About the program
As a part of this transition, the BTD is no longer accepting unsolicited project proposals. Organizations that are interested in receiving BTD funding are welcome to send a brief email (no more than three paragraphs) outlining the project idea to balkantrust@gmfus.org. BTD does not recommend that organizations develop full project proposals unless invited to do so by BTD program staff.
BTD’s grantmaking activities will now focus primarily on six countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. BTD may also support relevant regional initiatives that include civil society stakeholders from Western and Eastern Europe, and in particular those based in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania. However, national level projects within Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, and Romania are no longer eligible for BTD funding consideration.
As BTD completes its restructuring over the summer of 2013, updates on the new grantmaking framework and thematic priorities will be provided through this website. Grantmaking helps put democracy into practice by building cooperative partnerships among stakeholders — citizens, government representatives, non-governmental organizations, civic groups, and ethnic communities — to raise and resolve common issues.
Grantmaking
Grantmaking helps put democracy into practice by building cooperative partnerships among stakeholders — citizens, government representatives, non-governmental organizations, civic groups, and ethnic communities — to raise and resolve common issues. BTD awards funds to indigenous civic groups, NGOs, media, think tanks, governments, and educational institutions in order to strengthen democratic structures in Southeastern Europe. It does this through two principal program areas:
- Linking Citizens with Government, which comprises grants to local and national organizations that work to improve citizen engagement
with government; that encourage participatory decision-making and problem-solving; and that promote active citizenship, political reform,
civic education, monitoring of government performance, and other creative and effective projects related to democratic consolidation.
- Regional Cooperation and Collaboration, which refers to grants that fit the criteria above, and that aim to foster cross-border and
region-wide efforts to share best practices, address common problems of democratic development, and build networks among
governments, NGOs, civic initiatives, and other institutions working to improve cooperation throughout the region.
Deadline: on going.
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