Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social

What Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social does

Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social is a private non-profit foundation (CIF G14522171) headquartered in Córdoba, Spain, established in 2001 and affiliated with the Inspectoría Salesiana María Auxiliadora. It delivers social services to vulnerable populations—primarily children, adolescents, youth aged 18-22 (including extutelado and migrant youth), unemployed individuals, and families in poverty—through 29 social centers across three Spanish regions: Andalucía, Canarias, and Extremadura. In 2025 the organization executed 216 projects serving 23,090 beneficiaries, with measurable outcomes including 4,416 labor insertions in 2023 and 2,704 individuals improving their qualifications.

The foundation's core service portfolio comprises five programmatic pillars: the +Empleo employment insertion program and an official employment placement agency (Agencia de Colocación); the +infancia and ProInfancia child welfare programs targeting intergenerational poverty; the Pisos de Autonomía residential model (20 managed independent-living floors for youth aged 18-22); the Programa de Inserción Sociolaboral; and innovation initiatives including Cuentacuentos del Mundo and the GarageLAB digital-skills partnership with Fundación Orange. Its underlying methodology—the "Sistema Preventivo"—is an integral-education and personalized-accompaniment framework derived from the Salesian tradition. Operational technology is modest: a Summar Software-powered internal HR portal, an online solidarity store (tienda.fundaciondonbosco.es), PayPal/Bizum donation processing, and the consumer-grade Fireflies.ai for meeting documentation; no proprietary AI/ML or platform IP is disclosed.

Revenue is generated entirely through non-commercial channels: private donations and microdonations (including testamentary bequests), corporate partnerships (e.g., IKEA's Acciones de Corazón, Banco Sabadell), public subsidies from the Junta de Andalucía, European Social Fund (FSE) financing, and solidarity-gift e-commerce through the Tienda Solidaria. The organization operates as part of the three-entity Salesianos Social network (alongside Fundación FISAT and Fundación Magone) under the Inspectoría Salesiana María Auxiliadora, which provides institutional oversight and shared methodologies. Pricing is not applicable—services to beneficiaries are free, and donor-facing pricing is gift-based rather than transactional.

Name

Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social

Legal name

Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social

Website

https://donboscosalesianos.social

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social is a non-profit foundation affiliated with the Salesian Inspectoría that delivers social services—employment insertion, child welfare, and residential support—to vulnerable youth, children, and families across 29 centers in Andalucía, Canarias, and Extremadura.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGADAO

Youth Housing, Foster Care & Wraparound Support (Education-Linked) Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

SECONDARYBPAGAEAJ

Employment & Job Readiness Support Services

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Social Services & Community Support (Food, Housing, Family)

SECONDARYBPAGAEAC

Family & Parenting Support Services

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Social Services & Community Support (Food, Housing, Family)

SECONDARYBPAGADAE

College Access, Scholarships & Student Success Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

Keywords

• Youth social services
• Socio-labor insertion
• Child welfare programs
• Autonomy housing services
• Employment placement agency

Headquarters

HQ city

Córdoba, Córdoba

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Private Donations and Microdonations: The foundation raises funds through individual donations via its online solidarity store (tienda.fundaciondonbosco.es), PayPal, and Bizum. Microdonations and solidary gift purchases provide ongoing小额 funding from individual supporters.
2. Social Action Programs: Funded through public subsidies, European funds (FSE - European Social Fund), and government contracts to deliver social programs across 29 centers and 198+ projects in Andalucía, Canarias, and Extremadura.
3. Corporate Partnerships and Collaborations: Companies collaborate through donations, employee volunteering, in-kind contributions (e.g., IKEA's Acciones de Corazón donations and classroom remodeling), and cause-marketing campaigns such as the 'Deja Huella' campaign.
4. Solidarity Store (Tienda Solidaria): Sale of solidary products (regalos solidarios), celebration solidarias, and themed donations (scholarships, school materials) through the online store, generating revenue for specific projects.
5. Bequests and Testamentary Donations: Inheritance and testamentary donations ('testamento solidario') allow supporters to leave assets or funds to the foundation, providing long-term planned giving revenue.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social is a non-profit foundation that delivers social services to vulnerable youth, children, families, and migrants through 29 social centers across three Spanish regions. Its core offerings include employment insertion programs (+Empleo), child welfare programs (+infancia, ProInfancia), 20 autonomy floors providing housing for youth aged 18-22, and a socio-labor insertion program operating an official employment placement agency. Services are delivered free of charge to beneficiaries and funded through private donations, public subsidies, and European Social Fund grants.

