<![CDATA[Türkiye Üçüncü Sektor Vakfı]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr) <![CDATA[10 Predictions for Turkish Philanthropy in 2012]]> ]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[TUSEV Research Publication on Philanthropy in Turkey ]]> TUSEV launched the Turkish publication of Philanthropy in Turkey: Citizens, Foundations and the Pursuit of Social Justice. The publication is a compedium of four comprehensive studies revealing key insights on the history of foundations in the Ottoman Era, foundation operations and challenges in modern Turkey, and individual giving and philanthropy. This includes findings regarding the role of religion and practice of philanthropy in a predominantly Muslim society and the extent to which philanthropy in Turkey espouses a social justice perspective. The English publications are now available here...
]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Alliance Magazine Article - New Philanthropists in Turkey: More Than a Matter of Style ]]> Alliance magazine, dedicated to news and analysis of the latest developments in philanthropy and social investment worldwide, focused on philanthrocapitalism in their March 2007 issue. The issue also included an article by TUSEV's ex-Executive Director, Filiz Bikmen on  "New Philanthropists in Turkey". The article is available below...

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Highlights on Civil Society in European Union’s 2011 Progress Report]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[TUSEV Civil Society Monitoring Report 2011]]> Civil Society Monitoring Report 2011  ]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[TUSEV Launched the Second Phase of the Social Entrepreneurship Project ]]> TUSEV launched the second phase of the “Social Entrepreneurship Project” with cooperation and support of the British Council. The second phase will mainly include awareness raising, information sharing, networking and infrastructure development activities. While a bi-weekly Turkish e-newsletter has been launched, TUSEV organizes also bimonthly meetings to facilitate communication and information exchange between interested stakeholders as well as promoting partnerships among them. A meeting on social innovation was held on April 22, 2011 with participation of Milena Stoycheva, the CEO of Junior Achievement, and Matteo Bonifacio the former Policy Adviser at the Bureau of European Policy. On June 22, the meeting series continued with a panel on internet entrepreneurship. Arzum Meleksoy, the founder of Alıs Bagıs (www.alisbagis.com), Ali Kobanbay and İlkay Gültaş, co-founders of Ekle Destekle (www.ekledestekle.com) presented their initiatives with reference to the relationship between internet entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Please subscribe to www.sosyalgirisim.org website if you would like to receive updates on social entrepreneurship in Turkish.

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Round Table Meeting: Young People in CSOs and Possible Collaborations Between CSOs in the US and Turkey, 16 September 2011, Istanbul]]> TUSEV and Foreign Policy Platform co-organized the “Young People in CSOs and Possible Collaborations Between CSOs in the US and Turkey” meeting in Istanbul on September 16, 2011. Young American leaders working in civil society, think tanks and with government visited Turkey as part of the “Young Turkey -Young America A New Relationship for a New Age” program sponsored by the US Department of State and co-organized by World Learning and Foreign Policy Platform. American participants were joined by the young professionals from Turkish CSOs to discuss the position and role of civil society in foreign policy in Turkey and United States with the moderation of Rana Birden Çorbacıoğlu. The group jointly developed frameworks for creating and strengthening civil society collaboration between both countries. Notes from the meeting are available to download from here.

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[New EFC Legal and Fiscal Country Profiles are now available]]> The EFC announced the publication of updated editions of its Legal and Fiscal Country Profiles. The profiles map the diverse legal and fiscal environments for foundations across 30 countries and are available to download here. The mapping has widened in scope since the previous update. The profiles now cover the 27 EU Member States, plus Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine. As well as addressing topics such as the requirements for setting up a foundation and the purposes and activities that foundations are permitted to pursue, the profiles look at the tax treatment of foundations and donors by each country in both domestic and cross-border contexts. In addition, the profiles now include some extra data on governance and supervision of foundations and a section on recent national trends and developments affecting foundations in the countries surveyed. Turkey profile was prepared by TUSEV and can be reached at http://www.efc.be/Legal/Documents/turkey.pdf 
04/04/2011

