Starting from the awareness that demography and aging are the great challenge for modern societies together with climate change, Ravasi Garzanti Foundation works in Milan and the surrounding areas to promote and support better living conditions for older people, as well as for society as a whole in the name of intergenerationality. It works with different partners in the cultural sector, research and concrete and innovative services for citizens.

Founded by Livio Garzanti, the Ravasi Garzanti Foundation works in Milan and its surrounding provinces to improve the living conditions of elderly people, especially those who are more vulnerable and lonely.

Overcoming, in a vision of modern philanthropy, the alternative between the management of specific activities and the support to projects of other realities, the Foundation promotes, participates and supports, often with the involvement of various realities of the territory, initiatives aimed at:

• improve the knowledge and awareness of the whole community – in the network of people, institutions, organizations that populate it – on the themes of aging, for inspiring, in front of the phenomenon of longevity, creating the preconditions informed behaviour and appropriate, evolving and synergistic decisions and actions;
• To activate different forms of intervention and specific services that can improve in a widespread and general way the living conditions of elderly people, especially fragile and lonely – and their families.

Faced with the complexity of the phenomenon of ageing in Western society, Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti is a proactive reference point for all the social change processes related to the demographic transition that the metropolis of Milan must face, committing itself to contribute to make this happen in respect, In supporting and enhancing the individual elderly person throughout the various stages of ageing.

Through a philanthropic strategy and with a long-term vision of social action, the foundation aims to work continuously to support those active in the city, Making available material resources accompanied by intangible resources represented by the content, skills and relationships that the Foundation collects, connects, qualifies and redistributes through constant collaborative networking work.

In essence, aiming to represent more and more a fundamental open source center available to the city for all the transformations and requirements related to the extension of life span.

On the social level, such a strategy requires a global approach which can be deployed on different fronts: cultural animation, research and innovation routes, provision of social health services for the care and well-being of older people, Support for social support intervention, especially for the most vulnerable people.

All inspired by a vision of the city to share in its ability to be a conscious community, supportive, informed and active in the choral effort of building a future marked by the significant phenomenon of aging population that will compose it.