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Synergy Bulgaria's geographical reach extends into three different dimensions: internationally (mainly Europe), nationally and locally (mainly Sofia, Bulgaria).

On the international level we create a learning environment and promote entrepreneurship/feeling of initiative by hosting youth exchanges and coordinating volunteering projects. By hosting mobilities of youth workers and being partners in KA2 projects we contribute to raising the standards of youth work and mentoring young organizations.

On the local level we are hosting and facilitating local Synergy Lab workshops, Story.me story-telling evenings and informal gatherings. We also mentor young people to receive funding and implement solidarity projects. Last, we run Changemaker's Academy, a three moth intensive program of trainings and workshops aimed at young local females who wish to become entrepreneurs.

Research, training development end delivery, including e-learning.

The Change Foundation's projects:
PROMYANATA Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs (2015 – 2020) - to support early stage social entrepreneurs to develop and scale their innovations, solving pressing social issues for children and youth. Within 3 to 5 years in the Incubator SEs to have proven their impact, become financially sustainable, established a strong leadership and team, and to have initiated scale of their impact. To develop a community of social entrepreneurs.
PROMYANATA Pre-Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs (2015 – 2020) - to support early stage SE to get investment ready for the Incubator of The Change Foundation . To support the development of the SEs in terms of: effective solution, financial sustainability, pitching . To create a community of SE.
Innovation for Inclusion (2020 - ....) - to empower innovators to develop their sustainable solutions for social inclusion.
Social Innovation Fund (2015 – 2020) - to support, through social-entrepreneur initiatives that have a sustainable business model and that create social change in Bulgaria, especially for underprivileged people.
Project “Transfer of Innovative Practices for Enhancing the Social Impact from the Activity of Social Entrepreneurs” (2017-2018) - to research, pilot and transfer in Bulgaria innovative practices for support of social entrepreneurs in regard to: impact management, organisational growth and impact scaling, system change.
Accelerator and Incubator for early stage SE in the field of Education (2018- 2019) - to help teachers and alumni of Teach for Bulgaria further develop their knowledge, skills, and capacity in order to start successful businesses dedicated to various social causes

The Change Foundation's programs:
Pre-incubator and Incubator program – our pre-incubator and incubator are designed to support social enterprises in the proof-of-concept and early-growth stages. We help social entrepreneurs maximize and effectively measure their social impact, strengthen internal capacities and increase revenues and typically lasts up to three years. The incubator supports includes:
- Capacity-building. We offer advisory, technical training, mentoring, coaching and peer-to-peer exchange across five key development areas: effective solution, financial sustainability, leadership and team, impact scaling and system change.
- Network connections. We connect our social entrepreneurs to our local and international network of experts and funders, with the aim of creating new learning opportunities, partnerships and sources of revenue.
- Stamp of approval. In addition to assistance with capacity building and access to network and grant funding, a place in our incubator represents a stamp of approval because of our highly competitive selection process.
- Grant funding. Selected social entrepreneurs are offered unrestricted support for developing and delivering their solution and for strengthening the capacity and capabilities of their team.
In addition to the direct support to social entrepreneurs, The Change Foundation also works to create a sustainable supportive environment that enables social entrepreneurs to develop and scale. This includes increasing awareness of social entrepreneurship, facilitating cross-sector exchange and establishing support networks.

The Change Foundation's projects:
PROMYANATA Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs (2015 – 2020) - to support early stage social entrepreneurs to develop and scale their innovations, solving pressing social issues for children and youth. Within 3 to 5 years in the Incubator SEs to have proven their impact, become financially sustainable, established a strong leadership and team, and to have initiated scale of their impact. To develop a community of social entrepreneurs.
PROMYANATA Pre-Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs (2015 – 2020) - to support early stage SE to get investment ready for the Incubator of The Change Foundation . To support the development of the SEs in terms of: effective solution, financial sustainability, pitching . To create a community of SE.
Innovation for Inclusion (2020 - ....) - to empower innovators to develop their sustainable solutions for social inclusion.
Social Innovation Fund (2015 – 2020) - to support, through social-entrepreneur initiatives that have a sustainable business model and that create social change in Bulgaria, especially for underprivileged people.
Project “Transfer of Innovative Practices for Enhancing the Social Impact from the Activity of Social Entrepreneurs” (2017-2018) - to research, pilot and transfer in Bulgaria innovative practices for support of social entrepreneurs in regard to: impact management, organisational growth and impact scaling, system change.
Accelerator and Incubator for early stage SE in the field of Education (2018- 2019) - to help teachers and alumni of Teach for Bulgaria further develop their knowledge, skills, and capacity in order to start successful businesses dedicated to various social causes

