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Slovakia
43 grants
| Grant Number | SK/2009/03 |
| Organization | Open Society Foundation (OSFBA) |
| Project Name | “20 years after…” |
| Amount Awarded | USD 64,000.00 |
| Grant Period | July 06, 2009 - December 31, 2009 |
| Project Description | OSFBA proposes a series of events organized by a coalition of the organization to celebrate 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and to organize a special grant round to local NGOs and students’ activities. The main goals of the project: - to promote past achievements in 20 years history of civil society and to point out that past 20 years indigenous philanthropy was developing and thus helping to the sustainability of the civil society actors - to increase public understanding of diverse roles of NGOs - to provide space for formulation of the future role of civil society organizations in our society (show unity in diversity) - to promote supporters (corporate and individual) of civil society organizations thanks to which they are able to implement their public benefit activities - to motivate the potential donors of the civil society organizations |
| Website | www.osf.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/ X 2008/35 |
| Organization | Via Iuris |
| Project Name | Accountable government and judiciary |
| Amount Awarded | USD 192,000.00 |
| Grant Period | May 01, 2009 - April 30, 2011 |
| Project Description | In state administration, the organization’s objectives are to enforce access to information and public participation in compliance with international agreements, to actively empower citizens facing attacks, and to strengthen accountability of public representatives. In judiciary, the project aims at strengthening public control over the quality of decision making, extend public access to decisions, start a qualified discussion on court rulings and on the issues of judicial ethics. These efforts will contribute to reduction of possibilities for interference with judicial independence. |
| Website | www.viaiuris.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/ X 2008/25 |
| Organization | Ekopolis Foundation |
| Project Name | Claiming the Public Spaces |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2009 - June 30, 2010 |
| Project Description | The projects aims at promoting good practice of public participation and local partnerships building in the sustainable urban development and in the design and reconstruction of public spaces. The first key objectvive of the project is to demonstrate the sense and applicability of the public participation and partnership building on urban development projects on the concrete example of a large public area – park Lanice in the city of Zvolen (“It can work” showcase). The second key objective is to develop a comprehensive information set focused on positive as well as negative approaches in urban development and to present the relevance of public involvement in urban development matters. |
| Website | www.ekopolis.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/ X 2008/20 |
| Organization | INESS - Institute of Economic and Social Studies |
| Project Name | The State Waste |
| Amount Awarded | USD 22,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2009 - March 31, 2012 |
| Project Description | The main goal of this watch dog project is to strengthen citizen control of public administration by means of providing comprehensive, complete and easy-to-understand information on ineffective and non-transparent public spending at one place. INESS will create complete and easily accessible internet database of all in print media reported cases of corrupt, nontransparent or ineffective public spending. |
| Website | www.iness.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/ X 2008/13 |
| Organization | People in Need |
| Project Name | Evaluation and improvement of local educational policies related to socially disadvantaged Romany children |
| Amount Awarded | USD 45,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2009 - March 31, 2012 |
| Project Description | The major goal of the proposed project is to improve chances of Romany children from socially disadvantaged environment to succeed in the educational system. With the aim to improve the status of Romany children in the school system, the monitoring, analysis, and evaluation of local educational policies will be performed. This will be followed by formulation and realization of inclusive local educational programs related to children from socially disadvantaged environment. Inclusive local educational programs implemented in individual schools and locations will further serve as methodical aid for a broader professional community. |
| Website | www.clovekvtisni.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/ X 2008/04 |
| Organization | University of Presov, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Philosophy and Ethics |
| Project Name | Ethical monitoring in public institutions in Eastern Slovakia |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2009 - October 31, 2012 |
| Project Description | The aim of the project is to increase the ethical and moral level of the activities of local and regional public administration in Eastern Slovakia, its professional ethical and moral qualities and abilities. It is expected to increase consciousness of public opinion in the region regarding ethical and moral aspects of public administration. |
| Website | www.ff.unipo.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/ X 2008/26 |
