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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April 13, 2023
5m read
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Antonio Prokscha
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April 13, 2023
5m read
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Antonio Prokscha
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April 13, 2023
5m read
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Antonio Prokscha
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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...
4m read
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GMF Editorial Staff
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Dialogue and Reconciliation
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April 13, 2023
5m read
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Antonio Prokscha
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![Reconnecting Communities: An NGO in Bosnia and Herzegovina Circumvents a Discriminatory School System](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2022-07/3.jpg.webp?itok=a_vIN55u)
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...
5m read
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Antonio Prokscha
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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...
3m read
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GMF Editorial Staff
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Youth Leadership and Empowerment
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January 10, 2018
Kosovo is the youngest nation in terms of population in Europe....
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GMF Editorial Staff
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Government Accountability and Transparency
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![Serbian Election night 2020](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2023-04/CRTA-Election%20night%202020%20part%20of%20the%20team.jpg.webp?itok=hMz3bhBX)
May 4, 2023
6m read
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Antonio Prokscha
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April 13, 2023
5m read
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Antonio Prokscha
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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...
3m read
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GMF Editorial Staff
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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...
5m read
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GMF Editorial Staff