The Change Foundation's programs:
Pre-incubator and Incubator program – our pre-incubator and incubator are designed to support social enterprises in the proof-of-concept and early-growth stages. We help social entrepreneurs maximize and effectively measure their social impact, strengthen internal capacities and increase revenues and typically lasts up to three years. The incubator supports includes:
- Capacity-building. We offer advisory, technical training, mentoring, coaching and peer-to-peer exchange across five key development areas: effective solution, financial sustainability, leadership and team, impact scaling and system change.
- Network connections. We connect our social entrepreneurs to our local and international network of experts and funders, with the aim of creating new learning opportunities, partnerships and sources of revenue.
- Stamp of approval. In addition to assistance with capacity building and access to network and grant funding, a place in our incubator represents a stamp of approval because of our highly competitive selection process.
- Grant funding. Selected social entrepreneurs are offered unrestricted support for developing and delivering their solution and for strengthening the capacity and capabilities of their team.
In addition to the direct support to social entrepreneurs, The Change Foundation also works to create a sustainable supportive environment that enables social entrepreneurs to develop and scale. This includes increasing awareness of social entrepreneurship, facilitating cross-sector exchange and establishing support networks.

Generally, we are engaged in various forms of nonformal education:
We run art classes in the Refugee camp in Harmanli, Bulgaria. 
We provide English classes for the refugees in the Refugee camp in Harmanli, Bulgaria. 
We organize free open cources in the Open School of Psychology (haskovo, Buglaria). 
We develop the local community in Chernichevo village, Eastern Rhodope mountains. 

Projects:
Green Youth Academy 2009-2010 carried by DS of USA Alumni Venelin Todorov;
“Innovative adult education for sustainable rural development” Project /2008-2010/ under Grundtvig Program /Lifelong learning/.
Greener Bourgas Foundation participates in an international consortium together with organizations from Lithuania, Italy, Romania, Slovenia and Belgium. The project is focused on providing training on sustainable rural practices for inhabitants from marginalized regions. Associated partner is Regional Agricultural Advisory Service - Burgas;
CSO Engagement in Ecological Economics Project 2008; The innovative practices for capacity building of civil society organizations Project /2008/
“The innovative practices for capacity building of civil society organizations” Project /2008/. The project is funded under the OP Administrative capacity. GBF is partner of the Union of Bulgarian Black sea Local authorities. In the framework of the project is organized training for CSO representatives through Internet based platform. Its aim is NGOs capacity building mainly in the regions of Varna, Burgas and Dobrich.
“Learn, See, Do” Project /2006 –2007/, funded by Joint Small Project Fund, PHARE Cross border Cooperation program Bulgaria-Turkey. Greener Bourgas Foundation is Bulgarian partner of Kirklareli Chamber of Agriculture.
“Regional waste management project for Burgas, Dobrich and Provadia Regions” /2005 – 2007/, funded by ISPA Program. Greener Bourgas Foundation is local partner of the international consortium. “Giant Farm” Project /2005 – 2006/, funded by the Joint Small Project Fund, PHARE Cross border Cooperation program Bulgaria-Turkey.
“Sustainable NGOs - reliable and capable partner” Project- Program for Institutional and Financial Capacity Building of NGOs in the Bulgarian Black Sea Region /2005 –2006/, funded by Small embassy project (MATRA/KAP).
“Development of regional development plan for South-east Planning region” /2005 – 2005/ Project, funded by the Bulgarian Ministry of regional development and public works. Greener Bourgas Foundation was part of the consortium developing the plan;
“Campaign for support of energy efficiency measures implementation in the construction of residential and public buildings in Burgas region” Project /2004 – 2005/, funded by Foundation EkoObshtnost under Energy Alternatives program;
“Sustainable building” Project /2004 – 2005/, funded by the Dutch Ministry of housing, spatial planning and the environment. This is a pilot project for Bulgaria and is implemented by the Greener Bourgas Foundation with the support of the Municipality of Burgas. It aims at transferring the Dutch experience in the field of sustainable building including sustainable technologies and materials.
“Environmental management of port areas ” /2003 – 2004/- Flanders-Bulgarian project funded by the Flanders community. Greener Bourgas Foundation organizes trainings for the project target groups-port authorities, ecological organizations, trade-union organizations, etc. about the role of NGOs in environmental management of port areas.03/2003 - 03/2004
"Promotion of Environmentally Sound Agricultural Practices in Bulgarian Black Sea Coastal Zone", financed by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of UK.10/2002 - 06/2003 "Campaign "Helping people to participate" financed by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe under the Program "Support Developing Strategies for Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in SEE NGO".
A JOINT PROGRAM FOR PREVENTION, REDUCTION AND CONTROL OF NUTRIENT POLLUTION FROM AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES/ October 2002 - October 2003/09/2002 - 06/2003 "Establishment of Partnership for Introduction of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in the Black Sea region" financed by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe - Bulgaria. The project aims to establish multi-stakeholders partnership on local and regional level for introduction of sustainable agricultural practices.01/2002 "Strengthening Municipalities and Regional Capacity Project - Bulgaria", financed by the British Know-How Fund.
04/2001 - 12/2001"Partners for water protection and sustainable utilization ". Financed by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe. DEVELOPMENT OF A HAZARDOUS MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ON THE TERRIRORY OF MUNICIPALITY OF BOURGAS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EU STANDARDSThe main goal of this project is the implementation of an effective and active system for integrated management of the specific hazardous waste from humanitarian and veterinarian medicine on the territory of Bourgas Municipality, eliminated risks for environment and human health , in connection with the implementation of the health reform in Bulgaria and the performance of the requirements of existing local normative organization and the EU legislation standards.The Greener Bourgas Foundation organized the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Risk Assessment Activities for the Cold War Facilities and Environmental Legacies". More than 70 participants from all over the world were trained.
2000 - 2001 "Clean beaches, a first commitment for a sustainable tourism in Romanian and Bulgarian Black Sea Coastal Areas "-under the Cooperative Environmental Project Grants of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.
2000-2001"Implementation of a new equipment for the waste treatment"-financed by the Dutch Environmental Ministry. The Greener Bourgas Foundation is the local partner and consultant for this project. 2000 -2001 "Co-generation and energy efficiency program for Toplofikatcia Bourgas"-financed by the Ecolinks Program of USAID.
"Urban indicators for sustainable development" within the framework of program "Global Urban Network" by the United Nations Commission on Human Settlements. The Foundation Greener Bourgas select, process and analyze the statistic information concerning the social, economic and environmental situation in Municipality of Bourgas.Extraction and Utilisation of Biogas at Bratovo landfill financed by the Ecolinks Program USAID, 1999-2001 Bulgarian-Dutch Environmental Project Greeer Bourgas - common environmental action program of the government and the Industry of the region of Bourgas, 1997-1999;
1999-2001 Bulgarian-Dutch Project Development of Waste Management Strategy for Port of Bourgas. The partners are: Ministry of Transport, Port of Bourgas, Municipality of Bourgas, IWACO -Rotterdam, DCMR-Rotterdam, Haskoning, ATM. The Foundation acted as a local consultant and coordinator of this project.
Within the framework of Project the Foundation organized an international seminar for Waste Management in Black Sea Ports.

