America for Bulgaria Foundation is a BCNL’s strategic partner for many years with the common belief that Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are an intrinsic element of every independent and prosperous civil society. Jointly with ABF during the years we’ve developed several programs dedicated to improve the civil society organizations in Bulgaria: Improving and enabling the […]

Project focused on mobilizing and supporting the disability and human rights organizations and movements to be leaders of the day by providing adequate response to the COVID 19 crisis.

With the project we aim to increase the involvement of young artists by activating their participation in socially important topics of the civil sector, with a focus on human rights and freedoms, and creating an environment for connecting with CSOs.

In the spring of 2019, the "civil alarm clock" will ring again to awaken the discovery, artistic spirit, knowledge of human rights and civic initiative among youth and adults.

През пролетта на 2019 година "гражданският будилник" ще зазвъни отново, за да разбуди откривателския, артистичен дух, познанието за човешките права и гражданската инициативност у малки и големи.

Through the “Civil Alarm Clock - Empowering the rights through the language of arts” advocacy campaign we want to support and empower the young artists and civil society organizations themselves to take the leadership in the process and lead the advocacy actions and initiatives on local level

The main purpose of the project is to support the process of reloading the Next Step Program as a community program.

Purpose of the project: counteraction against the attempts for trammelling the civic space and discrediting of civic organizations Activities for gaining the purpose: Organization and conduction of a conference with representatives of civic organizations from various sectors for adoption of a common vision for development and interaction of and between the civic organizations in Bulgaria […]

The project is a logic continuation of a four year initiative that strives for the introduction of Article 12 standards in the Bulgarian legal system. It focuses on the most strategic stage of legal reform in Bulgaria nowadays – the public debate on the Draft Law on Physical Persons and Support Measures, and aims to secure space for the disability community to promote evidence-based argumentation for its adoption through legislative monitoring activities, awareness-raising campaigns and capacity building initiatives.

The goal of the project is to support civil society organizations in Bulgaria by: changing their attitudes towards potential new sources of income;building the capacity of CSOs through access to high-quality training; providing assistance to people that want to establish CSOs and to CSOs that need legal or other advice; helping CSOs to access information and share their achievements with others through NGOBG (The NGO Information Portal) and the CSO House;supporting the change of the legal and policy framework for CSOs.