Product overview

Fundación Don Bosco Salesianos Social is a non-profit foundation affiliated with the Salesiana María Auxiliadora Inspectora that operates as a social services organization focused on youth in vulnerable situations. The organization offers a portfolio of interconnected programs including: the +Empleo and +infancia programs for employment and childhood support; Pisos de Autonomía (20 independent living apartments) for youth aged 18-22; the ProInfancia program for breaking intergenerational poverty cycles; and a Socio-labor Insertion Program that achieved 4,416 labor insertions in 2023. Supporting these core services are a Solidarity Store for donations, an HR Portal for internal operations, and an Innovation division exploring new social intervention methodologies. The foundation operates through 29 social centers across Andalucía, Canarias, and Extremadura, implementing 198 projects that attended 23,090 people in 2023.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Salesianos Social: Collective brand for the three entities (Fundación FISAT, Fundación Don Bosco, and Fundación Magone) that form the Plataformas Sociales Salesianas under the Inspectoría María Auxiliadora.

Products and services

• Programa +Empleo Employment insertion program focused on improving employability through flexible socio-labor insertion itineraries designed to enhance the environment and job prospects for vulnerable populations.
• Programa +infancia Child welfare program working with infant populations and families in poverty and vulnerability situations to improve living conditions and social integration.
• Pisos de Autonomía Independent living floors/apartments for youth aged 18-22 in vulnerable or social exclusion situations, providing accommodation, accompaniment, and covering basic, formative, and labor insertion needs. The foundation manages 20 autonomy apartments.
• Programa ProInfancia Childhood program with the main objective of breaking the inherited poverty cycle and promoting equal opportunities, ensuring access to educational resources, psychological support, and well-being services for children and adolescents from vulnerable families.
• Programa de Inserción Sociolaboral Socio-labor insertion program that generates necessary conditions for unemployed people to improve their employability through personalized, continuous, and comprehensive itineraries. In 2023, the foundation achieved labor insertion for 4,416 people.
• Tienda Solidaria Solidarity store offering various donation options including micro-donations, scholarships for education, school supplies for vulnerable families, and support for homeless youth through the Beca Valfré program.
• Beca Valfré Scholarship for youth in homelessness situations, providing coverage for basic needs across all types of services and support for homeless youth.
• GarageLAB Digital Skills Initiative Digital skills training program in partnership with Fundación Orange, providing maker methodologies (Design Thinking, problem-based learning), digital fabrication tools (3D printers, laser cutters), and CAD/CAM software training to improve educational outcomes for youth at risk of social exclusion and academic disengagement.
• Cuentacuentos del Mundo Storytelling activity originating from the 25th anniversary of Fundación Don Bosco, developed in the context of autonomy floors for young people seeking international protection from the Buzzetti Youth Emancipation Program.

