Osservatorio

The “Osservatorio” is a Research Team that supports Fondazione Cariplo’s strategic and operational planning through analyses on themes of interest for our Foundation, that help identify priorities and opportunities for action, and more in-dept research on some priority themes, which contributes to determine the preliminary feasibility of certain actions and their subsequent definition.
 
The Research Team prepares reports on the findings of its analyses and research for the other Fondazione Cariplo’s philanthropic area teams, subcommittees, and boards, and sometimes the information contained in those reports provides groundwork for Handbooks, our Foundation’s series of publications, which focus on a specific topic in each issue.
 Nota: inserire in “Handbooks” link alla sotto-voce (di Osservatorio) dedicata

Reporting on activities, learning lessons from implemented projects, selecting best practices, and rolling out those interventions which proved to be the most effective. Over the years, our Foundation’s ability to evaluate its activities has progressively expanded and contributed to building an evaluation culture domestically and internationally. This was also the result of significant work we did to circulate among third-sector players, policy-makers and the community of evaluators the successful outcomes of certain policies which our Foundation pioneered.  
 
In particular, our Foundation was the first in Italy to promote randomized controlled trials as a method to evaluate social innovation, building a line-up of significant experiences whose outcomes prove the usefulness of the method applied and can be helpful for decision-makers and other philanthropic institutions in their planning going forward.  

Fondazione Cariplo’s activities are aimed at creating value for society by generating durable, sustainable results. Each action our Foundation deploys is the result of a process in which we thought long and carefully about beneficiaries, the evolving needs it addresses, proposed solutions and their ability to stand the test of time. Our Foundation creates value for society by listening to and liaising with the communities we serve when identifying the challenges to tackle, planning the philanthropic instruments to use and assessing the impact of interventions.

Our Research team carries out preliminary analyses and in-depth research on key themes, feeding insights to our philanthropic area teams, subcommittees, and boards, thus contributing to identifying opportunities for philanthropic interventions.

Our Evaluation team is the connecting link in a virtuous cycle of knowledge generation as it provides insights to our people in strategic planning and gets feedback on lessons learned from operational staff.