| Organization | Friends of the Earth-CEPA |
| Project Name | From irregularities to accountability: towards transparent and sustainable utilization of public funds |
| Amount Awarded | USD 69,000.00 |
| Grant Period | March 01, 2009 - February 28, 2011 |
| Project Description | The projects aims at contributing to good governance and accountable implementation of the EU-Funds by the two following objectives: (1) To enhance independent public control over the EU-Funds governance on national and regional levels (2) To promote good-practice examples of implementation of EU-Funds on regional and local levels. |
| Website | www.priateliazeme.sk/cepa |
| Grant Number | SK/2009/02 |
| Organization | Slovak Donors´ Forum |
| Project Name | SDF Sustainable Development and Performance |
| Amount Awarded | USD 85,000.00 |
| Grant Period | February 01, 2009 - December 31, 2011 |
| Project Description | Project intends to build sustainable organization responsive to changes affecting grant-makers and wider sector and thus able to contribute to the development of civil society in Slovakia. Objectives: 1. To build organization responsive to changes affecting grant-makers and wider sector by human resource development. 2. To secure that SDF outreach programs effectively contribute to the SDF mission (development of philanthropy) and financial stability of organization. 3. To ensure that organization is workable, effective, and responsible with creative approaches and trend-setting ideas by capacity building of SDF members. |
| Website | http://www.donorsforum.sk/indexe.html |
| Grant Number | SK/2009/01 |
| Organization | Pontis Foundation |
| Project Name | Great Country |
| Amount Awarded | USD 99,500.00 |
| Grant Period | February 01, 2009 - January 31, 2010 |
| Project Description | The purpose of the project is to strengthen individual giving in Slovakia. In order to develop an interactive dialogue between individual donors and NGOs, it will be essential to offer them innovative projects addressing real community needs addressed by NGOs and community initiatives and to use modern techniques of communication and effective financial management. An interactive and transparent website (similar to Facebook, utilizing web 2.0b) will be built as one of the key tools for fundraising /giving and communication. It will play into the deeply recognized and shared sentiment among the target group that Slovakia should be a place to which they would always like to return, no matter how successful they have been abroad. Objectives of the project are: 1. to attract individual support for investment in communities with the aim of being oriented not only on very specific topics covering only one area of societal problems, but also to provide individuals with the possibility of supporting activities from different areas mapping the whole country from a geographical, interest-orientation, or target-group point of view – at least 50 projects from 30 organizations in the first phase of the project; 2. to raise awareness about the activities of Slovak NGOs and community initiatives using a creative communication campaign and modern tools that are close to the middle and younger generations (web sites, viral marketing, direct emails, public events); 3. to assist individual donors in learning about societal causes and simplify the steps of giving via an interactive donor management and reward system (e-pay, bank transfers, credit cards, payroll giving, DMS) with the aim of allowing donors to create their own accounts on the website and monitor donated money and the way in which it is used; and 4. to increase accountability and transparency of NGOs via promotion and publication of information about their projects, activities implemented, and results achieved. |
| Website | http://www.nadaciapontis.sk/en/ |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/63 |
| Organization | ISA Slovakia |
| Project Name | Watch dog activities and raising awareness on environmental critical issues |
| Amount Awarded | USD 7,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - May 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This project addresses the problem of insufficient participation of the environmental NGOs in the decision making processes in the environmental field. The project aims to: - develop partnerships between civic associations, Slovak inspection of the environment, government agencies and citizens, - increase public participation and foster civic engagement and importance of environmental NGOs, - improve awareness about urban vegetation issues and challenges through events and educational activities, - engage relevant legislative processes that will ensure appropriate trees protection in the city and public participation in decision making processes in the field of nature protection. |
| Website | http://www.isa-arbor.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/62 |
| Organization | Project Forum |
| Project Name | Salon for Centre and East |
| Amount Awarded | USD 45,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project aims to address the continuing mutual ignorance of intellectual elites of CEE countries, that are reluctant to share their knowledge and experience among each other. Consequently, articles written by top Eastern European essayists and scholars are extensively being published in Western press, but only rarely reach the Central and East European readership. The grantee addresses this problem by running internet portal, which includes a daily updated survey of newspaper articles, and a regular weekly survey of articles published in influential weeklies and magazines with links to the original versions of the articles. |
