Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini onlus

What Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini onlus does

Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini onlus (CSB) is a Trieste-headquartered Italian non-profit organization (ONLUS) founded in 1999 by a group of childhood professionals with the mission of guaranteeing equal cognitive, emotional, and relational development opportunities for children from birth to age six. The organization coordinates and delivers a portfolio of national programs including Nati per Leggere (shared reading in families), Nati per la Musica (early musical experience), Un Villaggio per Crescere (community support for families), La Cura della Lettura, and Papà mi leggi?, alongside the annual Festival Fin da Piccoli. CSB also provides multidisciplinary professional training programs (Early Childhood Development/Nurturing Care, GMCD, Comunità Fin da Piccoli, Volta Pagina) via in-person delivery and a Formazione a Distanza (FAD) distance-learning platform.

The organization's core methodology is grounded in international frameworks—specifically the WHO Nurturing Care Framework, Early Childhood Development (ECD), and the Guide for Monitoring Child Development (GMCD)—which CSB adapts for Italian territorial implementation. It operates through five local units (Trieste headquarters plus Milan, Palermo, Naples, and Genoa) and an extended network of 5,000 trained operators and 1,700 municipalities. Its technology footprint is light: a content website (csbitalia.org), an e-commerce shop (shop.csbitalia.org) for educational publications such as 'Carte in Rima', a webinar-based training channel, and standard social media presence.

CSB's revenue model is multi-stream and typical of an Italian ONLUS: private donations (Sostienici program), 5 per mille tax designation receipts, public grants and subsidies, fee-based professional training services, and corporate welfare partnerships (notably with The Human Safety Net/Generali Foundation). It maintains no parent company, has no disclosed funding rounds, and operates without venture capital backing. Customers and beneficiaries are organized in three pillars: parents and families with children aged 0-6, multi-professional operators (healthcare, educational, cultural, and voluntary sector), and partner networks including municipalities, Italian ministries, and international bodies (WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, EU-Read, ISSA).

Name

Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini onlus

Legal name

Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini onlus

Website

https://csbonlus.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini (CSB) is an Italian non-profit founded in 1999 that delivers early childhood development programs (Nati per Leggere, Nati per la Musica, Un Villaggio per Crescere) and multidisciplinary training for healthcare, educational, and cultural professionals, serving families with children aged 0-6 across 1,700 Italian municipalities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Early Childhood Development Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (624110), Educational Support Services (61171), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Developmental Therapy / Early Childhood Special Instruction (EDACAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Parenting Skills & Child Development Education (EDACALAA), Program Monitoring & Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Services (EDACAKAL), Standards Alignment & Curriculum Mapping Resources (State/NAEYC/Head Start) (EDACAJAN), Early Childhood Development (ECD) & Pre-Primary Education (BPADAKAB)

Keywords

• Early childhood development
• Professional training programs
• Family support services
• Child health programs
• Community education initiatives

Headquarters

HQ city

Trieste

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: The organization receives donations from individuals and supporters through its 'Sostienici' (Support Us) program.
2. 5 per Mille (Tax Designation): Receives funding through Italy's 5 per mille tax designation program for non-profit organizations.
3. Public Grants and Subsidies: Receives public subsidies and grants for specific programs and projects.
4. Training Services: Provides professional training programs for operators and institutions working in early childhood development.
5. Corporate Welfare Programs: Offers corporate welfare programs for businesses supporting early childhood development initiatives.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini (CSB) is an Italian non-profit (ONLUS) that designs and runs programs, training, and community projects promoting early childhood development (0-6 years). Its portfolio includes the national shared-reading program Nati per Leggere, the early music program Nati per la Musica, the community-building initiative Un Villaggio per Crescere, and the annual Festival Fin da Piccoli, alongside multidisciplinary training courses built on the WHO Nurturing Care Framework and the GMCD (Guide for Monitoring Child Development) methodology for operators in healthcare, education, and social services.

Product overview

Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini (CSB) is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 that operates as a program-based organization rather than a technology company. Its portfolio consists of educational and promotional programs focused on early childhood development (0-6 years). The core offerings include: Nati per Leggere (national shared reading program), Nati per la Musica (early musical experience program), and Un Villaggio per Crescere (community-building initiative). These are complemented by specialized training programs including Early Childhood Development/Nurturing Care (ECD/NC), Guide for Monitoring Child Development (GMCD), Comunità Fin da Piccoli, and Volta Pagina. CSB also organizes the annual Festival Fin da Piccoli and publishes educational materials through its 'Nutrire la Mente' collection. All offerings are delivered through a combination of in-person training, distance learning (FAD), and territorial presence across multiple Italian cities (Trieste, Milan, Palermo, Naples, Genoa).

