- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Strengthening Civic Space
- Grant Amount $70,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2006–December 31, 2007
- Location Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
- Geographic Focus Slovakia
About this grant
The program goal is to promote community organizing activities as a way of strengthening citizen participation in Slovakia. This grant will enable the Center for Community Organizing – Slovakia to strengthen its organizational capacity, expand its activities to new communities, develop new programs for densely populated urban neighborhoods and increase its work with the Roma population. In addition, the center will work to consolidate the efforts of similar nonprofit organizations; increase the effectiveness of community organizing activities in Slovakia; and share its experience with other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.Since its establishment in 1999, the center has successfully conducted campaigns around important issues facing residents in several Slovak cities; organized campaigns on the national level to promote accountability of elected representatives to citizens; and coordinated a network of similar organizations in Central and Eastern Europe.