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Crossing Borders (CB) is a non-profit, non-partisan civil society organisation. The vision of CB is a world in peace with itself in which diversity is celebrated. The mission is to create dialogue space toward such a world and to build the capacity of youth, media workers and educators to realise the above vision. The overall goal is to enable people with different backgrounds to learn to live together on equal terms. Crossing Borders started as a project in 1999 in Denmark in support of meaningful dialogue between the conflict parties in the Middle East. In response to increased activities and demands for the CB concept and services, it was transformed, in 2004, into a dynamic organization with activities in Denmark and abroad.
The Kreisau-Initiative e.V. was founded 1989 to address the need for international understanding, democratic education, and active engagement in human rights, particularly in response to Europe's history of division, conflict, and authoritarianism. The Kreisau-Initiative is committed to promoting democracy, human rights, social inclusion, and sustainability through international educational programs and cross-cultural dialogue. Rooted in the legacy of the Kreisau Circle, a German resistance group against Nazism, its mission is to empower individuals - especially young people - to actively shape just, inclusive, and democratic societies. At its core, the Kreisau-Initiative responds to persistent social challenges such as discrimination, social exclusion, extremism, and a lack of opportunities for youth participation in shaping democratic, inclusive societies. Recognizing that many young people - especially those from marginalized backgrounds - face barriers to education, empowerment, and cross-cultural exchange, the organization promotes non-formal education as a tool for social change. Today, the need for fostering social cohesion, gender equality, human rights awareness, and sustainability remains as urgent as ever. The Kreisau-Initiative continues to address these challenges by creating spaces for learning, dialogue, and action, empowering individuals to become active, responsible members of a democratic and diverse Europe. The organization's priority objectives are: - To foster social cohesion by addressing discrimination, exclusion, and extremism. - To promote human rights education and critical engagement with history to strengthen democratic values. - To advance gender equality and support marginalized groups through empowerment and participation. - To encourage socio-ecological transformation, raising awareness of sustainable development and climate justice. - To provide spaces for intercultural exchange, enabling young people to develop skills in dialogue, cooperation, and civic responsibility. Through non-formal education, transnational partnerships, and youth-centered approaches, the Kreisau-Initiative equips participants with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to drive positive social change across Europe and beyond.
Our mission is to research, recognize and remember Poland's citizens fighting for freedom and survival in eastern Poland and in forced exile during WW2. We do this by: - Recording wartime Survivor interviews; - Digitising Survivor's personal documents and memoirs; - Assisting Survivors and Descendants to research and preserve their family's wartime experiences; - Presenting the wartime histories in our online Virtual Museum, www.Kresy-Siberia.org; - Promoting these histories to the public in through history and genealogy events; - Holding reunions and conferences for Survivors and Descendants to pass on these histories.
The mission of Coalition for Youth Foundation is: Here where we live, we should be fine. We run regular programs for three groups of beneficiaries: FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Acceptance. New opportunities We help young people to reveal their talent and build a life on it. We award Clover scholarships We provide an alternative to what they have on a daily basis. We teach a new one at our original workshops. We help discover talent We organize shows. We teach young people to be socially active. We give grants for their own ideas FOR SENIORS Respect. Care. Active life We are creating an Active Seniors Center so that they leave home and make them feel needed We use the skills and life wisdom of the Elders to build a world of values in the Young. Joint projects have priceless power We help the elderly in a difficult living situation. We donate food. FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES Motivation. Knowledge. An impulse to change We make the dreams of small communities come true, for example about a playground or a day-room for children. We award mini grants, including: as part of the Act Locally Program We organize trainings and provide specialist consultancy for local NGOs. That they are effective and always "up to date" We infect people to act by providing equipment, materials and the Foundation's premises. We run the Biaobrzeg Civic Center Beyond that we got involved in helping Ukrainian Refugees coming to our region. Our main activities for Ukrainian refugees: - we organize the biggest collection of food, hygiene products, clothes, medicaments, etc. in the region - we run the largest gift warehouse in the region, which is open from Monday till Saturday. - we have registered over 1 thousand refugees, which we help, but we relocate also our help to other destinations in the region or even in Warsaw as at the beginning we are welled organized - we find shelter for all of the refugees we help- cover food for them, and all needed products - we cooperate with local authorities and schools to integrate the refugees - We cover cost of school starter kit for kids going to school - we work with companies to find jobs for refugees - we pay for school dinners for children - we work with over 200 volunteers regularly
Advocating secondary education reform, informing teachers, and supporting their professional growth in line with the reform values as well as promoting the pedagogy of partnership in schools.
