Consolida is the consortium of social cooperatives, the largest network of thirty organizations that address the community by offering educational and recreational, care and assistance services and creating job opportunities for weak or disadvantaged people. Services that social cooperatives have imagined and created starting from daily contact with the need, enhancing the contribution of volunteering and collaborating with other public and private realities.
Consolida and social cooperatives are protagonists of a sustainable, inclusive and educational solidarity economy in services, processes and in the way of being in the community. Sustainable because it enhances public and collective resources, multiplies them and redistributes them. Ecological not only for sectoral production (bio, recycling, km0, ...), but also in all the other services where you pay attention to the environment and people's health; inclusive with respect to all frailties, enhancing talents and resources, even residual, of people and communities; educational as it contributes to building a community in which inequalities are reduced and promotes active participation.
52 social cooperatives belong to the consortium: 32 type A cooperatives that offer socio-welfare and educational services, 18 type B cooperatives that deal with the job placement of disadvantaged people, 2 mixed cooperatives and 1 consortium (CSSS) and 2 development bodies cooperative (Promocoop and Cooperfidi).
MISSION
The consortium works to increase the associates' ability to provide services to the person, to offer job placement opportunities for people with social and personal disadvantages and to promote sustainable living and working conditions.
Consolida and the member cooperatives operate for the social, economic and cultural development of the local communities to which they belong and turn to other territories according to the principle of reciprocity.
WHAT THE CONSORTIUM DOES
Orient. To ease. Accompany the member cooperatives by enhancing the specificities of each to contribute to their common success, in line with their founding purposes.
Helping members to interpret socio-cultural, economic and political changes.
Develop policies and strategies for and with members and with the various territorial actors.
Offer specialized services that meet the needs of the members.
Influence the social, cultural and political communities of reference by representing the vision, instances and interests of the associated cooperative societies
