Doing Philanthropy at the Time of the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

ABSTRACT

In 2020, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo applied the Sustainable Development Goals as a framework and restructured its operations to focus on three programmatic efforts - Planet, People, and Culture - aligned with those goals. This article provides a case study of the Compagnia di San Paolo's path to adoption of the framework and the impact of that work using quantitative indicators. The article concludes with a comparison between Compagnia di San Paolo's approaches and some international best practices to provide a better understanding of the foundation's long-term positioning in the international context.