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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Business and Industry Citizenship and Governance Education Governance Labour Science and Technology Social Development Sustainable Development Youth Public Administration: Socio-Economic Governance and Management Sustainable Development: Education Information for decision-making and participation
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Netherlands Belgium Costa Rica France Spain Norway Austria Ecuador Panama Argentina Chile Mexico Peru Germany Sweden Switzerland Kuwait Malta United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Denmark Ireland Uruguay China Italy
Millennium Development Goals:	Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Novia Salcedo Foundation (NSF) is a non profit foundation whose aim is to support young unemployed graduates in the process of profesional and social integration in a changing world (first job). We invent and provide social awareness, developing lines of thought and processes of transformation towards new modes of exchange between individuals, companies, organisations and public institutions. NSF has mainly three types of activities: (1) Reflection: ICARO THINK TANK, in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Psycology of the University of the Basque Country; (2) Action programmes to connect young people with the labour market. They are focused on the recommendation of the ILO to overcome the barriers to enter the job market; (3) Raising awareness in society to impulse changes and the active collaboration of all our stakeholders in the transformation of the society (NSF Prize for Excellence in the professional integration of young people; Articles of opinion; presentation in specialized forums.
Year established:	1980
Year of registration:	1991
Organizational structure:	NSF is a 30 professional team with a Board of Trustees and a Technical Committee govern NSF, through a shared ethical leadership throughout the organization. NSF governance is aligned with the principles of "excellence", in order to ensure its sustainability in the future. Making this happen is not an easy challenge given the complexity of NSF"s challenges and operations. Besides, NSF counts on an Executive Team, and people responsible of processes and projects, who are in charge of deploying NSF´s strategic lines into bussiness plans, objectives and actions, and make them effective through the management by processes, and promote the improvement, innovation, and learning.
Number and type of members:	In NSF, the following people are considered as key members of our organisation: - A professional team of 30 members. - 14 members of the Board of Governors. - 800 companies and organisations who actively collaborate in our young employment programmes. - 75 members of the Icaro Think Tank.
Funding structure:	Fees for education and training services Product sales and business services Foreign and international grants Grants from Governments
Funding structure other:	79% of income coming from private sector; 21% of income coming from public sector

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