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Czech Republic
38 grants
| Grant Number | CZ/ I 2009/54 |
| Organization | Koreny o.s. (Roots) |
| Project Name | Legal borders of the lignite mining - advocacy for fulfillment of the local referenda results |
| Amount Awarded | USD 20,000.00 |
| Grant Period | October 01, 2009 - September 30, 2011 |
| Project Description | The project aims at writing off the coal reserves under inhabited areas in North Bohemia and at involving North Bohemia citizens into decision making processes. |
| Website | www.koreny.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/ I 2009/41 |
| Organization | Multicultural Center Prague |
| Project Name | Visawatch |
| Amount Awarded | USD 35,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 15, 2009 - February 28, 2011 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to stimulate a public debate about visa procedures achieve a greater degree of transparency and fair approach towards visa applicants by monitoring the visa procedures. |
| Website | www.mkc.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/ I 2009/23 |
| Organization | Association for Integration and Migration |
| Project Name | Migration management and/or rights of migrants? Endangered legal status of labour migrants in the time of economic crisis |
| Amount Awarded | USD 60,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 15, 2009 - November 30, 2011 |
| Project Description | The main objectives of the project are: o to influence the content and the quality of public debate on migration both in the media and among the policy-makers o to create an effective monitoring and control mechanism of the Czech NGOs regarding the decision processes on migration policy and alien legislation o to form and guarantee the existence of a well-founded expert opposition to any political or administrative tendencies towards more restrictive treatment of third-country nationals o to identify the needs for positive development and to propose the correspondent legislative or administrative reforms. |
| Website | www.uprchlici.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/ I 2009/10 |
| Organization | Europeum - Institute for European Policy |
| Project Name | Lobbying in the Czech Republic. Achilles heel of transparency and good governance? |
| Amount Awarded | USD 40,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 15, 2009 - September 15, 2010 |
| Project Description | The objectives of this project are: 1/Initiate a public debate on lobbying and its regulations – despite the government declaration from January 2007 to adopt a certain regulation of lobbying no concrete steps have been conducted yet. Therefore we have decided to start a public debate on this issue, to form a forum of experts and involve media into this process as much as possible and 2/Formulate a concrete legislative proposal and advocate it publicly – the second crucial objective of this project is a formulation of concrete legislative proposal which could be used as a suitable tool for advocacy work. Advocacy part of the project counts on public seminars/conferences and media articles. |
| Website | www.europeum.org |
| Grant Number | CZ/2009/03 |
| Organization | Prazdninova skola Lipnice |
| Project Name | Laterna |
| Amount Awarded | USD 10,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2009 - December 31, 2009 |
| Project Description | Presented project aims at: raising the civic engagement of „usual“ citizens and empowering critical thinking, communication skills and self-consciousness that encourage the orientation in the society and the active approach to social and private life as well. The project has following objectives: to involve target group (students) into civil society topics and a personal development through the interactive pedagogy methodology; to support target group (students) in the implementing their new experiences, skills and knowledge into their life and to create at least 2 civic engagement project by students |
| Website | http://www.psl.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/2009/04 |
| Organization | Nadace rozvoje občanské společnosti (Civil Society Development Foundation) |
| Project Name | Capacity Development Plan of NROS |
| Amount Awarded | USD 39,984.00 |
| Grant Period | March 15, 2009 - August 15, 2009 |
| Project Description | The main goal is to prepare Capacity Development Plan for fundraising, marketing and communication and to secure diversification of financial sources for non-profit organizations in the Czech Republic. Based on the results of a planning procedure (see 2.3.) that will be performed by external experts in presence of the Foundation’s employees, a Capacity Development Plan will be prepared to enhance both the professional and personnel capacities of the Foundation, leading to its sustainability so it can continue providing finances to support NGOs in the Czech Republic. |
| Website | http://www.nros.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/2009/02 |
| Organization | J. William Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic |
| Project Name | Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship for NGO leaders |
| Amount Awarded | USD 15,000.00 |
| Grant Period | March 01, 2009 - February 28, 2012 |
| Project Description | The Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship for NGO leaders is now a well established program with proven results. Building on the experience of the previous two years of running this program, the interest of NGO leaders is continually growing. This is the only program that can offer NGO staff ways of expanding their expertise through a combination of studies and internship, performed in USA. Monthly stipend and travel allowance should be complemented by a book allowance. The alumni of the program can well demostrate the long term impact of their stay both by showing higher qualification and by utilizing new contacts in their work. Co-funding of the program is requested for the up-coming three years, $5,000 each year. |
| Website | http://www.fulbright.cz/english.shtml |
| Grant Number | CZ/2009/01 |
| Organization | Counselling Centre for Citizenship, Civil and Human Rights |
