Education for Democracy Foundation

History

Activities

• Socialization and democratization of schools;
• Civic duty and activism;
• Global solidarity.

• Region in Transition – RITA – a program of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation, which aims to support democratic and free-market transformations in the countries of East-Central Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, by sharing the Polish experience;
• Global Education - a part of this program is a regranting competition that provides funding to Polish non-governmental organizations that work within the fields of global education and developmental education;
• Szkoła.pl – Support Program for Supplemental Schools – program aimed at Polish language supplemental schools located outside of Poland;
• Civic Education Abroad – this program’s projects have been executed in countries like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Tunisia and Uzbekistan;
• Building potential and the promotion of student councils in Poland – a project, which aims to improve the functioning of student council groups in select schools in the Lublin, Masovian, Podlaskie and Świętokrzyskie voivodeships.
• Locally active minorities – a project targeting the Belarusian, Czech, Lithuanian, German, Slovakian and Ukrainian minorities in order to increase their members’ civic activism in the local, public sphere;
• The Michael Willmann Trail of the Sacred Baroque Art – a project executed with the University of Wrocław and the Angelus Silesius Meeting House, which aims to motivate local populations to act, bring attention and facilitate access to sacred monuments from the Baroque period found in Silesia;
• Civicportal.org - internet platform that promotes international cooperation and supports civil society in Eastern Europe and Central Asia;

  Governing Bodies

• Małgorzata Naimska – Head of the Council
• Bogumiła Berdychowska-Szostakowska
• Andrzej Dakowski
• Marek Frąckowiak
• Maciej Kozyra
• Tomasz Maracewicz
• Janusz Onyszkiewicz
• Jerzy Wiśniewski
• Jan Jakub Wygnański

• Martyna Bogaczyk – President
• Jacek Podolski – Vice President