Via’s Volunteer Work Day
“We want to do more than just work from our office – we want to help revitalize our neighbourhood in other ways, too. So if you’d like help with your renovation project, we could come work as volunteers for one day…”. Those were the first lines of the email that we sent to the guys…
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A new village green in Markoušovice
Despite its small size, the town of Markoušovice in Eastern Bohemia is the epicentre of many interesting community projects. Not least among them is a new and improved village green that local residents helped to design and build.
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2016 Via Bona Philanthropy Awards: the year’s most powerful stories of giving
They are dedicated to helping others – often despite their own disabilities, health problems or other hardships. Here are 2016’s seven most powerful stories of giving – the stories of this year’s Via Bona award winners.
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Sparking engagement in communities across Europe
They connect people in their communities. They create places where people of different generations or social circles can gather and meet. Simply put, they spark engagement in their communities.
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2016 Via Bona Philanthropy Awards: Public voting has begun!
Prague, 8 September 2016 – Via Foundation opened public voting today for the 19th annual Via Bona Philanthropy Awards. Via Foundation also introduced the finalists in each category selected by the jury.
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Thank you to our hero – Peter Hero
We met in 1996, a year before Via Foundation was established.
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Revitalizing a Park in Rašovice
It was about 1 p.m. on a summer Saturday when we arrived in Rašovice, a small village in South Moravia about 30 km from Brno. As we drove through the village we didn’t see a single person out on the street. It was in the middle of a tropical heat wave and the thermometer in…