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[TUSEV Joined the Balkan Civil Society Development Network]]> www.balkancsd.net for further information.]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[10th CIVICUS World Assembly, 10-12 September 2011, Montreal]]> Representatives from civil society, donor organizations, governments and business gathered at the 10th CIVICUS World Assembly in Montreal on Sept. 10-12, 2011 to discuss the theme “Civil Society and Global Decision Making: Doing It Better”. On the way to the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and in light of the developments following the Arab Spring; CIVICUS offered its participants various workshops on Development Effectiveness, Climate Justice, Connecting People through Technology and, Civil Society and Democratic Space. The Affinity Group of National Associations (AGNA), which is the group of national organization networks represented at CIVICUS, also held its Annual General Meeting in Montreal on September 9, 2011. TUSEV presented initial findings from the “Membership Toolkit for National Associations” developed with the support of the AGNA membership working group. Notes from the plenary meetings and workshops are now available at http://www.civicusworldassembly.org in English, French and Spanish. Please visit here to watch videos from the General Assembly. 25/10/2011

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[CIVICUS CSI Country Report: “Civil Society in Turkey: At a Turning Point” is Launched]]> “Civil Society in Turkey: At a Turning Point”. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation was responsible for the projects coordination across 53 countries while TUSEV undertook its implementation in Turkey. The report culminates the findings of various participatory research methods and presents a photograph of the current state of civil society in the country. It offers an in depth look at civil society through five core dimensions: civic engagement, level of organization, practice of values, perceived impact and external environment.
Civil Society in Turkey: At a Turning Point
]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Call for Contributions: ISTR International Conference, 10-13 July 2012 ]]> Hosted in 2010 by TUSEV in Istanbul, International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) will take place in Siena, Italy at July 10-13, 2012. ISTR will accept paper, panel and poster proposals for the Democratization, Marketization and the Third Sector Conference until October 24, 2011. Conference will focus on the uprisings in the Middle East and the role of social networks in mobilizing these movements. Proposals related to theme areas such as philanthropy, voluntarism and volunteering, civil society, citizenship and democracy, policy, politics and relations, governance and leadership, management and organizational practice, social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, social economy, justice and development, gender, research and teaching paradigms, methodologies and practice, evaluation, legitimacy, accountability and impact and emerging areas of theorizing and practice can be submitted. For more information on the conference please visit www.istr.org

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Koc Family Awarded with BNP Paribas “Philanthropist Award”]]> Koc Family was presented with the "Philanthropist Award" of major European bank BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas, listed among the six biggest banks in the world, presented this year’s "Philanthropist Award" to Koc Family for its outstanding initiatives. Speaking at the award ceremony held in the Paris on June 21, Koc Holding's Honorary Chairman Rahmi Koc said he is happy to see that philanthropic activities are gaining importance in Turkey. Koc underlined that, Vehbi Koc Foundation’s commitment will continue to extend its support for philanthropic activities in the light of its mission, its passionate but achievable vision, and notion of high professionalism. Please visit www.vkv.org.tr for detailed information.

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Winners of the Aydın Dogan International Cartoon Competition Announced ]]> 28th Aydın Dogan International Cartoon Competition was held with the participation of 2729 cartoons from 79 countries. Following the evaluation process, English caricaturist Ross Thomson was awarded with the winner prize. Israeli caricaturist Ilya Katz and German caricaturist Werner Rollow were awarded with the second and third place awards. Caricaturists will recieve their awards on a ceremony held in Istanbul on October 18, 2011. Please visit here for more information.

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Amendment on Law on Foundations regarding Minority Foundations]]> According to the decree, published in the Official Gazette on August 27th, minority foundations can reclaim property -- including cemeteries, fountains, schools, hospitals and orphanages -- that they have declared since 1936. Real estate that has been re-sold to third parties will also be paid for after the current value is determined by the Ministry of Finance. To reclaim their property, minority foundations must apply to Turkish authorities within a year. Each application must be approved by parliament, after which the property will be registered in the name of the foundation by the registration office. In 2008, parliament amended the Foundations Law, expanding the rights of minority religious groups to acquire new property and recover their confiscated property. (Source: http://southerndailypress.com) 25/10/2011

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[International NGO Databases]]> ECOSOC NGO Database http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo
The ECOSOC database contains information on 3051 NGOs that have consultative status with ECOSOC.

FUNDERS ONLINE http://www.fundersonline.org
FundersOnline, a project initiated by the European Foundation Centre, aims to build a Europe-wide online philanthropic community through creating a database consisting of information regarding funders and foundations. The project promotes the work of third sector actors and encourages funders to exchange expertise and partnerships.

