BTD Impact Stories
The Balkan Trust for Democracy awards grants in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, and also gives regional grants to organizations promoting the benefits of a pan-Balkan network.
Civic Engagement
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February 16, 2018
Serbian ballerina Jelena Šantić was renowned for her humanitarian work. She co-founded Group 484 to support Croatian refugees, received the Pax...
Dialogue and Reconciliation
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April 13, 2023
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July 15, 2022
Dividing students by ethnicity, the “two schools under one roof” system emerged in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina as a temporary measure to foster...
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February 7, 2018
Around 920,000 refugees and migrants, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, passed through Serbia to get to Central Europe during the critical...
Youth Leadership and Empowerment
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January 10, 2018
Kosovo is the youngest nation in terms of population in Europe....
Government Accountability and Transparency
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April 13, 2023
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January 16, 2018
Macedonia was rocked by a scandal that put its democracy at risk in early 2015. Opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing wire-taps that Prime...
Culture of Giving
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January 25, 2018
When the first non-profit organizations began in the Western Balkans region in the 1980s — as Communism was falling and democracy was beginning to...