The transformative potential of civic enterprise
The transformative potential of civic enterprise
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民间企业的变革潜力
DOI:
10.1080/14649357.2015.1083153
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Thomas
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文献类型:
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作者:
Honeck;Thomas
The Quartieri Spagnoli is a working class neighbourhood in the historical centre of Naples, characterised by many commercial and artisan activities. It is a “sponge” neighbourhood1 that since the Second World War has been hosting people living a marginal existence through irregular economic activities (see Cavola, 2 010; Laino, 2 012). The Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli (AQS) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) established in 1986 by an informal group that has been working in the neighbourhood since 1978. For the first 15 years AQS was deeply involved in the neighbourhood reality. It immersed itself in local social networks and obtained hands-on knowledge of the neighbourhood and the trust of its residents. From the early 1990s, AQS initiated a number of projects paying close attention to networking with local and extra-local connections. The main activities were a social secretariat always open on the street, out-of-school education for children2 (which took place for more than 15 years in the neighbourhood education workshops), socialisation into teamwork as a key practice to improve the employability profile of adolescents3 with low educational achievement, and direct collaboration with women caring for children (Nidi di Mamme (Mum’s Nests))(Laino, 2 012). With these activities, in approximately 20 years, the AQS attracted public funds of about€ 9 million into the area, and became well known as an innovative civil society organisation. Those in charge of AQS reached out to, and mobilised, various kinds of people–those with special knowledge, artists, pioneers. For example, first as a volunteer and then seconded from the national Ministry of Education, Universities and Research to the Associazione, Marco Rossi-Doria creat e d the “taking action” model to tackle non-attendance at school, with the “street teacher” project4. I was involved from the beginning, as AQS helped me to imagine and design the action models for some EU framework policies that were implemented by the Naples municipality. Table 1 shows that, due to the cuts in public funding to social services, the turnover of AQS declined over the years. Moreover, it is evident that, thanks to its activities, AQS, like many other NGOs, is also an economic force in the neighbourhood that activates the local economy and pays its taxes to the revenue authorities.The Associazione welcomed about 120 people each day, taking care of at least 40 people on a continuous basis. Apart from intensive, continuous, and free of charge social services activity supporting women prisoners, the Associazione implemented a first level social service, in an office open on the street, ensuring an intensive networking activity with all the other social services. The sum of the contractualised working hours reached an annual average equivalent to between 20 and 30 full-time jobs.
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