News

Voting in the HungarianTree of the Year Contest

2017.10.15. 00:00

From among the 48 trees nominated to the contest, 13 that are important for their communities were shortlisted by Ökotárs' professional jury to be put up for voting. The nominees of 2017 and the previous years as well can be found on the evfaja.okotars.hu page.

USAID CSO Sustainability Report 2016 Is Published

2017.10.12. 00:00

CSOs and individuals throughout Europe and Eurasia learn more and more about how to work in a restrictive external environment: seeking new ways of lobbying, mobilising citizens and raising funds.

Visit of Ökotárs's Founders

2017.09.28. 00:00

Retired leaders of the German Marshall Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, two organisations instrumental in the creation of Ökotárs revisited Central Europe after many years meeting the staff in Budapest, too.

Stockholm Civil Society Days

2017.09.22. 00:00

The Swedish organization Kvinna til Kvinna (Women to Women) invited the director of Ökotárs to participate at the traditional Stockholm Civil Society Days, where she presented the situation and the issues of Hungarian civil society at several panels and workshops.

Complaint to the Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of the stigmatizing „foreign funded” law

2017.09.05. 13:28

Budapest, 30 August 2017 - 23 Hungarian civil society organizations working together in the Civilization campaign submitted a joint motion (complaint) to the Constitutional Court on Monday, challenging the constitutionality of the stigmatizing „foreign funded” law.

23 CSOs' Complaint to the Constitutional Court

2017.08.30. 00:00

23 of the civil society organizations cooperating in the Civilisation campaign including Ökotárs submitted a joint motion (complaint) to the Constitutional Court at the end of August against the law stigmatising CSOs as in the present political atmosphere the notion of foreign support clearly aimed at discrediting the organizations and undermining public trust towards them. This breaches the affected organizations’ right to fair name and to privacy, as well as the freedom of speech and association guaranteed in the Fundamental Law of Hungary.

We Did Not Register - Did Not Take the Label

2017.07.12. 00:00

Following the example of other CSOs, Autonomia Foundation, the Civil College Foundation, the Rights Reporter Foundation, and Ökotárs decided not to register under the law on "foreign-funded organizations", and did not take the label - announced the 4 organizations in a joint statement.

More than 40 Trees Nominated in the Tree of the Year Contest

2017.07.03. 00:00

Ökotárs has been organizing the contest since 2010. Every year, individual trees and groups of trees that are especially important for the surrounding community for some reason can be nominated to the competition. The aim of the contest is to raise awareness to the role of the trees in our lives and in nature.

Community-Organizing-Leadership Successes

2017.06.30. 00:00

The twelve communities participating in Ökotárs' newest program closed the first year of their joint work in June.

NGOs: We’re here to stay and to continue our work

2017.06.13. 15:19

On Tuesday, 13 June, after two postponed votes, the Hungarian Parliament adopted the Law on the Transparency of Foreign Funded Organisations. The community of civil society organisations united in the Civilizáció campaign continue to believe that the law is unnecessary, stigmatising and harmful.

Civilisation Picnic in front of the Parliament

2017.05.29. 00:00

With a picnic, titled the "Heroes' Veto II" about a thousand people demonstrated against the planned change of the law on civil organizations.

New Grant Program in Cooperation with Tesco and the Hungarian Donors' Forum

2017.05.17. 00:00

Tesco's "You choose, we help" community grant program has been launched for the third time in cooperation with the Hungarian Donors Forum and the Ökotárs.