Grassroots Good News, January 2001: excerpts

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Grassroots Good News, January 2001: excerpts 


Grassroots Good News / January 2001 Edition
 
Contents:
 
1. NGO Net
2. Booming bike rental in Munich
3. Peace Work in Croatia
 
1.      NGO Net
http://www.ngonet.org has been created to provide information to, for
and about non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in Central and
Eastern Europe. It can be used in a variety of ways:
 
by funders seeking grantees,
by hopeful grantees in search of funders,
by organizations trying to identify possible project partners,
by individuals looking to identify possible employers.
 
The site reflects up-to-date practical information for the region's
NGO community, including NGO databases, guidelines, new program
information, and direct links to hundreds of pertinent Internet sites.
 
Web Site Table of Contents:
 
NGO Locator: Information and Links
International Training Programs for NGOs
On-Line Applications and Grant Guidelines
Library
Think Tanks
Training Support
PR Advocacy Support
Fundraising Support
Bulletin
Networking

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3.      Peace Work in Croatia
 
In autumn 2000 Dr Burkhard Luber, staff person at the Threshold
Foundation, made another trip to Eastern Slavonia, a
Croatian-Voivodina border region and a long-range project area of the
Threshold. Though the change of government in Zagreb has its positive
effects also for the relations between Croats and Serbs living there,
this region (which has fallen into international isolation for years
after the hot war between and Croatia and Serbia ended there) has
still a lot of needs and deficits. With help of the Threshold the
regional "Association for Peace and Human Rights" with two local
offices and a "Multi-cultural House" will continue with arranging
tailoring workshops where refugee and local women can work,
communicate and get post-war de-traumatization counseling. A new
project focus on elderly people in the region mostly living with only
a minimum of retirement pension, insufficient health care and no
adequate communication possibilities. Finally the Threshold has given
a contribution to the Youth Center in Vukovar, a highly destroyed city
with no official services for young people, for its multi-ethnic work
with young Serbs and Croats. More information via [email protected]
 


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