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Products and services

• Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Nurturing Care (NC) Training Course Foundational training course on the determinants of child development in the first years of life, based on the international WHO Nurturing Care Framework, equipping operators with skills to support child health, nutrition, security, and early learning through responsive caregiving relationships.
• Guide for Monitoring Child Development (GMCD) Training Specialized training on the internationally validated GMCD methodology that enables pediatric, educational, and social operators to monitor child development by integrating clinical assessment with family strengths.
• Comunità Fin da Piccoli (FdP) Training Program Training pathway focused on building territorial 'educating communities', accompanying local actors in creating proximity networks and activating integrated services to contrast educational poverty and support families with young children.
• Volta Pagina Training Program Training program promoting equal development opportunities for children and education on affectivity in early age, based on an experiential approach that values listening and recognizes differences as richness.
• Formazione a Distanza (FAD) Distance-learning training service delivered online to professionals and volunteers working with families and young children across Italy.
• Festival Fin da Piccoli Annual free public event dedicated to early childhood, organized in collaboration with academic and research centers, local authorities, professional associations, and civil society organizations to raise awareness about early childhood development.
• Collana Nutrire la Mente + Cofanetto (Editorial Collection and Toolkit) Editorial collection and accompanying toolkit providing theory and practice resources for early childhood professionals and parents, distributed through CSB's online shop.
• Carte in Rima (Rhyming Cards) Educational rhyming cards sold through the CSB online shop to support early shared-reading and language development activities for families with young children.

Quantifiable outcome

• 245,000 families reached through programs and initiatives
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

