Fondazione CON Il SUD is a private non-profit organization created in November 2006 from the alliance between banking establishments, the third sector industry, and volunteers meant to encourage the development of Southern Italy through the promotion of paths of social cohesion. The Foundation backs “exemplary” interventions for the education of children to legality and for the fight against early school leaving, valuing young talents and attracting “brains” to the South, acts of protection and enhancement of common goods (culture, environment, social reuse of assets confiscated from the mafias), for the qualification of social and health services, for the integration of immigrants, all to promote community welfare. In 16 years, it has supported over 1,600 initiatives, including the birth of the first 7 community foundations in Southern Italy (in the historical center and the Rione Sanità in Naples, in Salerno, in Benevento, in Messina, in the Val di Noto, in Agrigento and Trapani), involving 7,000 different organizations – including non-profits, public and private bodies – and committing a total of over 280 million euros. In 2016, the social enterprise “Con I Bambini” was born, wholly owned by the Foundation, to implement the programs of the Fund for the fight against child educational poverty.
