THE CEE FUNDRAISING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2005

The Civil Society Development Foundation Hungary (CSDF Hungary) and Fundraising Competence Group GmbH introduce a new award for celebrating fundraising success stories of the recent years and promoting best practices of the emerging nonprofit sectors in Central and Eastern Europe.

The winner will be rewarded with 5,000 USD. The winner may use the money for any organizational purpose.

This announcement is open for
• registered nonprofit organizations only
• applications from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe and Newly Independent States* (the “old” EU member countries are excluded)
• organizations that ran minimum one fundraising campaign between February 1, 2003 and September 15, 2005. Fundraising campaigns may have been introduced earlier but must have run during this period and have data relative to the qualifying time.

*Eligible countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia- Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

The deadline for submitting your application is 4pm 17 October 2005. Submitted materials will have to arrive by this time to award@csdf.hu

On November 8-11th 2005, CSDF Hungary and the Resource Alliance are holding the 10th Central and Eastern European Fundraising Workshop in Budapest – a regional forum for enhancing the capacity of not-for-profit organizations to mobilize funds and resources for their causes. The Award Ceremony will take place at the Closing Plenary of this event. For more information please visit our conference website: www.csdf.hu/workshop2005

During the Workshop there will be an exhibition from selected applications.

For more information, please click here.

You can download the application form from here.