ARCS - Arci Cultura e Sviluppo - is an NGO and NPO and it is recorded in the list of organizations referred to in paragraph 26 of the Law 125/2014.

ARCS - NGO association was founded in Rome in 1985 by Arci, the largest secular association for social and cultural promotion in the Italian Third Sector, founded in 1957 in Florence and present throughout the country.
ARCI’s mission, history and values have their roots in the experiences of mutual solidarity in the late nineteenth century and they are today put into practice in the support for all forms of association for active citizenship, in the fight against all forms of social exclusion and in the defense of freedom and of participatory democracy, in the affirmation of a global society of rights and justice.