Governance - Fondazione Don Gino Rigoldi

How we are organized

Committee of Guarantors, Board of Directors, Supervisory Body, General Manager: these are the governing bodies that we use to pursue the government activities.

Our organization

The commitment of those who sit on the Board of Directors is to guarantee the continuity of the vision of don Gino Rigoldi. People and associations that share the same principles and commit themselves to translating them into real actions.

Don Gino Rigoldi

President of the Committee of Guarantors

I was born in Milan on October 30, 1939.

At 13 I started working as a worker in a small electrical equipment company, where I later became an employee.

At 18 I entered the seminary of Venegono. Ordained a priest in 1967, and until 1971 I carried out my ministry at the Collegio Arcivescovile De Filippi in Varese. Later I was transferred as a coadjutor in a parish of San Donato Milanese.

In 1972 I asked anvad obtained to become Chaplain of the Cesare Beccaria juvenile prison. I inaugurated the first three accommodation communities, houses in which the boys lived with me and the educators, attending school and sports and leisure activities in the neighborhoods.

In December 1973, I founded the association Comunità Nuova Onlus. The association promotes the personal and social growth of people, especially young people, who are in a state or at risk of marginalization or who lack the means to develop their own life project.

In 1999 I founded the association Bambini in Romania Onlus, today BIR ODV, which I still chair, for the training and sending of volunteers, from 16 years old and up, to orphanages and children’s shelters in Romania.

In 2012 I launched the social housing project “Abit@giovani” to give the under 35s the possibility of buying or renting a house at fair prices and involving them in a process of revitalizing social relations in the neighborhoods. Thanks to the involvement of the Lombardy Region, Aler Milano, the Cariplo Foundation, the Lombardy Real Estate Fund and the Social Housing Foundation, the project managed to make over 200 apartments available at the end of the year.

In 2014 I received the honorary degree from the University of Milan in “Public and Business Communication”. In 2015, Fondazione Don Gino Rigoldi was born from my will and that of a group of friends and supporters of my activities together with Comunità Nuova Onlus and BIR ODV. The goal is to give continuity to the ideas and principles that have always guided us in meeting people, especially young people and those who support them for role and profession: families, teachers, educators…