In 2024, the Foundation effectively oriented its philanthropic engagement and intervention on bottom-line impact projects, adopting an ecosystemic approach to co-develop, with its partners, learning systems on best practices and experiences arts-based, as well as to foster, amongst them, the development of collaborative arts-based solutions to address different forms of youth distress, in the social and health fields.  

Over the past year, the Foundation, providing its partners with expertise and knowledge and sharing with them its medium-long term strategic objectives aimed at generating lasting social impact, encouraged the initiation of multiyear projects within the “Art and Development” sector, aimed, on the one hand, at the development of impact evaluation studies to replicate innovative educational, social and cultural models in different contexts of social distress and migration vulnerability (El Sistema Greece), and to modelize, on the other hand, an evidence-based approach for the replication and scalability of art-therapy interventions in the different emergency migration contexts in Spain and Greece (The Red Pencil Europe).

In parallel, serving as a “connector”, it strengthened the integrated collaboration between two of its long-standing partners (El Sistema Greece and Greek Council for Refugees) intervening in Greece in favor of minors in situation of social vulnerability, with and without a migration background, by supporting the organization of participatory reading workshops on Children’s Rights, subsequently replicated in the community spaces of four organizations specialized in the psychosocial support and inclusion of minors with a migration background and UAMs.

In fine, pursuing its triple objective of triggering lasting social transformations, spreading collective intelligence, and maximizing the impact on beneficiaries, it promoted the creation of NETWORKS amongst its partners and the sharing of their respective operational and intervention methods.

At the same time, it firmly maintained its intervention in migration settings supporting different projects which, in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Musicians Without Borders), in Greece (RED NOSES International) and in Switzerland (Save the Children Switzerland), use art as a means of social integration and as a tool to promote mental health and the psycho-emotional well-being of people, especially minors and UAMs, who find themselves in different contexts of humanitarian crisis and forced migration.

Regarding the co-partnerships, in 2024, the Foundation confirmed the suspension of the partnership agreements managed by Fondazione Alta Mane Italia (AMI), a decision already undertaken in 2019 and reiterated in 2020/2023.

In relation thereto, reminder is given that these are three-way contracts between Fondation Alta Mane, AMI and the beneficiaries (Partners), according to which:

• Alta Mane Italia supports the Partners during the start-up/implementation of their projects throughout varied and complex social or hospital conditions, monitoring and assessing the sustained activities as well as the future conditions of sustainability of the Partner;
• Fondation Alta Mane supports the aforementioned beneficiaries through donations preceded by the usual verifications.

The sector of intervention remains the use of art in situations of extreme social marginalization and hospitalization of young people due to serious pathologies.