Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego

Annual Report 2002

Our Donors

As in the past, a vast majority of funds supporting the Stefan Batory Foundation came from the George Soros’ Open Society Institute in 2002. We obtained additional funding from Polish and foreign donors.

We are particularly grateful for a generous gift of Anonymous Donor from Poland who contributed to our endowment fund. With this donation we created in 2002 M Fund the returns from which will be regularly earmarked for assistance to the disabled, equal opportunities and health care programs.

Children and youth programs in 2002 were supported by the American Express Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co. and our long standing partner known for its community involvement, Commercial Union Poland. We are extremely pleased to have received gifts from private donors in Poland, Ms Beata Burakowska-Szczygielska and Mr Wojciech Miechowicz who supported Local Scholarship Programs for youth in small towns.

International initiatives of our Foundation were co-funded by such organizations as the Polish- American-Ukrainian Cooperation Initiative (PAUCI), the National Endowment for Democracy, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the US Embassy and the Royal Netherlands Embassy. The Anti- Corruption Program was financially supported by the US Embassy and the World Bank.

The initiative and funds received from the Bosch Foundation helped us in 2002 launch Polish/German Twin Cities Program, addressed to local organizations active in towns and villages which had signed twinning agreements with their German counterparts.

The US Embassy, the Ford Foundation, the Polish-American Freedom Foundation and the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe co-funded a seminar organized by the Foundation to address legal and financial aspects of endowment building by non-governmental organizations.

Finally, we would like to express our enormous gratitude to three US foundations which have been instrumental in building an endowment fund for the Batory Foundation. In 2002, the Ford Foundation donated half of the 6 million grant designated to our endowment; the Charles Stuart Mott Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund provided us with grants for institutional development and fund-raising activities.

We thank all our donors from the bottom of our hearts!

With your help we can help others!