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Last month, the representatives of a few Community Foundations from Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and the UK met online and had a long chat about their experiences of last year and a half – difficulties, challenges but also hopes and lesson learnt for the future. See the summary of a bunch of thoughts and […]

This is your chance – join our program to make a change! We are happy to announce that the CALL FOR APPLICATIONS in Global Challenges Local Solutions 5th Grant Round has been opened! the Call for Applications lasts from April 30 until May 23, 2021 the projects should be performed in the period of July-December […]

On 22nd of April we celebrated an International Earth Day … but do we really can fully celebrate? What is the condition of the Earth we are living on? What should we do to improve it? It is certain that we must act fast – both at the local and global level. JOIN THE WEBINAR […]

“A perfect circular economy would be very difficult to implement, but we can do far better than we currently do. (…) We can start creating circular economy locally by small steps by reusing and repairing goods and extending their life time” says Andrzej Piotrowski – Waste Management Expert, Veolia Energia Polska S.A. Read the Expert’s […]

“Indigenousness” is a strength of community foundations, however it may also be their weakness. For many years a popular belief among community foundations was that they should focus on local challenges and needs; that only such problems are important. Such belief in no longer valid. Nowadays success of the community foundation often derives from clever […]

We are happy to announce the 11 organizations that have been awarded the GCLS grant in the 4th round. You will hear about their great projects very soon! Bucharest Community Foundation – Fundația Comunitară Bucuresti Messina Community Foundation – Fondazione di Comunità di Messina The Snow Mountain Community Fund – Fundusz Lokalny Masywu Śnieżnika REVIA […]

We are thrilled to announce that the Global Challenges Local Solutions 4th Grant Round has been opened and you can submit your applications until 20th July 2020. Due to the hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have changed some of the regulations, first of all we decided to reduce the required financial input to […]

“How to incorporate the SDGs into the work of civil society organizations? Practical experience of European community foundations addressing the SDGs” The second GCLS Webinar took place on 2nd June, it was created by the GCLS Team in collaboration with our former Grantees who presented their projects and carried out further discussion. We had the […]