Restoring water balance in the landscape
“The landscape has a memory and water knows where it belongs in the landscape. We try to speed up these processes, helping restore natural patterns so that the landscape recover more quickly,” say volunteers engaged in landscape restoration. Below you can read about 3 communities where people are creating more resilient and healthy landscapes, thanks…
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Call for applicants for Community Alphabet
We have released a Call for applicants for Community Alphabet 2025-26. We are looking for active residents in European countries who are interested in inclusive participatory approaches and exchanging with peers. The deadline is 4 April. For more information, please see the Call here.
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New online resource about community building
We have launched a new online resource – Trust Community – as part of our international peer learning program Community Alphabet. The website contains ebooks on themes related to inclusive participatory approaches to community building, case studies, videos and contacts to community builders across Europe. We invite you to take a look! You can also watch this brief intro video. Call for applicants…
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Public libraries as village ‘living rooms’
Libraries in Czech villages and towns are no longer just for borrowing books or magazines. More and more, they are serving as places of learning, interaction between people of different ages, and community building. Below we share how active residents in 3 villages are using libraries to strengthen neighborhood relations and improve their communities. In…
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Inspiration during the holiday season
The holiday season is a time of peace, reflection and gratefulness. I would like to express my deep gratitude to all of you – donors, supporters and the participants of our programs. Via Foundation’s work would not be possible without people who believe in the power of collaboration and connecting. Together, all of you enable…
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Community Halloween gatherings
All Hallows Eve is celebrated on November 1st in the Czech Republic as a day to remember loved ones who have passed. Halloween is also becoming increasingly popular. Both have the potential to bring people in a community together, as some of our grantees have shown. n Skvorec, the local Neighborhood Association has created a new…