Lithuania

Lithuanian Social Business Association (LiSVA) is a national umbrella organization uniting social enterprise organizations. It was established in 2018 to create an environment favorable for social business, increase the awareness of social business and promote the implementation of international best practices. This is achieved through advocacy, capacity building and ecosystem development activities.

Organization structure: 2 employees (director and project manager), 2 contractors (communications and administration) and a board of trustees.
Annual budget: 86 000 Eur
Sources of funding: National and European funds, annual membership fee.
Projects: national project funded by Ministry of Social Security and Labour and Lithuanian village network “Courage to Change”, European Social Fund project “Involvement of NGOs in public administration in the field of social entrepreneurship”, Nordic Council of Ministers project “Nordic-Baltic Cooperation for Green and Inclusive Societies”
Main partners: Enterprise Lithuania, Geri Norai, Latvian Social Enterprise Association, Estonian Social Enterprise Network, SE Forum.

Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum Structure of the organization: Director, Chief Curator of Museum Collections, Deputy Director, Office Administrator, Visitors Service department (Head of the department, Cultural activity manager, Educational programs curator, Guards of exhibitions, Exhibition section (Designer and exhibitions installer)) (Theatre department (Head of the department and Museum Specialists), Cinema department (Head of the department and Museum Specialists), Music department (Head of the department and Museum Specialists), Art department (Head of the department and Museum Specialists), The department of collection accounting and storage (Head of the department, Photographer, Restorers, Accounting Department, Curator of literature collections, Maintenance Service. Museum in total has 47 employers. Current projects are concerned with new exhibitions, digitization of Museum values, online exhibitons, researching and publishing materials on Lithuanian theatre, music and cinema  history. Budget of our Museum is about 600000 EUR. The main source is Lithuanian goverment, Museum incomes, various funds, and sponsors. Sourcers of funding: Various Programs financed by Ministry of Culture of the Respublic of Lithuanian, Lithuanian Council for Culture, EU programs, Norwegian Financial Mechanism (EEA-Grants - Norway Grants), sponsors and others. Main partners are other Museums in Lithuania, Lithuanian Museum Association, Lithuanian Art Museums (LAM) the Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitization and LIMIS ( LM CIDLIMIS), Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, National Drama Theatre, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania other Theatre, Music organizations, Lithuanian Cinematography Union, Lithuanian Theatre Union other local institutions.

1. Structure of the organization - functional style. Number of staff employed - 260. 2. Budgetary resources in year:3.679.333 Eur. 3. Sources of funding: -Funding from State - 1.393.941 Eur -LYC incomes - 2.102.931 Eur -Support from funds - 57.982 Eur -Investment and others - 241.253 Eur. 4. Modalities of action: Yearly projects: “Global Education Week” and „Global Action Week“, International Dance Festival “Bloomy Rain”, Non-commercial Children and Youth Cinema Festival. Youth exchanges “MIX ART”, „Different background one action“, „Discovering possibilities“, Contest for children and youth “Junior Lifeguard”, project “Journalistic Research”, Graffiti Contest and etc. National Teacher Forum; International Conference „Formula of Europe – today's competencies for tomorrow success“. 5. Main partners involved in the organization's projects/activities: Stiftung Sozialpädagogisches Institut "Walter May"(Germany), Das Jugendbildungszentrum Blossin (Germany), Training Association in Denmark (FOF), Skagen Education Centre (Denmark), Hyvärilä Youth and Holiday Centre (Finland), Metsäkartano nature youth and tourist centre (Finland), CEMEA - methodical centre of active pedagogy in France, FICEMEA - international organization uniting various NFE associations in different countries, EAICY - European Association of Institutions of Non-Formal Education for Children and Youth, Lithuanian Non-formal Education Association "Youth Academy".

It s an innovative cultural organization that runs activities in the venue called Arts Factory LOFTAS in Vilnius, Lithuania. Capacity: 1000 persons (standing). LOFTAS hosts up to 160 different cultural events a year, mainly alternative pop music concerts. Others are design fairs, creative industries conference, music competitions, music and audiovisual arts festivals. It is non-governmental private organization, open to international collaboration. Main source of funding during a year is organizations own income. Other sources are private sponsorships. Arts Factory LOFTAS employes up to 30 full-time workers for events production, communication, projects development, lights and sound engineerig, design etc. Arts Factory LOFTAS is in a long-term partnership with Lithuanian national TV and radio channel LRT. 

Order of Malta Relief Organisation in Lithuania (Maltos ordino pagalbos tarnyba) was established in 1991. At present, 28 MOPT groups operate in our country. Order of Malta Relief Organisation has 35 permanent employees and more than 900 volunteers.  

 Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania is the budgetary,  main research library open to the public, also operating as a parliamentary library. The National Library functions:     a state universal repository of Lithuanian, Lituanica and foreign documents;     the national archival fund of published documents;     the national bibliography centre;     the centre for statistical accounting of documents published in Lithuania;     the centre of assigning and registration of international standard numbers;     the information centre for social sciences and humanities, politics, economy and culture;     the national coordinating centre for research and methodological activities in library science;     the centre of the Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System (LIBIS);     a deposit library of the European Union, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the International Atomic Energy Agency.