Who is it aimed at?

The course aims to provide advanced training and multidisciplinary updating, required by current legislation, and is aimed at all those professionals, lawyers and chartered accountants, consultants, profit and non-profit organizations and operators, who want to develop knowledge and skills in sector of the Third Sector, who want to take care of updating and professional training and who closely assist non-profit organizations, to accompany them in the phase of entry and permanence in the Third Sector. Our idea of formation in the Third

Sector is much more than a training act of mere organization of a cycle of meetings, a seminar and a course, but for us it is the creation or increase of a network process, and it is training not only aimed at individuals, but also to organizations. It is a training attentive to the context of the local community and physical territory, which opens up and prepares more for the cultures and needs it brings, going beyond the idea of a spot training event, or a mere response to calls for tenders and funding channels.

Course program

1. Introduction to the Third Sector: Definition and characteristics of the Third Sector - The reference legislation in Italy - The types of organizations in the Third Sector. 2. Civil law framework: Statutory adaptations of non-profit organizations and non-profit organizations - RUNTS, the single national register of the third sector and registration procedures - religious organizations and ETS branches. 3. Reporting in the ETS: The tax regime of the ETS: Direct taxation and tax qualification - Financial and accounting management and the new discipline of the five per thousand - Flat-rate regimes. 4. Communication and fundraising: Internal and external communication - The use of social media in the Third Sector - Fundraising and fundraising. 5. Volunteering and the civil service: The legislation on volunteering - The management of the civil service - The organization of work with volunteers. 6. Best practices and case studies: Analysis of best practices in the Third Sector - Study of successful cases in the Third Sector - Analysis of the main challenges and critical issues in the sector.

What is the Third Sector?

The Third sector is a term used to indicate the set of organizations that have social, cultural or environmental purposes and which are neither for profit nor belong to the public sector, and which are set up for the pursuit, on a non-profit basis, of civic, solidarity and social utility purposes, through the performance of one or more activities of general interest in the form of voluntary action or the free disbursement of money, goods or services, or mutual aid or the production or exchange of goods or services. Some examples of organizations belonging to the third sector are social promotion associations, philanthropic bodies, social enterprises, including social cooperatives, associative networks, mutual aid societies, recognized and unrecognized associations, foundations, cooperatives associations, voluntary organizations and other private entities other than companies. The Third Sector differs from the profit-driven private sector and from the public sector, and is based on a logic of solidarity, cooperation and social commitment. Third sector entities carry out exclusively or mainly one or more activities of general interest for the non-profit pursuit of civic, solidarity and social utility purposes. The activities concerning:

a) interventions and social services

b) interventions and health services

c) socio-health services

d) education, training and vocational training

e) interventions and services aimed at safeguarding and improving environmental conditions e

to the careful and rational use of natural resources

f) interventions for the protection and enhancement of the cultural heritage and the landscape

g) university and post-graduate training

h) scientific research of particular social interest

i) organization and management of cultural, artistic or recreational activities of social interest

j) community sound broadcasting

k) organization and management of tourist activities of social, cultural or religious interest

l) extra-curricular training, aimed at preventing early school leaving and at school and training success, at preventing bullying and combating educational poverty

m) instrumental services to third sector entities rendered by entities made up of at least seventy per cent by third sector entities

n) development cooperation

o) commercial, productive, education and information activities, promotion, representation and licensing of certification marks, carried out within or in favor of fair trade supply chains

p) services aimed at the integration or reintegration of workers into the labor market

q) social housing, as well as any other temporary residential activity aimed at satisfying social, health, cultural, training or work needs

r) humanitarian reception and social integration of migrants

s) social agriculture

t) organization and management of amateur sports activities

u) charity, sponsorship, free transfer of food or products referred to in the law of 19 August 2016, n. 166, or provision of money, goods or services in support of disadvantaged people or activities of general interest pursuant to this article

v) promotion of the culture of legality, peace between peoples, non-violence and unarmed defence

w) promotion and protection of human, civil, social and political rights, as well as the rights of consumers and users of the general interest activities referred to in this article, promotion of equal opportunities and mutual aid initiatives, including time banks and solidarity purchasing groups

x) care of international adoption procedures

y) civil protection

z) redevelopment of unused public assets or assets confiscated from organized crime

Training obligations

Training obligations in the Third sector depend on the national laws and regulations of each country. In general, Third Sector organizations may be required to fulfill training obligations, for example to acquire the skills necessary to manage activities and plan future activities, as well as to improve their effectiveness in solving social problems. Depending on the country and the type of organization, the training requirements may consist of specific training courses, internships, professional development courses, seminars or networking events. In any case, the ultimate goal of training is to train operators and create more competitive organizations capable of pursuing their social and environmental objectives. It is important to think of strategic training for the Third Sector, which is not limited to the simple transmission of economic/business/fiscal aspects and knowledge to Third Sector operators and organizations, the certainly necessary attention to innovative processes, the quality of services and relationships within organisations, but to training which must above all be capable of understanding the rich set of value-based and motivational aspects which must underlie services to the person.

Reference legislation

In Italy, the reference legislation for the Third Sector is the Law of 11 August 1991, n. 266 (also known as Law 266/1991) containing "New rules on volunteering", which has constituted a fundamental point of reference for the growth and organization of third sector activities in the country. Furthermore, with the reform of the third sector and the voluntary sector of 2016, the Law of 6 June 2016, n.106 (also known as Law 106/2016) was issued, which introduced important innovations in the field of third sector entities, enterprise social work, voluntary work, social solidarity and services for the family and the person. Finally, there is also the "Third Sector Code" introduced with the legislative decree 3 July 2017, n. 117, which established the guidelines of this sector and rearranged the different types of recognized entities, the methods of assistance, the fiscal discipline and the relative sanctions.

Professionals who have attended the course will be issued with a Certificate of Profitable Attendance of the Professional Training Course in the Third Sector, which will be sent by e-mail to the address indicated in the registration form.

The course has a total duration of 40 hours.