Partnership With CEE Trust
The Trust for Civil Society in Central & Eastern Europe ("CEE Trust") was launched in January 2001 as an independent public charity organization with endowment support from a group of private grant-making foundations including Atlantic Philanthropies, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Open Society Institute, the Pfizer Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
In the period 2001-2005, the CEE Trust had three mutually reinforcing objectives:
- To support legal, fiscal and political environments in which civil societies can flourish;
- To strengthen the nonprofit sectors in the target countries through institutional capacity building; and
- To support the long-term financial sustainability of nonprofit organizations.
The CEE Trust Board of Directors selected the Via Foundation as its regional partner and allocated US$ 3,000,000 to the program in the Czech Republic for a three-year period between 2002-2005.
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