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Its history began in 1563 in a context of profound reorganization of the Duchy of Savoy, hardly tried by long wars against the French and the Spanish Kingdom.

Throughout the centuries, the Compagnia di San Paolo through its instrumental authorities has financially supported charitable initiatives in favor of vulnerable groups, financed public works, granted loans and substantially contributed to the creation of the homonymous bank founded in 1932.

Since 1991, with the new name “Compagnia di San Paolo”, the institution has continued its century-old activity mainly directed to philanthropy, to support activities of public interest and social utility, consolidating its role as a protagonist in the Turin and Piedmontese institutional landscape. "S. Horse, 1995"

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At the end of 2015, the total assets held by the Compagnia di San Paolo amounted to over 7 billion euro, confirming a growth of 15% at the end of 2014.  At the end of 2015 the market value total of the portfolio of financial assets held by the Compagnia di San Paolo amounted to € 7.7 billion, with an increase of around 15% compared to € 6.7 billion resulting at the end of 2014. In 2015 the Ente’s portfolio is considerably growing, confirming the trend reversal that began in 2012, after a very negative phase (2010 and 2011) for the Company and for the banking foundations system as a whole. The market value of the Company’s portfolio rose from € 6.9 billion in 2009 to around € 5.1 billion at the end of 2011, and then slightly increased, as highlighted, in 2012 and, to a greater extent, in the last three years. With regard to the composition of the portfolio, at 31/12/2015 the investment in Intesa Sanpaolo accounted for approximately 59.7% of total financial assets, up compared to 54.3% the previous year. The “diversified” part of the overall portfolio, represented by the investment in mutual funds managed by Fondaco Sgr S.p.A., represented about 34.7% of the total; the remaining 5.6% completed the allocation, represented by the portfolio of mission-related investments, liquidity and other investments and activities.   / the Foundation Website of the Compagnia di San Paolo .

History
The history of the Compagnia di San Paolo has its roots in Turin, during the 16th century. Piedmont, theater of battles during the long wars between France and Spain, was in a state of great economic degradation. Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, returned to the Duchy of Savoy in 1559, according to the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, initiated a profound political, military and cultural reorganization.

The history of the Compagnia di San Paolo begins in 16th century Torino, when, on 25 January 1563 seven citizens from Torino founded the “Compagnia della Fede Cattolica sotto l’invocazione di San Paolo,” with the double purpose of helping the population burdened by the economic blight – through the gathering of alms and home assistance – and of checking the spreading of the Protestant Reformation.

In those years, precisely 25 January 1563 seven citizens from Torino founded the “Compagnia della Fede Cattolica sotto l’invocazione di San Paolo,” with the double purpose of helping the population burdened by the economic blight – through the gathering of alms and home assistance – and of checking the spreading of the Protestant Reformation. Helping the poor, especially the “shameful” noble or bourgeois decayed, was expressed through a discreet but widespread home care.  E. Tesauro, ‘’Historia della venerabilissima Compagnia della Fede Catolica, under the invocation of San Paolo, in the Augusta Città di Torino’’, Turin, Sinibaldo, 1657; II ed. accresc., Turin, G. B. Zappata, 1701. 

In 1579 the Confraternity founded the first Monte di Pietà, to subtract the weaker classes from the scourge of usury through the payment of small loans on a pledge. A decade later the Confraternity also dedicated itself to the female assistance with the provision of dowries through the institution of the Casa del Soccorso and, towards the end of the 16th century the brotherhood founded also Casa del soccorso, destined to the education of poor girls. In 1595 the Ufficio Pio was established with the purpose of managing all of the Compagnia’s charity activities: subsidies to the impoverished, to the ill, and to beggars; religious services; dowries for the girls hosted in the Casa del Soccorso, and payment of fees.

The Paulines collaborated also to the establishment of the Collegio dei Nobili, for the education of the youth of the affluent classes, and of the Albergo di Virtù that helped beggars to work in mechanics and manufacturing, in agreement with the ducal project that introduced silk manufacturing in Piedmont. In the middle of the 17th century the brotherhood promoted the creation of the Ospedale di carità, collaborating both in its direction and financing; and in the following century, it financed the establishment of the Ospedale dei pazzi, a madmen hospital.

