CEET in pics

• The Trust in the CR:

• Impacts and Achievements
  • Overall impacts
  • Meeting CEE Trust goals
• Program Map
• Program Components
  • Creating Favorable Environment for NGOs
  • Creating Favorable Environment for Advocacy and Public Policy
  • Institutional Support for NGOs
  • Knowledge Fund
  • Consultants’ Guild
  • Strenghtening Regional Foundations
  • Model Community and Regional Projects
  • Ensuring Access to the EU funding
  • Increasing Support from the Private Sector
  • Increasing Support from Individuals
• Program In Spotlight
  • CEET in facts and figures
  • CEET in the eyes of grantees
  • CEET in stories
  • CEET in pics
• Annotated Summary of Grants( pdf 153 kB)

Advocating for better future

EPS/ Environmental Legal Services

Environmental Legal Services received support in the total amount of USD 163 272.

Thanks to the CEE Trust support EPS/ ELS was able to provide pro-bono legal services in the areas of environmental preservation and human rights, consultation and the enforcement of legislative aims.

"Environmental Legal Services" helped the farmer Rajter and his family to defend their farming property against a major foreign investor - the NEMAK company, supported by "a special resolution" of the Czech government."

_{Photo: Ibra Ibrahimovič}

 

Access to information and expertise concerning EU funding

V-4 Fundraisers Networking Meeting, February 12th - 13th, Prague

The primary goal of the meeting was to facilitate the exchange of experiences among V-4 fundraising practitioners and trainers/consultants. The specific focus was on fundraising from individuals, i.e. advanced methods of recruiting stable, long-term NGO supporters from the broader public.

Almost 30 fundraisers, consultants and trainers from Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria came to meet their colleagues, share experiences and ideas and gather inspiration.

There were two main topics discussed: "Fundraising through the Internet" and "How to Make Giving Easy - access to payment mechanisms for recruiting and maintaining supporters".

 

The Consultants Guild (The training program for Czech and Slovak consultants, a project)

The total grant amount from the CEE Trust program: 70 000 USD

The aim of the CEE Trust "Consultants Guild" program component has been to offer a platform for meetings, education and the exchange of experiences. A website that includes an on-line consultants' database was developed, where it's possible to find consultants who offer their services to non-government organizations. One of the results of the program has been the establishment of the Consultants Guild Civil Association, initiated by the members of the program themselves.

A part of the program was the two-year educational training project for Czech and Slovak consultants, conducted by and under the patronage of the Slovak organization Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia.

 

Raising support from the public

The Bethlehem Evangelic Deaconry Center

The total amount of support from the program component Increasing Support from Individuals: 2 x 200 000 Kč (6 590 + 6 803 USD)

In the first part of the project, the Bethlehem Center focused its efforts on developing a professional system on how to work with individual donors, and consequently significantly increased their number due in large part to support from the VIA Foundation. Even more important for the Center was that the individual donors, who live in the neighborhood close to the Center, became involved in their activities and in this way also expressed their support for the Center's work.

Charity auction in November 2003 - A client showing a work on the manual weaving loom, which was purchased from the proceeds of a previous auction.

Photos documenting life in the Center: A client walking with their nurse. Unlike in state institutions, where handicapped people live in an enclosed setting of "institutionalized care," the Bethlehem Center wants their clients to become a part of the community and to interact with the local people. Each client receives individual care.

 

Duha Movement/ The Rainbow Movement - Friends of the Earth Association

The total amount of support from the program component Increasing Support from Individuals: 2 x 200 000 Kč (6 590 + 6 803 USD)

The long-term strategy of The Rainbow Movement is to build up an extensive base of individual donors. Financial resources raised from individuals provide advocacy organizations like Duha with financial independence, which is a necessary condition for their work. With each new donation, they also gain a dedicated advocate. The VIA Foundation helped them in their efforts with financial support.

 

Společnost přátel přírody/ The Friends of Nature Society

The total amount of support from the program component Increasing Support from Individuals: 2 x 200 000 Kč (6 590 + 6 803 USD)

With support from the VIA Foundation, The Friends of Nature Society was able to try out a wide range of fund raising techniques that address the individual donor, including a direct mail campaign, direct dialogue, offering tree adoptions or selling stickers in connection with fund raising campaign for the "New Forest" project. Based on these experiences, SPP created a successful fundraising portfolio and, thanks to this, the amount of support they raise from individuals has been gradually increasing.

Addressing the public in Liberec/ Direct dialogue (The Friends of Nature Society information stand on the town square in Liberec)

 

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