MARTJANCI 36,
9221 MARTJANCI
SLOVENIA
MARTJANCI
Slovenia
- Democracy and community development
- Others
Local development foundation for Pomurje region (Slovenia) is founded to stimulate legal and other conditions for development of philanthropy, voluntary work and fundings of public useful non-profit activities, which ensolve social, financial and other existing problems, contribute to welfare and development of local communities of Pomurje region.
Local deveoplment foundation for Pomurje region objectives are:
• to support NGO sector in Pomurje region (education and trainings, civil dialogue, counseling, ICT solutions, promotion of NGO's);
• to serve as independent and intermediate mechanism between economic sector, which want to contribute financial means and between civil society that wish to take voluntary actions with the aim to improve regional / local development and solve existing problems in local community /region;
• to encourage individuals and civil society organizations to actively participate in solving local communities problems with the aim to improve local communities welfare.
Two priorities of our work:
1. grant-making 2007-2009
2. Regional hub for NGO's in Pomurje region, Slovenia (2008, 2009-2010, 2010-2012, 2012-2014)
Elementary goal of this projects was establishment and continuation of the Regional hub for NGOs in Pomurje region, which provide system of cost-free services for NGOs in the region (consulting, trainings, preparation of the project proposals, ICT solutions). Objectives are to encourage civil dialogue, to educate the members of NGO’s, common iniciatives with the goal to promote NGO sector and to increase the visibility of the sector in the media and to rase awerness of it’s role in the society.
We were project partners also in projects with Center of slovenian NGO's.
The emphasis is on civil dialogue, cooperation of NGO's on regional level and on strenghtening of NGOs voice in the region.
We can contribute with our human respources:
- we can promote Network among NGOs in our region (we etsablished regional network in which there are mre than 370 NGOs from our region) through our website, local medias, social medias;
- we can participate on ALF events;
- we can offer project ideas and partnership.
We are looking for new oppurtunities for the development of our organization and for the development of NGO sector in Pomurje region (Slovenia). We are also looking for potential project partners or invitations to project implementation.
We also want to promote ALF network in our region.