Asociación Conciencia

Asociación Conciencia is a non-partisan civil association aimed to educate and inform citizens about the importance of participation in democracy, fostering education in young people values, and also developing the net working.

Strengthening the Values of Democracy

Thematic Area: Education in citizen participation

Main Objective: To promete the achievement of a puclic policy project that deals with community issues and contributes to local development

Goals:

To raise people awareness about their condition as citizens providing democratic and republican ideas for them to act as citizens not only because it is a right, but also as a responsibility. To foster actions aimed to reach the welfare and the general social and economic development.

Objectives:

To educate and inform citizens about the importance of the participation, and the importance of living the democracy as an effort from dialog, responsibility and freedom.
To foster actions aimed to reach the welfare and the general social and economic development.
To re-value the volunteer work as a core tool for the communitarian live.
To foster the interrelation among the State, Companies and NGOs.

Programs:

Proniño
Porvenir-
Conbeca-
Uniendo Metas-
Fortaleciendo los Valores de la Democracia
La Justicia va a la Escuela
Programa Construyendo Ciudadanía
Yo Tengo Poder
Transparencia
Conducción Responsable
Educar en Responsabilidad
Pioneros
Primero la Escuela
Valor a tu futuro
Nuestras Manos también Crean
Aprendar
Fortaleser
Activarse
Somos Capaces
Siempre Atentos
Semillas
Juego a Manos Limpias
Jóvenes, Democracia and Medios de Comunicación
Animate
Acompañamos tu Esfuerzo

Incorporation number:

564

Inspecting institution:

Inspeccion General de Justicia

Year founded:

1982

Staff:

Volunteers:

3600

In September CONCIENCIA has been awarded the ‘Diploma to the Merit 2008’ from the Konex awards in the category ‘Local Development Entities’. This distinction encourages the association to work harder on its main education tasks of focusing on a democratic society.
Throughout October and November the Association is fully dedicated to complete the main programs of CONCIENCIA. During October 31st, November 1st and 2nd the Association will be performing the National Meeting of the Program ‘Uniendo Metas, Jovenes para el futuro’ , it is a practice of the United Nations Model where over 1000 teenagers from every city in Argentina discuss about the main problems that are affecting the world. On November 19th, the program ‘Aprender’ will join all the graduated beneficiaries, the volunteers who helped them during 3 years, the parents and the community members to perform the end-year meeting.
On November 21st the program ‘Fortaleciendo los Valores de la Democracia’ will take over the National Meeting where teachers and students from 9 argentinian schools will be present to launch new projects about public politics designed by themselves in order to contribute to make an improvement in the community.

Year:

2007

Assets:

Total Assets: 1 946 902,75 ARS

Liabilities:

Total Liabilities: 1 222 413,17 ARS

Income:

Total Income: 4 439 004,28 ARS

Expenditure:

Total Expenses: 4 256 599,52 ARS

Address:

Tucumán 731 1°A

Locality:

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Zip/Postal Code:

1049

Telephone:

5411-4393-9719

Fax:

5411-4393-9719

E-mail:

conciencia@conciencia.org

Website:

http://www.conciencia.org

Board of Directors:

Lía Rueda, Presidenta
Rosa Ester A. de Benech, Vicepresidenta 1ra.
Silvia Mónica A. de Guasco, Vicepresidenta 2da.
María Teresa Pandolfo, Vicepresidenta, 3ra.
Agustina Zenarruza, Secretaria
Magdalena Bosch, Pro-Secretaria
María Martina Figueras Bielsa, Tesorera
Magdalena Lacroze, Pro Tesorera

Team:

Susana Finger, Directora de Programas Educativos
Victoria Moore, Asistente de Dirección de Programas Educativos
Alexis Estévez, Responsable de Desarrollo Institucional
Anabella Serignese, Responsable de Comunicación
Guido Gallo Serrat, Responsable de Sistemas
Adriana Scagnetti, Responsable del Departamento de Tesorería
Leandro Muñoz, Departamento de Tesorería
Natalia Flores, Departamento de Tesorería

Educative programs coordinators:
-Ana Sol Minervini
-Johanna Rodríguez Silva
-María Gabriela Scotto
-Guillermina Fernández
-María Gisele Chairrasco
-María Florencia Lescano
-Romina Kasman
-Marina Sánchez
-Ayelén Amigo
-Soledad Gómez
-Sabrina Ravinovich
-María Urioste
-Soledad Chavarría
-Sol Benedit
-María Valeria Peralta