL and the ESEM-CPT construction school, we have launched a training course for laborer/murderer. The goal is to help Opera detainees who meet the legal requirements to leave prison to find stable and lasting employment.…
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In this section, you can find all the projects we are working on and, if you want, you can filter them by project type, scope, and beneficiary. Remember to click on Apply filters to start the search and reset to clear it. In this section, you can find all the projects we are working on and, if you want, you can filter them by project type, scope, and beneficiary. Remember to click on Apply filters to start the search and reset to clear it.
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