How should we serve in better way to the civil society development in rural / small communities/– this topic garnered four partners from Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and Bulgaria to the second training meeting for the project “Let’s develop philanthropy for sustainable communities” – GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships in Bistritza Klodzka in beautiful Mountain of Sudety from 6th to 10th of May.
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Our hosts from the Community Foundation Lokalny Masywu Śnieżnika present us their experience in fundraising in 16 years of Foundation existence and more than 700 projects funded. Each partner presented its experience in fundraising and regulations in which funds allocation is happened. We were able to share best practices, how to know better the needs of the community and what criteria to use to allocate already raised funds, all related to the special status of community foundations in rural areas.
Great benefit to all participants was the possibility to meet great stories of success and best practices of allocating grantes. Polish partners financed their projects and changes in quality of life in the area covered by the Community Foundation Lokalny Masywu Śnieżnika. We visited 8 good practices such as Rehabilitation Center, Cultural Center and Museum of fire.We tried organic cheese and milk in the goat farm in the mountains, we saw well developed rural tourism in the region. Again many thanks to the foundation organized a study tour about best practices in Austria and Italy, guest house ”Skowronki, trout ponds, guest houses and ski facilities in the mountains, experience of the Association” Artistic ”and Association” Voytovitse return in the future”.
Everyone was impressed by the authority and the significant role of the Foundation Lokalny Masywu Śnieżnika in community life. These good practices motivated participants to work even harder for their greater impact in their rural areas.
During the meeting of the coordinators was decided that next training and exchange of best practices will be held from 9th to 12th of September in Lom, Bulgaria and will be associated with various activities through which the members of the local communities will be included in our work processes and decision-making.
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The Let’s develop philanthropy for sustainable communities project has received European Commission funding in the form of a grant from GRUNDTVIG-action (2012-1-RO1-GRU06-22713) of the European Lifelong Learning Programme. All views expressed in this document are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
