Welcome! You have reached the website of the Network of European Foundations (NEF), a flexible not-for-profit international organisation located in Brussels (Belgium).
The mission of NEF is (a) to act as an operational platform to develop projects between foundations and other types of organised philanthropy and other giving programmes; (b) to develop programs related to Europe and the role of Europe on the global stage; and (c) to give a European perspective and opportunities for European experience to regional/local initiatives.
NEF is an operational platform primarily committed to developing operational cooperation between foundations in Europe but also open to collaboration with the public and private sectors in developing its initiatives. Its areas of intervention to promote systemic social change include: migration, European citizenship, support the European integration process, youth empowerment, global European projects.
NEF was created so as to strengthen the potential for cooperation between foundations at European level. NEF provides its members with the ability to identify common goals and, as an open structure, to join forces with other foundations in Europe which may share similar concerns and objectives.
- NEF Board will take place on 27.10.2009 in Stuttgart
- NEF General Assembly will be held on 7.12.2009 in Brussels.
We announce the release by the ILDE group of the resource kit on European Citizenship Education "Europe and me" and the handbook "School for Society". "Europe and me" is available in English. It is also available in French, German, Spanish, Flemish, Polish and Swedish and can be downloaded from the NEF website. You can click here to practice with the animated slide-stories in English.
For further suggestions you may have on the toolkit "Europe and me" you can send us your feedback by filling in the Teacher Questionnaire. Please click on the language version of your preference: English, French, German, Spanish, Polish and Swedish.
Click here to download a copy of the handbook "Schools for Society" in English.
Read here the Press Release of "Europe and me".
NEF in cooperation with the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute has published a new book on ‘Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe'. The book addresses key questions concerning the relations between religion and the state and religion and society. Click here to download a copy of the publication.
Numerous books have been published on American philanthropy - its origins, its heroes, its achievements and its shortcomings. But philanthropy in Europe has been largely neglected. A new book, Philanthropy in Europe - a rich past, a promising future, edited by Norine MacDonald and Luc Tayart de Borms, will start to fill this gap.
Click here to get more information.