The patrimony of the institution, increased also thanks to the numerous legacies of the Piedmontese families, determined an intense financial activity, culminating in the assumption of the administration of the public debt in 1653. After reaching its maximum development in the mid-eighteenth century, the Company lost its management and was suppressed by the French Napoleonic Government in 1802, being replaced by public institutions that succeeded in ensuring the continuity of the services provided. In 1804, the pawnshop was reorganized by the French government on the model of the Paris Hill, accentuating its banking nature. Reinstated in its functions in 1814, the Compagnia took charge of the management of the Monte di Pietà in interest and of the free Monte di Pietà and between 1824 and 1851, it also took care of providing the health service for the poor, providing medical care basic and specialist.

In the meantime, the activity of Ufficio Pio also resumed. With the advent of the liberal state, however, in 1853 the government of Vittorio Emanuele II restricted the activity of the Society to religious practices alone and entrusted the patrimony and the management of the assistance and credit activities to a public appointment board, called Opere Pie di San Paolo, later Istituto di San Paolo, which developed a lot its banking activity through the Monte di Pietà, progressively becoming a real bank, until the recognition in 1923 of the prevailing credit activity compared to that of foreclosure.

A sector that characterized the activity of the Compagnia di San Paolo was inaugurated in 1867, with the assumption of the exercise of the land credit, in conjunction with the agrarian reforms and with the increase of the urban building. During the years of Turin’s industrial take-off, the institute supported, through loans to the Municipality and the Province, the development of infrastructures and the municipalization of essential services; financed the establishment of the Institute of social housing; he took part in the new financial bodies such as the Consortium for Industrial Value Grants, the Federal Institute for Agricultural Credit in Piedmont and the National Consortium for Agricultural Improvement Credit; supported labor and technical education. It also played a decisive role in the construction of the new headquarters of the Ospedale Maggiore Molinette, completed in 1935. In 1907 it also funded the establishment of the initial capital of the Istituto delle società popolari.

While giving new impetus to the credit sector, the new entity continued and renewed the activities of the Ufficio Pio and the Duchesse Isabella, the name taken over by the Rescue and Depot Houses in 1883, and which, in its purpose-built at the end of the nineteenth century, gave young people a complete education, from elementary to magisterial.

With the relief of the deposits of the ‘’Banca Agricola Italiana’’ of Riccardo Gualino in 1931 the Institute extended its structure, until then limited to the city, Piedmont and Liguria, and in 1932 obtained the status of Credit institution under public law and the extended name Istituto di San Paolo Torino. After the enactment of the racial laws of 1938 the land bank of San Paolo was entrusted with managing, mainly in Piedmont and Liguria, the real estate seized from Jews, to which they were added, after the entry into the war, those of foreigners of enemy nationality. The houses and things. The persecution of the Turinese Jews in the papers of the EGELI 1938 - 1945 ‘’, edited by Fabio Levi, with essays by F. Levi, D. Adorni, G. Genovese, Turin, 1998. 

The role assumed in post-war reconstruction, the territorial extension, the diversification of credit, the entry into the market of the ECU, laid the foundations for a national and international expansion of the Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, a name taken in 1950, which became one of the most important banking groups in Europe.

At the end of 1991, under the Amato-Carli Act, lending activities were transferred to a newly established company, Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino SpA, while activities of public interest and social utility remained in the “old” Sanpaolo, which assumed, in homage to its history, the name of Compagnia di San Paolo'. To date the Compagnia is a foundation, governed by its own bylaws adopted in March 2000, and associated with the ACRI - Association of Foundations and Casse di Risparmio Spa. "S. Horse, 1995"

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Since the year 2000, the Compagnia di San Paolo, aware of the artistic value that the architectural heritage represents for the history of Turin and Piedmont, has also taken its support towards the enhancement of many important buildings in the historic center of Turin and some other architectural excellence of the territory. The project has as its objective the restoration of the most important urban architecture, the preservation of the buildings of the city and its surroundings, the creation of new tools aimed at enhancing the artistic heritage within the integrated system of the city cultural offer and the strengthening of the Turin’s role as a city city of culture and art. . 

Organization
The Compagnia di San Paolo is based in Turin and is governed by a ‘’ General Council ‘’, made up of 17 members, of whom 14 are appointed by local and national authorities and 3 are elected by the same 14 by cooptation. > 

The appointment of the directors belongs to various bodies according to the following subdivision: 2 to the Municipality of Turin, 2 to the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture of Turin, 1 to the Region Piedmont, 1 to the Municipality of Genoa, 1 at the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture of Genoa, 1 at the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture of Milan, 1 at the Regional Union of the Chambers of Commerce of Piedmont, 1 at the Regional Council of Volunteering (Law of Regione Piemonte of 29th August 1994, No. 38), 1 at the Academy of Sciences of Turin, 1 at the Accademia dei Lincei, 1 at the European Foundation Center and the National Commission for Equality and the Equal Opportunities between Man and Woman chaired by the Minister for Equal Opportunities Organi of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation .

