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REDE CIDADÃ

Life and Work, a Single Value

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Number of employeeS

647

Year of Registration

2002

Number of Followers

1

Annual income

US$ 6.18 million

Category of SGO

Non-profit

Country

Brazil

Founder & CEO

The Brazilian Social Good Sphere is at risk, says Fernando Alves, CEO of the Citizen Network

"Brazilian Private Sector Has Paused Its Social Investment"

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February 8, 2018
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Rede Cidadã is part of a new generation of Brazilian SGOs that have scrapped traditional approaches to nonprofits in favor of creating original and efficient ways to change lives.

Founded in 2002 in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Rede Cidadã has perhaps unknowingly created a model that could be replicated around the world. Contrary to many classic SGO models that were developed in disadvantaged rural settings, away from the political bustle of the city, Rede Cidadã designed its model – a truly social network – for the complex and multicultural urban areas of Brazil that it was founded in. Meaning “Citizens’ Network,” Rede Cidadã seeks to imbue work and the labor market with the values of citizenship and autonomy. While Rede Cidadã works primarily on generating employment for low-income people, they do not just create “jobs” or...

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Rede Cidadã is part of a new generation of Brazilian SGOs that have scrapped traditional approaches to nonprofits in favor of creating original and efficient ways to change lives.

Founded in 2002 in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Rede Cidadã has perhaps unknowingly created a model that could be replicated around the world. Contrary to many classic SGO models that were developed in disadvantaged rural settings, away from the political bustle of the city, Rede Cidadã designed its model – a truly social network – for the complex and multicultural urban areas of Brazil that it was founded in. Meaning “Citizens’ Network,” Rede Cidadã seeks to imbue work and the labor market with the values of citizenship and autonomy. While Rede Cidadã works primarily on generating employment for low-income people, they do not just create “jobs” or “employees.” Instead, they fuse technical, professional, social, and personal development into a single program.

For this Brazilian SGO, work must allow people to be true citizens, to be full protagonists of their own life stories. The Rede Cidadã network gives these citizens the tools and the liberty to change their lives, develop as human beings, and adapt their dreams to the constraints of the labor market. The network encourages people at all levels of society to plug in to social change through work. Rede Cidadã has helped over 55,000 people find meaningful employment, one citizen at a time.

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Mission statement
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Promote human and social development, for integration into the world of work, uniting companies, civil society and public authorities.

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Promote human and social development, for integration into the world of work, uniting companies, civil society and public authorities.

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Impact

LATEST ANNUAL INCOME
US$ 6.18 million
Previous Annual Income
US$ 10.14
Latest Surplus/Deficit
US$ 325,827
Latest Net Assets
US$ 4.65 million
Name of Auditing Firm
Unknown
LATEST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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COUNTRY (OR COUNTRIES) WHERE ACTIVE
Brazil
Latest ANNUAL REPORT
TAX YEAR END
December 31

Governance

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Founder & CEO
Fernando Almeida Alves
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Executive Director of Rede Cidadã, graduated in Social Sciences and post-graduated in People Management both from UFJF. He was HR Director, Secretary of Administration and Secretary of Citizenship Rights at PBH, under Mayor Célio de Castro. He is one of the founders of Rede Cidadã, a social organization that develops programs and projects for professional learning and employability for young people, adults and seniors. He led the social inclusion of more than 89 thousand people in the labor market.
Has Held position since
2002
Board Gender balance
5 women | 6 men
Number of Employees
647
Number of Volunteers
2.699 (since 2002)

History

Rede Cidadã was established in 2002 to help develop a real social network that integrates complementary actions, generate synergy among three sectors of the economy, and integrate volunteer work. The goal of the organization was always to create and generate employment and income solutions for people at the base of the pyramid, and since its founding, Rede Cidadã has helped more than 113,000 people to enter the labor market.

The organization stands out by investing not only in technical training for those who participate in their courses. We understand that, as important as the benefits of the training, it's crucial also to support the dreams of these people and their emotional foundation. For us, life and work are a single value and should go together to promote professional and personal development of human beings.

Rede Cidadã offers different paths that...

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Rede Cidadã was established in 2002 to help develop a real social network that integrates complementary actions, generate synergy among three sectors of the economy, and integrate volunteer work. The goal of the organization was always to create and generate employment and income solutions for people at the base of the pyramid, and since its founding, Rede Cidadã has helped more than 113,000 people to enter the labor market.

The organization stands out by investing not only in technical training for those who participate in their courses. We understand that, as important as the benefits of the training, it's crucial also to support the dreams of these people and their emotional foundation. For us, life and work are a single value and should go together to promote professional and personal development of human beings.

Rede Cidadã offers different paths that promote social inclusion, wich have a common goal: to promote the human and professional development of different publics aiming at the integration between life and work.

In 2015, after reaching the milestone of 50 thousand people inserted in the labor market, Rede Cidadã identified has incorporated softskills into its training track, developing behavioral skills. The organization began to work to develop competencies and skills that enable different audiences to increase their employability. Our trainings go beyond technical skill: we develop in our audiences a better emotional coefficient, higher productivity and quality relationship. This new learning trail contributed to reduce the turnover rate in companies and respond to one of the challenges of corporate HR, responding to the following sentence:

“Companies hire employees for technical skills, but fire them for behavioral skills”.

The story of Rede Cidadã generated enough experience to emerge a new concept of social project, more lasting and long-lasting, that could accompany the social trajectory of users and their families. We learned that it was not enough to train people and insert them into jobs: it was necessary to follow their path in the first year of activities in the company.

The 20 years of Rede Cidadã, managing social projects, taught about the importance of offering its users continuous training, mediation with job opportunities, post-hire follow-up and being present to receive them in cases of break of employment contracts. These audiences and their life reality asked us for a long-lasting trail of training, coexistence, support and monitoring, capable of rescuing family ties, also supporting family members, creating an environment of support for all in social inclusion in the generation of work and income scenario. That's why we created the User and Family Development Trail.

The core of this Trail is the socio-emotional training, preparing people for autonomy. There are career continuity connections on the trail, from preparatory work to becoming a young apprentice, to internships or employment at partner companies.

A lasting project is constituted by articulating the network of local actors, linked to the municipal government, public social assistance policies, the council for children and adolescents, other social organizations and companies. This network creates the conditions for the sustainability of a long-lasting social project capable of enabling continuous support for training, insertion in the world of work and professional career development for users. Little by little, this job and income generation network establishes connections with the local economy, creating paths to new jobs and income, with the concepts and practices of the new economies. All of this is offered by the User and Family Development Trail, by Rede Cidadã.

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Legal Status
05.461.315/0001-50 (this register is named CNPJ in Brazil).
Year of registration
2002
BYLAWS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
Yes
BYLAWS PROVIDED ON REQUEST
Yes

Contact

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HQ LOCATION ADDRESS
Rua Alvarenga Peixoto, 295, 5° andar, bairro Lourdes
Belo Horizonte - MG
Brazil
CEP 30180-120
SOCIAL NETWORKS
WEBSITE
MAIN CONTACT EMAIL
redecidada@redecidada.org.br
+55 (31) 3290-8000