Since the beginning of the program, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has been a strategic donor of the community foundation movement in Romania. It helped ARC develop its long-term vision and a strategy for the development of community foundations.

Mott Foundation has made an important and flexible contribution that helped to cover the costs of the program. This allowed ARC to provide consultancy and technical support to new initiatives, to organize annual conferences and meetings, and to connect to the international community foundation movement. Mott Foundation has also supported FFCR in its development.

“As a long-term supporter, it has been very rewarding for us to witness not only the growth of community foundations in Romania in number and capacity but also their increasing, distinctive contribution to local communities and civil society. In Romania we see examples of the next generation of community foundations —participatory, innovative, dynamic organizations, capable of harvesting and channeling energy and resources of local people to the common good”, says Vera Dakova, Program Officer at the Mott Foundation.

Established in 1926, the American Charles Stewart Mott Foundation supports organizations from around the world, which strive to strengthen local communities and civic involvement. In its 90 years of activity, the Foundation has provided funding worth over $ 3 billion for projects in 62 countries, while for Central and Eastern Europe, “Mott cultivates a healthy civil society in Central and Eastern Europe by promoting a culture of respect, freedom and opportunity for all people” according to their mission statement.