| Website | http://www.salon.eu.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/57 |
| Organization | INESS - Institute of Economic and Social Studies |
| Project Name | The Price of the State |
| Amount Awarded | USD 46,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | This project is an extension of already existing internet portal The Price of the State (www.cenastatu.sk), which concentrates the accurate and actual information on particular components of Slovak public finance. The grantee will introduce this portal to the high school and university students to improve their knowledge of the most important rules in public finance, and assist them in finding precise information they might need in their current and future studies. Within the project newly designed teaching tools will be distributed, and the grantee will also provide lectures for teachers and students in selected schools and universities. |
| Website | http://www.iness.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/54 |
| Organization | Milan Šimečka Foundation |
| Project Name | Developing Independent Roma Public Policy Capacities in Slovakia |
| Amount Awarded | USD 60,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - September 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | Overall goal of the program is to increase quality of Roma public policy in Slovakia. The project aims to: raise awareness and visibility of Roma issues, increase pressure on national and local governments, engage new actors in public policy making by trainings and providing access to decision makers, implement various participatory forms at all levels, empower Romani communities and local Romani and pro-Romani NGOs, develop independent think-tank and watch-dog organizations. This project is continuation of already existing program and will allow increasing its effectiveness through the capacity building of the Foundation, which will improve sustainability of the project in the future. |
| Website | http://www.nadaciamilanasimecku.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/47 |
| Organization | Institute for Public Affairs |
| Project Name | Improving civil society’s competence and ability to influence the future of public service media as the source of correct information for informed citizens, the space to increase sensitivity to populism and the social cohesion factor |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - December 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The aim of the project is to create a relevant group of experts that will be able to generate and promote solutions when defining future conditions for desired functioning of public service media. With the help from the media, this group of experts should increase public awareness about desired future development of PSM. Through this it will contribute to implementing expert solutions in the process of adopting final legislative on conditions for functioning of public service media. The program is expected to create a policy paper that will sum up the condition of PSM as well as views and expectations of citizens and stakeholders, and simultaneously outline goals for PSM and ways of achieving them. |
| Website | http://www.ivo.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/37 |
| Organization | 1st. Slovak Non-profit Service Center |
| Project Name | DEVELOPING LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR VOLUNTEERING IN SLOVAKIA |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - July 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The aim of the project is to prepare favorable environment for volunteering based on broad discussion and engagement of all relevant stakeholders such as Volunteerism Center in Slovakia, host organizations, volunteers, ministries, and businesses. The grantee hopes to achieve this aim through: expert discussions and public debates, analysis of socio-economical costs/benefits and legal issues of volunteering in Slovakia, preparing expert draft of legal solutions for volunteering development. |
| Website | http://www.1snsc.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/26 |
| Organization | Slovak Donors´ Forum |
| Project Name | Shout, maybe they will hear you! |
| Amount Awarded | USD 26,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project intends to stimulate citizens’ engagement in activities of the civil society actors by improvement of NGOs´ public communication skills and performance. The activities of the project include trainings and consultations for NGOs´ representatives focusing on the development of communication skills, brand-building, PR and media relations. The program is expected to improve transparency and visibility of NGOs and their activities, and to contribute to the professional development of NGOs representatives. |
| Website | http://www.donorsforum.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/21 |
| Organization | Pontis Foundation |
