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Mission

The Fund is seeking to implement social innovations in the field of international cooperation, protection of the human rights, social welfare and security, work and education, non-formal and civic education, health care, minorities integration, culture, preservation of ethnic and religious heritage, educational and vocational training, sports, art, environmental protection, and other fields of the public interests and societal gain.

Motto:" Better a job than the dole "

Goals

  • Take an active part in public life; shaping public policies, promote public awareness by supporting law initiative.

  • Seek adoption of equal rights and opportunities; draw close attention to a factual participation of women in different fields of life (politics, public administration, career, etc.).

  • Take an active part in shaping social policies, provide social services, and provide a vast variety of them by creating innovative ways of providing social services.

  • Organize adult education by improving and adopting better and more efficient programs pf learning oriented towards socially disadvantaged, orphaned children and young people, large families, and families with lower income, unemployed.

  • Promote non-formal adult education with a purpose to help self-education, cultural interests, to develop creative powers and abilities.

  • Employ people who have lost their professional abilities, became economically inactive, lost equal opportunity to compete on a labor market, improve their social status, by so bridging the existing social gap.

  • Seek implementation of the Law of Social Enterprises by employing members of the target groups described by the Law of Social Enterprises.

  • Promote the idea of life long learning and education.

  • Strengthen the activities of non-governmental organizations and improve their status and image.

  • Participate in lobbying activities by the order so describes in the law.

  • Provide help and consultations to the victims of violence.

  • Participate in international activities and cooperation. Establish contacts with international organizations and funds with the purpose of promoting activities that benefit the public.

  • Organize common activities with organizations of similar profile.

  • Train and involve volunteers into activities of the Fund.

  • Involve sponsors and other donors into the activity of the Fund by promoting the idea of philanthropy.


  • The Social Innovation Fund is located in the center of the city at the address Savanoriu 1.

    The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) is an NGO which was established in 1994 with the support of the Dutch Government program, "Assistance in Social Welfare in Lithuania". The SIF is a public charity organization.

    Structure of organisation:

    Founders:
    Inga Cisler
    Zigmantas Kazakevicius
    Audrone Kisieliene
    Vince-Vaidevute Margeviciene
    Liudmila Mecajeva
    Oleg Mecajev
    Arminas Ragauskas
    Þivile Savickaite
    Stichting Gamma Dienstverlening, represented by council member Brouwers Antonius Gerardus Maria
    Anþelika Ðliackiene
    Valda Vainauskiene

     President: Audronë Kisielienë.

     Managing Director: Liudmila Mecajeva.

     Membership in other organisations:

    • European Women’s Lobby (EWL) (a supporting member),
    • Lithuanian Women’s Lobby Organization,
    • Lithuanian Association of Adult Education,
    • Lithuanian NGOs Coalition for Protection of Women’s Human Rights,
    • European Network of Adult Education Organizations Working on Women’s Employment Issues,
    • International Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centres (IFS),
    • Association of the NGOs Working in Social Field in Kaunas County,
    • Local–2–Global, World Women’s Network,
    • European Symposium of Voluntary Organizations (ESVA).

     


     

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