STAFF (to welcome you!)
Master’s Directors
Isabel White (London), Marco Crescenzi (London, Rome, Madrid)
Master’s Coordinator
Maria Giovanna Lai (Barcelona) mariagiovanna@thirdsectormanagement.eu
E-learning Platform Coordinators
Maria Giovanna Lai (Barcelona) Tatiana Tamberlani (Rome)
Communications Office
Elena Grandinetti (Rome), Samr Al Aflak (London), Maria Giovanna Lai (Barcelona)
Finance and Legal Affairs
Rocio Requena
Marco Crescenzi (President and co-founder)
Marco is considered a point of reference in Europe on issues related to Third Sector Management & Leadership, Social Innovation and Civil Economy, and is often quoted in the press as an expert on ‘working in the non profit-social sector’.
(In the past few years):
Co-Founder and President of Third Sector Management Europe (2010).
Founder of ASVI, Agency for the Non-Profit Development (1997) and ‘School for Management & Social Change’, leader in Italy.
Co-founder of EuclidNetwork, European Third Sector Leaders network (2007)
Creator and Coordinator of Leader2Leader – Leaders for civil society (2008), the Italian network of non profit managers.
Member of Acevo – UK Third Sector Leaders network (Since 2006).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fund Raising Festival (Italy) since 2008.
Founder of the European Scientific Committee of Third Sector Management.
Member of SEC, Social Enterprise Coalition.
Former President of the Founding Committee of Agorà, Agency for Good Practices in International Co-operation, created in Joint Venture with Politecnico di Milano, Occam (UN Agency for new development technologies) and ISF (Engineering without frontiers, Milan) (2007).
He collaborated with Symbola, Foundation for the Italian Qualities, as Member of the Scientific Committee and Coordinator of the Bank of Italian Qualities (non profit and artistic crafts sectors) – providing the methodological frame for research (2004-2008).
Coordinator of the ‘Observatory on Professions and Jobs in the Third Sector’ (Since 2005).
Member of ‘Idee in Rete’, Italian Network of Social Enterprises.
Experimental social psychologist, specialized in analysis of development processes within groups and organizations with a specializations in marketing and management, he is a manager and an entrepreneur since 1985 managing also for profit companies in different fields but always engaged in initiatives in the voluntary sector. He founded ASVI School for Management, leader in Europe about the Third Sector Master Programmes for number of student, in 1997.
After his commitment in environmental volunteering throughout the ‘80’s, Marco worked in non profit management and organized (1980-1996) activities for promoting Italian artistic handcrafts (organization of national and international exhibitions, in collaboration with ICE – Institute for Foreign Trade – and Italian Regions; implementation of the project “La seduzione degli oggetti: annuario dell’artigianato artistico italiano” (Mondadori, 1997 co-author; foundation of the review “Artigianato tra arte e design”, 1994).
Intervention in the Last International Conferences as a Speaker- 2009-2010:
- Fundraising scenario (amongst the 150 global experts involved in the research conducted by the Management Centre =mc, London, directed by Bernard Ross);
- Training and education scenarios within the Third sector. Italian reference in research regarding innovative training models for the sector (Project Equal: new technologies for social enterprises, 2006; Project Mose: Innovatives Training Models for Social Enterprises, 2009);
- Evolving scenarios of the Third sector (European study ‘European Models in the evolution of the third social sector) conducted by the Luis Vivien foundation;
- Evolving Scenario on ‘ Leadership and behind’ (Euclid Paper and Congress Madrid 10 may 2010).
Marco wrote many books since 1994 and collaborated with specialized journals, representing a benchmark for the press on the issues of working in non profit sector.
Publications: technical and popular management handbooks and books, among which:
- “The Non Profit Manager and the challenge of social enterprising’ (Sperling & Kupfer, 1998), first European book on this professional role;
- “Manager e Management Non Profit, the Ethical Challenge” (ASVI, 2003);
- “International Guide to jobs and professionals in the Third Sector’ (EMI, 2005);
- “Quality Evaluation of the non profit sector and the social enterprises” (ASVI ed. 2007);
- ‘Move on: how the non profit managers can change the world’, to be published 2010/2011.
(… plus poetries and short novels)
I have three children and I live between London, Madrid and Rome.
My children Sophia, Giordano and Elena Maria own the first place in my life: my family, of which I am co-founder and currently minority associate (with 20%), is certainly the most complex type of organization I have never managed among the others, both profit and no profit.
By quoting what Nelson Mandela once said, I believe “It is probably more difficult to be a good family man rather than a professional revolutionary!”
I am a quite strange (explosive…) ‘mix’ of ingredients like social research, entrepreneurship, social activism, poetry….
My favourite book is “Memoirs of Hadrian” by Marguerite Yourcenar.
My favourite places, and where you will most likely meet me: Piazza Farnese, near ASVI’s office in Rome in Piazza Cavour; Regent Park, where the ‘Garden Cafè’ is one of my ‘office’ in London; Plaza Mayor in Madrid, in the side streets.
I am giving all of myself so as to realize three ‘visions’.
Running the best ‘Third Sector’s School of Management in the world, training the most incisive ‘change makers’- managers and projects managers. For a Third Sector able to build a strong civil economy offering qualified employment to young people.
Helping my three children in leading a free and aware life with a strong enough character to live it to the full. This is a challenge that takes on the world, but I am optimistic.
Expanding my spirituality to the max. I have been meditating for over 15 years, I love Buddhism and since I can remember, in between one managerial challenge and another, I continue my inner search. Of the three, the latter, for me, is without a doubt the hardest.
