On June 30th, 2009, PACT Foundation participated in the Conference on “Communities in Romania and Public Funds”, organized by NACAB (The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux). The event aimed at stimulating the enforcement of the Law no. 350/2005 regarding the regime of non-reimbursable financing from public funds, allocated for non profit activities of general interest. This public debate was generated by the need of information and awareness raising of the local organisations or even of common citizens regarding the enforcement of this law. The applicants for a grant under this law can be individuals or legal entities without patrimonial purpose - associations, foundations incorporated according to the Ordinance no. 26/2000 - or religious cults accredited under Law no. 489/2006. For this law to operate efficiently, the NGO’s need to identify the community needs and be able to put together the citizens’ interests to the benefit of community development; they need to strengthen their capacity to attract as many citizens as possible to support community approaches, and this could be achieved through a more efficient communication. Through the actions intended to enforce this law there is need to emphasize the benefits that the application of Law no. 350/2005 may bring to the local authorities, in order to be more successful (for example: the implementation of this law could facilitate the management of a public authority, as long as the responsibility of solving certain community problems is passed over to local institutions/citizens which access funds through the above mentioned law).
For more information about this law, as well as the updated version of the Law no. 350/2005, please
click here. Do not hesitate to contact NACAB directly (
www.robcc.ro) for any questions, concerns or clarifications on this subject. Contact persons: Ioan Tanase, Deputy Director and Public Relations Coordinator (
ioan.tanase@robcc.ro;
anbcc@robcc.ro) or Andrei Pop, Network Development Coordinator (
andrei.pop@robcc.ro).
