In fall 2017 Power of Humanity Foundation launched the Growing Civic Communities programme in the Southern Transdanubian region, founded by the Open Society Foundations, as part of the Regional Community Centres program.
Within the programme for three years per year NGOs, informal groups and communities can apply for an amount of 100 million HUF for projects implemented in Baranya, Somogy and Tolna counties. This is a huge opportunity, especially when we consider that how resource-poor environment the civil society in the region is working in. Besides that in Hungary only in the Northern Great Plain region were opened similar opportunities for civilians.
During the development of the ECK programme we determined our goals and what kind of change we want to see in the regional civil society as the result of our activities to serve as a model for possible regional programs of the Open Society Foundations.