"Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success": the well-known quote from Henry Ford summarizes the importance of working together, reminds us of the commitment required of partners, and emphasizes the advantage of collaboration…

This issue of Soft&Green aims to offer some food for thought about the importance of partnerships in effectively promoting sustainable development. The now 15-year collaboration (2007 - 2022) between WWF and Sofidel tells a positive story of sharing and achieving…

Interview with Marcella Mallen, ASviS chair On the topic of partnerships, Soft&Green wanted to hear the opinion of Marcella Mallen, Chair of ASviS and Prioritalia and professor of Diversity management and organizational change at LUMSA University in Rome. This issue…

We dedicate this issue of Soft & Green to the value of partnerships. It is also a way of celebrating 15 years of the collaborative relationship between Sofidel and WWF. Today we are increasingly hearing about shared value creation. This…

Interview with Kirstin Akan-Brown, corporate partnership manager at WaterAid Life teaches us: we can’t do everything. In Sofidel, knowing this, where we can’t reach places directly, we like to do it through qualified partners. This is why we have struck…

A city lying on the border between Emilia Romagna and Lombardy (Piacenza), a multi-utility that manages local public services (Gruppo IREN), 15 representatives from non-profit and trade associations and local authorities: everyone together in a Territorial Committee to jointly plan…

The name of this initiative promoted by Leroy Merlin contains its goal: encouraging the community to solve housing problems by activating cooperation between various organisations/bodies across the territory. The Agorà dell’Abitare (Housing Agora) is an innovative partnership between for-profit companies,…

Networking across a territory primarily means managing to do more and better by offering, for example, welfare services that the individual firm, often a SME, cannot do on its own. Territorial networks have arisen with the goal to help work/life…