The aim of this program designed for 2006-2008 is to support groups and organizations that strive to foster attitudes of tolerance and openness toward various racial, ethnic and religious differences and counteract intolerance and xenophobia. In 2006 we ran two grantmaking schemes:
We supported educational and cultural activities that recall history and rediscover roots of a multi-national Poland (especially local and Polish-Jewish history), protect common cultural heritage, disarm prejudices and stereotypes on other nations and religions. Through awarding grants for projects carried out mainly in provincial areas and targeting young people we want to assist their authors in the realization of their ideas and help to build a network of civic organizations and communities that attempt to deal with the problem of tolerance and multiculturalism attracting and engaging local people.
In the first edition of the grant competition 128 organizations sent the letters of intent. The authors of 28 of them were invited to the two-days workshops in Warsaw. The workshops combined experience sharing and elaboration on the projects with art presentation and discussions with authors of projects of similar themes. Out of 28 project proposals qualified to the second stage of the competition 17 were awarded with grants. Apart from that, two other projects presented outside the two-stage grant competition procedure received grants from a separate reserve fund.
The partners of Foundation in the projects are: „ę” Society for Creative Initiatives and Encounters Association for Education and Culture.
In 2006 we launched a call for proposals for organizations that monitor, document and denounce instances of intolerance, xenophobia and anti-Semitism as well as run research projects related to these problems. Our aim is to expand the volume and scope of initiatives that directly address all manifestations of intolerance and contribute to the development and increase of professionalism of organizations conducting such activities. Out of 33 letters of intent sent in the first stage of the competition we invited 8 organizations to develop full proposals. Eventually, 3 of them received two-year grants for projects to be implemented in 2007-2008. The grants will be used for research on the scale and instances of intolerance in the media and in other spheres of public life, documentation of the acts of racism-driven violence, dissemination of information regarding such acts and undertaking intervention and mobilizing public opinion to react and protest against them.
Program was financed from grants by the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute.
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Belarusian Students Association
Białystok |
Ethnographic Laboratory Jews of the Podlaski Region – difficult remembrance – research camp for Belarusian youth from the high school in Hajnówka |
PLN 9 600 |
UNESCO Environmental Club, Biodiversity Workshop
Piaski |
Thieving Piaski? – seeking and commemorating the city’s Jewish past: collecting stories, developing and placing signage on the Jews of Piaski heritage trail |
PLN 8 000 |
Civis Polonus Foundation
Warsaw |
Map of my multicultural city – project for youth from Sokołów Podlaski |
PLN 9 000 |
Foundation for the Spiritual Culture of the Borderland
Lublin |
Korczmin – from the Iron Curtain to openness – Transborder Flea Market accompanying Assumption of the Virgin Mary religious celebrations (concerts, workshops, sessions culminating the scientific and inventory camps conducted previously in Korczmiń), held along with the one-day opening of the Polish-Ukrainian border |
PLN 9 000 |
Universitas Bialostocensis University Foundation
Białystok |
Knot – Protecting your town’s memory. Creating “Compendiums of memories” – a contest for junior high and high school youth from the town of Michałów |
PLN 7 000 |
I Hear a Heart International Aid Association
Łódź |
Mosaic: recognition – tolerance – acceptance – discovering communities that once made up the city of Łódź, 1st phase is related to Jewish culture, project will be executed by youth from a socio-therapeutic center |
PLN 7 800 |
Bakery Creative Initiative Center
Kielce |
The Promised Places – Jewish footprints in the cultural heritage of Kielce – documentation and art activities carried out by youth |
PLN 7 900 |
Association of Socio-Ecological Initiatives Movement for Earth
Siemiatycze |
Images of memory – inventory of and providing access to two unique collections of visual materials (photographs and paintings) concerning Jews of the Semiatycze area |
PLN 7 000 |
Rita Baum Cultural and Artistic Association
Wrocław |
Breslau cv – memory map of Wrocław – documentary and art project (memory collection – stories, mementos and photographs, art exhibits and actions) |
PLN 8 000 |
Olszówka Association
Bielsko-Biała |
Each nation gave, each took – multiculturalism in the Carpathians – review of Carpathians of many cultures, training for Beskidy mountain guides, educational activities in Krosno, publications |
PLN 8 400 |
Here and Now Association
Siedlce |
Common Voice – a cycle of events regarding various instances of discrimination (workshops, film screenings) as well as a cultural evening and show inspired by the history of the Jews of Siedlce |
PLN 5 000 |
Villa Sokrates Association
Krynki |
Pinkas Krinki. Let not those founts dry out – spreading awareness of Krynki's Jewish history among Polish readers, translation, publications, oral history |
PLN 8 400 |
Zgierz Cultural Protection Association
Zgierz |
I walk. The trail of historic Zgierz – discovery and propagation of Zgierz’s multicultural past |
PLN 8 000 |
Friends of Ponidzie Society
Pińczów |
Shabbat dinner in Pińczów: Revival and Memory. Joint project of Jewish milieus, local self-government authorities and the socially active from Pińczów – religious celebrations in the Pińczów synagogue accompanied by panel discussions and seminars as well as youth-organized concerts, shows and workshops (dance, plastic arts, photography) as well as a historical contest |
PLN 6 000 |
Bieszczady Tourist Association of Ustrzyki
Ustrzyki Dolne |
Our Promised Land – collecting stories about the Jewish inhabitants of the Bieszczady mountains, photography exhibit, cleaning up and inventory of the Jewish cemetery in Ustrzyki |
PLN 8 000 |
Foksal Gallery Foundation
Warsaw |
Art project by Artur Żmijewski (film production and student group activities) related to a cycle of activities by Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir concerning convictions on ritual murder (respecting ethnographic research conducted in the town of Sandomierz and area) |
PLN 4 600 |
Myślenice Community Association
Myślenice |
Multicultural Myślenice – few days festival (exhibits, concerts, dance and song workshops, film screenings, lectures and discussions) and an NGO forum |
PLN 4 600 |
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East Democratic Society
Warsaw |
Research project Youth, Immigrants, Tolerance - research of attitudes towards immigrants and ethnic minorities among children and youth |
PLN 82 500 |
