The FFW team has submitted their proposed session topic, “58th Regranting – a way to improve sponsors’ well-being or effectively support initiatives?”, and needs votes to qualify the topic for the 20 selected.
Vote on the organizer’s website: www.ofip.eu/glosowanie – you can vote for a total of 10 topics; ours is number 58! The National Forum for Non-Governmental Initiatives is a recurring event held every three years in Warsaw. The first OFIP took place in 1996. Since 2014, it has been organized by the National Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations. Representatives of NGOs, local governments, public administration, and businesses participate in OFIP. The main event of each Forum is a conference devoted to cooperation within the non-governmental sector and organizations’ relationships with external partners. It is accompanied by various presentations of NGO activities for all interested parties. In 2014, these included Civic Week and the Civic Initiatives Picnic on Krakowskie Przedmieście Street.
What will the panel submitted by FFW focus on? “Regranting – a way to improve sponsors’ well-being or effective support for initiatives?”
After the success of the panel “Will informal groups replace NGOs?” Based on the discussion prepared by the Cooperation Fund Foundation at OFIP in 2014, we now want to take a more systemic look at the issue of regranting. The panel is addressed to operators of large and small grant programs (regranting), representatives of “sponsors” who transfer funds to operators to achieve their goals through the distribution of funds on their behalf, and the recipients of support, i.e., project implementers.
Seven years have passed since regranting was introduced by the amendment to the Act on the Development and Promotion of Non-Governmental Organizations (UoDPPioW), but only recent years have seen a growing interest in this form of involving NGOs in public policy implementation. In addition to NGOs and local governments, private entities are also beginning to use regranting (both within CSR and beyond, including financial firms, corporations, and commercial entities).
Participants will learn about the various mechanisms and methodologies used in regranting and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. The panel will serve as a platform for exchanging information between the three parties to the process – sponsors, grantors, and grantees. The panel will also provide information on current regranting calls.
During the meeting, we will discuss three topics:
Currently operating regranting mechanisms – what are the similarities and differences?
The effectiveness of the regranting mechanism, i.e., is it successful? Does it help achieve the intended goals? How should this success be measured? Does it meet sponsors’ expectations? Does it meet clients’ expectations?
To what extent does financial support distributed through the regranting mechanism support local activity – do grants trigger social change among people? What factors matter? Is the size of the grants/the entity distributing the grants decisive, or are there other factors?
The panel will help all parties in the process find solutions to improve them.
A total of 62 topic proposals were submitted, of which a maximum of 40 can be included in the program (10 breakfast meetings and 30 thematic sessions). The final program will be influenced by a vote, with the 20 topics with the most votes being included in the program, and the Program Council’s recommendations regarding the remaining proposals.
Voting is now open: www.ofip.eu/glosowanie
Registration for the 8th OFIP is now open: http://ofip.eu/formularz-uczestnika/
