Participating in Piccolare Community Day!

Hello, this is Hida from AfC.
On December 20, 2025, I participated in the "2025 Piccolare Community Day" held by the certified NPO Piccolare (*1), where I serve as an auditor in a pro bono capacity.

As Piccolare's scale of operations has grown, the number of people involved has increased year by year. Consequently, the organization recognizes the need to strengthen its organizational foundation to ensure sound management.

Therefore, this fiscal year, with a grant from the Panasonic NPO/NGO Support Fund for SDGs (*2) and support from the NPO CR Factory (*3), which specializes in community management, we have been working on organizational diagnosis and strengthening our organizational foundation.

[Overview of Initiatives]

・Conducted a Community Capital Diagnosis to measure three elements: "empathy with the philosophy," "sense of self-utility," and "comfort."
・Based on the diagnosis results, held multiple mutual understanding workshops for each team.
・Held the "2025 Piccolare Community Day" at the LOUNGE / Cafe Port Glasgow in the Sugamo event space Ryozan Park (*4) as a mutual understanding workshop for the entire Piccolare organization.

[Details of the 2025 Piccolare Community Day]

In the first 90 minutes, we reviewed this year's initiatives and conducted self-introductions in an interview format.
It was a very useful opportunity for me as an auditor to learn about the motivations of the members involved in Piccolare's main projects—pregnancy conflict counseling and creating places of belonging—and the feelings they bring to their daily activities.
In the second 90 minutes, we split into small groups to discuss the future vision of Piccolare.
The opinions shared by members with diverse backgrounds contained surprising perspectives and insights. As an auditor, I felt reassured and realized that Piccolare is supported by a wide variety of people.

[Summary]

Initiatives like strengthening the organizational foundation—what we call "improving the control environment" in the world of auditing and internal controls—often have effects that are difficult to see in the short term, leading them to be prioritized lower. However, I believe they are highly important and must be continued from a long-term perspective.

Seeing Piccolare actively working on such humble yet important tasks gave me peace of mind as an auditor. It was also a day of deep gratitude for the organizations that provide grants for such initiatives and for those that offer their support.

(*1) Certified NPO Piccolare
https://piccolare.org/
(*2) Panasonic NPO/NGO Support Fund for SDGs
https://holdings.panasonic/jp/corporate/sustainability/citizenship/pnsf/npo_summary.html
(*3) NPO CR Factory
https://web.crfactory.com/
(*4) Ryozan Park
https://www.ryozanpark.com/