| Project Name | Strategies, resources, structures: Capacity Building Project II |
| Amount Awarded | USD 90,000.00 |
| Grant Period | February 23, 2009 - January 31, 2011 |
| Website | http://www.poradna-prava.cz/english.htm |
| Grant Number | CZ/2008/06 |
| Organization | Slovak-Czech Women´s Fund |
| Project Name | Support of SCWF´s grant making and development of sustainability strategy for SCWF |
| Amount Awarded | USD 150,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2009 - December 31, 2011 |
| Project Description | The main goal is to promote women´s rights and gender equality in Czech and Slovak societies through increase of financial stability of women´s rights NGOs in Czech and Slovak Republics and promotion of social responsible philanthropy and social solidarity in the respective societies. |
| Website | www.scwf.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/34 |
| Organization | Open Society, p.b.c. - ProPolice |
| Project Name | Advocacy for consolidation of community policing within structure of Czech police |
| Amount Awarded | USD 180,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2009 - November 01, 2011 |
| Project Description | The project aims to foster changes of Czech police structure towards adoption of community policing within its tasks, responsibilities and operation at local level and to bring the issue of community policing and its related needs and expectations to public debate. |
| Website | http://www.pro-police.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/2008/05 |
| Organization | Agora Central Europe |
| Project Name | The Role of Advocacy and Watchdog Organizations in Supporting Civic Society and Strengthening the Legitimacy of the Judiciary as an Independent Body in The Czech Republic |
| Amount Awarded | USD 6,000.00 |
| Grant Period | October 01, 2008 - December 31, 2008 |
| Project Description | To help donors (CEE Trust) to adjust or set up their grant schemes to provide efficient support for watchdog and advocacy organizations |
| Website | www.agora-ce.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/2008/04 |
| Organization | Step by Step Czech Republic |
| Project Name | New steps |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | July 01, 2008 - June 30, 2009 |
| Project Description | The goals of this support are: a/ implementation of external and internal organization changes into its ordinary life b/ The organization restructuring c/ The organization stabilizing |
| Website | www.sbscr.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/2008/03 |
| Organization | Amelie, o.s. |
| Project Name | Professionalization of organization AMELIE |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | July 01, 2008 - June 30, 2009 |
| Project Description | The goals of this support are: a/ Professionalize the organization and build administrative capacity b/ Transition from purely volunteer base to professional providing of our services and help c/ Obtain status of “social service provider” according to new act of social services in the Czech Republic |
| Website | www.amelie-os.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/2008/02 |
| Organization | Z§vůle práva, o.s. |
| Project Name | Expansion of the method of strategic litigation as an instrument of social change in the interest of raising the standard of human rights and liberties protection and civil society development |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | July 01, 2008 - June 30, 2009 |
| Project Description | The aim of the project is to achieve a higher standard of human rights and liberties protection and civil society development in the Czech Republic through the practical use of the method of strategic litigation. |
| Website | www.zvuleprava.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/88 |
| Organization | Člověk v tísni, o.p.s. (People in Need) |
| Project Name | Kdo jiný? / Who Else? |
| Amount Awarded | USD 202,000.00 |
| Grant Period | June 01, 2008 - December 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to raise young people’s participation in civil society as regards handling critical public issues. The project uses materials from One world human rights film festival as an impulse for activating young people. |
| Website | http://www.clovekvtisni.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/132 |
| Organization | Public interest law association |
| Project Name | Pro bono in the Czech Republic |
| Amount Awarded | USD 80,000.00 |
| Grant Period | June 01, 2008 - June 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The general goal of the project is to expand access to legal services for people and interests not yet adequately represented. It should raise awareness about pro bono among attorneys, raise the social status of pro bono services, transfer cases/clients from NGOs to attorneys and improve their cooperation. |
| Website | http://www.pilaw.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/129 |
| Organization | Oziveni, o.s. |
| Project Name | Personal Responsibility Enforcement – The Key to Good Municipal Governance |
| Grant Period | June 01, 2008 - June 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The project's goal is to recreate a possibility of powerful and meaningful citizens' local watchdog activity, by creating the possibilities A) to enforce personal responsibility of those breaking laws and B) to protect the municipal property against malfeasance by the right of legal action. |
| Website | http://www.oziveni.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/116 |
| Organization | Czech Transport Federation (CTF) |
| Project Name | Financing Highway Projects in the Czech republic - a Call for Action |
| Amount Awarded | USD 90,000.00 |
| Grant Period | June 01, 2008 - June 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | This project aims to A) Make the government accountable for planning and permitting transport project procedures (legal, transparent and economically effective processes open to public participation and with assessment of alternatives). B) Make the government accountable for the financing of specific transport plans and projects and assessing alternatives in terms economic, social and environmental impact. C) Change the way transport is charged into an effective economic tool supporting alternatives in transport policy and a modal shift in favour of environmentally acceptable transport. |