| Project Name | In the Same Boat |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project aims to promote philanthropy by using innovative methods of authentic communication that is accepted by youth. The grantee will release three series of videos available at the project website: - Good Idea Counts - presenting positive results of successful and innovative projects of Slovak NGOs from a broadminded and forward thinking perspective, - Alternative Music and Openmindedness - showing examples how Slovak original production supports tolerance, acceptance and non-judgmental attitude, - Involvement of Slovak NGOs Abroad - illustrating where, why and how Slovak NGOs decided to help, share experience in building civil society, and contribute to democratization process. The project will be run by new enthusiastic group of individuals supported by firmly established Pontis Foundation. The grantee hopes this project will support broader concept of civil society understood as the arena of unstructured collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. |
| Website | http://www.pontisfoundation.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/09 |
| Organization | Public Policy Institute |
| Project Name | PPI Democracy Watchdog |
| Amount Awarded | USD 15,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The aim of the project is to create a „Democracy Watchdog”, which will monitor and analyze legislation, also including verbal and nonverbal speaking manner of representatives. The main topic will be monitoring and analysis of proposed draft laws that may lead to the limitation of democratic principals, individual freedom, and may hamper Euro-Atlantic direction of Slovakia. |
| Website | http://www.publipi.eu |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/07 |
| Organization | Civic Association TATRY |
| Project Name | We are more than a match for dumps! |
| Amount Awarded | USD 15,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This program addresses the problem of environment pollution caused by low awareness of local people about possibilities of waste treatment. The main aim of the project is to create a network of active school groups at primary and secondary schools of Slovakia, which would dedicate themselves to educational and monitoring activities within their local community. They will engage in advertising of waste separation and energy saving measures, monitor illegal human activities and negative human impact on the environment in their surroundings. The program is expected to increase the sensibility of people to environmental protection and contribute to improvement of the state of natural environment in local communities. |
| Website | http://www.ekokompas.host.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/03 |
| Organization | INEKO - Institute for economic and social reforms |
| Project Name | Slovak Press Watch - Media Watchdog |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The main goal of the project is improvement of quality and ethics of the Slovak media. The project will provide regular feedback on media work, encourage critical thinking and real public debate about Slovak media, and will educate young media experts. It will increase media capacity to practice investigative journalism, and thus strengthen their controlling function. The grantee hopes this project will improve accountability of public institutions, and will increase pressure to solve some of the crucial problems of public governance. Activities within the project include: media monitoring and publishing comments on media work, preparing investigative articles and reports, providing lectures and internships for journalism students. |
| Website | http://www.ineko.sk |
| Grant Number | SK/X 2007/01 |
| Organization | League of Human Rights Advocates |
| Project Name | Using strategic litigation and human rights advocacy to promote equality and non-discrimination |
| Amount Awarded | USD 35,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project addresses the problem of social and economic injustice affecting the Roma and Slovak citizens of color. The grantee aims to raise awareness of racial discrimination and intolerance on the part of the national Police force, administrative and judicial organs through nationwide monitoring, documenting and reporting on human rights situation. The program will employ strategic litigation and human rights advocacy, and will provide free (pro bono) legal representation and counseling to victims of human rights abuse. This project is expected to contribute to confidence-building among target groups and to encourage implementation of anti discrimination legislation by court judges, prosecutors and administrative institutions. |
| Website | http://www.lhra-icpr.org |
| Grant Number | SK/IX 2006/36 |
| Organization | 1 st Slovak Nonprofit Service Center (1.SNSC) |
| Project Name | Favorable environment for NGOs as a base of active citizens |
| Amount Awarded | USD 70,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project's major goals are: |
| Website | http://www.mvoservis.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/IX 2006/28 |
| Organization | Institute for Public Affairs (IVO) |
| Project Name | Launching e-Governance in Slovakia - empowering citizens to participate, influence and exercise democratic control |
| Amount Awarded | USD 75,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project focuses on public and expert discourse by providing empirical data. Its major goals are as follows: |
| Website | http://www.ivo.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/IX 2006/22 |
| Organization | Konzervativny institut Milana Rastislava Stefanika |
| Project Name | Eurofunds Watchdog - decrease of the risk of corruption through monitoring of projects finance from the EU funds |
| Amount Awarded | USD 132,250.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The major goal of this project is to decrease the risk of corruption through monitoring of the processes of awarding and implementing projects financed from the EU funds and through watchdog activities oriented on the institutions that are responsible for the management of the EU funds in Slovakia. |