Quantifiable outcome

• 23,090 people attended across 216 projects in 2025
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Fundación Orange - GarageLAB InitiativecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Fundación Don Bosco in Huelva became the first training center in the Huelva province to join the GarageLAB initiative by Fundación Orange. This program targets training centers across Spain that serve youth at risk of social exclusion and academic disengagement, providing digital skills, maker methodologies (Design Thinking, problem-based learning), digital fabrication tools (3D printers, laser cutters), and CAD/CAM software training to improve educational outcomes.
• IKEA - Acciones de CorazóncoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2025IKEA's 'Acciones de Corazón' program collaborated with Fundación Don Bosco in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, to remodel and equip a 50-square-meter training classroom. The project included donation and installation of METOD kitchen furniture (U-shaped), MITTZON study/work furniture, appliances, and equipment. The IKEA volunteer team and foundation youth jointly participated in the October 2025 remodeling, creating a modern, versatile educational space for culinary, hospitality, and collaborative learning programs.
• Plataformas Sociales Salesianas (Salesianos Social)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe foundation is part of the Plataformas Sociales Salesianas, an alliance of three Salesian social entities in Spain: Fundación FISAT, Fundación Don Bosco, and Fundación Magone, operating under the 'Salesianos Social' brand. The alliance shares methodologies, publishes joint framework projects (itineraries for social-labor insertion and youth emancipation), conducts annual encounters, and coordinates advocacy campaigns (e.g., labor rights, migration regularization).
• FEPA (Federación de Entidades con Proyectos y Pisos Asistidos)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEPA is the federation of entities managing assisted housing projects for extutelado youth. Fundación Don Bosco participates in FEPA initiatives including the 'Entre Jóvenes' project — a youth-led project created by extutelado youth for extutelado youth — operating in Catalonia and Madrid. FEPA advocates for political commitments to youth emancipation with Andalusian political parties.
• Consejería de Inclusión Social, Juventud, Familias e Igualdad (Junta de Andalucía)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Andalusian government's social inclusion department co-funds and collaborates on multiple foundation programs including the 'Challenge for Women' and 'Mujeres con F' volunteer campaigns, and the +infancia program. The foundation receives public subsidies and European Social Fund (FSE) financing through regional government channels.
• Inspectoría Salesiana María AuxiliadoracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe foundation is a entity of the Inspectoría Salesiana María Auxiliadora (Salesian Inspectory), which provides institutional oversight, shared identity, and alignment with the broader Salesian mission worldwide. The Inspector's Vicario (José Luis Navarro) serves as President of the foundation's board.
• Cáritas EspañaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMarina Sánchez Sierra of Cáritas España delivered a keynote at the XXVII Encuentro Anual on the reality of youth based on the Informe FOESSA 2025, providing analytical support and sectoral perspective on vulnerability and social exclusion in Spain.
• Arrabal-AID AssociationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlejandro Ruiz Morillas (social integration technician) and María del Mar Ramos Arjona (psychologist) from Arrabal-AID presented at the XXVII Encuentro Anual on mental health, deinstitutionalization, and community work from reception floors, sharing expertise on psychosocial support models.
• Fundación Tomillo - Ubuntu EspañaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPaula Castilla, director of Ubuntu España at Fundación Tomillo, presented the Ubuntu methodology at the VIII Encuentro Inspectorial — a non-formal education project rooted in African Ubuntu philosophy focused on youth empowerment, bridge-building, care ethics, and service leadership.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cruz Roja Española: Spanish Red Cross chapter operating social inclusion, youth employability, refugee support, and emergency aid programs. Comparable as a large-scale multi-region social-services NGO with similar program categories and target populations.
• Cáritas España: Spain's largest Catholic social-services confederation delivering poverty, immigration, and youth programs nationwide. Directly comparable to Fundación Don Bosco as a faith-rooted social-services NGO operating across similar vulnerable-population segments.

Direct peers

• Fundación Tomillo: Madrid-based social-inclusion foundation focused on youth employability and education for vulnerable populations. Already networked with the foundation through Ubuntu España presentations; comparable in target segment and socio-labor insertion focus.
• Fundación Secretariado Gitano: Spain's leading NGO serving Roma communities with employment programs, education support, and housing services. Comparable to Fundación Don Bosco's labor-insertion (+Empleo), education, and social-inclusion programming.
• Save the Children España: Child welfare NGO active across Spain providing educational support, child poverty programs, and migrant-children services. Directly comparable to the foundation's +infancia and ProInfancia offerings for at-risk children and adolescents.
• Aldeas Infantiles SOS España: NGO providing residential care, foster support, and youth-emancipation programs for children without parental care. Comparable to the foundation's foster-care-adjacent (extutelado) and youth-autonomy-floor services.
• Fundación Magone: Third sister Salesian foundation under the Plataformas Sociales Salesianas alliance. Direct peer sharing the Salesianos Social brand, joint methodologies, and youth-emancipation program framework.
• ACCEM: Spanish NGO specializing in refugee, migrant, and extutelado youth support with housing programs and socio-labor insertion services. Highly comparable to the foundation's autonomy-floor and migrant-integration programs.
• CEAR (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado): Spanish refugee assistance NGO providing documentation regularization, housing, language training, and labor insertion for asylum seekers. Directly comparable to the foundation's migrant and extutelado youth programming including autonomy floors.
• Fundación FISAT: Sister Salesian foundation and member of Plataformas Sociales Salesianas, providing socio-labor insertion and youth programs. Direct peer within the same Salesian network with overlapping methodology and beneficiary segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles6 records

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