The General Council defines the objectives and the programmatic guidelines of Compagnia di San Paolo; appoints the Chairman, the Deputy Chairman and the seven members of the Management Committee, the executive body that, under the guidance of the Chairman, acts with all the powers for ordinary and extraordinary administration; appoints the members of the Board of Auditors, composed of three standing members and two alternates.

The General Secretary, appointed by the Management Committee, is the executive manager of Compagnia di San Paolo and oversees the activity of the structure, made up of about 80 people The bylaws, the regulation for institutional activities, the multi-year and annual planning documents and Reports on the annual corporate activity of the Company can be found on the website 

The value of the portfolio of the Compagnia di San Paolo rose from € 6.9 billion in 2009 to around € 5.1 billion at the end of 2011, and then rose again in subsequent years. The overall return on the portfolio at market values ​​is positive and is equal to + 23.2%. According to the same company “at the end of 2014 the total market value of the portfolio of financial assets held by the Compagnia di San Paolo amounted to 6.7 billion euro, with an increase of about 15.5% compared to 5.8 billions of euros at the end of 2013 “.

Governance 2016-2020

 * President: Francesco Profumo
 * Secretary General: Piero Gastaldo
 * Management Committee: Licia Mattioli (vice president), Alessandro Commito, Anna Maria Poggi, Roberto Timossi
 * Board of Auditors: Mario Matteo Busso, Ernesto Carrera, Margherita Spaini. [Http://www.compagniadisanpaolo.it/ita/la-Fondazione/Organi/(struttura)/2]
 * General Council: Dario Arrigotti, Alessandro Barberis, Walter Barberis, Giovanni Calvini, Alberto Conte, Daniela Del Boca, Andrea Di Porto, Franca Fagioli, Sandro Giuliani, Barbara Graffino, Andrea Rivellini, Pietro Rossi, Daniele Vaccarino, Francesca Vallarino Gancia

The Instrumental Bodies
Compagnia di San Paolo is active in the following sectors: scientific, economic and legal research; instruction; art; cultural assets and activities; health; assistance for weak social categories. The Compagnia’s work is carried out through grants and projects directly managed by its own organization and the following Instrumental Bodies: the ‘Fondazione per la Scuola’, the ‘Ufficio Pio’, the ‘Fondazione 1563 per l'Arte e la Cultura’, the ‘Collegio Carlo Alberto’, the ‘Istituto Superiore Mario Boella’, ‘Istituto Superiore sui Sistemi Territoriali per l’Innovazione’, ‘Fondazione Links’, and the Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine.

The Compagnia defines strategies and objectives with a multi-annual and annual program and grants contributions through the support of projects coherent with its own lines, the adoption of programs, the issuing of calls, the action of its Instrumental Bodies. . 

Foundation for the School
Chaired by Ludovico Albert, it aims to help raise the quality and effectiveness of the educational system of the territory. His activity is based on three main themes: The Foundation also contributes to the definition of policies in the school environment by operating in close synergy with local institutions and the instrumental bodies of the Compagnia di San Paolo itself. At the same time he collaborates with the Ministry of Education, University and Research. [http://www. lastampa.it/2015/10/14/torinosette/primapagina/mercoled-open-day-a-camera-per-le-scuole-Wt4C0U8ovHBqRFmwx1BHuJ/pagina.html La Stampa.it - ​​Open Day for schools in Turin] 
 * Support for merit and scholastic learning, also in a logic of contrasting the consequences of social and economic hardship
 * Strengthening of institutions of school autonomy, as social actors in the area, in favor of the organizational change
 * Development of quality and innovation in teaching and learning processes.

Foundation 1563 for Art and Culture
It is an authority of Compagnia di San Paolo specialized in supporting research in the field of humanistic disciplines, with particular attention to young researchers who wish to integrate their training to access cultural professions. Its main objective is the promotion of studies and research in the humanistic field with a multidisciplinary vocation, also starting from historical documents of Compagnia di San Paolo, through publications of editorial series. Among the main tasks of the Foundation 1563, there is also the responsibility for the conservation and cultural enhancement of the Historical Archive of the Compagnia di San Paolo, which collects four and a half centuries of the institution's history. Since 1997, the Foundation 1563 has produced on behalf of the Compagnia di San Paolo the publications  Quaderni dell'Archivio Storico, Quaderni della Compagnia and the series Studi e Ricerche.  Publications of the Compagnia di San Paolo. The publications are available in pdf format on the website of the institution http://www.compagniadisanpaolo.it/Pubblicazioni </ ref>

