Fondazione Roma primarily operates in five sectors: Public health, Preventive and rehabilitative medicine; Scientific and technological research; Volunteering, Philanthropy and Charitable activities; Arts, Cultural activities and Heritage; Education, Teaching and Training. In line with legislative directives, the Foundation also promotes initiatives aimed at fostering the economic development of the community.

These are all areas in which Fondazione Roma seeks to serve as a benchmark and in which it has built consolidated expertise and a significant body of specialized knowledge. Its experience has been applied to highly innovative projects of recognized social value, carefully monitored and continuously updated or adapted to changing needs and requests of beneficiaries. Projects are implemented directly, through subsidiary foundations, or in collaboration with partners possessing the necessary know-how, with whom objectives and methods are shared. Above all, the “how” and “with whom” these projects are carried out make them exemplary practices available to anyone equipped to pursue similar goals.

In this regard, Fondazione Roma communicates its objectives and methods of intervention transparently, making relevant information readily available. It develops its own projects, which neither compete with nor replace already qualified operators, but rather aim to pursue shared goals and foster broad alignment around them. The Foundation values human resources and invests in younger generations to unlock their talent; it acts with great responsibility toward the community of need, both in terms of the scale of resources deployed and their potential for future replication. It invests in social initiatives and research, promoting independent growth and managerial capacity, and implements processes to evaluate the strategies adopted—both to fine-tune programs and to ensure social accountability.

The Foundation responsibly positions itself as a point of reference and a collaborative dialogue partner among institutional, associative, volunteer, entrepreneurial, and social entities, proposing intervention models that are sustainable and, above all, replicable. In doing so, it plays an important pioneering role, while maintaining a clear awareness of both the potential and the limits of its own actions, as well as the scope within which its activities must be conducted, as clearly defined by Article 118 of the Constitution and the relevant legislation.

OPERATING PRINCIPLES

Fondazione Roma, while operating within the system of banking foundations, has developed and implemented its own autonomous intervention strategy, which interprets philanthropy not merely as “giving” but, above all, as “doing.” Within this approach, careful selection of partners and operational methods is essential, as these elements add significant value to each project. Integral to this strategy is openness to all entities—public and private, profit and non-profit—that demonstrate equal commitment to the common good and share a vision of the objectives to be achieved. Equally central is the removal of territorial limits, guided by the principle of responding to needs wherever they arise, in accordance with the resources available.

The Foundation operates primarily, though not exclusively, through the implementation of its own activities, applying an operational model that enables it to be highly dynamic and proactive. This approach allows the Foundation to identify emerging needs within civil society and to carry out interventions designed to provide timely and effective responses, while also serving as replicable best practices for other organizations and in different contexts.