| Website | http://www.dopravnifederace.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/ 2008/1 |
| Organization | Via foundation |
| Project Name | Community Involvement – Community Participation – Community Mobilization”: Grant-Making for Grassroots Community Initiatives in the Czech Republic. |
| Amount Awarded | USD 447,000.00 |
| Grant Period | June 01, 2008 - November 01, 2011 |
| Project Description | The main goal of the project is to develop capacity of the Czech foundation that concentrate on community development and public participation so that it would be able to secure private resources for pass-through grant making as well as endowment building. The projects concentrates on following objectives: Mobilization of local public through providing funding, training and experience sharing to Czech grassroots initiatives, and Strengthening overall capacity of Via Foundation. |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/98 |
| Organization | Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) |
| Project Name | Reclaim Your Rights in the Digital Age |
| Amount Awarded | USD 200,000.00 |
| Grant Period | May 01, 2008 - May 01, 2011 |
| Project Description | The project aims to create an effective mix of legal and grassroot-empowering campaigns for privacy protection and intellectual property advance. |
| Website | http://www.iure.org |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/77 |
| Organization | Romea |
| Project Name | Investigative journalism of civil rights violations |
| Amount Awarded | USD 85,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - April 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | This projects aims to map violation of human rights in the society through investigative journalism (in all CZ regions). |
| Website | http://www.romea.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/73 |
| Organization | Zelený kruh |
| Project Name | Developing new modes of collaboration between NGOs, publics and academic sector |
| Amount Awarded | USD 78,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - April 01, 2011 |
| Project Description | This projects focuses on the development and strengthening of the NGO capacities. The main goal is to map, test and establish new modes of communication and collaboration 1) between NGOs themselves; 2) in relation to the public (local communities and/or citizens concerned with specific problem), and to experts and specialized (research) institutions. |
| Website | http://www.zelenykruh.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/68 |
| Organization | Fórum 50 % |
| Project Name | Longterm sustainability of Forum 50 % |
| Amount Awarded | USD 78,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - April 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to secure dynamic development and future sustainability of the organization that is focused on striving for a society that has equal representation of women and men in the public life. |
| Website | http://www.padesatprocent.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/54 |
| Organization | Czech Donors Forum |
| Project Name | New models for creating favorable legal conditions for the civil society in the Czech Republic |
| Amount Awarded | USD 78,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - April 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | Project aims to change the quality of legal and tax environment for NGOs in the Czech Republic through new models of cooperation with the Government, Universities and Chambers, MPs and NGOs. |
| Website | http://www.donorsforum.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/24 |
| Organization | JAN HUS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION |
| Project Name | Innovating and Diversification Investment Strategies of the Czech Foundation sector |
| Amount Awarded | USD 38,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - September 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This projects has three main goals: 1/Generate independent sustainable income for local partnering communities, and pioneer innovative cooperation between foundations and local governments; 2/Increase grant budget of the Czech foundations through investment with better return, and thus be able to support more civil society programs; 3/Enhance slow development of renewable energy sources in the Czech Republic |
| Website | http://www.vnjh.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/06 |
| Organization | Counselling Centre for Citizenship, Civil and Human Rights |
| Project Name | Capacities, resources, Structures: Capacity building project |
| Amount Awarded | USD 40,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to secure dynamic development and future sustainability of the Centre that is focused on human rights protection |
| Website | http://www.poradna-prava.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/X 2007/05 |
| Organization | Transparency International - Czech Republic |
| Project Name | Transparent and effective Public Contracting |
| Amount Awarded | USD 70,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - September 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This project wants to help to decrease the extent of corruption in public contracting in the Czech Republic by enhancing the accountability of the involved institutions |
| Website | http://www.transparency.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/2007/04 |
| Organization | Nadace rozvoje občanské společnosti (Civil Society Development Foundation) |
| Project Name | Bridging loans for the Czech NGOs |
| Amount Awarded | USD 246,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2008 - December 31, 2010 |
