Projects in progress

Domestic donors
Name of the donor:
Croatian Employment Service,
Department for Financing and Contracting
EU projects
Co-funding:
Office for cooperation with NGOs
Title of the action:
Youth and social entrepreneurship
Grant duration:
One year: 03.05.2011. - 02.05.2012.
Project financial value:
85.860,00 €
Co-funding:
6.447,98 €
Type of grant:
Project grant
Partners:
  • Croatian Employment Service – Regional office in Osijek
Geographic area of implementation:
Osječko-baranjska County, Town of Osijek
Overall objective:
Support for development of active policies of the labor market and measures for unemployed young people in Osijek-Baranja County.
Activities:
  • Holding workshops (on entrepreneurship, job-searching skills)
  • Organizing visits to successful entrepreneurs
  • Counseling and informing unemployed people
  • Printing and distribution of brochures (2), leaflets and posters
  • Executing research on part-time jobs
  • Organizing conferences
  • Founding social cooperative (education of the cooperative management, registration, ensuring technical requirements)
  • Creation of business plan
  • Technical support for cooperative, managing project activities

Name of the donor:
Town of Osijek
Title of the action:
Big Brother
Grant duration:
One year support: 01.01.2011 – 31.12.2011.
Project financial value:
20.000,00 Kn
Type of grant:
Project grant
Geographical area of implementation:
Town of Osijek
Overall objective:
Socializaion of residents of the home for children "Klasje" Osijek
  • Children's cultural education
  • Promoting sportmanship between children
  • Socialization with people outisde home
Activities:
  • Organizing and visiting cinema
  • Organizing and visiting pool and iceskating
  • Organizin and visiting Croatian National Theater in Osijek
  • Organizing and visiting Childrens Theater of Branko Mihaljević
  • Organizing and spending free time and acitivities in nature, playgounds
  • Walking around town with the aim of spending qualitiy time with volunteer
  • Information and expirience exchange
  • Introducing volunteer with childs problems and atempt to solve them and very necessary comunications with the resident

Name of the donor:
Town of Osijek
Title of the action:
Financial functioning of non-profit organizations – informing, education and counseling
Grant duration::
One year: 01.01.2011 – 31.12.2011.
Project financial value::
12.000,00 Kn
Type of grant:
Project grant
Geographic area of implementation:
Town of Osijek
Overall objectives:
To improve level of quality of complete financial functioning of non-profit organizations
Activities:
  • Presentation of the project
  • Informing NGOs
  • Organization and implementation of educations - workshop
  • Counseling service for NGOs

Topic of the workshops:

  • Law regulations for financial functioning of non-profit organizations
  • Forms of financial functioning
  • Areas of financial functioning of the organization arranged by internal documents
  • Basic knowledge and skills
  • Advanced practical knowledge and skills
  • Advanced practical knowledge – managing project finances

Name of the donor:
Croatian Employment Service,
Department for Financing and Contracting
EU projects
Co-funding:
Office for cooperation with NGOs
Title of the action:
With partnership to work
Grant duration:
One year: 27.01.2011. - 26.01.2012.
Project financial value:
92.580,00 €
Co-funding:
6.943,50 €
Type of grant:
Project grant
Project partners:
  • Association "Zvonimir"
  • Croatian Employment Service – Regional office in Šibenik
  • Open Public University Knin
Geographic area of implementation:
Šibensko – kninska county
Overall objectives:
Development of human potentials in Šibenik-Knin County with the aim of stimulating local employment by using partnership approach.
Activities:
  • Founding the Network through motivating stakeholders
  • Organizing work meetings
  • Public presentation of the Network's work
  • Strengthening capacities of members through organizing workshops
  • Implementation of analysis of the situation and creating recommendations
  • Organizing work meetings
  • Printing and distributing materials
  • Organizing Legal/Social Counselling Office
  • Organizing workshops for job searching skills
  • Organizing workshops for upgrading social skills
  • Promotion of the life-long learning

Name of the donor:
Government of the Republic of Croatia
Ministry of family, war veterans and
inter-generation solidarity
Title of the action:
Pomoć u kući starim i nemoćnim osobama
Grant duration:
One year: 01.01.2011 – 31.12.2011
Project financial value:
303.600,00 Kn
Type of grant:
Projektna grant
Project partners:
  • Municipality of Kistanje
  • Municipality of Promina
Geographic area of implementation:
Šibenik-Knin County – Municipalities of Kistanje and Promina
Overall objective:
Improving quality of life and enabling most vulnerable groups of senior citizens to live with dignity in the municipality of Kistanje.
Activities:
  • Organizing house visits and helping senior citizens in their homes in everyday life needs (food, cleaning etc) and such
  • Building sustainable organization of providing social services for senior citizens in the municipality of Kistanje
  • Educating people who will implement services and making coordination with responsible institutions and institutions of social care

