Marco Crescenzi

The first italian book on the topics of Social Innovation and Social Business.

Is “Power to People” only a “sexy” slogan or a possible process of control on the public affairs, enterprises, finance, and politics by the citizens that influence and co-project products, services, cities, political guidelines?

Social Innovation is the answer: producing new ideas that can answer to the social needs in the most effective ways, and at the same time, creating new social collaborations between Public, enterprises, non profit, finance, schools and universities, citizens and phisical and virtual communities.

New alleances and new “business” modalities, always more social and sustainable, are changing on one side, the face of the capitalism and on the other side, the one of the local governement.

Collaborative Innovation, Co-creation, Co-design, Crowdfunding, are some of the possible scenarios that arise thanks to the no profit organisations in order to face the challenges generated by the crisis.

Published in 2008, in occasion of the “Campionaria delle qualità italiane” and for the Conference organised by ASVI Social Change and Symbola on the “Non Profit Quality”. An evaluation guide for the sector’s operators and the Grant Making entities.

This volume (by M. Crescenzi and E. Bonacini, EMI 2005), provides a useful reference to the wide public of young graduates, Non profit and For profit operators “looking for a meaning”, who aspire to work and professionally grow in the Non Profit; for the media, the university world and the educational entities, trade unions, the Church, in the effort of assimilation of new forms.

This volume was published in 2003,directly edited by ASVI Social Change with a first print run of 2100 copies, sold out in one year and a half, and adopted by all the main Italian NPOs. A significant contribution to the maturation in the NPOs and their managers of a clear vision of their own potential, for the purposes of the social improvement and best practices in the different operative areas.

“This book represents the major effort done in Italy to summarize the work agenda and the Non Profit Challenges…the text represents a sort of ‘manifesto’ of a non profit that is a protagonist, actor on its own, potentially relevant towards an enlarged social responsibility…so, if you like, the non profit that wants to become an adult.”

(Il Corriere della Sera, 11th april 2003).

The book was born in 1999 from the analysis of the access barriers to the European Project Management and it provides the right paths for info and progremmes research, for the project management technics and for the partnerships organisation. Out of Stock.

First study on the “Non profit funding” on regional and national scale. Out of stock.

Published in 1998, by Mondadori – Sperling & Kupfer, it was the first volume in Italy, to have the figure of the Non Profit Manager as an object, highlighting the profile and the criticalities. Out of stock.