The initiative group for the establishment of the Pontus Euxin Community Foundation in Constanta, held on Saturday, November 20, an extraordinary conference, with the participation of actor Dan Puric, entitled "About Love and Martyrs." It was a fundraising event, organized by the Foundation PACT, within the Community Foundation Development Program in Romania, initiated and coordinated nationally by the Association for Community Relations (ARC), in partnership with the Foundation for Partnership (REPF) and PACT.
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Around 200.000 people around the country took part at the country clean-up organized by Let's do it Romania team on September 25th. Among the counties with the highest citizen participation rate, we are glad to encounter 3 counties from South Romania were PACT Foundation has supported the establishment of 23 community-based organizations: Arges, Dolj and Gorj.
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Brussels, November 9th 2010 - Hall Amazone, Brussels, hosted the final conference of the project "Promoting debates in support of strengthening the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) on social protection and social inclusion", funded by the European Commission through the PROGRESS program, run by Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. The moderator was Denis Stokkink, president of the European Think Tank "Pour la Solidarité, the conference organizer and the project leader.
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Between November 21st and 25th, 35 young people took part in a 5-day training organized within Voluntising 2 - a project that aims at increasing youth involvement in volunteering activities. After having acquired information on advertising and volunteering and abilities in campaigning and teamwork, participants created 5 videospots (that you can watch below) and took the first steps in sustaining and developing online promotion campaigns for their teams and projects.
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Between October 21st and November 29th, BYP - Beyond Youth Potential is organizing the project Voluntising 2, aimed at increasing awareness on volunteering. The event will take place in Bucharest and it will be consist of 3 components: a 5-day training in volunteering and advertising, 1 month promotion of media campaigns realized by participants and producing an information video on volunteering designed for NGOs.
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The Resource Center for Non-Profit Organizations in Oltenia (CRONO) together with PACT Foundation (Partnership for Community Action and Transformation) and the Resource Centre for public participation (CeRe) organized a meeting during the Citizens’ Participation Week, attended by members of several NGOs in Craiova and representatives of local authorities from Oltenia region.
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The Citizens Participation Week (CPW) is the first event to have NGOs from 20 different countries standing up collectively for a cause that was forbidden to be talked about in most of these countries for decades: participative democracy.
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Voluntising is a project of Beyond Youth Potential
(www.bypteam.com), that we decided to support, for the mere reason that it promotes a value we believe in: volunteering.
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PACT supports the largest national social involvement project so far: "Let's Do It, Romania! - Cleaning across the whole country. In one day!"It is an unique social volunteer project, which involves cleaning the entire country of the cities outskirts trash, in a single day. That day, known as the National Cleaning Day, falls on Saturday, September 25, 2010.
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PACT, together with CRONO Association (Nonprofit Resource Center for Oltenia) and CeRe (Resource Centre for Public Participation), marks the Citizen Participation Week in Romania with the Regional Workshop "Open Method of Coordination and partnership in social inclusion", to take place on September 22nd, in Craiova.
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The BYP team (Beyond Youth Potential) merges volunteering and advertising in Voluntising, a project that we enthusiastically joined. The idea was born in may and since then, it has shaped into 3 TV spots made by volunteers, that met great succes among young people.
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PACT Foundation is looking for community facilitators in Prahova,
Dambovita, Ialomita, Calarasi, Giurgiu and Ilfov counties, to help with the Community-based Organizations Development Program, from September 2010 to February 2012. The program is at its 5th round and is financed by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe (www.ceetrust.org)
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On June 17th, representatives of the National Agency of Fiscal Administration (ANAF) and of the NGO sector came together to discuss an improvement plan for the 2% mechanism – the mechanism that enables persons to redirect 2% of their income tax to a non-profit entity.
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On the 18th of May 2010, the Romanian Donor's Forum and PACT Foundation addressed an open letter to the Romanian Government and the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF), in order to trigger an alarm signal regarding de dysfunctions related to the application of the 2% mechanism.
Here are the main results of this initiative, centralized by the Romanian Donor's Foundation, 5 days after the letter has been sent:
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The 195/2001 Law, known as the Volunteers Law, is in open debate to be altered. A first series of discussions took place at the Senate of Romania, in mid April this year. At the reunion, Members of the Parliament, representatives of the private companies lobbying for the practice of volunteering, as well as NGOs collaborating with volunteers, Foundation PACT included, worked together.
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PACT Foundation together with colleague NGOs drafted and signed an
open letter meant to trigger an alarm signal to the Government and
National Agency of Fiscal Administration, considering the lack of
transparency, unity and coherence in the application of the 2%
Mechanism. This mechanism is designed to permit tax payers to direct 2%
of their previous year income tax and is enacted by article 57 in the
Fiscal Code.
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Why a conference on Social Inclusion?
Here are two reasons:
33% of the children in Romania experience poverty! The European average is 18%!
18% of the people employed on the labor market in Romania are living in poverty! The European average is 9%!(source: Eurostat)
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PACT Foundation benefited of a total of 10269,5 RON due to individuals who redirected 2% of their income tax in the years 2008 and 2009 (1520,78 RON were redirected to PACT in 2008, and 8748,81 RON in 2009). Over 100 people thus supported the Foundation’s activities.
The total amount raised was used to fully finance 2 community projects and to complete the budgets of 4 other projects that contributed to the development of disadvantaged communities from South Romania.
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