Why
Social Innovation?

Social Innovation is an inclusive, participated innovation developed with a number of stakeholders, with the shared intention to improve the life of individuals and communities, developing new entrepreneurship and encouraging mature businesses to move towards full sustainability thus strengthening the potential for positive change.

Social Innovation means addressing societal challenges with solutions able to generate social progress.

What does contributing to the development of social progress mean? It means upholding the idea of the world we want, and the necessary changes it implies: a fair, just, sustainable, and inclusive world.

VISION

Our planet and our societies need new sustainable energy:

the energy of new generations to develop participation, knowledge, action and acceleration, also in our economy. We offer people and communities a lead role through social innovation and innovative social entrepreneurship.

MISSION

Our mission is to build on the potential for social innovation that people, businesses, communities, institutions and the various organizations have within, to support the implementation and scalability of the innovative and generative solutions for a new-found sustainability, including economic sustainability.
We mentor people and organizations, accompanying them in social impact building, by developing expertise, the growth of innovative social entrepreneurship and the availability of capitals to upscale impact businesses.

Specifically, we offer:
  • Knowledge acceleration tools and methods
  • Consultancy to accelerate the establishment and growth of impact businesses
  • Capitals for impact business scalability – first and foremost seed capital)

WHAT ARE OUR VALUES?

We work with the idea of ​​creating a positive impact for new generations, for societies, for the planet, expressing our potential for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Welcoming

Language and approaches able that allow all voices to be heard, listening carefully with empathy. Appreciating diversity of the ideas we come across in our daily lives and enable them to freely express their potential.

Sharing and Participating

So that we may grow together cooperating, in an exchange with the world, loyally and consistently, led by shared objectives.

Responsible & Daring

In practice, facing the risks and consequences of our choices, creating responsible synergies, operating according to what is right rather than what is expedient.

Transparent

Choices, behaviour and information.

OUR HISTORY

We were established in Torino in 2013 with the aim of generating Social Impact.

Over 10 years of our history in short chapters

The Congregation of Saint Joseph (La Congregazione dei Giuseppini del Murialdo) established Italy’s first Centre for Social Innovation (SocialFare Impresa Sociale srl.) in Turin.
Social Renaissance (Rinascimenti Sociali), a platform of convergence and physical space to accelerate knowledge development and social impact entrepreneurship was opened in Turin.
FOUNDAMENTA, Italy’s first acceleration programme for social impact startups.
SocialFare Seed, Italy’s first impact seed investment vehicle to support social impact startups.
SocialFare is recognised as a certified MISE (Italian Ministry of Economic Development) Incubator. Design Your Impact, the first knowledge acceleration programme was established.
GrandUP!, the first territorial knowledge and business impact acceleration programme.
the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation and Finde spa entered SocialFare capital.
SocialFare worked alongside public institutions in EU projects such as CoCity, ToNite, WeCaRe3S
The CRC (Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo) Foundation enters the SocialFare capital. Personae, the Welfare Accelerator of the CDP National Network (Rete Nazionale Cassa Depositi e Prestiti – CDP) developed with a|cube.
Launch of Granda for Impact and Wellgranda, strategic-operative territorial actions aimed at developing a new welfare system in the Province of Cuneo.
Launch of AgriFood24, the first agrifood startup acceleration programme of the LaGemmaVenture Fund: SocialFare is in charge of the acceleration programme.
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PEOPLE

We are Social Innovators.

We are serial accelerators, designers, analysts, social economists, business experts, product- service-model experts, social value researchers. We work together for social progress.

We share ideas and experiences with many external collaborators: we complete each other, we improve and recognise each other.