| Website | http://www.institute.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/IX 2006/09 |
| Organization | Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia - PDCS, o.z. |
| Project Name | Educational and advocacy activities for Roma activists |
| Amount Awarded | USD 72,380.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - March 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project aims at building up advocacy skills of 24 Roma and Non-Roma activists from 8 localities. The goal of advocacy part of the project is to apply theoretical knowledge in practice during training courses, with later simulation of advocacy activities directly in places of Roma residence. Through the Project, PDCS contributes to solving specific problems on the site, using cooperative planning process and advocacy tools. |
| Website | http://www.pdcs.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/IX 2006/08 |
| Organization | Citizen and Democracy |
| Project Name | Advocating for equal treatment through NGOs empowerment, strategic litigation and policy-making |
| Amount Awarded | USD 96,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project aims at reducing discrimination and marginalisation of disadvantaged groups (such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, women, sexual minorities, people with disabilities) through: |
| Website | http://www.oad.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/IX 2006/07 |
| Organization | The Center for Civil and Human Rights |
| Project Name | Bridging the divide |
| Amount Awarded | USD 36,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project aims at mobilization of discriminated Romani communities to resist discrimination through the concrete legal actions. It also focuses on improving effectiveness of existing legislation via empowerment and litigation activities. |
| Grant Number | SK/IX 2006/04 |
| Organization | The Charta 77 Foundation |
| Project Name | Protection of human rights for vulnerable citizens through pro bono legal defense and watchdog actions |
| Amount Awarded | USD 100,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - March 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | This project is based on the main program implemented by Charta 77 Foundation. It seeks the possibilities to enhance the access to justice as well as to educate professional lawyers and promote the ideas of human rights, which activities have a very important meaning in Slovakia due to the limited access to justice and growing problems with respect for human rights. |
| Website | http://www.charta77.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/34 |
| Organization | VIA IURIS - Center for Public Advocacy |
| Project Name | Public interest law partnership: Improving decision making and empowering civil society |
| Amount Awarded | USD 75,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2007 - December 01, 2007 |
| Project Description | The project will contribute to increased level and standards of citizen's rights protection, consistent decision-making of public authorities, proper use of their competencies in protection of public interest and transparent utilization of public funds. It also aims at empowerment of civil society with specific legal tools to impact decision-making processes. The project is to strengthen capacities of lawyers assisting citizen's struggles against non-transparent decision-making and promoting use of high ethical standards in legal profession. |
| Website | http://www.viaiuris.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/39 |
| Organization | Open Society Foundation - Bratislava (OSF) |
| Project Name | Supporting civic society organizations tool for strengthening voice of Roma |
| Amount Awarded | USD 200,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 01, 2006 - August 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The overall objective is to promote society that provides equal opportunities for disadvantaged groups. It aims at contribution in narrowing gaps related to Roma minority as one of the most vulnerable groups in Slovakia. |
| Website | http://www.osf.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/30 |
| Organization | Ekopolis Foundation |
| Project Name | Active citizens fund: Sustainable funding for watchdog and advocacy activities in Slovakia |
| Amount Awarded | USD 75,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 01, 2006 - September 01, 2007 |
| Project Description | The project goal is to create a sustainable, long-term and independent funding mechanism for grass-root advocacy and watchdog activities in Slovakia, and to provide crucial small grant support to broad variety of citizen groups and initiatives to respond to local needs in citizen and human rights defense, public advocacy and watchdog activities. |
| Website | http://www.ekopolis.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/25 |
| Organization | INEKO - Institute for Economic and Social Reforms |
| Project Name | Slovak press watch |
| Amount Awarded | USD 80,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 01, 2006 - December 01, 2007 |
