Who we are

Our place in the region

Carpathian Foundation Network consists of five member organizations and provides grants and technical assistance to NGOs and local governments, focusing primarily on inter-regional, economic development and cross-border activities. It encourages the development of public/private/NGO partnerships, including cross-border and inter-ethnic approaches to promote regional and community development to help prevent conflicts.

Carpathian Foundation Network promotes good relations, social stability, and economic progress in the Carpathian Region territory, comprising the bordering regions of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine. It does so by providing financial and technical assistance to projects which will result in tangible benefits to the communities on both sides of national borders and which will improve the quality of life of the people in the cities and small towns of the Carpathian Mountains.

Since 1995, Carpathian Foundation Network has provided over 1100 grants totaling over EURO 6.5 million to NGOs, Local Self Governments and other groups.

Carpathian Foundation Network’s guiding principles include: respect for ethnic and religious diversity; encouragement of a spirit of tolerance; openness to other values; acceptance and appreciation of multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism; social and environmental sensitivity; and harmonization of local development with globalization.

Carpathian Foundation Network is designed to best represent the multi-cultural and multi-national characteristics of the region. In order to maintain the integrity of Carpathian Foundation Network, there is a Board of Directors composed of two members from each of the five countries and an office in each of the five countries that comprise Carpathian Region. Carpathian Foundation Network preserves its position as a neutral, non-partisan, non-political network of organizations, which always strive to remain flexible and responsive to local needs.