The exclusion that exists in Brasil has motivated the emergence of the Economy of Communion from within Focolari Movement. That is a project that aims at relieving the situation of necessity and misery that certain parts of world population deal with. The question that is focused in this dissertation is if such project is capable of contributing to cope with social exclusion, even locally. In order to answer it, the case of Vargem Grande Paulista was studied, since it was the place where the Economy of Communion was born. Then, a conceptual framework was built based on the book of Norbert Elias e John L. Scotson: The Established and the Outsiders. It was used to interpret the reality observed at the community and among the Economy of Communion companies. Those authors show that exclusion has both a material and a symbolic dimension. Based on the original intentions associated with the idea of a economy of sharing and also on the observations on individual`s behavior, it is concluded that the Economy of Communion has potential to cope with the symbolic dimension of exclusion. However, another question remains to be answered: will it grow enough to a critical mass capable of making the results perceivable at macro economic and social indicators?