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chapter 2 the wall’s effect: focus on central and eastern europe 33 gave technical and financial assistance to CEE and NIS countries. As with the EFC, growth and prosperity in that region were key concerns of the Commission. Throughout the 1990s the EFC kept close track of both programmes, intervening several times. George Soros (second from right) delivers keynote address at 1993 Prague AGA The spotlight remained on CEE at the 1994 London AGA, where Peter Leuprecht, Deputy Director of the Council of Europe, agreed with Havel’s description of communism’s fall as a turning point comparable with the fall of the Roman Empire. He also criticised ‘pan‐economic’ thinking in CEE which stressed the market economy and de‐emphasised social and economic rights. The 1995 Seville AGA saw the first sessions run by the Funding East interest group, where the mismatch between grantmaker and grant‐seeker priorities in CEE was seen as the main problem, despite important progress I think the EFC played an important role elsewhere. Dario Disegni of Compagnia di in the process of European unification. San Paolo says of the EFC’s enduring vision of We always had a broader idea of an inclusive Europe: ‘I think the EFC played an Europe and we involved foundations important role in the process of European unification. We always had a broader idea of Europe and civil society organisations from central and eastern Europe. and we involved foundations and civil society Dario Disegni, Compagnia di San Paolo organisations from central and eastern Europe . . . that was the Europe of foundations. Today, most of those countries are part of the EU . . . We hosted the AGA . . . in some of those countries. A few people at the time said “that’s not Europe” and we said “that is Europe”.’
34 Laying the foundations 20 years of the EFC Building infrastructure – Orpheus Perhaps one of the EFC’s key steps in helping develop CEE civil society was the 1992 establishment of the ambitious Orpheus Civil Society Project (explained in Chapter 9). The project supported the development of resource centres serving foundations, associations and other nonprofits, and promoted civil society development in CEE. It chiefly aimed to strengthen existing centres by focusing on management training, information and communication, funding from foundations and corporate donors, advocating favourable legal and fiscal environments, and promoting sectoral self‐awareness. In late 1994, ten resource centres were participating in the project. By 2001 there were 34. Lawder, speaking of Orpheus’s importance in the 1990s, says that at the time the eastern European centres ‘were truly the focal point for civil society in those countries, and they were doing very important work to help build the legal The Social Economy and Law (SEAL) project One initiative launched under the Orpheus framework was the Social Economy and Law (SEAL) project, which centred on the SEAL Journal, published three times a year. The journal focused on the legal and fiscal environments for foundations, associations and other non‐profit organisations, mainly in CEE. This environment was in ferment, as legal frameworks had to be altered or created from scratch in response to the growth of civil society after 1989. Carlos Monjardino wrote in the first issue: ‘Simply put, the purpose of SEAL is to inform in order to assist reform.’ Twenty issues of the journal were published between 1998 and 2006, with articles from some 300 contributors in 45 countries.
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