Ufficio Pio
Established in 1595, Ufficio Pio is the oldest instrumental institution of Compagnia di San Paolo. It has operational autonomy within the areas of intervention established by Compagnia di San Paolo and has the objective of supporting people and families in situations of vulnerability or social and economic disadvantage in the Piedmont region, with particular reference to the area Turin subway. The Ufficio Pio works thanks to the action of around 150 volunteer delegates and a staff of 34 operators. <Ref> Pio Office website {{cite web | url = http: //www.ufficiopio.torino.it/ | title = Copy archived | access = 29 February 2012 | urlmorto = yes | urlarchivio = https: //web.archive.org/web/20131024025848/http: //www.ufficiopio.torino.it/ | dataarchivio = 24 October 2013} }. </ ref> La Stampa.it - ​​From the Pio Office aids for 18 million to over 13 thousand poor people from Turin -aids-per-million-a-thousand-over-poor-Turin-cporTARLyFK4nVGZU5yBJL / page.html </ ref>. Its areas of intervention are as follows:
 * Contrast of poverty
 * Prevention of poverty
 * Inclusion and reintegration
 * European projects

Collegio Carlo Alberto
Established in 2004 on the initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo and in collaboration with the University of Turin, its mission is to promote research and teaching in the fields of economics, finance, political science and social sciences in an international academic community contest. The official language of the Collegio Carlo Alberto is English and its training project consists of preparing university and post-graduate students for inclusion in the professional field. <Ref> Site of the Collegio Carlo Alberto http://www.carloalberto.org/. </ ref> Quotidiano piemontese.it - ​​Collegio Carlo Alberto: attention, those who take lessons here could become a Nobel Prize -Caution-chi-holds-lesson-here-might-be-a-Nobel-prize / </ ref>

Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB)
The Istituto Superiore Mario Boella is a center of applied research and innovation focused on Information and Communication Technologies. Founded in 2000 by Compagnia di San Paolo and Polytechnic of Turin, today the institute makes use of the technological expertise of about 150 researchers working in close collaboration with the company, the academic world and the public administration. It takes its name from Mario Boella, engineer, researcher, and professor from Genoa graduated at the Polytechnic of Turin in Industrial Engineering in the early twentieth century. <Ref> Site of the Mario Boella Superior Institute http://www.ismb.it/. </ ref> Data manager.it - ​​Opens the Csi innovation Center at the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella -more-mario-boella / </ ref>

Institute on Territorial Systems for Innovation
Established in 2002 in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino, it supports research and teaching in the areas of sustainability of innovation and socio-economic growth of the territories and in particular on Logistics and transport, environmental heritage and urban redevelopment, territorial security Piedmont Region - Sites Profile, Higher Institute on Territorial Systems for Innovation web | url = http: //www.regione.piemonte.it/innovazione/siti-istituto-superiore-sui-sistemi-territoriali-per-l-innovazione.html | title = Copy archived | access = 19 November 2015 | urlarchivio = https: //web.archive.org/web/20151120000514/http: //www.regione.piemonte.it/innovazione/siti-istituto-superiore-sui-sistemi-territoriali-per-l-innovazione .html | data archive = 20 November 2015}} </ ref>.

LINKS Foundation
Acronym for "Leading Innovation & Knowledge for Society", LINKS is a body that gathers the experience and skills acquired within the ISMB and SITI Institutes, which in recent years have achieved important results reaching an important position within the scientific community. It brings together people with different training and knowledge that enable the development of innovative and multidisciplinary studies and applications. The skills are concentrated on the themes of new technologies, the environment and the territory, and are based on complementary experiences deriving from the innovation processes and their application in different fields. <Ref> https://linksfoundation.com/chi-siamo / </ ref>

Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM)
Established in 2007 in collaboration with the University of Turin and the Polytechnic of Turin, it promotes research and teaching in the field of genetics, genomics and human proteomics in a multidisciplinary perspective. [http://www.fondazioni4africa. org / Foundations site4Africa.org] </ ref>.

Arts, Activities and Cultural Heritage
One of the Compagnia's priorities is to identify in the cultural heritage a fundamental element of the wealth of each territory, so as to initiate development policies that can positively affect the quality of life of the communities, as well as strengthen the monitoring of memory and knowledge. For this reason, the Compagnia di San Paolo collaborates with the major museums and local institutions to nourish the logic of valorization, conservation and sharing of cultural resources.

