About us

What is the GRUPO TERCER SECTOR (THIRD SECTOR GROUP)?

The Grupo Tercer Sector (GTS), one of the programs promoted by Del Viso Foundation, has become a leading third sector publication specialized in social information within the country and one of the most remarkable in its type in Latin America.

It emerged along with Tercer Sector Journal in 1994 as the first Argentine publication fully devoted to the work of social organizations. Its growth and consolidation contributed to strengthen a little explored space in those days and gave birth to other communication enterprises centered on civil society information.

Presently, the GTS is dedicated to producing and spreading the news which reflect the work of such organizations both in this country and in the region. Apart from the printed version, the information about Tercer Sector is available on the web: www.tercersector.org.ar

Besides, the GTS provides journalistic contents of the Risolidaria website in Argentina and participates in the section Tercer Sector de la Agencia Universitaria de Noticias y Opinión (University News and Opinion Agency). What is more, it offers counseling and training services to different institutions.

Our members

We are an interdisciplinary team made up of professionals specialized in the social sector who come from the communication, education, social work and human development areas.

Members of the fundation

Board of Directors:

Chairman: Marcos Cytrynblum
Deputy Chairman: Renato Montefiore
Secretary: Miguel Angel Gallardo
Treasurer: Jorge Varín
Regular Member: Leonor Wolfes de Montefiore

Teamwork

Executive Director: Lizzie Wanger
Coordinator for Communication Area: Silvia Fiore
Socio-educational programs coordinator:
Florencia Fevre, Mariana Lavari, Guillermo Merediz, Solana Noceti, Verónica Barrionuevo y Cecilia López.
Administrative assistant and Secretary:
Daniela Crucil Daniela Barrionuevo, Silvia Frank
Reception: Alan Brennan

Tercer Sector Magazine

General Manager: Marcos Cytrynblum
Editor in Chief: Silvia Fiore
Editor: Sebastián Oliel
Press Coordinator: Carmen Bocutti
Art Director: Walter Molina
Institutional Relations: Valeria Grimberg
Subscriptions: Carolina Urquiza
Website: Horacio Armengol
Risolidaria of Argentina: Silvia Marchant
Auno / Tercer Sector: Guillermo dos Santos Coelho

Our history

In 1994, the journalist Marcos Cytrynblum in collaboration with the specialist Andrés Thompson created the Tercer Sector Journal with the idea of developing a social media space for the third sector.

While the process of creation of the Del Viso Foundation was taking shape in the late 1980´s, Cytrynblum became aware of the need for creating a new space in order to spread widely civic society information.

Thus, the Tercer Sector Journal emerged as a professional product focused on broadcasting the activities of social organizations, but it also pursues the objective of helping the social sector to forge its own identity.

Shortly after conceiving the idea, the proposal aroused the interest of international institutions specialized in the subject which decided to support the project. That was the case of US Kellogg Foundation: till 1999 it provided a major financial support to Tercer Sector. Since then, the journal has become a self-sustainable program. Over these years of steady growth, the project succeeded in gaining a position as a communication conglomerate with a focus on social sector information. In addition, it encouraged the national mass media to give a widespread coverage of the topics, to such an extent that today main Argentine papers have special sections with social issues.

The GTS in figures:

• The Tercer Sector Journal is published since 1994.
• It is the first journal specialized in community-based organizations in Latin America.
• It comes out every two months with a circulation of 6000 copies.
• It has more than 25 advertisers from top-level firms.
• News Agency Auno/Tercer Sector: a weekly report for a hundred national press media and for more than 30 000 social, academic, governmental and business organizations is released since 1999.
• www.risolidaria.org.ar: Since 2001, GTS professionals provide the Fundación Telefónica´s website on social issues with journalistic contents.
• www.tercersector.org.ar: some of the journal topics are offered on the web since 1996. The website provides information as well as the necessary tools to strengthen social organizations management.

DEL VISO FOUNDATION

This is a community-based organization deeply rooted within the most underpriviledged communities of Del Viso, in the Province of Buenos Aires. It was born in the late eighties amid a violent economic crisis which threw thousands of families into poverty.
With the unswerving purpose of working together with the people living in this area, it develops social and educational programs destined to improve the quality of life of the community.