The “la Caixa” Foundation’s budget will reach 538 million euros in 2023. This is the largest allocation in the entity’s history and is motivated by the need to protect the most vulnerable groups in the current scenario of inflationary crisis .
The Foundation accumulates more than a decade allocating an investment of more than 500 million euros to the development of social, scientific, educational and cultural initiatives. In 2022 the budget was 515 million euros, so the endowment for the current year is increased by 23 million.
Its president, Isidro Fainé, has stressed that “it is precisely in difficult times like the present when we have to be closer to the whole of society and, especially, to those people who are in a situation of vulnerability”. “At the center of our concerns are people and the well-being of their lives. Our purpose as “la Caixa” Foundation is, simply, social and human development, collective progress, and the well-being of each person considered and treated as an individual “, has added.
As explained by the entity, of the total investment planned in 2023, 60%, close to 320 million euros, will be allocated to the development of social transformation programs, such as CaixaProinfancia, with the aim of fighting child poverty; the labor integration projects Incorpora and Reincorporate; the Comprehensive Care Program for People with Advanced Diseases, which seeks to improve the quality of care for people who are at the end of their lives; as well as the program for the Elderly, to promote the social participation of this group. Within this section, the Calls for Social Projects aid will have an endowment of 45 million euros, meeting the needs of all territories.
Another 21% of the total investment, 112 million euros, will be allocated to initiatives to disseminate culture and science, through the network of CaixaForum centers, including the new CaixaForum -an audiovisual platform with a growing catalog of proposals cultural and scientific dissemination-, traveling exhibitions, concerts and conferences and proposals from the CosmoCaixa Science Museum.
The Research and Health area of ??the “la Caixa” Foundation will invest 62 million euros, 11% of the total budget. The calls to support medical research projects CaixaImpulse Health and CaixaImpulse Innovation, as well as the development of the future CaixaResearch Institute, a scientific reference center that the Foundation is promoting in Barcelona, ??are among the items in this block.
Finally, the remaining 8% of the entity’s investment in 2023, 44 million euros, will go to the area of ??education and scholarships, which promotes undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships, as well as the Educaixa program, which promotes the educational transformation with the objective of guaranteeing a quality education through the development of the appropriate ones both in the students and in the entire teaching community.
In 2022, the “la Caixa” Foundation, whose general director is Antonio Vila Bertrán, has continued to develop its strategic programs with social impact and transformative impact on the main problems as a priority. The implementation in all the provinces of Spain of the CaixaProinfancia and Care for People with Advanced Illnesses programs have been two of the milestones of the year, which also highlighted the collaboration provided by the Foundation to facilitate the reception of Ukrainian refugees in families Spanish.
The expansion and redefinition of the Calls for Aid for Social Projects with territorial criteria, the launch of the new Undergraduate Scholarships programme, the inauguration of CaixaForum Valencia, the launch of CaixaForum -which already has more than 40,000 subscribers-, or the 7.7 million beneficiaries of Profuturo, the digital literacy program in developing countries, have been other objectives achieved in 2022.
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