Consorzio ABN A&B network sociale

ABN Network is a pool of cooperatives (social and common cooperatives) constituted in 1997 on the initiative of some Italian social cooperatives of the Umbrian territory of the province of Perugia. The pool was born with the aim of sharing integrated strategies targeted to pursue human promotion and citizens’ social integration objectives, as established in the art.1 of the L.381/91. Nowadays, in ABN cooperatives work approximately 2500 persons, of which nearly 1600 are employed in social cooperatives of type B and, 570 are disadvantaged persons, and approximately 460 employed in social cooperatives in type A services to people. The pool is structured on the model of the network company, in which various subjects join their own specificities, frameworked in shared strategies, in order to integrate various functions and to optimize the performances, following rigid qualitative standards and the “paper of the values” of the pool. The ABN Pool has developed in the years a managerial system more and more careful to the offered services quality, to the organization efficiency and the effectiveness, to the respect of the atmosphere, the social responsibility towards its own workers. Such engagement is attested and sanctioned, from 2005, also by the attainment of the three certifications concerning: quality management system, in compliance with the international norm UNI EN ISO 9001:2000;, environmental management system in compliance with the international norm UNI EN ISO 14001:2004; social responsibility management system (ethics), in compliance with the norm SA 8000:2001. For the attainment of their own goals, the Association has a common bottom made of: a) associates’ quotes and b) private and publics contributions c)selling services ABN collaborates with trade unions, non-governmental organisations, local development agencies, local authorities, Universities and research centres. ABN has a Balance shet total of euros 35.273.444,00.