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21-06-2011.
The First Matching Grant in Fundraising from Local Sources Program

Balkan Community Initiatives Fund will award the first grant in the amount of 3,000 euros to Rainbow Association from Šabacwithin Fundraising from local sources program.

The idea of this program is for the participating organizations to receive first financial support within their community, that is to fundraise the means for their activities from individuals and companies in the cities they work in, and then to receive a grant from BCIF.  During the fundraising preparations they have at their disposal the initial means in the amount of 630 euros from BCIF.  BCIF will present the organizations which manage to fundraise 3,000 euros with the doubled amount (matching grant).

Apart from Rainbow, another eight organizations participate in Fundraising from local sources program:   

Center for Creative Development (Knjaževac), Association for the Development of Creativity(Aleksinac), White Birch (Kruševac), Q club (Beograd),  ApsArt (Beograd), The Good People (Valjevo), Cobra (Donja Trnava) and Green Road Signs (Raška).

Rainbow Association has been fundraising for the foundation of Discrimination Free Zone that is the establishment of Library of Living Books – the conversation between the interested citizens with the representatives of some of socially marginalized groups.  By using various methods – letters with deposit slips and additional material for individual and potential corporate donors, street fundraising actions, individual meetings with the representatives of enterprises, art auctions, media calls etc. and in cooperation with several institutions and organizations (School of Art Crafts, Cultural Center, Association of Paraplegics, Roma cultural Center) the colleagues from Rainbowhaveuntil May, 28thmanaged to fundraise 356,000 dinars.

Fundraising from local sources program is being implemented by BCIF with support from VIA Foundation from the Czech Republic, within Transition Promotion program of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.

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