{"id":1138,"date":"2008-02-18T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T11:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/1138"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:46","slug":"the-virtual-foundationorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"The Virtual Foundation.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Building Global Civil Society by Connecting Donors with Community Projects Worldwide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Virtual foundation is a project of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecologia.org\/\">ECOLOGIA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Consortium Members are the \u00ab\u00a0Local Partners\u00a0\u00bb of the Virtual Foundation network. Each Consortium Member is an experienced grant-making organization in its own country or region. The Consortium Members provide the crucial on-the-ground link between the Non-Governmental Organizations who create and implement the projects on this web site, and the Virtual Foundation staff. List of current Consortium Members &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/support\/consortium\/\">full text<\/a>);<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/\">Homepage<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/projects\/\">Projects<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/donate\/\">Donate<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/support\/\">List of the donors<\/a>;<br \/>\nVirtual foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/projects\/index_advsearch.html\">board room<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddress: The Virtual Foundation\/ECOLOGIA, PO Box 268, Middlebury, Vermont 05753 USA, Telephone 1-802-623-8075;<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:cschmidt@ecologia.org\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/whatis\/index_new.html\">About<\/a>: The Virtual Foundation is a unique philanthropy program which supports grassroots initiatives around the world. Carefully screened community improvement projects are posted on our web site. They can be read and funded by donors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It enables community organizations in many countries to partner with funders in an international exchange. It allows donors to form long-lasting partnerships with the groups they support. Through a network of Consortium Members in different countries, it provides a mechanism through which individuals, groups and organizations, and family foundations can securely engage in international philanthropy, and thus contribute to a global civil society.(Photo: Building Lorena Stoves in Nicaragua)<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the Virtual Foundation is twofold: to encourage private philanthropy among citizens from all walks of life, and to support local projects initiated by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their own communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Virtual Foundation tries to minimize borders and geographic restrictions. It actively seeks transboundary projects that increase cooperation among different ethnic groups and nationalities &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfoundation.org\/whatis\/index_new.html\">full text<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Global Civil Society by Connecting Donors with Community Projects Worldwide The Virtual foundation is a project of ECOLOGIA. Consortium Members are the \u00ab\u00a0Local Partners\u00a0\u00bb of the Virtual Foundation network. Each Consortium Member is an experienced grant-making organization in its own country or region. The Consortium Members provide the crucial on-the-ground link between the Non-Governmental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1138\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;The Virtual Foundation.org&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15268,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/15268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}