This October, the results of the Best NGOs Award 2024, the biggest award in the third region of Brazil, are announced, and one of the candidates to win the title for the sixth consecutive time is Casa Arte Vida, a Rio organization founded by the artist and philanthropist Ana Carolina Affonso . Next, read more about the biggest NGO award in Brazil and about Casa Arte Vida, an organization that has been part of the best NGO group in the country for five years.(Photo: Casa Arte Vida) Best Public Organizations Award The Best Public Organizations Award is developed annually by the social accreditation body Instituto Doar and Instituto O Mundo Que Quero to evaluate the best public organizations in Brazil. Currently in its eighth edition, the award allows the free participation of Brazilian non-profit organizations and foundations — there are around 800,000 organizations operating in the country in this way.
By recognizing the work of the best non-governmental organizations in Brazil, the Best Public Organizations Award encourages the best practices in the Brazilian third sector. To this end, organizations that uphold the quality of their governance and integrity are assessed based on a selection of five key technical themes and objectives: Policy Case and Performance, Representation and Accountability, Governance Policy and Planning, Funding and Awareness Policies and public accountability. .
The financial sustainability of NGOs, for example, is an important criterion for evaluating the organizations that will be selected on the list of the 100 best NGOs in Brazil. According to data released by the award, 98 percent of emerging organizations had a fundraising system or button and recruited at least one employee to dedicate themselves exclusively to fundraising activities. In addition to having a dedicated team just for this purpose, Casa Arte Vida, for example, has a donation button on its website and a “how to help” page, where residents can find ways to contribute to the organization.
Award categories The Best NGOs award is divided into certain categories. The most comprehensive category is Best NGOs, which awards the 100 best organizations among participants. The Best Small NGOs category awards up to 10 small organizations — that is, those with annual revenue of up to R$500,000. In addition to being in the Best NGOs category for 5 years, Casa Arte Vida, an organization led by Ana Carolina Affonso, also joined the Best Small NGOs group.
Other categories that are also awarded are Best NGO, best for each cause and best for each region/country.
(Photo: Casa Arte Vida) NGO Casa Arte Vida by Ana Carolina Affonso Non-governmental organization that serves residents of the Pedra de Guaratiba neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Casa Arte Vida (CAV) was founded in 2007 by the artist and lawyer Ana Karolina Affonso. CAV's mission is to provide inclusive and diverse education for young people and children, daily, after school, and through complementary education projects and programs in the areas of environment, finance, culture and industry.
CAV projects for economically disadvantaged youth combine creativity and innovation to provide a safe and welcoming environment that facilitates integration between the community and social workers. CAV's complementary education model, for example, promotes extracurricular civic education activities that use pragmatic approaches and consider multiple equities.
The most prominent CAV projects and programs are the CRIA project (Creativity, Innovation, Innovation and Arts), Maker Lab and Expresso do Futuro. As Ana Carolina Affonso believes in the power of extracurricular activities, CAV promotes initiatives that aim to provide diversity and inclusion between school, home and community. One example is the department's Family Development Strategy, which brings together a set of actions aimed at strengthening family relationships based on an integrated service model, made up of a team of psychologists, social assistance and teaching.
These initiatives have recently received several CAV awards, including the Best NGO Award and the Itaú-UNICEF Award from the UNICEF Itaú Social Program.
(Photo: Casa Arte Vida) Winner of the Best NGO Award Ana Carolina Affonso's CAV has a history of receiving awards for services provided to the population of the Guaratiba region in recent years. Since 2019, it has been considered one of the 100 best NGOs in Brazil, receiving this award in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date.
In 2020, the Best NGOs award launched a new category that rewards the ten best small organizations — and Casa Arte Vida was also recognized on the list. Thus, in addition to being part of the prestigious group of the 100 best non-governmental organizations in Brazil, CAV was recently considered one of the 10 best small non-governmental organizations, an award that recognizes the work of those who do more, have less. .
(Photo: Casa Arte Vida) CAV instructor Roberta Macedo made a presentation on the Best NGOs Award website, saying that the award “is the essence of being among the ten small companies, it brought us visibility and 'much more' . reliability in the work performed. […] And it is yet another recognition that we are on the right path, despite all the challenges.”
CAV works with independent instruction, active listening and the STEAM approach to develop multiple intelligences. All activities of the award-winning organization are based on the Millennium Sustainable Development Goals, defined by the United Nations.
Who is Ana Carolina Affonso, founder of CAV Brazilian philanthropist and lawyer, Ana Carolina Borges Torrealba Affonso founded Casa Arte Vida in 2017 to offer opportunities to young people in situations of social vulnerability through education.
(Photo: Casa Arte Vida) Currently dedicated to painting on bricks and tiles in her studio in Cascais, Portugal, Ana Carolina Affonso decided to found CAV to combine her passion for art and her desire to make educational opportunities more administrative.
The organization founded by Ana Carolina Affonso has already been honored with recognized awards such as the Best Public Organizations Award. Furthermore, CAV has been establishing important partnerships with the government and other bodies and institutions, which have already submitted initiatives related to the Citizen Woman Project. and training and training programs with Senac.