Community Foundation Development Fund
Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland
- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Enhancing Community Philanthropy
- Grant Amount $600,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2020–December 31, 2022
- Location Warsaw, Poland
- Geographic Focus Europe
About this grant
The program goal is to strengthen the capacity of community foundations in Europe to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To this end, the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland will provide tailor-made grantmaking and technical assistance programs to community foundations in Europe to stimulate innovation in identifying and implementing local responses to global challenges. The grantee will develop a series of learning materials to support community foundations in their work on the global goals. In addition, the grantee will work on leveraging funds from other sources for this program. During the past grant period, the grantee provided 29 grants totaling $500,000 to community foundations in 13 countries and published 11 case studies of community foundations successfully developing local solutions to global challenges. The grantee is based in Warsaw, Poland.