The Salerno-based Community Foundation is the first Community Foundation of Southern Italy, promoted by the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio Salernitana and established thanks to stimulus and support of the Foundation for Southern Italy.

The Foundation supportsa real involvement of the entire community, offering citizen, organizations, companies and economic, social, and territorial institutions, opportunities to participate to the activity of the agency and contribute to responsibly change the territory where they live into a solidarity and subsidiary community.

Mentoring USA/Italy – NPO has supported the Foundation donating 11.000,00 €.

The Family Project: how to fight new poverty

The project aims to offer disadvantaged families the possibility of using a number of services aimed at improving the quality of life, through communication and extensive knowledge of topics related to:

1. parents – children relationship;

2. family-school relation;

3. juvenile issues;

4. sexuality;

5. psychological issues in a wide sense;

6. separation, divorce, custody;

7. world of work;

8. Inland Revenue Service, Welfare Services;

9. Other.

They are volunteers who come together and patrol city streets providing sandwiches, hot drinks, blankets and clothing to homeless, elderly and young people who live in waiting rooms of train stations or under bridges outdoor.

During the service of patrolling it is possible to meet a lot of people who need food, clothing, and especially dialogue and friendship.

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This initiative is aimed at schools of the Region Campania. It is organized by Mentoring USA/Italy – NPO and promoted by the newspapers "la Città" first and then by "Il Mattino".

The goal is to introduce the fascinating world of communication offering to compulsory school students the possibility of learning the specific language of newspapers seen as stimulating teaching instruments.

Twelve Mentoring USA/Italy Programs are active in the Region Sicily thanks to the support of the Foundation Save SicilyThe programs fight early school leaving in the following cities Bagheria (PA), Catania, Mazara del Vallo (TP), Melilli (SR), Messina, Palermo, Siracusa; more than a hundred kids are involved in the project.

The main targets of the project are the development, testing and assessment of product prototypes and services for spreading information, advice, and guidebooks. This project can be placed in the activity for favoring the so called "Long-life learning". M-Learning work development schedules the realization of:

- a prototype of multi-agent tutoring system which is able to assess student's knowledge as well as his/her favorite learning strategies, and to assist the planning of personal development adapting micro-courses to individual needs;

- multimedia teaching models which can be used via mobile technologies in order to transmit skills which regard basic capabilities such as literacy and numeracy;

- Micro-portals and customized interfaces about specific needs of user groups in the field of target project typologies and different levels of technological sophistication of mobile devices used.

In addition to CRMPA, the project consortium includes:

1. Mentoring Usa/Italy NPO;

2.Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK);

3. Cambridge Training and Development Limited (UK);

4. UltraLab Anglia Politechnic University (UK);

5. Lecando AB (Sweden).

The project comes from a study carried out by "Formamentis" p.c.s.r.l., together with the township of Salerno, the company "FestinaLente" of Vittorio Campione and "Mentoring USA/Italy – NPO". It aims at offering to families and under-ages the possibility of using a number of services aimed at improving the quality of life through a thorough knowledge of particular topics such as:

- Parents-children relationship

- Family-school relation

- Adolescents issues

- Sexuality

- Psychological issues in a wide sense;

- Separation, divorce, custody

The project involves thirteen schools. The project was born from the need of testing new ways of work for contrasting the phenomenon of early school leaving. About 150 kids have benefited from it.

The project "All the colors of the World", supported by the Bank of Sicily Foundation, for the school year 2009/2010, in seven schools in the province of Palermo and Catania, has as its own goal the linguistic integration of immigrant students thus overcoming their written and oral language problemswhich are at the basis of every type of socialization.

Foreign students involved in the project have the opportunity of knowing the territorial where they live: popular traditions, crafts, jobs which characterize the place, local history. At the same time they have the possibility of comparing their origin culture with the Italian one through the figure of a volunteer Mentor (a community resource).

It has been supported by Vodafone Italy Foundation, Education Department, Training and Work of the Campania Region and the School Regional Office for a three year period 2006 – 2009; it has involved 10 schools in Campania, allowing to more than 100 students, with school issues, to benefit from the Matilda Raffa Cuomo's one-to-one method. The aim of the project has been carrying out an educational action to prevent and fight school dropouts with instruments, in particular volunteer Mentors, aimed at enhancing relational and emotional skills of young people.

The initiative has showed to be an efficient intervention to face problems such as: low school attendance, failures, early school leaving which can overall reach alarming proportion asking for a specific individual intervention. The mentoring activity has mainly focused on: dialogue, comparison, friendship and discussion regarding particular topics and biases thus letting emerge individual socio-relational (School, Family, and Peers) and work skills (job and career orientation).

The Mentor Project Activity has also realized an assessment of the intervention model in Schools carried out by Maria D'Alessio, Chair of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".

The project is aimed at testing a new model of Mentoring called "blended", which values and transmits technical competences in the world of work; it provides a training on how to use e-learning technologies.

It was financed by the European Commission and the new guideline of the community program "Leonardo Da Vinci", with FIL Inc. as leader. Partnership has been provided by study and research agencies of five different European countries: Italy, Great Britain, Spain, Germany and Austria.

The project "+ Active Citizens + Secure Communities" was born from the collaboration between Agencies, Academic, Private, and Tertiary sector Organizations which are committed to promote the culture of legality. The project has had a threefold aim:

a) sensitize public opinion towards young people's needs

b) favor the active participation in schools of Institutions which are warrantors of the culture of legality

c) promoting the culture of responsibility through an educational intervention in which the student is the protagonist and indirectly the family

The innovative nature of the project is in the possibility of joining the method one-to-one of Mrs. Matilda Raffa Cuomo with attestations and educational actions about the topic of legality in order to emphasize the unexpressed skills of participants, to favor the acquisition of specific skills and promote a more valuable culture of legality.