“This year’s Winner – the Federation of Polish Food Banks – not only regularly uses available professional information tools but also invests in creation of their own ones, fully dedicated to their specificity, ICT tools,” Radosław Jasiński, Polish-American Freedom Foundation Program Director and the Chairman of the Prize Committee says.
The objective of the prize is to popularize and support good examples of practical use of digital tools and new media in NGO activities. The prize is in form of a grant of PLN 40,000 for statutory activities and promotion of winners all over Poland.
About the Winner
The Federation of Polish Food Banks is a shared services center for the network of 31 food Banks all over Poland. For thirty years it has been carrying its mission of sourcing food, including products with a short shelf life, so-called non-commercial articles, defectively packed, whose nutritious value and quality do not rise objections, storing those products and its rational distribution among local partner organizations that help people in need, as well as promoting food waste prevention.
The Federation coordinates acquiring and administration and logistics of food coming from various sources and its distribution among a broad spectrum of those in need via numerous channels. It operates as a jointer connecting those two vast areas and thousands of entities operating within them. To integrate these complex processes the Foundation has built extensive information infrastructure that is used for recording food turnover on a large scale, it’s documenting, as well as monitoring the flow of donations, coordinating activities with partners and generating necessary reports and analyses.
The Prize Committee especially appreciated the fact that the Federation of Polish Food Banks has created the foundations for effective and efficient communication with donors by applying data exchange standards based on protocols compatible with those applied by businesses.
Thirteen years of the Sector 3.0 Prize
The Prize is awarded to Polish social organizations that use in an innovative way information and communication technologies to carry out their activities and perform their statutory objectives. The former winners of the Prize were the following: The Visible Foundation (2013), Itaka Foundation (2014), Katarynka Foundation (2015), TUS Foundation (2016), We Give Children Strength Foundation (2017), Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Możliwych Rzeczjasna (2018), Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska (2019), Virtual Dream Foundation (2020), Demagog Association (2021), Homo Faber Association (2022), The Association of Little Brothers of the Poor (2023), The Center for Citizenship Education Foundation (2024)
The Prize Committee is composed of: Radosław Jasiński – Chairman (Polish-American Freedom Foundation), Urszula Krasnodębska-Maciuła (ngo.pl/Stowarzyszenie Klon-Jawor), Michał Jaworski (Microsoft Polska), Jacek Królikowski (Information Society Development Foundation), and Anna Kowalik-Mizgalska (Orange Foundation).
“Sector 3.0” is a program of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation that is managed by the Information Society Development Foundation.
