The Executive Committee of Obra Social and CECA's Foundations celebrates its annual meeting with the share of more than 20 foundations and the collaboration of the Fundación Ávila
Antonio Romero, CECA's Managing Director, underlined the importance of the work developed by the foundations, deeply ingrained in its communities, as key for strengthen the territorial cohesion and achieve an actual social impact
CECA has held in Ávila, on 18 and 19 September, the annual meeting of his Executive Committee of Obra Social and Foundations, that has gathered to the main representatives of the associated companies. The event, organised with the collaboration of Fundación Ávila, has highlighted the crucial role that carry out foundations of the sector in the boost of the social cohesion, the territorial structuring and the preservation of the assets.
During two meeting, the representatives of CECA and foundations partners have developed a work agenda that has combined institutional meetings with cultural activities and of valuation of the territory. Between the main acts, emphasised the institutional reception in the County Council of Ávila, chaired by Carlos García González, as well as the presentation of Fundación Ávila: engine of change, that it put in relief the contribution of the hostess company to the cultural, educational and social development of the province. The Managing Director of Fundación Ávila, Carlos Carrera, thanked the confidence of CECA and it pointed out that “this meeting strengthens the vocation of the Fundación Ávila of being a motivating agent of the cultural life and social of our territory”.
The Managing Director of CECA, Antonio Romero, emphasised that between top priorities of the association the boost of the role is found carried out by the associated foundations, which emphasised that “represent not only our social vocation, but also the guarantee of that that vocation is translated in stock, actual and transformation impact in the life of the people”.
Similarly, thanked to the Fundación Ávila its role as a hostess and it underlined that this meeting reflects the spirit of the sector's foundations, deeply ingrained in its communities and experts on the reality of each territory. Romero also stressed in the value of the cooperation between companies and of the collaboration public-private, as well as the need of moving forward in new methodologies to measure the social impact, leaning on technological tools that they allow visibilizar better the contribution of the sector. Romero concluded pointing out the preparation of the centenary of CECA, that will be celebrated in 2028, as an opportunity to highlight the historic and current contribution of the association and its foundations.
Between the attendees appeared representatives of more than 20 foundations of the Whole of Spain, between them Fundación Caja Burgos, Fundación Caja Rioja, Fundación Circle of Burgos, Fundación Caja Navarre, Fundación La Caja de Canarias, Fundación Mediterranean, Fundación Caja Extremadura, FUNCAS, Fundación CAI, CATTLE RANCHES, Fundación Caja Castellón, Fundación Ibercaja, Caixa Pollença, Fundación Montemadrid and CaixaBank, in addition to the executive team of CECA and the Fundación Ávila as a hostess.
The meeting also served to reassert the commitment set of CECA and its foundations in key fields as the financial inclusion, the support to young and great, the fight against the rural depopulation, the cultural promotion and the sustainability. The foundations of CECA represent the private social major investor of Spain, with more than 900 million euros destined in 2024. 36% of the investment was allocated to social programs and more than 172 millions were dedicated to culture and assets.