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Worthy of note is also the Small Grants – Equal Opportunities<br />
programme, run by the Polish Children and Youth Foundation since<br />
2001 and funded by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation. The<br />
programme supports initiatives which aim to provide an equal start in<br />
life for young people from small towns and rural areas. It includes two<br />
types of open competitions:<br />
Regional Grant Competition, aimed at local NGOs, communal<br />
cultural centres, libraries and informal groups of adults wishing to<br />
form an NGO in rural areas and towns with populations up to 20,000.<br />
Grants are awarded to projects that develop the following skills in<br />
young people: the ability to explore and assess the environment in<br />
which they grow up, the ability to mobilise social support through establishing<br />
new social relationships, teamwork. The maximum grant<br />
amount is 7,000 PLN for projects of at least 6 months’ duration, involving<br />
a single group of young people aged 13–19.<br />
National Grant Competition for NGOs based in towns or villages<br />
with populations below 20,000 inhabitants. In the first stage of the<br />
competition, applicants produce assessments of local environments,<br />
in the second – representatives of selected organisations attend training<br />
and submit project applications. Grants are awarded to projects<br />
that develop the following skills in young people: the ability to assess<br />
the environment in which they grow up, the ability to be independent<br />
and active in planning their future, the ability to mobilise social<br />
support, and skills that foster self-confidence. The maximum grant<br />
amount is 40,000 PLN for projects of 15 months’ duration, involving<br />
a single group of at least 25 young people aged 13–19. To find out<br />
more, visit www.rownacszanse.pl.<br />
The Leopold Kronenberg Bank Foundation has run its own<br />
Grant Programme for years, offering support to public welfare projects<br />
run by non-profit institutions in two areas: local education and<br />
development. Grants are awarded to projects focusing on cultural<br />
heritage and traditions as well as on children’s and young people’s art<br />
(workshops, training, competitions etc.). The foundation accepts two<br />
types of projects: local projects held within the area of one province<br />
(in a village, city, commune or district) and extra-local projects that<br />
cross the boundaries of one province. There is no maximum or minimum<br />
grant amount and you can apply for multiple grants. The maximum<br />
project duration is 12 months. Applications for each year must<br />
be submitted by the deadlines published on the Foundation’s website:<br />
www.citi.com/poland/kronenberg/polish.<br />
Under its Bank for Ambitious Youth programme, Bank Zachodni<br />
WBK Foundation provides financial support to initiatives that engage<br />
youth. Culture, history and national heritage is one of three support<br />
areas covered by the programme. Most grants support concerts,<br />
exhibitions, discussion panels, urban games, historical enactments<br />
and reconstructions, school memorial rooms honouring modern heroes<br />
as well as competitions in history and other subjects. Grants<br />
are only awarded to social institutions and organisations working<br />
with youth or for the benefit of youth. The maximum grant amount is<br />
15,000 PLN. The maximum project duration is 12 months. For application<br />
submission dates, visit www.fundacja.bzwbk.pl.<br />
Orange Foundation runs a nationwide grant programme called<br />
Orange Academy, which offers grants of up to 50,000 PLN to NGOs<br />
and cultural institutions: schools, universities, libraries, cultural centres<br />
as well as museums, theatres, movie theatres and public galleries.<br />
Private entities are only eligible as project partners. Supported<br />
activities include: development and testing of innovative<br />
training programmes in cultural education, and original creative education<br />
and culture animation projects. For more information, visit<br />
www.fundacja.orange.pl and go to Akademia Orange.<br />
EU public funds available in Poland<br />
Let’s have a look at funds from the EU’s 2007–2013 budget available<br />
at the national and regional level. These funds are earmarked for the<br />
so-called new member states from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe<br />
(12 countries which joined the EU in 2004 and 2007). Poland received<br />
a total of about 65 billion EUR (after deducting our contribution<br />
to the EU budget). Polish authorities then allocated these funds to national<br />
and regional operational programmes.<br />
The current multi-year budget is slowly coming to an end. Significant<br />
amounts of money have already been spent. This holds true<br />
for the national-level Infrastructure and Environment Operational<br />
Programme. One of its priorities – Priority XI: Culture and cultural<br />
heritage – focused on using the potential of culture and cultural<br />
heritage of global and European significance to enhance the<br />
attractiveness of Poland. No competitions are currently announced<br />
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Library Development Programme, run by the Information Society Development Foundation, is funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<br />
for the purpose of equipping libraries with computers, running practical workshops, strengthening the library community, and book promotion. More information on<br />
www.biblioteki.org.
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