Philanthropy and territory
This area of ​​the Compagnia promotes and sustains economic initiatives of civil society whose purpose is to improve the quality of life in the local communities of the territory. These are the strategic objectives of the area:


 * Contribute to the growth of infrastructure, the ecosystem and social innovation in the metropolitan area of ​​Turin and the rest of Piedmont.


 * Develop more connections between innovation and job creation


 * Improve social practices aimed at collaborating and empowering citizens in the field of public space care, attention to the environment, valorization and sharing of unused resources.


 * Support for practices that increase the creation of a social enterprise.


 * Patronage of philanthropic projects in the form of a foundation or through other organizational tools.


 * Improve and optimize the relationship between scientific research on the territory and the action of the Compagnia.

Cultural innovation
Cultural innovation involves every form of expression, yet it has its own specificity for what concerns new languages ​​and digital. Through this area, the Company undertakes to:


 * Support contemporary production through research projects or creatives aimed at disseminating knowledge, as well as promoting and enhancing it.


 * Promote new activities of participation in culture to extend and diversify the demand, favoring the inclusion of those who are now excluded, helping to redefine the parameters of a "cultural welfare".


 * Encourage the creation of new organizational models and management processes that are more sustainable and efficient, encouraging the development of a network of creative and cultural businesses on the territory


 * Promote opportunities related to the digital sphere and new technologies in the various stages of creation, production, dissemination, valorization, and management in the cultural field.

Social Policies
This area is constantly growing as the continuation of the economic crisis has widened the margins of poverty, seeing the number of people in need or vulnerability grow, determining the Company's decision to increase the resources dedicated to the sector. The focus on greater efficiency, competitiveness, and economic sustainability combine to strengthen the social protection system that also includes the Compagnia di San Paolo. It aims to activate intervention models that can represent as much as possible their commitment to the realization of a sort of "second welfare", which aims at the empowerment of civil society, offering incentives for the growth and sharing of the benefits received. The growing amount of activities in this area has led to dividing the work into two sub-categories: Social Inclusion and New Generations. The area also supports some operational and experimental projects included in the memorandum of understanding between the City of Turin, Compagnia di San Paolo and Ufficio Pio for the development of actions in favor of the population groups in conditions of social vulnerability. One of these is the  Housing Program , active since 2006 and which integrates the provision of aid to operational actions aimed at improving the housing situation of those who are in a state of social vulnerability.

Research and Health
This area operates in the fields of Health and Research, both scientific and economic, social and legal, higher education, and internationally. With the new management, the Company intends to improve the relationship between basic and applied research, so as to increase the immediate availability of theoretical research.

Zerosei Program
With the ZeroSei Program, the Compagnia di San Paolo wants to support the integration and coordination between services and care offers aimed at the 0-6 age bracket in Turin, in its first belt and in Piedmont. <Ref>. </ Ref> </ ref>

Housing Program
For ten years and with a total investment amounting to about sixty million Euros, the Compagnia di San Paolo carries on its commitment to promoting habitability and social coexistence. Many initiatives planned with the collaboration of public and private bodies.

International Affairs
The project supports opportunities for international projection to those who work at the local level in sectors of international importance to boost the Company's ability to bring to Turin elements of the debate and of European and international reflections.

Polo of the '900
Supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo and co-designed together with the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region, the Polo of the 20th century is a cultural center open to citizenship and aimed above all at younger generations. Thanks to the abundance of documentary sources and to the plurality of experiences and skills of valorization and research gathered in it by the various cultural institutes involved in the project, the Pole is destined to become the container of cultural activities and initiatives able to make memory and actuality. Headquartered in the over 8,000 square meters of the buildings of the former Juvarriani Military Districts of Turin, the Polo of the twentieth century houses a covered and freely accessible square where one can find: a museum, a permanent exhibition on the Turin of the Second World War, a library with two reading rooms, a multi-purpose space for events, temporary exhibitions and performances, three classrooms for teaching, an area for children, conference rooms, cinema, 300,000 monographs, 28,000 audiovisuals, 127,600 photographs.

Torino and the Alps Program
The Compagnia di San Paolo also follows and supports initiatives that nurture the link between the city's population and the mountain population, with the aim of seizing better economic and social opportunities. This interest has resulted in an interdisciplinary program applied to the Piedmontese, Valle d'Aosta and Liguria valleys with the identification of concrete actions: during its three years of operation, the Torino and the Alps Program has increased knowledge, sensitivity and exchange opportunities between the Metropolitan Turin and the surrounding Alps.