| Project Description | The project's main goal is to improve quality and the ethics of the Slovak media. It will serve as a filter of doubtful, mistaken, or misleading news so that it will not appear and will not be repeated in other media. By improving quality of media, the project will improve control of the public institutions and will contribute to enhancing their transparency and effectiveness. Through encouraging critical thinking and real public debate based on facts, it will also help citizens to make "good" decisions based on "good" information and thus to contribute to further development of democracy in Slovakia. |
| Website | http://www.ineko.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/08 |
| Organization | Center for Philanthropy n.o. |
| Project Name | Mobilizing domestic resources for civil society |
| Amount Awarded | USD 45,000.00 |
| Grant Period | September 01, 2006 - September 01, 2007 |
| Project Description | The project will contribute to a better enabling environment for civil society in Slovakia by improving the quality of selected public funding mechanisms (i.e., 2%, structural funds, subsidies) so that they will be more relevant, useful and accessible for watchdog, advocacy and policy activities. It will also serve as a tool for facilitating the process leading to increased communication among the NGOs platforms in relation to public funds. |
| Website | http://www.cpf.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/03 |
| Organization | Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) |
| Project Name | Transparency improvement of subsidies granting by the central government |
| Amount Awarded | USD 33,900.00 |
| Grant Period | September 01, 2006 - March 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The main objective of the project is to improve transparency of subsidies awarded by the central government to local governments. Within the framework of the project, TIS will be analyzing budgets of all ministries and subsidies awarded by the ministries and a discretionary power in decision-making processes concerning granting of subsidies. |
| Website | http://www.transparency.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/43 |
| Organization | Fair-Play Alliance |
| Project Name | Strengthening democracy through islands of integrity |
| Amount Awarded | USD 25,600.00 |
| Grant Period | August 01, 2006 - August 01, 2007 |
| Project Description | The major goal of the project is to work on changing political culture in a chosen community through informal tools and civic engagement; to educate new generation of journalists and activists; and to create "islands of integrity" that will have a strong potential to be multiplied and will be able influence the whole environment. |
| Website | http://www.fair-play.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/38 |
| Organization | Pontis Foundation |
| Project Name | Strengthening support for bulging partnerships and developing cross-sectoral cooperation |
| Amount Awarded | USD 58,000.00 |
| Grant Period | August 01, 2006 - April 01, 2007 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to promote partnership and cross-sectoral cooperation in order to attract business support for investment in communities to meet various levels of societal needs, primarily in innovative and progressive areas, since these are only rarely or not at all supported by business because they are generally less popular causes; and to work intensively with NGOs to introduce them with tools that will enable them to absorb such support and sustain it in a form of long-term partnerships, with both the general public and the private sector. |
| Website | http://www.pontisfoundation.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK/III 2006/33 |
| Organization | People in Need |
| Project Name | Roma representatives strengthening |
| Amount Awarded | USD 10,000.00 |
| Grant Period | August 01, 2006 - February 01, 2007 |
| Project Description | The overall objective of the project is to support civil society as a voice for marginalized and vulnerable population - shifting Roma communities from the role of passive target group of social development to the role of active participants of this process through the mobilization of Roma civic representatives. |
| Website | http://www.clovekvtisni.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK-02A-01 |
| Organization | Open Society Foundation |
| Project Name | Support of the institutional development for improvement of working conditions of foundations |
| Amount Awarded | USD 100,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.osf.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK-02-01 |
| Organization | Open Society Foundation |
| Project Name | To get there together - Alliance for Sustainability |
| Amount Awarded | USD 1,965,400.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.osf.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK-01A-04 |
| Organization | Ekopolis Foundation |
| Project Name | Ekopolis Institutional Development |
| Amount Awarded | USD 100,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.ekopolis.sk/ |
| Grant Number | SK-01-01 |
| Organization | Ekopolis Foundation |
| Project Name | Your Land at the Doors of Integrationa |
| Amount Awarded | USD 2,025,660.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.ekopolis.sk/ |
| Grant Number | 3/2005 |
| Organization | Ekopolis Foundation |
| Project Name | Unfinished Business: Developing Arguments Space for Domestic Public Founding for Watchdog / Advocacy / Public Policy NGOs |
| Amount Awarded | USD 83,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.ekopolis.sk/ |
| Grant Number | 11/2005 |
| Organization | Open Society Foundation |
| Project Name | Recognition of Public Benefit |
| Amount Awarded | USD 86,828.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.osf.sk/ |
