Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego

Our Donors

We could carry out our activity in 2006 thanks to grants and donations made by Polish and foreign private and public institutions, commercial organizations and individual donors, including taxpayers who donated us 1% of their personal income tax.

Majority of our programs were financed from the grant of the Open Society Institute, established by George Soros, American financier and philanthropist, the founder of a network of civic organizations active in more than 50 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States. From the grant donated by Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe we financed the four-year Third Sector Program concluded in 2006. From the Ford Foundation's funds we ran Citizens in Action and Education for Tolerance Programs. The Robert Bosch Foundation co-financed programs of trilateral cooperation: Polish-German-Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. Our activities in the sphere of international cooperation were co-financed in 2006 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the Program against Corruption was supported by the Embassy of the United States.

Our programs aimed to equalize educational opportunities of children and youth were financed from 1% personal income tax donations from individuals, and the donations of Agora Foundation, Commercial Union Poland insurance company, Nestle SA Poland, and the revenue from an endowed M Fund established by a Polish private donor and from gifts by private donors abroad (including Helen and Peter Maxwell and a private donor wishing to remain anonymous, whose donation was used to establish the K Fund) who supported us through the Friends of Stefan Batory Foundation, the U.S., and Stefan Batory Trust, UK.

As in the previous years, we ran the Commercial Union Charity Fund, a donor-advised fund of an insurance company we have been co-operating since 1996. In 2006 the CU Fund supported projects indicated by the donor in the area of health care and education. Also, revenue from the investments of the endowed M Fund was distributed, in line with the Founder's will, to help disabled and ill children, as well as to support equal opportunities and health care projects. We continued to administer the Beata Pawlak Fund used, in line with the Founder's last will, to finance an annual prize for the best article on other cultures, religions and civilizations.

In 2006 we continued our efforts to build the endowment that will constitute the basis for financing our activity in years to come. Significant donations to our capital endowment were contributed by the Ford Foundation and the Charles Stuart Mott Foundation. The Mott Foundation and the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe supported our efforts to develop and expand our financial basis.

We thank all our donors from the bottom of our hearts!
With your help we can help others!

We thank experts, consultants and volunteers who served us pro bono with their professional advice and aid, as well as companies that gave us in-kind contributions. We also want to express our gratitude to all those who helped us in the 1% of income tax campaign in year 2006, especially Antalis Poland for donating us paper for the production of promotional leaflets and Joanna Szymańska for cooperation and engagement in the preparation of the campaign.

We thank the following companies, institutions and individuals who supported our Your vote, your choice campaign aimed to encourage voters to take part in local elections: DDB Warsaw advertising agency for production of a TV spot of the get-out-the-vote campaign; TVN24, TVN, POLSAT and MTV stations for free-of-charge airing of the spot; Best-Marketing Promotion Agency for its distribution to 23 cinemas in Poland; Mateusz Zmy¶lony of the Eskadra agency for the idea and help in organization of an election street happening; Wojciech Albiński for developing the concept of a get-out-the-vote campaign in local communities; Rafał Szymczak of Profile agency for assistance in cooperation with the media; Robert Kawka for printing election stickers; the OZON agency for campaign banner design; Gazeta Wyborcza daily for promotion of the campaign; volunteers Łukasz Bertram, Paulina Chylińska, Rafał Krzemiński and Kacper Plawgo for cooperation in running and coordinating the campaign.

We thank associates and volunteers of the Anti-Corruption Program: Zbigniew Janas and attorney Maciej Łaszczuk for offering their cooperation, knowledge and experience in the implementation of Monitoring of legislative procedure project; judge Przemysław Szustakiewicz for eagerness to share knowledge and help in doubtful cases; Małgorzata W±sek-Wiaderek for support in the field of human rights protection and the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights; Magdalena Chustecka for participation in one of the court proceedings monitored by the program; Bogna Baczyńska for engagement in monitoring of the penal proceedings in the case of inspectors of the State Trade Inspection accused of bribery; volunteers Karolina Skrzek and Piotr Zawieja for covering court proceedings against an individual accused of bribery, Ola Potrebka and Katarzyna Lesińska for continued help in legal counseling project, Marek Solon-Lipiński for his important contribution into the preparation of a report on monitoring of 2005 presidential election campaign finance.