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#GREENIDEAS: We present you the 10 selected projects

At the end of the last week, the call for another cycle of the Forum for Green Ideas program was closed. We have received 20 applications from all over Serbia – Aranđelovac, Ada, Belgrade, Gornji Milanovac, Valjevo, Kragujevac, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad, Novo Miloševo, Sremska Mitrovica, Surduk, Medveđa, Čajetina, Čačak. The most significant number – 15 of them came from citizens’ associations, 3 applications from business companies, and one each from a foundation and an environmental cooperative.

 

After the first selection, 10 ideas were selected to participate in the training “For more successful green ideas”:

 

  • Association of persons with disabilities Vizido, Sremska Mitrovica
  • Center for Sustainable Development Redefining, Belgrade
  • Association “WCSCD”, Belgrade
  • Green plantation Iva, Surduk
  • Intergenerational Volunteer Center Foundation, Belgrade
  • GRALO DOO Divci, Valjevo
  • STAPRO D.O.O., Ada
  • Association “Zadrugarstvo”, Kragujevac
  • Ecological cooperative Connect Clean Roma Group, Novo Miloševo
  • Mamin Gaj, Aranđelovac

 

During this training, participants will have the opportunity to improve their knowledge and skills for starting and running a social enterprise. Working on their own examples, they will have the opportunity to develop their ideas, as well as to define their social mission and business plan.

The three-day training will take place in Belgrade from May 26 to 28. They will then prepare presentations in which they will present their final proposals as part of the National Forum for Green Ideas, on June 15 in Belgrade.

 

The best among them (three ideas) will be supported by donations in the amount of USD 5,000 in dinar equivalent and will have the opportunity to present their collaborative and innovative projects at the Balkan Green Ideas Forum, at the end of September, where the total fund for the best is USD 40,000 (amount awards per idea can be from 5,000 to 10,000 USD).

 

The #GREENIDEAS program is implemented with the financial support of the Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund and the Balkan Green Foundation.

 

The companies dm drogerie markt Srbija and Lidl Srbija also provide support for the implementation of the program.

Results of the second round of the Active Communities: Solidarity Response to COVID-19 program

In order to respond to the problems of communities caused by the coronavirus pandemic, on April 10, the Trag Foundation announced a call for application for the Active Communities: Solidarity Response to COVID-19 program, intending to support actions aimed at reducing the spread of the virus and facilitating self-isolation, as well as actions focused on both recovery and resilience of communities from the economic and other social consequences of the pandemic.

After 24 initiatives in the first round of the program were supported in the total amount of 8.079.845,00 dinars, the Donation Team of the Trag Foundation, with the support of external advisors, selected 15 initiatives, out of 73 submitted project proposals in the second round of the program, that will be supported by a total amount of 5.636.672,00 dinars.

The projects supported in the second round of the program are:

– Association Step in Front of Everyone, for the informal group Sombor tailors (Sombor)
– LICEULICE (Belgrade)
– Association Info Park (Belgrade)
– Women’s Center Milica (Vrnjačka Banja)
– Roma Center for Women and Children Daje (Belgrade)
– Association Young Heart (Trstenik) 
– Center for Moms (Belgrade)
– Association of Parents, Guardians, and Friends of Children with Malignant Diseases – Čika Boca (Belgrade)
– Association Women for Peace (Leskovac)
– Association Okular (Ćićevac)
– Association of Parents of Persons with Special Needs – EGAL (Kragujevac)
– Association To be known! (Belgrade)
– Association for Psychological Support, Development, and Education Psychoreflector (Novi Sad)
– Volunteer Fire Department Vitkovac-Milakovac-Pečenog (Kraljevo)
– Association Centar Psychocare (Niš)

The Active Communities: Solidarity Response to COVID-19 program is being implemented with the financial support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Oak Foundation.