Though recently established, the foundation has already taken part in organising:
St. Jordan’s Charity Concert for Children with Disabilities in partnership with the Psychological Research Centre and Radoi Ralin Foundation.
Master classes in piano directed by Pancho Vladigerov, Jr., at the House Museum in Sofia.
A course in project management.
Publication of a photo album (Photos from the Study) comprising one of the unique collections of the museum exposition.
Concerts of students from the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music, meetings and discussions with American students.
Main project in partnership with Pancho Vladigerov Museum House Sofia Master classes; Concert-production of Junior Musical Schools’ students; General public and educational concerts; Promotions of CDs and books, conveying the magic of music; Temporary exhibitions; Musical events, celebrations and anniversaries; Chamber performances, etc. To mention only a few of the major museum activities in the last couple of years: “Europe in Vladigerv’s calendar” – completed first stage of producing a DVD; “Let’s Draw a Picture of Sounds”, musical and educational cycle for pre-school and elementary school children; Vladigerov’s photo album: Photos from his Study; Digitalization of basic documentary archive; Digitalization of basic musical archive; Chamber music performances, concert cycles; “Musical Journey” and “Look and Listen”, educational concert cycles; “Reinhardt - Vladigerov: Interaction and Projections” exhibition; New transcriptions of Vladigerov's works; “The Yakubitsa Street House”, a documentary, winner of the ‘Eight Muse’ Media Festival 2008 award for cultural news events and activities category; “110th Pancho Vladigerov anniversary and 40th Sofia Musical Weeks anniversary” concert; Documentation & art exhibition on “Jewish Presence in Bulgarian Music”, in partnership with “Shalom”, the Organizations of Jews in Bulgaria.

We would like to build a House of Arts in Hisarya where children and young people to fill their free time and develop their talents.