With the support of generous donors, the Next Generation Bulgaria Fund is able to support a variety of outstanding nonprofit initiatives in Bulgaria. This year, these include the following initiatives, in alphabetical order:
2022
Teach For Bulgaria
Teach for Bulgaria is a non-governmental
organization established in 2010 striving to provide every child in Bulgaria with equal access to quality education. The Foundation was established under the initiative and with the financial support of America for Bulgaria Foundation and is part of the Teach for All global network.
Teach for Bulgaria works to ensure equal access to quality education for every child in Bulgaria by developing new teachers, supporting whole school teams and building partnerships for the introduction of good practices in the education system.
To find out more about Teach For Bulgaria’s impact, check out their annual report for 2021.
2021
Teach For Bulgaria
Teach for Bulgaria is a non-governmental
organization established in 2010 striving to provide every child in Bulgaria with equal access to quality education. The Foundation was established under the initiative and with the financial support of America for Bulgaria Foundation and is part of the Teach for All global network.
Teach for Bulgaria works to ensure equal access to quality education for every child in Bulgaria by developing new teachers, supporting whole school teams and building partnerships for the introduction of good practices in the education system.
To find out more about Teach For Bulgaria’s impact, check out their annual report for 2021.
The Trust for Social Achievement
The Trust for Social Achievement (TSA) is a nonprofit, grant-making organization dedicated to reducing poverty and decreasing achievement gaps. TSA is dedicated to helping people reach their full potential and works to create opportunities for disadvantaged groups, with a focus on the Roma, 72% of whom live below the poverty line. Toward that end, TSA supports activities in four program areas: First Foundation, Early Learning and Care, Educational Achievement, and Family Economic Success. As a pioneer and incubator for new approaches and ideas, TSA identifies gaps and obstacles to human development and tests possible solutions. The organization emphasizes rigorous evaluation and demonstration of “what works” so that lessons learned can be delivered to key stakeholders to inform public policy and to achieve greater scale. TSA also builds the capacity of local organizations and builds networks and alliances around issues of key importance to achieve greater sustainability and long-term change.
http://socialachievement.org/en/
Association Art Real K.L.M.
Association Art Real K.L.M. organizes the International Biennale of Glass (IBG) every two years between September and October. The organization seeks to invest in building the knowledge and skills of emerging authors and talented university and high school students through the organization of this event. IBG also provides three university scholarships for a degree in glass art in partnership with New Bulgarian University, which are awarded at each edition of the Biennale. Scholarshp recipients then have the opportunity to participate annually in various artistic events to further develop their knowledge and skills.
2020
Teach For Bulgaria
Teach for Bulgaria is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to improving access to quality education for every child in Bulgaria. Over forty percent of 15-year-olds in Bulgaria are functionally illiterate, meaning they are unable to apply subject knowledge taught at school to real-life situations. The achievement gap is widening, with Bulgaria demonstrating the highest educational inequality in Europe. Further, students from marginalized groups and poor communities are overrepresented in these statistics, as the current educational system allows children living in rural areas to fall behind their peers in large cities by up to three years. Meanwhile, few teachers are prepared and motivated to effectively support these students, with low numbers of young teachers deciding to work within this challenging context (currently the average age of teachers in Bulgaria is 55.)
In response, Teach for Bulgaria places motivated, trained, and supported teachers in schools where underachieving students have received only limited support and encouragement in the past and where student motivation for learning is dwindling. In 2020, Teach For Bulgaria will also expand its programs to include “Model Schools”, which will be specifically designed to train and support school teams across the country. Teach for Bulgaria’s efforts transcend the classroom and school, as the organization works to spread best practices in education throughout the education system in partnership with national and regional public educational authorities.
To find out more about Teach For Bulgaria’s impact, check out their annual report for 2020.
TEO Foundation
TEO Foundation supports the work Bulgarian educator Theodosii Sabev Theodosiev, known as the “Golden Teacher” of Bulgaria. Teo, as he is known to friends and students, began a career that has spanned more than four decades at the High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the city of Kazanlak. Here he laid the foundations of specialized education in Applied Mathematics and Physics, developed his innovative methodology in teaching, and founded his free, non-profit academy for students and teachers. The “Academy of Teo” has helped countless students to participate in and to win gold prizes in national and international physics competitions and Olympiads. The Academy provides lessons throughout the school year, ongoing activities, and physics camps in the summer.
https://teocreator.org/about-teo/
The Anti-Corruption Fund
The Anti-Corruption Fund is a civil society organization working to encourage relevant public stakeholders to proactively investigate, prevent, and disrupt corruption at all levels in Bulgaria and to motivate the public and private sector to report suspected corruption practices. To achieve these goals, the Anti-Corruption Fund works to educate the public about the cost of corruption to society in general. The foundation raises awareness of specific cases involving corruption and conflicts of interest. Additionally, they run capacity building programs for investigative journalists to boost efforts to recognize and investigate fraudulent practices and graft. The Anti-Corruption Fund is an independent entity and relies solely on international donor organizations as well as private donors.
https://acf.bg/en/
The Trust for Social Achievement
The Trust for Social Achievement (TSA) is a nonprofit, grant-making organization dedicated to reducing poverty and decreasing achievement gaps. TSA is dedicated to helping people reach their full potential and works to create opportunities for disadvantaged groups, with a focus on the Roma, 72% of whom live below the poverty line. Toward that end, TSA supports activities in four program areas: First Foundation, Early Learning and Care, Educational Achievement, and Family Economic Success. As a pioneer and incubator for new approaches and ideas, TSA identifies gaps and obstacles to human development and tests possible solutions. The organization emphasizes rigorous evaluation and demonstration of “what works” so that lessons learned can be delivered to key stakeholders to inform public policy and to achieve greater scale. TSA also builds the capacity of local organizations and builds networks and alliances around issues of key importance to achieve greater sustainability and long-term change.
http://socialachievement.org/en/
United Against COVID-19 Campaign
This campaign was launched with the support of the Bulgarian Donors Forum, the America for Bulgaria Foundation, the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria, the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria, and countless Bulgarian, American, and international businesses and individuals. The “United Against COVID-19” Response Fund was created to help local communities across Bulgaria during the COVID-19 crisis, with a goal to provide financial assistance to Bulgarian organizations working with communities most severely affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
https://us4bg.org/united-against-covid-19/
Since our founding in 2014, the Next Generation Bulgaria Fund has been happy to support the following Bulgarian-based nonprofit organizations and initiatives each year, in alphabetical order by year:
2019
Teach For Bulgaria
To find out more about Teach For Bulgaria’s impact, check out their annual report for 2018.
Teach For Bulgaria
To find out more about Teach For Bulgaria’s impact, check out their annual report for 2017.
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