GUIDESTAR Databases http://www.guidestarinternational.org
The Guidestar database contains detailed information on 1.7 million organizations. The database is active in the US and the UK and development programs are currently being carried out in a number of countries around the world.
Active GuideStars
GuideStar USA
GuideStar UK

Regional TACSO CSO Database http://www.tacso.org/cso-db-res/reg/
The Regional TACSO CSO Database provides information about the CSOs from 8 different IPA countries which are Turkey, Albania, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. For each registered CSO, information can be found about the organisation’s mission statement, area of interest, and contact details. Apart from the data provision, the database enables organizations to make partnerships and to strengthen the exchange of information. It is also possible to find data about the public institutions of the selected countries which CSOs are collaborating with. Interested CSOs can be register to the website and create a profile of their organizations. 

Global Development Research Centre NGO Database: http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/ngo-databases.html
The NGO database on the website of the Global Development Research Centre is a meta-directory of NGO databases and directories in different regions of the world. The NGO database gives a compact overview of databases, ordered according to the continent they are located in.

WANGO’s Worldwide NGO Directory http://www.wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir
The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO) is an international organization uniting NGOs worldwide. WANGO’s worldwide NGO directory allows you to access information on NGOs in over 170 nations. Their website allows you to search NGOs by mission, area of focus or geographical location. The web site is only available in English.

Poland / Database of the Network of East West Women (NEWW-Polska): http://www.neww.org/en/links/index/0,none.html
Neww-Polska is a database particularly includes organizations working on women and gender related subjects. It provides contact details and basic information on the activities of approximately 70 organizations operating in Central and Eastern European countries. The database is available in Polish and English.

Belarus / Belarusian Civic Organizations Database: http://en.ngo.by/database/ngo/
The Database includes contact information of Belarusian NGOs. All organizations are divided by lines of activities which total number is 21. The web site has a search engine and is only available in English.

Women and Society Portal: http://www.owl.ru/english/content/
Women and Society, is an on-line bibliographic database including projects of Womens Organizations, NGO news, catalogues and reference books, conference materials, periodical press, researches on new books. The web site is only available in English.

Trialog Database: http://www.trialog.or.at/db/dbintro.asp
The TRIALOG NGO database consists of 589 development NGOs from EU countries, accession countries and developing countries. TRIALOG's key partners and the NGO Platforms in accession countries are indicated and can be found through a special search engine. The web site is only available in English.

FERN NGO Database: http://www.fern.org/ngo_database.html
The database on the website of the Forests and the European Union Resource Network includes all NGOs that are part of the Forest Movement Europe as well as NGOs FERN cooperates with, in its different campaign areas. The web site is only available in English.

Belgium / Database of Belgium NGOs
http://www.ngo-openboek.be
Ngo-openboek is a database about and from Belgium NGOs for the third sector. This website is only available in French and Dutch.

United Kingdom / CAF Database: http://www.cafonline.org
The database on the Charities Aid Foundation is mainly established for people that would like to give a donation to a charity organization but do not know who to give to. The database includes purely of organizations within the UK. It also has the function to search according to the income range. The web site is only available in English.

Switzerland / ZEWO Foundation’s NGO Database: http://www.zewo.ch/version_f/werke/db/suchbereich.php?name_bereich=inter

ZEWO Foundation’s database consists of two parts namely an international part and a national, Swiss part. On both can be searched according to the topic the NGO addresses. The web site is available both French and German.

Poland / The Database of BAZY: http://bazy.ngo.pl/search/english.asp

The Database of BAZY contains information about more than 143.000 organisations and institutions working in the voluntary sector in Poland. The database facility provides free access to addresses and organizational information (history, mission, fields of activities) about NGOs. It is an open database meaning that all details are posted and updated by organizations themselves. The database also contains some organizations based outside Poland. Searching can be conducted by key word, city and field of activity. The web site is available in English.

