ESC: CNV - V.I.P

The National Center for Volunteering is a mixed second-level association . To date, the Members are 183 belonging to every cultural setting or political orientation: in fact, volunteer organizations, service structures, Local Authorities, Regions, Service Centers and also people who have played an active role in promoting volunteering in Italy and also the new "associative realities" such as Service Centers, Consultations and various forms of aggregation that reflect the "variety" of volunteering: from social health, to cultural, to environmental; this makes it unique in its kind at a national level.

The Cnv is registered in the Regional Register of Volunteers of Tuscany (since 1994) and in the Register of Legal Persons of the Prefecture of Lucca (since 2007). It was a Training Agency accredited by the Tuscany Region (from 2003 – 2010), it obtained the DNV Quality Certification in the field of training (2004 – 2009) and for the Civil Service it is the only accredited body in Class I registered in the Tuscan regional register.

The Cnv is also a member of the National Consultation for the Fight against AIDS and has participated in the National Observatory for Volunteering, the Commission for the Coordination of Volunteer Activities in Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the Consultation for Volunteering in Healthcare.