
PEOPLE
Mani Tese is based on free participation and wants to valorize everyone and involve volunteers in planning, operating and decision-making processes.
All institutional bodies of Mani Tese work thanks to the dedication of volunteer members, because for us participation and volunteering are fundamental choices.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly is composed by all those who participate and support the association, mainly through voluntary activities, all those who participate defining the annual associative program, approving annual budgets and electing the representatives, and all those who give financial support to the association. Members are individual and juridical person, who contribute to the growth of Mani Tese, through taking part in the assemblies, paying the annual membership fee, volunteering in groups or in statutory bodies and actively contributing to achieve the associative goals.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors is the administration and executive organ. It works to carry out wills and general guidelines of the Assembly, to which it responds.
It provides for ordinary and extraordinary administration of the Association, by electing its President and Vice President, and by consulting, at operational level, the Manager, which is currently Barbara Cerizza.
The Board of Directors is currently composed by Clara Castellucci, Samuele Degli Innocenti, Sara de Simone (President), Palma Felina, (Vice President), Paolo Greco, Giovanni Mozzi, Giuseppe Stanganello, Roberto Valgimigli.
THE DISCIPLINARY BOARD
The Disciplinary Board deals with supervise the members’ status. Every year it presents to General Assembly a report about the activities carried out and problems encountered.
THE COLLEGE OF AUDITORS
It gives a feedback to the financial management, ensures the proper keeping of accounting records, performs cash checks and expresses its opinion through appropriate reports about preliminary and final financial statements. Currently the auditors are Cristina Sossan, Paolo Groppi e Sergio Taccani.
ORGANISATION, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL MODEL EX D. LGS. 231/2001
We are compliant with ex. d. lgs 231/2001
Download here the italian version n° 1 of the model, 10/11/2018
These areas carry out core business activities of the association, through creating projects and programs both in Italy and abroad.
The fields are International Cooperation, Advocacy, Campaigns, Global Citizenship Education and Projecting.
The challenges of these years demand a holistic and transversal approach of issues that the NGO is facing: this means to implement common processes to work in synergy on various topics.
International Cooperation coordinates and manages the projects made by Mani Tese in the countries of intervention.
Projecting and partnership promote and develop planning abilities inside the association.
Advocacy, Campaigns and Education translate our values of justice into project activities and actions to promote a new model of social and economic relations focused on the respect for the rights, solidarity and peace, equity and sustainability.
Abroad, Mani Tese has expatriate and local employees to monitor projects supported by institutional donors. Our representatives abroad shall ensure the successful outcome of the activities, clearness and reporting of projects.
They have direct contact with local communities, in fact, they integrate and dive into habits and traditions of the country where they work.
External communication of the association is a task of the communication and fundraising area.
Communication area defines strategic guidelines to communicate the political, institutional and associative scope of Mani Tese.
Fundraising area is focused on private sector, companies and foundations. The aim with companies is to explore and activate partnership in order to co-project and carry out common campaigns. Moreover, fundraising activities are spread on the whole Italian territory, thanks to volunteers and groups, to support, spread and promote Mani Tese’s campaigns.
Volunteering and territory sector promotes mobilization and participation of the volunteers, and coordinate the activities shared among Mani Tese’s subjects distributed on the national territory.
These areas guarantee the correct account management, clearness, monitoring of expenditure and daily organisation of activities.
Here, is where projects close: projects are accounted, and the financial and preventive statements are prepared. In particular, the administration guarantees the correct predisposition of associative budget and ensures the respect of obligations related with the regulations in force.
The management audit ensures that the management and accounting of projects are carried out in accordance with the guidelines of the donors, of Mani Tese, and laws in Italy and the countries in which Mani Tese operates. It verifies the associative financial sustainability and deploys financial management and monitoring tools. Moreover, thanks to the valuable contribution of the General Secretary we start again every day towards new objectives!