Cyprus / The Cypriot CSO Directory: http://www.cypruscsodirectory.com

The Cypriot CSO on line Directory has been developed as part of an island-wide project to list Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot CSOs working across all sectors of Cypriot Civil Society. The directory includes detailed information on over 420 Civil Society Organisations: over 150 CSOs in the Turkish Cypriot Community and over 271 CSOs in the Greek Cypriot Community. The Directory provides a comprehensive source of information for local as well as international CSOs, the donor community, public and private sectors and others that require information about CSOs in Cyprus. The web site is only available in English.

USA / Foundation Center’s Foundation Finder http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/

The Foundation Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants holding online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth and practice. The Center’s online subscription database, Foundation Directory Online, provides detailed information about U.S. foundations and corporate donors and grants. In the Foundation Center’s web site, you can look for information about a specific grantmaker or the list of 100 largest U.S. grantmaking foundations ranked by the market value of their assets.

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Turkish NGO Databases]]> NGO DATABASE: http://www.stgm.org.tr/en/stoveritabani
The NGO Database of the Civil Society Development Centre incorporates basic contact information on over 7000 non-profit organisations in Turkey. The database consists of contact details of the organisations and a search engine allowing easy access to Turkish NGOs by work area, city and geographic region. The NGO Database is available in Turkish and English.

Women Civil Society Organizations Database http://www.gapkadinstk.org/stk.aspx
Women Civil Society Organizations Database is prepared under the Empowerment of Women and Women CSOs Project and contains information on women CSOs in three different regions in Turkey. The profiles of 160 organizations, in 27 different cities among Eastern Anatolia, Southeastern Anatolia and Eastern Blacksea regions are available in the database. Users are able to filter organizations according to the location and focus areas. Database is available only in Turkish.

]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Social Enterprises in Turkey: New Web Portal and Report Launched!]]> Social Entrepreneurship in Turkey Project was conducted in cooperation with British Council and aimed to identify strengths and weaknesses of social enterprises in Turkey, while raising awareness on this new model with high social and economic benefits. Over 200 stakeholders, including social entrepreneurs, private and public sector representatives and civil society organizations were consulted through a series of meetings, seminars and field visits.
The project had two major outputs: the “Social Enterprises and Turkey” report offers a detailed needs assessment and identifies future actions to strengthen social enterprises in Turkey, while the Social Enterprise Web Portal acts as a communication platform for all that want to learn, support or establish social enterprises. Both are available through www.sosyalgirisim.org in Turkish.
Project outcomes show that social enterprise is a model with great promise and potential for Turkey. It gives civil society organizations and companies an opportunity to harmonize their social perspectives with commercial entrepreneurship and management principles. It is encouraging to see that there already are organizations that successfully operate along social entrepreneurship lines in Turkey.

Social Enterprises and Turkey Report Executive Summary  ]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness, 2nd Global Assembly, 28-30 July, Cambodia ]]> Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness is pleased to invite you to the second and final Global Assembly of the Open Forum, which will take place in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on the 28th, 29th and the 30th of June 2011. The second Global Assembly of the Open Forum expects to bring together some 200 CSOs (Civil Society Organizations) and other stakeholders from across the globe to finalize the contents of the International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness - the synthesis of over 80 country consultations involving thousands of CSOs on what development effectiveness means for us collectively. The first Global Assembly of the Open Forum in Turkey, September 2010, laid the foundation for the International Framework by ratifying the eight Istanbul Principles of CSO Development Effectiveness –now widely referred to by the international development community. The second Global Assembly aims to finalize the Framework as a consolidated CSO statement and provide a direction for its Implementation and Advocacy on the road to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness this year and as a reference for CSOs going forward. ]]> TUSEV (mailto:info@tusev.org.tr)<![CDATA[Seminar Series of TUSEV on Legal and Fiscal Legislation]]> TUSEV organized a seminar series to inform its members about the latest developments on legislation. The first seminar targeting solely foundations focused on legislation regulating foundations. During the seminar the legal framework of the establishment, governance, management bodies, international activities, audit and tax exemptions of foundations were presented and common problems were identified. The second seminar on fiscal legislation of foundations and associations concentrated on the fiscal problems of civil society organisations having not-for-profit economic entities. Recommendations of TUSEV’s Tax and Public Benefit Report Regarding Foundations and Associations were presented and feedback is received from members. The seminars gave the attendees the opportunity to find answers to their questions and to exchange ideas with each other. Similar seminars of TUSEV will take place during 2011 to reach a wider audience. 04/04/2011

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