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chapter 2 the wall’s effect: focus on central and eastern europe 37 in 2001: ‘EU Enlargement: Get Involved’ which aimed to help the network get involved in the enlargement process. In its first year, the Enlargement Task Force began working on a major EFC member survey on EU enlargement to identify current initiatives and views, and plan future action. The same year, a Task Force delegation visited Estonia and secured the parliament’s commitment to formal regulation of relations between civil society and government. In 2003 the Task Force visited Hungary, coinciding with a national debate on partnerships between civil society and public authorities and a national referendum on EU membership. Building trust In 2000, the EFC returned east for the Krakow AGA. The opening plenary focused on the re‐emergence of foundations in Poland. Most of them were operational rather than grant‐making, and their attitude towards the state had become less oppositional and more cooperative. At a special conference session, several EFC members launched a joint initiative, the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Ford Foundation, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Open Society Institute and Rockefeller Brothers Fund pledged US$75 million to the Trust over ten years. The Trust’s mission was to support the development and long‐term stabilisation of civil society in seven CEE countries, to help bridge the gap until adequate indigenous funding became available. The Trust has become a major player in CEE, and in 2007 channelled over US$8 million to the
38 Laying the foundations 20 years of the EFC Being part of this constellation of very region. Rayna Gavrilova, the Trust’s current different foundations is really an excellent Executive Director, says of the Trust’s enduring experience not only for myself, but . . . also relationship with the EFC: ‘The most important for colleagues who come from the region. thing as a region is really to be a member of a bigger community . . . It is so extremely important Rayna Gavrilova, Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe because sometimes regions . . . overemphasise their uniqueness and their specificity, and being part of this constellation of very different foundations is really an excellent experience not only for myself, but . . . also for colleagues who come from the region.’ Meeting the neighbours By 2000 Russia had become increasingly influential for the EFC and its programmes. In 2001, Orpheus project leaders met representatives of Russian centres serving civil society in Moscow. The centres showed great interest in cooperating with the network at a workshop held by the Eurasia Foundation and Charities Aid Foundation, both EFC members. In 2002, another EFC delegation headed by then EFC Chair Disegni visited Moscow to learn about the environment for philanthropy in Russia and how to boost private giving. The delegation met top corporate foundation leaders like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Potanin and Alexander Zimin, and government officials including the Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration. Encouragingly, these officials pledged to revise regulations which obstructed foundations and grantees. The mission was immediately followed by the 2002 Grantmakers East Group Annual Meeting in Moscow, the first ever in Russia. ‘It was both a huge challenge and an opportunity for a country with young philanthropy but without yet the official organisation of the Russia Donors Forum.
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