How social narrations impact leadership
Why TV commercials show seniors in the context of medicines improving memory or seniors that are glad? What is the influence of the fact that a refugee owns an expensive car and an advanced smartphone ...
Principals of Learning Schools met at Łochów
‘With Energy And Courage In Taking Care Of Ourselves’ was a slogan of this year’s Summer School of LES principals, attended by 120 principals of schools participating in the “Learning Schools” program. ...
XX Jubilee English Teaching Market is over
How to work effectively with students with special educational needs? How to support communication and mitigate conflicts? These are the exemplary topics of fifty workshops carried out at this year’s English ...
AI in operating NGO. Download the e-book with recommendations
On the basis of the pilot educational project, run as part of the “Sector 3.0” program and aimed at training representatives of local organizations, some shared experiences and conclusions were drawn that ...
The Partnership Development Academy is on
Almost 40 representatives of 15 Initiative Groups coming from the most active municipalities and rural communes that had implemented programs of Polish-American Freedom Foundation attended the inaugural ...
The “LES” Summer School for Directors
In the beginning of July, while students and teachers were enjoying their summer holidays, school directors attended their annual Summer School for Directors organized under the “Learning Schools” program ...
Let’s Talk about Climate. Alumni of PAFF Leaders meeting
Let’s Talk about Climate slogan was the main theme of this year’s alumni of PAFF Leaders meeting organized by the School for Leaders Foundation in Przypki on June 16 and 17. Over 160 people discussed subjects ...
ALCs meeting. Knowledge, experiences, cooperation
140 representatives of Act Locally Centers (ALC) met at the ceremony of summing up the 12th and opening the 13th rounds of the “Act Locally” program in Warsaw on March 20 and 21, 2023. They also attended ...
Leader activities start up! The reunion at Falenty
Between September 20-24, PAFF Leaders and their tutors met at the reunion on “leader’s self-awareness” held at Falenty near Warsaw. There were many workshops, meetings and lectures on the agenda allowing ...
The Summer School for Learning Schools Directors
A group of 120 people managing educational institutions all over Poland participated in a two-day meeting aimed at sharing experience. This year’s Summer School for Learning Schools Directors organized ...
English Teaching Market 2022
After a two-year break due to COVID-19 pandemic, English teachers from village and small town schools met at the 18th English Teaching Market conference in Stare Jabłonki near Ostróda.
Power and Diversity. PAFF Leaders in Falenty
Over 170 people attended this year’s Polish-American Freedom Foundation Leaders’ Convention that was held in Falenty on June 10-11, 2022. The slogan of the Convention was Power and Diversity.
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English Teaching Activities – training and grants
Are you an English teacher or a local leader? Do you have an idea of a language project you would like to carry out in your community? Do you want to participate in interesting training sessions? That ...
Online workshops on common good
Representatives of partnerships and start-ups for the common good implementing their projects under the 7th round of the “PAFF Local Partnerships” Program took part in a series of online workshops that ...
16th English Teaching Market
The main objectives of English Teaching Market educational meetings is to help English teachers from villages and small towns improve their teaching competence, as well as integrate their environment and ...
Third seminar of the Common Good Laboratory
On May 30 and 31, over 30 alumni of PAFF Local Partnerships program - members of the Common Good Lab met at a seminar in Warsaw. The motto of the seminar was: "Ideas and Solutions Serving the Common Good".
The 4th edition of “PROMENGO” is on
On February 2, 2017, a lecture given by Prof. Andrzej Blikle inaugurated the 4th edition of the “NGO Managers – PROMENGO” training program of the Academy of Civic Organizations Foundation. The program ...
Wielka Wieś rural commune hosted the “PAFF Local Partnerships” Program workshops
The fall series of the “PAFF Local Partnerships” Program workshops closed on November 8 with the meeting of representatives of three partnerships from Wielka Wieś, Złotoryja, Myślenice and Dobczyce communes. ...
