Fondazione Comunitaria di Agrigento e Trapani

What Fondazione Comunitaria di Agrigento e Trapani does

Fondazione Comunitaria di Agrigento e Trapani (FCAT) is a non-profit community foundation registered in Italy's RUNTS as an Ente Filantropico, founded on January 22, 2019 and headquartered in Sicily across the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani. The organization operates as neutral social infrastructure that connects citizens, civil society organizations, public institutions, and private donors to address territorial challenges including educational poverty, youth outmigration, economic marginalization, and environmental sustainability. Its core products and methods are codified in proprietary frameworks — the Patto Generativo (a three-phase systemic change methodology: Attenzione, Intenzione, Agency), Bottega dei Talenti (a digital talent mapping platform), Mappa del Noi (a relational listening tool), and Fondo Generativo (a community fund mechanism) — supported by a network of four Centri di Comunità Competente (C³) and 21 generative poles across Sicily.

FCAT serves multiple segments: children and youth in conditions of educational poverty, social enterprises and cooperatives, schools and educational institutions, local SMEs and communities, and Sicilian public administrations. It delivers programs through major project initiatives including DEDALO (social innovation for children), ECOTOURS (circular tourism), ALICE STEM (STEM education), STIV (sustainable viticulture), ECO (community education), Gamey (financial literacy), and SOE (social entrepreneurship). The organization is governed by a Board chaired by Pietro Basiricò, with Viviana Rizzuto leading strategic coordination and a 14-person team organized around four mission heads.

FCAT's business model is donation-and-grant-based, with no commercial pricing. Its 2024 operating resources of €699,694 derive 56.5% from public entities (EU programs including Erasmus+, COSME, NextGenerationEU/PNRR), 23.8% from private foundations and donors, 8.7% from individual liberal donations, 6.2% from financial activities, and 4.7% from other sources. Net assets stood at €1,850,167, including a €500,000 match from founding partner Fondazione CON IL SUD. The foundation reports that over 97% of resources flow directly to projects, and since inception has attracted more than €2.5 million to the territory, activated 71 work contracts, supported 6 social enterprises, and engaged 5,000+ citizens.

Name

Fondazione Comunitaria di Agrigento e Trapani

Legal name

Fondazione Comunitaria di Agrigento e Trapani

Website

https://fcagrigentotrapani.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FCAT is a non-profit community foundation in Sicily that connects citizens, associations, schools, and donors through the Patto Generativo framework to address educational poverty, youth outmigration, and economic marginalization across the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Foundation Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392), International Affairs (92812)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Institutional Capacity Building & Training (Workforce/Systems Strengthening) (BPADAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK), Technical & Vocational Education & Training (TVET) (BPADAKAD)

Keywords

• Community foundation services
• Philanthropic grant management
• Social innovation programs
• Territorial regeneration projects
• Community engagement methods

Headquarters

HQ city

Agrigento

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Contributions: Contributions from public institutions including EU funding (Erasmus+, COSME, NextGenerationEU), national programs, and local government
2. Private Contributions: Contributions from private foundations (Fondazione CON IL SUD, Fondazione Peppino Vismara, etc.) and individual donors
3. Liberal Donations: Voluntary donations from individuals and organizations supporting the foundation's mission, with tax benefits under Italian law
4. Financial and Patrimonial Income: Returns from the foundation's endowment and financial assets

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FCAT is a community foundation that mobilizes public and private resources to fund territorial development projects across the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani in Sicily. It operates through four generative missions (Radici, Orizzonti, Semi, Ecosistemi), manages a network of community competence centers (Centri di Comunità Competente/C³), and provides a digital talent-mapping tool (Bottega dei Talenti) that connects local needs with available skills and resources.

Product overview

Fondazione Comunitaria di Agrigento e Trapani is a community foundation (fondazione di comunità), not a traditional product company. It operates social programs organized around four generative missions: Radici (roots/listening), Orizzonti (horizons/innovation), Semi (seeds/prototyping), and Ecosistemi (ecosystems/consolidation). Its primary digital offering is the 'Bottega dei Talenti', a digital mapping tool that makes visible the territory's skills, talents, and resources, connecting community needs with available competencies. The organization also operates 'Centri di Comunità Competente (C³)', proximity social infrastructure spaces for community engagement. Major project initiatives include DEDALO (social innovation for children), ECOTOURS (circular tourism), ALICE STEM (STEM education), STIV (sustainable viticulture), Gamey (financial literacy gamification), Peer Civic (civic engagement), ECO (community education), Youth Social Changemakers, and SOE (entrepreneurship in music).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Patto Generativo: The generative pact - an agreement of systemic change that aligns vision, decisions and action, creating the 'Terra del Noi' (Land of Us) space of shared experience.
• Centri di Comunità Competenti (C³)
• Bottega dei Talenti

