Pilot program for regional non-profit initiatives from the beginning of 2024
Vienna (OTS) – Franz Karl Prüller, Vice President of the Association for Non-Profit Foundations and a long-time contributor to Austrian and European civil society, explains the model: “Community foundations are a sustainable and flexible concept for getting involved with and for each other in your own city or region. They encourage people to implement and promote their ideas together. Adapted to potential and needs, they work in various subject areas for the common good of the people in their catchment area.
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Community foundations are participatory foundations: shared responsibility, shared leadership and shared fundraising enable a larger number of people to combine low-threshold participation with the long-term form of the foundation. Depending on the possibility, you can contribute with financial resources as well as with voluntary commitment and/or know-how.
„Non-profit initiatives are emerging in cities as well as in rural regions of Austria. Unfortunately, many of them will silt up again if a stable structure is not created in time. Community foundations combine the possibility of low-threshold participation for a large number of people with the long-term organizational form of the foundation.
(Franz Karl Prüller, Vice President of the Association for Non-Profit Foundations)
The Association for Non-Profit Foundations offers a pilot program for people who can imagine setting up and setting up a regional pilot initiative and a later community foundation, who want to try out the feasibility in their own catchment area with expert support and at the same time get to know successful practical examples from all over Europe.
Who can apply for the pilot program?
People or small groups who can introduce themselves
- in the next few months a regional initiative group to gather and organize their work
- In this initiative group, the implementation of the non-profit, independent and transparent concept of “community foundation” should be tried out in an open-ended manner
- If the decision is positive, prepare the foundation in terms of content and organization (with technical support from the Association for Non-Profit Foundations)
- already have experience with charitable activities and now want to get involved specifically for a longer period of time.
Die application time for the pilot program is underway until January 30, 2024.
Info webinars will take place on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 from 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., on Friday, January 5th, 2024 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Thursday, January 11th from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. and by appointment. Please register for interested individuals and groups at info@gemeinsam-stiften.at.
At the beginning of February, an expert jury will select the participants or initiative groups for the pilot program starting in March 2024.
Questions & Contact:
Silvia Mayrhofer, Association for Non-Profit Foundations
Tel.: 0664 234 84 97, Email: info@gemeinsam-stiften.at