A interface do Serviço Social com o investimento social privado

Abstract

This dissertation aims to examine the interface of Social Work with Private Social Investment. This study seems to be a pioneer in the Social Work area. Our overall objective was to identify and analyze private social investment and its interface with social work in companies, institutes and foundations associated with Group of Institutes Foundations and Companies - GIFE, located in São Paulo. Therefore, we used GIFE’s concept of private social investment that defines as a private investment and the public interest for projects and external social programs in a planned, monitored and systematic way. Private social investment in Brazil has developed closely along with the movement of corporate social responsibility. In light of the foregoing, we have demonstrated that within the conjunct of stakeholders of corporate social responsibility, there is the community, which within this relation model, represents private social investment. Corporate social responsibility is presented by coverage and complexity, as a management model; and private social investment as an appropriate instrument for managing relationships and connections with the external community. In methodological terms, this dissertation is based on a theoretical perspective founded on the dialectical method. Our research is qualitative and to solve the issue, we did bibliographic research and field research in organizations associated with GIFE. We presented the changes in the historical scenario which contributed to the emergence and development of the theme. Besides that, we took sustainable development into consideration, a macro theme with growing importance in the current social scenario with direct relations to corporate social responsibility and private social investment. With this analytical trajectory and field research with members of GIFE, we have identified that private social investment constitutes a labor camp for the Social Worker, but with reduced visibility and little presence of these professionals. And when a social worker’s expertise is required, they work on “the expressions of social question” manifested in particular aspects of the working class, especially those concerning education, social assistance, food and health. The demands make evident a more focused action to the “extra wall” of the organizations. Due to our relationship with the Master’s Degree program of the Université Grenoble Alpes - UGA, we have also presented corporate social responsibility and private social investment in France