Dear Friend,
It was a group of exasperated Venetian citizens who lit the spark which, in the year 2000, became Confederazione Veneziana.
Frustrated and angered at the inefficiencies and corruption present in government institutions in the Venices*, we were determined to create a truly independent organization - embodying the traditional Venetian values of laboriosity, justice and integrity - which would fight against inefficiency, injustices and corruption, vigorously and courageously on behalf of all citizens irrespective of their political or religious beliefs.

To ensure that no one stopped us from achieving our objectives, we protected our freedom and independence with scrupulous care, and we will continue to do so. We are in the pocket of no government, religious or economic power. And there is one thing, and one thing alone, which kept us that way: the private support of individuals and organizations committed to our cause. We rely on them for the majority of our funding - and thanks to them we are able to make no compromises.

Over the past years, we have tackled many issues - some battles we lost, many more we won. However, no sooner do we manage to win a battle that new laws and regulations are quickly promulgated to restore the status quo. We have therefore decided to move away from focused technical interventions on government agencies and to concentrate instead on the root causes of institutional inefficiencies.

Thus, now the aim of Confederazione Veneziana is to bring about deep reaching institutional, social and economic changes based on those ideas and principles that motivated with extreme success our Venetian Forefathers - free enterprise, institutional integrity, limited government and individual liberty.
As institutional entrepreneurs, we believe in fact that the most effective solutions to contemporary problems are drawn from our country's institutional, historical, economic and social heritage.

Having had the determination and strategic vision to seek opportunity in crisis, we still face the enormous challenge of building CV's organizational capability to meet the demands of this new strategy. We need to attract members and staff with experience in institutional development and heritage protection. We need to acquire the systems and the infrastructure required to manage an endeavour on the scale that we now envisage. And Confederazione Veneziana needs substantial financial support.

As a consequence, we are engaging in a systematic capacity building effort to address each of these gaps. One of the first results of our efforts is represented by this website.
A principal tool in the fight for institutional reforms is access to information - it is in this spirit that we offer this website to all who care about the principles of free enterprise, institutional integrity, limited government and individual liberty. Furthermore, we hope this website will also enable questioning, open-minded people to discover for themselves the value and significance of the institutional and ethical heritage left to us by our Venetian Forefathers.

Dear Friend, we do recognize CV is up against heavy odds and has very limited resources. However we are very determined individuals and we all have a passionate commitment to Confederazione Veneziana's mission.
We believe we are being given an historic opportunity, and we cannot fail to make the most of it. It is the least we owe to our Venetian Forefathers, and to the next generation who will live with the result of what we accomplish, or fail to accomplish, today.

AnnaMaria Giro
President of CV

We know there are hundreds of worthy causes you could support. We know we have to earn your support. And we hope our website does just that.
If you care about the ideas and principles that motivated with extreme success our Venetian Forefathers - free enterprise, limited government, individual liberty and institutional integrity - and share CV's commitment to see institutions in North-East Italy* shaped by these principles and values I hope you will Support Us or Join Us today.

(*) For the purpose of CV's work, the words "Venices", "Venetia" and "Northeast Italy" are interchangeable, and are taken as meaning the historical Venices within Northern Italy - i.e. the current italian regions of Venezia Tridentina-Sud Tirol/Alto Adige, Venezia Euganea, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the current provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona (i.e Venezia Orobica), and Mantua.