Manè-Impresa Sociale

Manè is a social enterprise committed, since 2009, in the field of social innovation and creation or implementation of inclusive and accessible solutions for people with disabilities or with social, cultural or economic disadvantage. The goal is to improve their quality of life also through assistive technologies. We are based in Puglia (Bari) and Campania (Naples), two strategic regions in south Italy. Our teamwork group is multidisciplinary and is made up of expert in training, in biomedical engineering, in social innovation processes, assistive technologies and strategies and technologies for teaching and learning, so we offer tailored and custom services to our clients. Our main activities are the planning of indipendent living projects, work inclusion through job-coaching for people with disabilities and at risk of educational poverty and the creation of inclusive teaching environments. We also work with primary and secondary school students, in order to respond adequately to the special educational needs of each individual case. Our Social Enterprise believes in the concrete possibility of real change of the general conditions for people in disadvantaged situations, regardless of their starting condition, as long as we take action starting from the environment around us and how we design it. Our work habits: 1. From profit to purpose & values: replace rules and protocols by a set of clear values about sustainability and social inclusion, indipendent living and releasing any dependence syndrome, raft a crisp and clear vision e mission that unites and activates all people within the organization and the beneficiaries too. 2. From hierarchical pyramids to a team: make each component of our team responsible for their own results, tear down the familiar hierarchical pyramid and let the changing nature of the work modify the structure of roles of our team in a fluid way, so create a multidisciplinary one, sometimes disomogeny too, where the social impact and the result are important in the same way. In these way the vision leads us because we are a social enteprise. 3. From directive leadership to supportive leadership: we don’t assume, everytime, we know best and more even in our specif field of interventions, we need to ask to your employees, our beneficiaries what it is we need to thrive. Authority is no longer linked to hierarchical positions, but by the ability to lead by example and by building and guiding teams that flourish. In this way we move on, we look forward. 4. From predict & plan to experiment & adapt: Long term strategic business planning and budgeting are all based on the outdated belief that we can predict the future. Nowadays too much variables can affect our work, and on the other side our work requests to be reactive. We approch the reality follow this motto: experiment, learn and adapt. 5. From rules & control to freedom & trust: To get rid of the old-fashioned command-and-control structures we need that high degree of freedom should come hand in hand with a high degree of responsibility. 6. From centralized authority to distributed authority: we trust our teamwork to make the right decisions, aim to distribute authority to individuals in order to be able to adapt constantly to the rapidly changing business environment, for pushing authority down the organization chart as much as possible. Key Words • Disabilities (motor, sensorial and pshyco-social) • Non-formal learning • Learning by doing, • Social Innovation • Assistive Technologies • Indipendent living • Ambient Assisted Living • Education • Training • Policy making Some achivements: - 466 Independent living projects (256 currently under construction) - 17 Social Innovation projects (since 2016) - 1585 hours of training for support teachers (since 2016) - 27 Partnerships with non-profit organizations, public authorities and businesses (since 2016) - 1 social restaurant with 18 work placements of people with disabilities (in 2015) For any further inform www.manesociale.it