| Project Description | The main goal of the project is to contribute to the financial sustainability of the non-profit sector in the Czech Republic and greater participation of NGOs in structural funds programs through providing repayable grants with the aim to change the position of the bank sector towards issuing the bridging loans for the Czech NGOs. NROS will achieve this goal by running a pilot, three years, project during which it will provide repayable grants to NGOs and it will create the Manual on the assessment of NGOs creditworthiness that will be distributed to commercial banks aiming at introduction of bridging loans to NGOs as a normal banks’ product after the end of the project. Thus the main responsibility for program administration lies on NROS with close partnership with commercial bank. Before the start of the program, NROS will sign the contract on cooperation with the private bank – Poštovní spořitelna, which will provide the revolving loan in value of 50mil CZK (app 2 600 000 USD) that will be used for repayable grants for NGOs. |
| Website | http://www.nros.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ/IX 2006/05 |
| Organization | Open Society |
| Project Name | Support to the Social Economy and Social Enterprise through the Development of the Public Procurement Procedures |
| Amount Awarded | USD 100,000.00 |
| Grant Period | November 01, 2007 - December 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This project plans to develop a Guide to Public Procurement Procedures (Preparation of Terms of Reference, projects selections, projects implementation, monitoring and evaluation), using experiences from the selected EU countries. The Guide will be mainstreamed within public policies at national and regional level. |
| Website | http://www.osops.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/IX 2006/39 |
| Organization | La Strada Czech Republic |
| Project Name | In search of effective ways to respond to exploitation and human tracking |
| Amount Awarded | USD 80,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 01, 2007 - September 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project aims to create conditions to ensure that responsible bodies will take effective action against exploitation and human trafficking. La Strada wants a win-win situation for all parties involved. The organization will try to raise awareness on the need to broaden discourse on human trafficking to include labour exploitation in other sectors than sex sector as well as to labour exploitation that is not necessarily an outcome of trafficking and to advocate for reliable and accessible information on the nature, mechanisms, trends and extent of exploitation and trafficking in all industries and for mechanisms for ongoing collection and analysis of such data to be established to inform policies and ensure that the policies respond to real-life situations. |
| Website | http://www.strada.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/2007/01 |
| Organization | Nadace VIA (VIA Foundation) |
| Project Name | Community Involvement - Community Participation - Community Mobilization |
| Amount Awarded | USD 75,000.00 |
| Grant Period | August 01, 2007 - August 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to mobilize local public through providing seed project funding and training to Czech grassroots community initiatives in order to:
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| Website | http://www.en.nadacevia.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/IX 2006/61 |
| Organization | Ekologicky pravni servis |
| Project Name | Improving accountability, public participation, access to justice and NGO support in the Czech Republic |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - April 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This project aims to 'watchdog' the public service, corporations and lawmakers by using focused advocacy to establish real change. Ekologicky pravni servis will research, develop and use new strategies and methods to enforce governance and increase public participation, test their applicability and sustainability, and increase public awareness of the issues. |
| Website | http://www.eps.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/IX 2006/47 |
| Organization | Transparency International - Czech Republic |
| Project Name | Municipal Property Watch |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - June 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The major goal of this project is to help in decreasing the extent of corruption in management of municipal property in the Czech Republic. |
| Website | http://www.transparency.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/IX 2006/40 |
| Organization | Iuridicum Remedium |
| Project Name | Big Brother Award Human Rights and Technology, Legislative, Litigation and Promotion |
| Amount Awarded | USD 29,940.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - April 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project focuses on the following objectives: |
| Grant Number | CZ/IX 2006/32 |
| Organization | New Space civic association |
| Project Name | Streetpaper New Space |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - April 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project has two major goals. The fist goal is to publish the independent printed medium in the Czech Republic, which will be concerned with investigative journalism, watchdog activities, social problems in the Czech Republic, human rights, minorities.. The second aim is to help vendors (homeless people, Roma and other minorities, people who have served a prison sentence, the long-term unemployed, handicapped people) to be integrated back into society. |
| Website | http://www.novyprostor.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ/IX 2006/24 |
| Organization | League of Human Rights |
| Project Name | Human rights and health service: strengthening position of individuals |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project responds to the development of patients rights. |
| Website | http://www.llp.cz/ |
| Grant Number | CZ-01A-02 |
| Organization | VIA Foundation |
| Project Name | Support of VIA Institutional Development |
| Amount Awarded | USD 198,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.nadacevia.cz |
| Grant Number | CZ-01-02 |
| Organization | VIA Foundation |
| Project Name | Support of NGO Environment |
| Amount Awarded | USD 3,300,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.nadacevia.cz/ |
