www.finansol.org is the unique French portal allowing anyone to discover French Social and Solidarity finance systems. It provides rich and up-to-date information on the sector and answers any of your questions on this particular topic.
This webpage let our non French speaking friends to find out more about Social and
Solidarity financial systems and their French specificities through the presentation of the network Finansol. Links towards similar European and international institutions will allow you to get more information on actions realised within this field in your country.

Created in 1995, non-profit Finansolis a unique French network representing  the sector   and gatherinh together most of its players.

Finansol has 4 objectives:

- to develop public knowledge of Solidarity finance systems and practice of Socially and Solidarity orientated savings 

→ It stimulates citizens' interest by providing educational information tools about Solidarity finance systems.

→  Finansol incites and encourages savers to subscribe to Social and Solidarity funds by offering them reliable and up-to-date information about the products and their managers.

The label Finansol is the reference tool which allows savers to distinguish social and solidarity funds from traditional financial products. The label assures the savers of the transparency, the ethics and the solidarity aspect of the saving product they choose, moreover, it ensures the savers of the destination of the investment into Social and Solidarity products

- to increase authorities and government recognition of the sector to negotiate a more incentive legislative frame for the sector

- to play an active role with the research and educational sector in strengthening the sector and reinforcing its place among the Economy 

- to brings service to its members 

European and international scale of Social and Solidarity finance systems :
To strengthen the sector and reinforce its recognition, Finansol and a few of its European and International partners invented the construction of a "Global Solidarity Finance System" (GSFS).