The Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland is an independent non-profit NGO active since 1998.

Our activity is carried out in 5 strategy domains:

- development of local communities
- youth activation
- activation of senior citizens
- corporate community involvement
- social entrepreneurship

Academy’s activity is addressed first of all to NGOs, civil groups, and business circles. Our programmes can also appeal to local governments, media, and public opinion. In our activities we give special priority to cooperation with community foundations and other NGOs active is small communities, as we want to primarily contribute to their self-sustainability and local development.

Our principles:

Openness – we are open to dialogue and cooperation, exchange of ideas, searching for new solutions.
Partnership – we build coalitions, we work through networks sharing the same goals and values.
Innovation – we search for uncommon methods of action, we explore new spheres.
Reliability and transparency – we are meticulous when it comes to optimising the spending of the resources we are entrusted
with, to high quality effects, monitoring, and evaluation.
Comprehensive support – our assistance encompasses financing, training, consultancy, publishing materials, carrying out social campaigns, lobbying for system solutions and good practices within the spheres of our activity.
Teaching independent activity – we teach self-reliance; our assistance is to support the activeness and resourcefulness of civil organisations.

Auditing Committee

Rafał Antczak - Vice President, Deloitte Business Consulting SA
Joanna Staręga-Piasek – Director of the Institute for the Development of Social Services
Aleksander Galos – Vice Chief Executive, Eko-Park S.A
Piotr Gliński – Director of the Civic Society Department at the Philosophy and Sociology Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Association Members

Rafał Antczak, Tomasz Bruski, Sylwia de Latour, Marta Frątczak, Aleksander Galos, Piotr Gliński, Paweł Jordan, Michał Kott, Grzegorz Lindenberg, Marta Łazarowicz, Elżbieta Łebkowska, Paweł Łukasiak, Małgorzata Mazur-Łukasiak, Iwona Olkowicz, Ryszard Praszkier, Artur Ptak, Joanna Pucek, Witold Salwach, Tomasz Schimanek, Agata Stafiej-Bartosik, Joanna Staręga-Piasek, Joanna Szczęsna, Jerzy Szmagalski, Jakub Wygnański