Community revitalization of a public space, minimizing impacts from a bypass and more: Here are this spring’s Living Communities projects
Will residents of a housing estate in Frýdek-Místek find consensus to revitalize their open space? Will people in the small town of Ráječko perform a musical? Is it possible to
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Better to till than fill (a field). Fast Grants helped citizens of Kladno save a field from development.
For more than ten years, people needing quick access to small grants for urgent public interest projects have turned to Via Foundation’s Fast Grants. As of 2019, Fast Grants are
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Community library in Finland
Ulla Pötsönen is an alumnus of Via’s international program, ViabilityNet 3.0. Although Ulla is originally from Finland, she has been living in the Czech Republic for some time. Back in Finland, she played a key role in making her local library in Joensuu more community oriented. We asked her how she did it.
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Bread and Streets in Sofia
ViabilityNet 3.0 is a program that supports local community leaders in Central and Eastern Europe and their ideas. Participants take part in four meetings and four study visits over a
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Khrystanivka rocks!
Oksana Oliinyk is Alumni of the international program ViabilityNet 3.0. Few years ago she moved with her family from Kiev to small village Khrystanivka and wanted to live actively here
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A bounty of goodness in Czech communities: Meet the 12 Via Bona Award finalists for 2019
Restoration of a rundown castle, Christmas dinner for women in crisis, a charity tattoo service. That is but a mere quarter of the twelve tales of goodness that made it
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Firefighters who ignited community life in the village of Čepice
Čepice is a small village in southwestern Bohemia. Although most of the residents commute to jobs outside of the village, there are many community events on the weekends and evenings,