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Chapter 3 Bringing together a diverse membership 49 Whether there are seven or 230+ members, the EFC’s prime objective has always been to serve its members. But with the EU’s expansion, the EFC has been confronted with the immense task of serving an ever‐diversifying group of members with dissimilar legal systems, languages, understandings of what ‘foundation’ means, and countless other cultural differences. Unlike the USA, with its single government, distinct legal parameters, and common language, the EFC has been on its mettle to understand and represent its members’ interests. Yet this diversity is also what makes EFC membership unique. Stephen Pittam of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust says: ‘One thing we notice at EFC meetings is that many of the Italian banking foundations and some of the bigger foundations from Germany, Belgium, etc, are much larger than we are, as well as having a very different operational style. They often run their own programmes whereas our style is to empower NGOs to undertake the work.
50 Laying the foundations 20 years of the EFC One thing we notice at EFC meetings is that many of the other foundations have a very different operational style. So quite exactly how we all tie up is part of the exciting and adventurous experiment! Stephen Pittam, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust So quite exactly how we all tie up is part of the exciting and adventurous experiment!’ For the complete picture of how the EFC has attained its growth in members (the EFC currently has some 230+ members), it is necessary to look back at membership developments: successful outreach campaigns, less successful recruitment efforts, and an unceasing ambition to be the voice of European philanthropy. Looking east The EFC’s seven founding members, agreeing with Raymond Georis’s philosophy of ‘l’Europe sans Rivages’, recognised that to have a legitimate voice at the EU level, members from throughout Europe would quickly need to be brought on board. In an early attempt to recruit members across the continent, and expand from its western European base, in 1990 the EFC launched its guest programme. Officially termed the ‘Membership Support and Travel Scholarship Fund for Delegates from Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the New Independent States’, the programme, solely funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, allowed independent funders from the region to benefit from EFC guest memberships and attend EFC events using scholarship funds. The idea was that by attending meetings and participating on committees, guest members from these organisations would help enrich the EFC member community, and could themselves gain a broader perspective on their work. Over the years, former guests, like Poland’s Stefan Batory Foundation and Bulgaria’s St Cyril and St Methodius International Foundation, have upgraded to full membership and become active in the EFC’s work and
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