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Public Report in support of community projects in Constanta sustained by PACT through Community Fund Pontus Euxin In early June 2011, PACT launched Community Fund Pontus Euxin, totaling 32.600 RON, under its management. The Fund was established by selling tickets at the conference-event, held up by actor Dan Puric in Constanta, on November 20th 2010. The event was organized by a group of citizens in Constanta (constituted as an Initiative Group for Community Fund Pontus Euxin), with support from PACT Foundation, in order to attract funds to sustain local community projects. The main purpose of the fund is to stimulate initiative groups and NGOs in Constanta to develop projects that contribute to producing positive changes in different urban communities in the city of Constanta.

PACT Foundation held Wednesday, December 7th, from 19.30 at Café Godot Theatre, a medieval theme party, which is the second fundraising event from private sources for the Community Fund for action and transformation of villages in southern Romania. The total amount collected at this event, of 8754 lei, from selling tickets, "all pay" auction (everyone pays) for special objects donated and classic auction for works of art offered by artists, will be used to support projects initiated by groups of citizens in rural communities in southern Romania.

Conference on „Community Development within the National Rural Development Program (NRDP)”

03/12/2009

During September 10th – 12th 2009, the Resource Center for Non-profit Organizations in Oltenia (CRONO), in partnership with the Romanian Association for Council and Support (ARCS), organized in Craiova the 3rd edition of the Annual Community Development Conference of RuralNet – the network of organizations active in community development in the rural areas. The conference this year focused on “Community Development within the National Rural Development Program (NRDP)”. The conference hosted the presentation of CRONO and ARCS as partners in the project “RuralNet – an active role in implementing the National Rural Development Plan”, which ended in September 2009. The aim of the project consisted in building the capacity of RuralNet to promote the principles of community development within the National Rural Development Program. To this purpose, the 2 partners pursued the achievement of the following objectives: developing a methodology for monitoring rural development projects (first 3 months of the project), elaborating a study based on monitoring 60 rural development projects (the following 6 months of the project) and promoting community development as horizontal policy within the NRDP. The target groups of the project have been member organizations of RuralNet, as well as other entities (institutions, enterprises, NGOs) benefiting from funds within the NRDP. The conference also hosted the launching event for the study elaborated within the project; this study represents a reflection of the image of community development (and its principles) at the level of projects financed through the NRDP; it is a useful tool both for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development and for RuralNet in planning future actions.

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