EAPN: Fighting for a Social Europe Free of Poverty
Finance and Fundraising
Exco Nov 2013
EUROPEAN ANTI-POVERTY NETWORK
RÉSEAU EUROPÉEN DES ASSOCIATIONS
DE LUTTE CONTRE LA PAUVRETÉ ET L’EXCLUSION SOCIALE
Objectives
 To secure a funding base for EAPN
 To diversify our funding base
 Financial support for dev of EAPN
(particularly Nat Networks)
 Support participation of PeP
Areas to be addressed
 Public Funding
 Sponsorship Events
 Major Donors
 Individual Donors
 Projects
Next Steps
 Public Funding
 Defend principle of Core Funding – EASI
programme
 Explore other possibilities, examples LLL
programe, DG Research
 Sponsorship Events
• Make a decision re R4R 2014
• Explore possibilities of other events
Next Steps
 Major Donors
• Dev a principles paper
• Build on previous contacts with
Foundations to explore options
 Individual Donors
• Launch a pre C’mas individual donor
appeal
Next Steps
 Project Approach (EMIN – Drivers)
•Ensure we deliver on EMIN and Drivers
(administrative and content)
• Expand EMIN to the additional 26
(Germany, Austria, Sweden , Finland and
Lithuania)
 Need a full reflection with Exco on this
approach
• A separate EAPN Social Enterprise?
• Clear conditions required for delivering on
projects
Next Steps
 EAPN Fund
• Follow up Grants that have been made
from the Fund
• Follow up re NN Solidarity Fund and EO
Solidarity Fund
 Fund Visibility
• Use materials now available (Newsletter,
Prize Pub)
• Have evaluation with Exco of EAPN Prize
first round and prepare for second round of
Prize (call autumn 2014 - Prize Spring 2015)
Next Steps
 Need to package areas from the work that
EAPN wants to do to be able to present as
viable projects for Funding support
• Learning Forum re package as a ‘School for
Activists in the fight against Poverty’
• Training Materials (Contributing to
transparency in EU decision making
processes)
• Structural Funs Technical Assistance
Project (Making EU Funds work for Poverty
Eradication)
Questions for the Exco
 Have we the right objectives for the
strategy?
 Have we identified the right areas for
the strategy?
 Agreement on the Next Steps