According to the values of Corporate Social Responsibility,  Intesa Sanpaolo promotes and participates to activities that hold an ethical and social value, testifying its commitment to establishing strong and deep bonds with society and territory.

Our comittment to




Contributing to Overcome Poverty and Underdevelopment


The most engaging involvement is related to Project Malawi, promoted by Intesa Sanpaolo and Fondazione Cariplo in cooperation with four international NGO’s (Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Save the Children, Scouting Nets of Malawi and CISP). It is a long-term goal to ensure a future to one of the neediest areas in Africa, Malawi, which is living a tremendous emergency today. The project is based on the integration of several activities: health assistance, education and prevention, orphans’ care, creation and development of a local economy. The funds we provided and those that were gathered allowed us to start building the Kapeni Polyvalent Centre, a first important result that will be followed by other initiatives in order to create, by 2008, an health network covering all the country.
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Intesa Sanpaolo has been cooperating for years with Fondazione Banco Alimentare Onlus in order to recover food resources in favour of the needy. In particular, thanks to a widespread promotion within all its banches, the bank contributes to spreading the knowledge of the National Food Collection Day during which, by shopping in the supermarkets that adhere to the initiative, one can donate food that will allow to concretely help the poorest.
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Supporting University and Cultural Exchanges

 
The commitment in this area takes shape into the support to

educational and research programs of major Italian universities through different forms of cooperation, including the creations of chairs and the funding of master courses;

grants for the intercultural exchange project promoted and organized by the Association Intercultura Onlus that allows Italian high school students to live and study abroad and foreign students to grow culturally rich by spending a time of their lives in our families and schools.
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Supporting Innovation and Research


The support to research is one of the premises for the creation of new opportunities of economic and social development. Intesa Sanpaolo cooperates with scientific partners in order to support research projects and sustain primary bodies and institutions in order to assure research a future in Italy.



IntesaNova
The program provides for small and medium businesses the opportunity to get funds for their projects of innovation that will be assessed and improved with the support of qualified academic structures.
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Airc
Intesa Sanpaolo has been cooperating for years with the Italian Association for the Research on Cancer in order to carry out the Azalea Day; on the occasion of Mom’s Day azaleas are handed out in more than 3000 Italian squares in order to gather funds for the research on cancer. The Bank supports a scientifically very valuable project of investment on young talents in the Italian Science in order to develop new research units.
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Supporting Culture Spread and Safeguarding Artistic Patrimony


According with the values that characterize its tradition, Intesa Sanpaolo inspires its activities in the artistic and cultural field to the principle of “civic responsibility”.
Initiatives designed and carried out autonomously are conjugated with others in which Intesa Sanpaolo proposes itself as an active and aware partner of public institutions and prestigious cultural and scientific agencies for protecting and spreading culture.
The effort of Intesa Sanpaolo in the cultural and artistic field develops along some major lines.


The task of safeguarding the Italian historical and artistic patrimony through:

a program - named “Restituzioni” and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture - of restorations of works intended to public fruition: the program has already been active for 13 years;
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the protection and exploitation of its own patrimony by organizing exhibitions open to the public and its own museum located in the Galleries of Palazzo Leoni Montanari, in Vicenza;
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the cooperation with FAI-Fondo Ambiente Italiano to the project “Luoghi del cuore” (Places of the Heart), intended to the safeguard of the patrimony represented by minor monuments of considerable local interest;
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Support to the activities of agencies and institution including Teatro alla Scala.
This partnership provides for supporting the Theatre season and strengthens through the new project “La Scala Giovani”, that rises with the aim of approaching a greater public to musical culture, involving the young and their families to listening.
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Facilitating and guaranteeing access to credit

Intesa Sanpaolo supports the access to credit of the weakest categories: students, immigrants, social enterprises, and families that need elders’ assistance.

IntesaBridge
It’s the first bridge-loan that escorts students from university to occupation, providing them a real loan of honour, without any real guarantee and basing it on merit and the effort put in learning.
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Universithouse
It’s the loan that allows university students to study outside of their home city, funding their rents so that they can focus on learning without having any other concern.
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Mutuo Atipico
It is an innovative form of loan for buying a first house, intended for fixed-term employees. It is the only loan that provides the opportunity to interrupt the payment of instalments for six months and provides for an insurance coverage that, if necessary, can relieve from the payment for two more periods of six months each.  



Anticipazione Sociale
It is a program of Intesa Sanpaolo in cooperation with Fondazione Lombarda Antiusura and Agenzia Regionale per il Lavoro di Regione Lombardia, intended for the workers of Lombard enterprises who are subject to cassa integrazione (body responsible for unemployment benefits) because of corporate crisis. It is a credit that is at disposal of the worker since the cassa integrazione straordinaria is declared till when INPS allocates the estimated economic compensation. Because of legal and bureaucratic procedures, it can take also 4/5 months. Interests on those credits are covered by Fondazione Antiusura.



Consorzio PAN (Progetto Asili Nido)
The project, carried out in cooperation with three major networks of social enterprises (Cgm-Consorzio Gino Matterelli, Compagnia delle Opere and Legacoop), is aimed to the opening of nursery schools throughout the national territory, with certified quality standard. The Bank finances at favourable conditions, and supports with activities of training and counselling, those undertakers, selected and assisted by the partners of the project, that intend to start an activity in the field.
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Services for foreigners in Italy


In the face of about 3 millions of regular immigrants with a stable and qualified job,  Intesa Sanpaolo, that numbers among his customers already 200.000 foreigners coming from countries that do not belong to OECD, wants to offer to these new economic subjects, mediators of development between Italy and their home countries, channels of access that are convenient, transparent and safe, and products and services studied to fit them. These include:

the first multilingual telephonic service of banking information in Italy: by dialling toll free 800 020202 one can get information in English, French, Spanish or Arabic.


Conto People, the account without any fixed operating costs (chosen today by more that one fifth of Intesa Sanpaolo foreign customers) that entitles to receive Carta People and Carta People Family for free. These credit cards allow the customer to withdraw cash at cash machines, to buy in shops that adehere to the project in Italy and abroad and to transfer its money in the home country at advantageous conditions.


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