Author Archive:
Tamás Scsaurszki
Growing ambition in a shrinking space: Hungary’s community foundations after the election
Community foundations offer signs of hope despite growing official repression of civil society. Hungary’s general elections in April gave (once again) a constitutional majority to the ruling coalition government and a green light to pursue …
Reflections from Hungary on helping donors walking the talk
I was recently recovering from the results of the general election in Hungary, and desperate to find new ways to advance my work, when I came across How Community Philanthropy Shifts Power: What Donors Can …
Hungarian Community Foundations at a turning point
Community Foundations in Hungary have reached an exciting milestone. On the one hand, three new foundations have emerged this year from the Community Foundation Support Programme’s set-up process, each with a unique identity and ambitions. …
Community foundations? In Hungary? Yes!
Thanks to a shift in attitude towards community foundations in Hungary, local groups are now embracing the concept and are starting to build community foundations. The Community Foundation Support Programme announced a call for proposals …
Three reasons for supporting the NESsT Venture Fund
The Mott Foundation has been supporting NESsT – the Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team, one of the pioneers of venture philanthropy in Central Europe[1] – since 1998. There are three key reasons for this. Expanding …