Local workshops for new partnerships in Nasutów
Representatives of Niemce commune partnership and the partnership operating in Błażowa, Boguchwała, Chmielnik and Lubenia communes that are starting implementation of their projects as part of the 5th ...
“PAFF Local Partnerships” workshops in Warka
The representatives of three partnerships from Warka, Szadek and Główczyce implementing projects as part of the 5th edition of the “PAFF Local Partnerships” Program met at a workshop on building a sustainable ...
The “LES Club” inaugurated its activities this school year
A conference inaugurating the “Learning Schools Club” activities in the 2016/17 school year was held in Ząbki near Warsaw on October 6 and 7. Directors of schools belonging to the Club from all over Poland ...
English Teaching Market 2016
The 14th English Teaching Market conference, held in Stare Jabłonki near Ostróda on June 27-29, was attended by over 400 English teachers from rural areas and small towns. The inaugural part of the meeting ...
The “TAU for community” workshops
Another workshop session for participants of this-year’s “TAU for community” edition was held from 12 to 15 May. The participants are 10 TAUs which create volunteering and community activity groups at ...
FIMANGO Local Advisors School launched
The objective of the FIMANGO Local Advisors School is to improve skills of the Act Locally Center representatives in the area of financial management and then involve them in the advisors’ network that ...
How to effectively cooperate with donors – training for Act Locally Centers
On March 17-18, almost 100 representatives of 64 Act Locally Centers attended a training session in Warsaw, whose main subject were methods of fundraising and cooperation with local donors. The special ...
We had busy and inspiring summer – “PAFF Local Partnerships” workshops
Dębica, Stoczek Łukowski, Ełk and Milicz – at these places local workshops for participants of the 4th round of the “PAFF Local Partnerships” Program were held from July to September 2015. The meetings ...
13th meeting of English teachers
Can mobbing relate to student-to-student relations? How to raise funds for a school event? – these and other subjects were discussed by English teachers from all over Poland who participated in the 13th ...
“ICT for Local Development”: training workshops and grants
The recruitment process for training in new technologies for non-governmental organizations operating in towns of up to 50,000 residents has just started. The training courses are held as part of the “ICT ...
“LES” workshops for teachers from Belarus
The workshops held under the “Learning Schools” Program with participation of teachers from Belarus took place in the PAFF Representative Office in Warsaw on August 25-27. Fourteen Belarusian formative ...
The ngo.pl regional seminars halfway through
For the last several months, the editors of the ngo.pl portal have been meeting NGOs from all over Poland and advising them how to use the portal for promotional purposes or where to look for advice and ...
A summer language camp for English teachers
The English teachers who participate in the “English Teaching” Program honed their language skills and teaching methodology at the summer camp which was held in Wilkasy near Giżycko on July 7-18.
The 12th “English Teaching Market” is over
How to motivate students, use games in language classes, use new technologies to make lessons interesting – these and other topics were discussed by English teachers from all over Poland who participated ...
The 1st round of the “PROMENGO” summed up
The meeting summing up the 1st round of the “NGO Managers” (“PROMENGO”) Program implemented by the Academy of Civic Organizations Foundation was held at the PAFF’s Representative Office on May 24, 2014. ...
Kursodrom.pl – e-learning platform launched
The kursodrom.pl e-learning platform offering free-of charge courses in non-governmental organizations management was launched in February. The platform, managed by the Academy of Civic Organizations Foundation, ...
The 2nd edition of the “ICT for Local Development” launched
The second edition of the PAFF's “ICT for Local Development” Program was inaugurated in Warsaw on September 18, 2013. The ceremony was attended by almost 30 third sector representatives from villages and ...
NGO managers met in Warsaw for the seventh time
More than 40 representatives of non-governmental organizations’ managers – participants in the "NGO Managers" Program (PROMENGO) met for the 7th time at the Polish-American Freedom Foundation's Representative ...
