European Environmental Funders Group – Strengthening Environmental Philanthropy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Western Balkans
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The European Environmental Funders Group will meet on 22 May in Šibenik, Croatia, just before the Philea Forum 2023 to explore “Strengthening Environmental Philanthropy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Western Balkans”.
Open to funders willing to engage and explore potential collaborations with peers on environmental-related issues, and seizing the opportunity of the Philea Forum, the EEFG has decided to spark a long awaited and needed exchange on the mobilisation of environmental philanthropy in central and eastern Europe, with a focus on the Western Balkans. Findings from the bi-annual ‘Environmental funding by European Foundations’ report released by the EEFG, highlight that environmental grantmaking provided by European-based foundations is distributed in a very uneven way, with Central and Eastern Europe receiving a very small share of funding relative to countries in Western Europe. This pattern, which results in part from where foundations are registered, has been a persistent feature so far in each edition of this research from 2015 to now.
This meeting is to be the first step towards a more extensive conversation on strengthening the philanthropic and CSOs sector working on environment and agricultural issues in the area.
To attend contact Giulia Lombardi.
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