Products and services

• Patto Generativo (Generative Pact) A systemic change framework structured through three phases (Attenzione/deep listening, Intenzione/shared vision, Agency/collective action) that aligns vision, decisions and action across the Sicilian community. Used as the foundation for FCAT's community engagement methodology.
• Centri di Comunità Competente (C³) Proximity social infrastructure spaces (Community Competence Centers) where people, organizations and institutions meet, recognize each other and share competencies, needs and solutions. Operated in four locations across Sicily including Mazara del Vallo and Sciacca.
• Bottega dei Talenti Digital tool that maps and makes visible the talents, skills, knowledge, ideas and availability that often remain hidden in the Sicilian territory, connecting community needs with available competencies.
• DEDALO Project Social innovation project that contrasts educational poverty and school dropout among children aged 5-10 through innovative educational processes and empowerment opportunities. Implemented through partnership with Farm Cultural Park and Comune di Favara.
• ECOTOURS Project Circular tourism project under the EU COSME program, implemented with partner organizations across multiple European countries to promote sustainable tourism practices.
• ALICE STEM Project STEM education orientation program funded by Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale, providing technological laboratories and educational pathway orientation for schools.
• STIV Project Erasmus+ VET project on sustainable viticulture and AI applications, providing academic expertise and vocational training in sustainable agriculture.
• Fondo Generativo Community fund that transforms collective decisions into funded actions through shared contributions and matched resources, enabling the community to allocate resources according to participatory decisions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 71 work contracts activated
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 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

Feature4 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Fondazione CON IL SUDcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 January 2019Founding partner that launched the community foundation movement in Southern Italy. Provided matching funding (raddoppio) of €500,000 for endowment and ongoing programmatic support.
• Diocesi di AgrigentocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding diocese partner involved in the participatory process that established the foundation.
• Diocesi di TrapanicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding diocese partner involved in the participatory process that established the foundation.
• Fondazione Peppino VismaracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding partner that supported the initial formation and vision development through the Centro ARC at Catholic University.
• Banca Popolare EticacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding partner providing ethical banking services and financial infrastructure for the foundation.
• Farm Cultural ParkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCultural organization in Favara that co-implements educational and cultural regeneration projects (DEDALO, ECO).
• AssiferomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerItalian association of foundations of community that provides networking and best practice sharing.
• PRISM Impresa SocialemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead partner in ECOTOURS project (EU COSME program), Italian social enterprise providing project coordination.
• Université de BordeauxmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead partner in STIV project (Erasmus+ VET), providing academic expertise in sustainable viticulture and AI applications.
• Send ETScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead partner in ALICE STEM project (Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale), coordinating STEM education initiatives.
• Comune di FavaramajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMunicipality partner in DEDALO project for urban regeneration and child-friendly city policies.
• Università degli Studi di PalermomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner providing engineering department facilities and expertise for STEM education projects.
• ALDAmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean democracy and civil participation network providing international collaboration support.
• CesiemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSicilian organization for educational innovation and international projects, partner in ALICE STEM.
• ConfcooperativecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperative confederation founding partner providing economic development expertise.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Assifero: Italian association of grantmaking and community foundations. Not a direct competitor but an ecosystem enabler — FCAT is a member, and Assifero sets standards, provides training, and represents the community-foundation sector to policymakers.

Direct peers

• Fondazione di Comunità del Salento: Southern Italian community foundation applying comparable asset-based community development and donor mobilization in Puglia. Mirrors FCAT's combination of local endowment building, EU grant capture, and project-based delivery through third-sector partners.
• Fondazione di Comunità di Messina: Sicilian community foundation sharing FCAT's territorial regeneration mandate in a neighboring province. Uses the same Fondazione CON IL SUD-supported community foundation model and pursues similar EU-funded social innovation projects.
• Fondazione di Comunità di Bergamo: Established northern Italian community foundation pursuing the same community-led philanthropy model as FCAT. Provides a useful peer for benchmarking endowment growth, donation mix, and project-portfolio management in the same Assifero network.
• Fondazione Triulza: Milan-based community foundation with a similar four-pillar thematic structure and EU project portfolio. Comparable in operating model — aggregating public/private resources and deploying them through partner networks — though serving a wealthier northern region.
• Fondazione Peppino Vismara: Founding partner of FCAT and fellow Catholic-rooted philanthropic foundation supporting social innovation, education, and welfare projects. Operates a similar mix of endowment, project grants, and territorial regeneration focus.
• Fondazione Time2: Italian community foundation applying a comparable participatory grantmaking and territorial development model. Useful peer for comparing youth engagement, social enterprise support, and EU project execution.

Broad incumbents

• Fondazione CON IL SUD: National grantmaking foundation that co-founded and matched FCAT's endowment with €500,000. Operates the same community-foundation model across Southern Italy but at substantially larger scale, making it both an upstream funder and the closest structural analogue.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/fcagrigentotrapani
• Instagraminstagram.com/fc_agrigentotrapani
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fcagrigentotrapani

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Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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