The Stefan Batory Foundation

Donors Advised Funds

contact:

Ewa Kulik-Bielińska
tel. |48-22| 536 02 59
ekulik@batory.org.pl

Report 2005

Apart from running its own grant programs, the Foundation also administers funds entrusted by companies and individuals. These funds, one-year, multi-year and perpetual, are created on the basis of donation agreements between a company or an individual donor and the Foundation.

In the framework of Donors Advised Funds an individual or corporate donor decides what sort of projects, programs or initiatives should be funded from his donation. The donor may also decide to narrow the funding to a particular geographical area (in case of a company - to its localities, in case of a private donor – to the region of Poland he/she feels attached to) or to a targeted audience (children, youth, women, elderly people, disabled people). The fund can bear the name of the company or can be named after the donor, in memory of a family member or friend, or in honor of someone the donor wants to commemorate

In 2007 we administer following Donors Advised Funds

M Fund - grants for projects aimed to equalize opportunities of handicapped or underprivileged children and youth funded from the revenues from the endowment established at the Foundation by an private donor.

Helen and Peter Maxwell Fund - grants for computerization of schools in Siedlce area funded from an annual donation by Helen and Peter Maxwell from the U.S. made to the Friends of Stefan Batory Foundation.

Commercial Union Fund - grants for projects to support the disabled, children and youth funded from an annual donation by Commercial Union Polska. The Foundation manages also Commercial Union Charitable Fund used to finance endeavors identified by the donor, involving support for the sick and needy people, as well as support to educational projects.

Beata Pawlak Fund - annual award for an author of an article or publication on foreign cultures, religions and civilizations funded from a donation bequeathed by the deceased Beata Pawlak, Polish journalist and writer killed in a terrorist attack on Bali in 2002.