Associazione Opera San Francesco per i Poveri ODV (Fiscal Code 97051510150) is a non-profit association and pursues exclusively civic, social, and socially useful aims supporting needy, outcast, and underprivileged people.

It was founded by the Minor Capuchin Friars on November 28th 1986, and was legally recognized by a DPR Lombardia #13340 on December 12th 1992 followed by the registration in the Regional Volunteer Register on January 27th 1994.

In 2022, the Association was enlisted as ODV (Volunteer Organization) in the National Register of the Third Sector Institutions.

Starting from January 1st 2025, the Association has transferred by deed of free transfer all its human services – Meal Services, Showering and Clothing Services, Collection Centre, Medical and Social Services, Psychological and Psychiatric Services – to Fondazione Opera San Francesco per i Poveri ETS (Fiscal Code 97176630156), so to unify under one institution (the Foundation) all activities required for the fulfilment of the OSF’s mission in favour of needy people, including communication and fund-raising activities.

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