30 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ACP - Associazione Culturale PediatricoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSome members of Associazione Culturale Pediatri are among the founders of Centro per la Salute del Bambino. CSB collaborates with ACP on Nati per Leggere and Nati per la Musica programs, as well as on studies and research.
• AIB - Associazione Italiana BibliotechecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAIB is the most important Italian professional association active in the library sector and represents Italy in major international organizations (EBLIDA, IFLA, IASL). AIB is a partner of Nati per Leggere together with CSB and ACP.
• AIMIminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAIMI is a non-profit association that since 1989 has been committed to spreading infant massage in Italy through courses for parents of children aged 0-12 months and training for early childhood operators.
• AmesciminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation of Social Promotion of a youth nature whose mission is the development of human capital through the empowerment of young generations. Primary areas include Civil Service, formal and non-formal education, territorial mediation, and cultural promotion.
• Caritas ItalianacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCaritas Italiana is the pastoral body of the Italian Episcopal Conference that promotes the testimony of charity, focused on integral human development, social justice, and peace with particular attention to vulnerable people.
• Centro TauminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded in Palermo to promote reception, family support, and animation for children of the Cipressi, Ingastone, and Danisinni districts. Since May 2014 it has been a Save the Children Light Point to combat educational poverty in disadvantaged areas of the city.
• CEPELL - Centro per il Libro e la LetturacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCEPELL is an autonomous institute of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism, with the objective of implementing book and reading promotion policies in Italy and abroad. CSB curated 'In Vitro' and 'Leggiamo 0-6' for CEPELL and published 'La lettura in famiglia' for operators and parents.
• Consorzio Culturale del MonfalconeseminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEstablished in 1977, the Consortium promotes the development and protection of culture, collaborating with schools, associations, and entities. Since 2017 it has succeeded CSB as coordinating body of the regional reading promotion project Leggiamo 0-18 FVG.
• Cooperativa ORSAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB collaborates with ORSA cooperative for the creation of spaces for mothers and children within the Un Villaggio per Crescere project.
• DamatràminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDamatrà is a non-profit organization that has operated for over thirty years in Friuli Venezia Giulia in the field of educational and cultural research, pursued through reading, storytelling, art, making, and creativity.
• Fondazione FitzcarraldominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn independent center carrying out design, research, training, and documentation activities on management, economics, and policies of culture, arts, and media.
• Fondazione MarianicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB collaborates with Fondazione Mariani, dedicated to child neurology, for research activities such as the ReMus project for children with dyslexia and inclusive interventions within Un Villaggio per Crescere.
• Fondazione Medicina a Misura di DonnaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded in 2009 with the commitment to daily concrete action for social development that recognizes women's health as a common good for families and the community.
• IMIP - Instituto de Medicina Integrada Fernando FigeuiraminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB has collaborated since its founding with IMIP of Recife, Brazil, and with the Facultade Pernambucana de Ciencias de Saude in training, research, and support for Master's and Doctorate programs.
• Medici con l'Africa - CUAMMcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and training activities, especially in areas of improving quality of care and ECD - this is the collaboration that has linked CSB to CUAMM for years.
• MUSE di TrentominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDevelopment of new proposals dedicated to childhood, with the objective of educational, perceptual, and sensory enrichment for children.
• NatinsiememinorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association was created by a group of psychologists who propose to create a bridge between scientific research and family support. Shared motivation is to commit to receiving in clinical and preventive fields the results of international research on the need for preventive interventions to support parenting.
• Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS/WHO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB collaborates with WHO in areas of evaluation and promotion of quality of maternal and neonatal care and in the ECD sector. CSB was part of the Advisory Committee for the Nurturing Care Framework document.
• PrismaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSocial cooperative established in 2001 and active in the design and management of social, socio-educational, and welfare services for minors, social research, and local economic development.
• Radio MagicaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB is among the founding members of Radio Magica, a project to spread the culture and pleasure of active listening among all children, young people, and families.
• Save the ChildrencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB collaborates with Save the Children for advocacy on early childhood health and education, in the 'Fiocchi in Ospedale' program, and for research on kindergarten children's skills. Save the Children was CSB's partner in presenting the Nurturing Care Framework document at the Chamber of Deputies on October 23, 2018.
• UNICEFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB has collaborated with UNICEF for home visiting activities in CEE/CIS countries (autonomously or through the European School for Maternal Newborn and Child Health) and is part of the Technical Working Group on ECD.
• Università degli Studi di PadovacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince 2016 CSB has collaborated on the Specialization Course 'Bambini, libri e letture: itinerari per la formazione di professionalità educative per l'infanzia' and is a consultant on ECD and shared reading topics.
• Università degli Studi di TriestecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB collaborates with the University of Trieste for the doctorate in Sciences of Reproduction and Development.
• Alleanza per l'infanziacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlleanza is a think tank serving children and adolescents in Italy that connects different subjects, institutions, and civil society, with the objective of influencing national and local government policies.
• EU-ReadcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB represents Nati per Leggere within EURead, a network of 21 organizations from 17 countries collaborating with institutional authorities to promote books and reading culture in Europe.
• Gruppo CRCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork currently composed of 100 Third Sector entities actively involved in promoting and protecting children's and adolescents' rights, coordinated by Save the Children Italia. Priority objective is to prepare the Report on the implementation in Italy of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• IBBY ItaliacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSB is a member of IBBY Italia, sharing the promotion of the right of young people to good books and reading, to create everywhere the opportunity to access books of high literary and artistic level.
• ISSA - International Step by Step AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerISSA is an international network connecting professionals and non-profit organizations working in early childhood development. Founded in the Netherlands in 1999, ISSA now extends worldwide with over 50 members primarily based in Europe and Central Asia.
• The Human Safety NetcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Generali Foundation/The Human Safety Net supports CSB's 'Un Villaggio per Crescere' project in Trieste, and collaborates with the foundation in evaluation and training activities at international level.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• BookTrust: UK charity promoting early reading and book engagement for young children; directly comparable to CSB's Nati per Leggere in mission to make shared reading central to early childhood, and an analogue within the broader EURead network.
• Zero to Three: US-based nonprofit focused on early childhood development from birth to age three; directly comparable to CSB in advocating for nurturing care frameworks, training professionals, and supporting families during the earliest developmental window.
• Reach Out and Read: US-based nonprofit promoting shared reading between parents and young children through pediatric clinics; directly comparable to CSB's Nati per Leggere program in mission, methodology, and pediatrician-mediated delivery model.
• Bernard van Leer Foundation: International foundation focused on early childhood development; directly comparable to CSB in funding and advocating for ECD programs, working with national partners, and influencing early childhood policy across Europe and globally.
• ParentChild+: Early childhood home visiting program supporting parents of young children; directly comparable to CSB's Un Villaggio per Crescere project in using home/community-based models to strengthen parenting capacity in underserved populations.

Broad incumbents

• Save the Children Italia: Italian arm of a global child welfare organization; directly comparable to CSB as it works on early childhood advocacy, education, and family support programs in Italy, and is itself a CSB partner on early childhood research.
• NSPCC: UK children's charity focused on child welfare and family support; comparable to CSB in delivering parent education, training services, and advocacy around early childhood protection and development, though operating at larger scale and broader scope.

Others

• The Human Safety Net (Generali): Generali Foundation's initiative supporting vulnerable families with young children; comparable to CSB as a partner and overlapping funder of family/parenting programs, particularly Un Villaggio per Crescere which they co-finance.
• International Step by Step Association (ISSA): International network of ECD professionals and organizations across Europe/Central Asia; comparable to CSB as an ISSA member and peer organization delivering ECD training, quality standards, and advocacy across the same member geographies.

Regional players

• Fondazione L'Albero della Vita: Italian non-profit focused on children's rights and family support; comparable to CSB as a domestic peer running community-based early childhood and family welfare programs, particularly for vulnerable populations in Italy.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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