Our governance
Publié le 21 février 2024 - Mise à jour le 28 juillet 2025
Members of Governing Bodies during the General Assembly of Avise 2025
Avise is a non-profit organisation founded in 2002 whose by-laws define the governing bodies that set its strategic goals and adopt its annual action plan and budget. These bodies are the Strategic Council and the Executive Board. They are supported by statutory members and founding members. The aim is to ensure that Avise's strategic focus areas meet real needs and are aligned with those of other ecosystem stakeholders.
The Strategic Council is made up of four major categories of participants:
- The Banque des Territoires, the public-sector bank that supports social innovation in France;
- The main SSE and social innovation network leaders, who represent project owners by family of stakeholders as defined based on their statuses, and financers;
- Major SSE enterprises which play a major role in the SSE and social innovation support ecosystem;
- Qualified SSE and social innovation specialists, particularly representatives of local support providers (Fabriques à Initiatives, incubators, accelerators, the local SSE guidance and support scheme (DLA), etc.) and social entrepreneurs.
Note that government agencies are not involved in Avise’s governance, mainly to avoid the risk of de facto management since several State agencies have funding agreements with Avise.
Members of the Strategic Council and the Executive Board serve three-year terms. They are elected by the Avise General Assembly.