AIPC Pandora is a non-profit organization that works to generate the knowledge and the capacity of action needed at the international level for the construction of a more just and peaceful world. For this, we develop Global Learning Experiences for educational, intercultural, solidarity or professional insertion in one of the 57 countries in which we are present. We work both in Outbound / Outbound and Inbound / Host projects in Spain, offering transformative experiences based on the "Learning-Service" methodology that form global citizens in how to intervene in the great challenges of the world today.
The Stonewall Group is the largest organization fighting for the rights of LGBT+ people in the Wielkopolska region. The Group has been active since 2015 in the following areas: advocacy, education, help/intervention, culture, and healthcare. The Group comprises 41 members and around 50 volunteers cooperate with us. The board comprises five members. Each of them is responsible for a few areas of activity. Our flagship activity is the Poznan Pride Week festival (we organized a few hundred events in the course of five editions of the festival), which culminated in the Equality March (13,000 people participated in 2019). We help LGBT+ people and their families. For four years now, we have been co-operating with six therapists holding psychological consultations which have been provided for around 200 individuals now. We run five support groups for: youth, transgender people, families of LGBT+ people, bisexual people, and LGBT+ people from Ukraine. We provide legal help for LGBT+ people, who are often victims of hate crimes (the legal help is also partially financed by municipal grants); since 2016 we have provided a few hundred hours of support in total, which also consisted in representing a client. We organize many cultural activities: produce concerts, theatre plays, and organize meetings with authors. We are also active in the area of healthcare - thanks to the grant from the city of Poznan, we are organizing a training project for therapists about so-called ChemSex. In 2019, we were commissioned by Panstwowy Zakad Higieny (State Institute of Hygiene) to conduct research about ChemSex. We provide free testing for HIV, syphilis, and HCV. We train companies about antidiscrimination (e.g., Allegro, Franklin Templeton). In 2019, we organized the first edition of Letnia Akademia Rownosci (Summer Equality Academy) - we visited seven cities in Poland, combating harmful stereotypes about LGBT+ people (funded by Sprite). We conduct business activity - we manage the bar Lokum Stonewall bar which has become not only a meeting place for the Poznan LGBT+ community, but also the main stage of Polish queer culture for such events like weekly drag queen performances. The bar also boosts our visibility - it is located on the main pedestrian street in the center of Poznan (facebook.com/LokumStonewall). What is more, as a part of our business activities, we run an online shop (outandproud.pl) and organize trainings for companies.
Our mission is to support unique young people in their self-development and in realisation of their plans: either educational, scientific or professional. We believe that in this way we can guarantee the development of society. Thus we: - help students, and young scientists implement their ideas: original research, or other initiatives for education, science, culture, or business - we provide friendly environment and expert support, - support talented pupils, and students who, aware of their abilities, have courage to conquer the highest peaks. One talented person may be responsible for many innovative changes in the future. Our values: - reliability, - transparency, - building bonds with our beneficiaries, and donors, - diversity, - cooperation, - being and working with experts, - popularisation (dissemination), - innovation
We spread joy worldwide through music, art, circus and dance. Working with vulnerable, abandoned, outcast and poorly people, we run creative sessions to help build confidence, aid childhood development and strengthen communication.
Our mission is: - to continue, get to know and cultivate the centuries-long tradition of the Land of the Great Masurian Lakes; - to unite human and organization activities for the cultural and ecological restoration of the cultural and natural heritage of the Land of the Great Masurian Lakes; - to organize and deepen cooperation between nations associated with the Land of the Great Masurian Lakes in order to restore this magnificent, unique in Europe, multicultural landscape; - to spread ecological thoughts and actions for environmental protection; - to train, inform and provide financial support to non-governmental organizations in the scope consistent with the objectives of the Association; - to conduct artistic, organizational, administrative, tourist, cultural and educational activities.
Our mission is to invite more Polish families and people living in Poland to reading in order to give every child a better chance to realize their full potential, to be open minded, critically thinking, educated, innovative and empathetic citizens - for their own happinness and the prosperity and strength of our democracy in the future.
Promotion of local philanthropy and development of community foundations in Poland.