The Bucharest Community Foundation and BT launch Inclusive in the neighbourhood, a funding programme for projects aimed at neighbourhood communities in the capital

The Bucharest Community Foundation and Banca Transilvania launch Inclusiv in cartier, a financing programme for the development of projects dedicated to neighbourhood communities in the capital. It will support 3-5 projects with activities in education, social or environmental fields. The application deadline for the funding programme is 10 June this year. The total value of the programme is 50.000 euro.

Details:

• Non-governmental, politically unaffiliated organisations or local initiative groups that will carry out the proposed activities in one of the Bucharest neighbourhoods can apply.
• Project proposals can be submitted online until 10 June this year.
• Applications will be assessed by an independent jury. 
• The full timetable, eligibility criteria, selection details, application forms and examples of projects that can apply are available on the programme website.
• The winning projects will be announced in early July this year.

Statements:

Sergiu Mircea, Executive Director Marketing and Communication, Banca Transilvania:

"We are excited to launch our first program with the Bucharest Community Foundation and look forward to seeing the applications. NGOs, volunteering and entrepreneurs make a major contribution to the development of the community fabric - be it the street we live on, the neighbourhood, the city or the country. We need to build this community fabric, which increases solidarity between people. Shared values hold us together and define us as a community. This is a starting project, which we hope will help us to define common values in the neighbourhoods of Bucharest".

Alina Kasprovschi, Executive Director, Bucharest Community Foundation:

"Through thick and thin, the local community, the neighbors in the neighborhood can be the ones who move things for the better. We focus on neighbourhoods because one of the strategic directions of the Foundation's involvement is to increase the sense of belonging to the local community. We are particularly excited to align ourselves with Banca Transilvania and to launch together the Inclusive in Neighbourhoods programme, where we look for projects from people with initiative right in the neighbourhoods."