| CONCEPT FOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY |
I. GENERAL PROPOSITIONS 1.1 The name of the Foundation is Sihtasutus Kodanikuühiskonna Sihtkapital (hereinafter Foundation). The name of the Foundation in English is The National Foundation of Civil Society. 1.2 The Founder of the Foundation is the Government of the Republic of Estonia; executor of the founder's rights is Ministry of the Interior. 1.3 Location of the Foundation shall be the Republic of Estonia, Tallinn. 1.4 The Foundation shall be a private law based not-for-profit legal entity acting in the public interests, whose activity shall be regulated by Foundation of and Participation in Legal Persons in Private Law by the State Act and the Foundations Act, other legal acts and this articles of association (hereinafter: articles of association). 1.5 The Foundation shall accept, preserve and dispose of the monetary means, gifts and donations and shall use, disburse or donate the income earned by it or the main part thereof for achieving the goals specified in its articles of association. 1.6 The Foundation has been established for perpetual duration. 1.7 The bodies of the Foundation shall be the supervisory board and the management board. II. GOAL AND TASKS 2.1 The goal of Foundation shall be to contribute to enhancing the capacity of not-for-profit associations and foundations acting in public interests of Estonia in development of the civil society and in formation of the environment favourable for civic initiative. 2.2 To achieve its goal, the Foundation shall fulfil the following tasks: 2.2.1 Elaboration and implementation of programmes for institutional development of the not-for-profit sector, for support of the activity of organisations and networks, and target-specific allocation of project and activity subsidies within their framework to the acting organisations or private individuals, by way of organising competitions and allocation of scholarships; 2.2.2 Involvement of means of the Foundation in the necessary scope from state budgetary means, target specific foreign means and private donations, their administration and mediating for the needs of development of civil society; 2.2.3 Elaboration and management of programmes, incl. allocation of subsidies, carrying out analyses relating to the support of the civil society development and commissioning of the researches; 2.2.4 Promotion of bilateral or multilateral co-operation with Estonian organisations and those of the foreign countries, whose goals and activity support the development of the civil society; 2.2.5 Support to the civil-society-related growth in awareness through systemic information activity. 2.3 The Foundation shall be governed in its activity by the national strategic documents relating to the development of the civil society. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION |

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