Name of the donor:
Croatian Employment Service,
Department for Financing and Contracting
EU projects
Co-funding:
Office for cooperation with NGOs
Title of the action:
FENIKS – project of social inclusion of recovered addicts
Grant duration:
One year: 04.12.2010. - 03.12.2011.
Project financial value:
93.195,00 €
Co-funding:
6.990,00 €
Type of grant:
Project support
Project partners:
  • Croatian Employment Service – Regional office in Šibenik
  • Municipality of Kistanje
  • Comunita "Mondo Nuovo"
Geographic area of implemenation:
  • Šibenik - Knin ounty, Zadar county, Municipality of Kistanje - Nunić
  • Municipality of Kistanje - Nunić
Overall objective:
Stimulation of the social inclusion of long-term unemployed beneficiaries of the social welfare through inclusion of recovered addicts in the labour market
Activities:
  • Organizing courses (ECDL operator, advanced computer courses, courses of English language)
  • Workshops (job searching, raising awareness of the employers, self-employment, social entrepreneurship)
  • Tribunes
  • Counseling for unemployed people
  • Forming support teams for the unemployed
  • Organizing the campaign "Through employment to the re-socialization"
  • Voluntary actions in the community
  • Printing and distribution of materials (leaflets, brochures, posters)

Name of the donor:
National foundation for civil society development
Type of grant:
Institutional grant
Grant duration:
Three years: 01.01.2010 – 31.12.2012
Project financial value:
  • 1st year (2010): 372.800,00 kn
  • 2nd year (2011): 335.520,00 kn
  • 3rd year (2012): 335.520,00 kn
Geographic area of implementation:
Osijek and Drniš (Slavonia and Baranja, Middle Dalmatia)
Overall objective:
Support for institutional development: (development of human potentials, improving system of quality of work, improving strategic thinking, development of models of self-financing, establishment of strategic partnerships, and financing overhead costs.
Activities:
  • Education and improvement of management bodies, employees and volunteers of the organization, in concordance with the needs of the organization
  • Support for Program of development of the model of organization's self-financing (business plan)
  • Strategic planning for organization (program and institutional)
  • Equipping organizations offices (Osijek and Drniš) with furniture and equipment
  • Maintaining overhead costs of the organization (offices in Osijek and Drniš)
  • Study visits, other business trips (cooperation / partnerships)
  • Printing informational, educational and promotional materials of the organization

Foreign donors
Name of the donor:
European Commision
Project title:
Gender Agenda in Rural Development – Empowerment of Women in the Rural Society
Project leader:
Institute for Democracy and Mediation (Albania)
Type of grant:
Project grant
Project partners
  • Agency for Cooperation, Education and Development (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Organization for Civil Initiatives (Croatia)
  • Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional (Spain)
Grant duration:
Two years: 01.12.2011. - 31.11.2013.
Project financial value:
256.869,00 €
Geographical area of implementation:
Albania, Croatia, Spain
Overall objective:
Contribute to women empowerment and to facilitate and strengthen women’s roles in rural development programs and enhance access for rural women to developmental opportunities in local communities in the targeted countries.
Activities:
  • Establishment of National and Regional Gender Networks for Rural Development
  • Creation and adoption of the Gender Agenda in Rural Development
  • Promotion and advocating of the principles of Gender Agenda in Rural Development at local level

Name of the donor:
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Type of grant:
Institutional grant
Grant duration:
Two years: 01.01.2010 – 31.12.2011
Project financial value:
  • 1st year (2010): 40.000,00 USD
  • 2nd year (2011): 40.000,00 USD
Geogprahic area of implementation:
Osijek and Drniš (Slavonia and Baranja, Middle Dalmatia)
Overall objective::
Support for institutional development: (development of human potentials, improving system of quality of work, improving strategic thinking, development of models of self-financing, establishment of strategic partnerships, and financing overhead costs.
Activities:
  • Education and improvement of management bodies, employees and volunteers of the organization, in concordance with the needs of the organization
  • Support for Program of development of the model of organization's self-financing (business plan)
  • Strategic planning for organization (program and institutional)
  • Equipping organizations offices (Osijek and Drniš) with furniture and equipment
  • Maintaining overhead costs of the organization (offices in Osijek and Drniš)
  • Study visits, other business trips (cooperation / partnerships)

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