Fonds
Grants
The Anne Frank Fonds uses the income from rights and licences for charitable and good causes and for education projects. The Board of Trustees decides on the applications.
The Anne Frank Fonds uses the income from rights and licences for charitable and good causes and for education projects. The Board of Trustees decides on the applications.
The funding policy of the Anne Frank Fonds is based on Otto Frank’s final dispositions and last will and testament, and on Anne Frank’s writings.
Grants are issued in the following areas, in particular:
Education against racism, anti-Semitism, discrimination, prejudice and violence
Support of human rights, in particular women’s and children’s rights
Education of children and teenagers
Dialogue across cultures, ethnic groups and religions
Peacebuilding
Refugee relief
Holocaust survivors
Projects outside Switzerland will, as a general rule, only be supported upon recommendation of a Swiss institution listed in the register of commerce and recognised as charitable (NGOs, foundations, associations, etc.), or – in exceptional cases – by trustworthy private persons. Such institutions or persons must be familiar with the project abroad and ready to submit the application on its behalf under their own name and to vouch for its proper implementation.
The Anne Frank Fonds and the New Israel Fund (NIF) have formed a partnership to fund projects in Israel. In Israel only projects that correspond to the purpose of the NIF foundation are funded. The centre of all NIF activities is the promotion of equality and democracy for all Israeli citizens and inhabitants of the country.
The NIF will handle all applications from Israel on behalf of the Anne Frank Fonds in two grant cycles per year. For this reason, any applications for grants on projects in Israel are to be sent to the following e-mail address: israel@annefrank.ch
Decisions about grants are generally communicated in writing within eight to ten weeks of receipt of the application.
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A representative selection of projects supported by the Anne Frank Fonds:
The Leo Baeck Education Centre in Haifa was founded in 1938. Rooted in the humanistic values of Progressive Judaism, the centre provides more than 2000 students, from pre-school to high school, with education, sports facilities, and other educational programmes.
Sadaka Reut is an Arab-Jewish organisation in Jaffa that educates and empowers Jewish and Palestinian young people and students to affect social and political change through binational partnership.
«Schalom –Salam» – has been heard in the village of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam for almost 40 years now. In the midst of a world filled with violence and terror, Jews, Palestinians, Muslims and Christians live together in this village.
Givat Haviva was established in 1949 as a further training centre of the Ha’artzi Kibbutz Movement. It is Israel’s oldest and one of the most prominent institutions campaigning for Jewish-Arab dialogue.
The Peace Kindergarten founded by the Jerusalem Foundation is housed in the YMCA building in the heart of the city of Jerusalem and is attended by Jewish, Arab and Christian children.
Originally established in 1951 for children who had escaped the Holocaust, the children’s village has developed over the decades into a place for socially disadvantaged and traumatised children and young people.
Projects in the Romanian towns of Cluj and Arad and in the Indian metropolis Mumbai aim to give children and teenagers future prospects and keep them from life on the streets
The Warriors of Hope Foundation in Zurich supports street children in Romania and India.
ROKPA attaches great importance on help for self-help. Education enables disadvantaged people to escape the poverty trap and protect themselves against being exploited and abused. This is why ROKPA uses education schemes to prepare disadvantaged children and adults for a self-determined life.
The ROPKA association is committed to orphans in Tibet and Nepal.
The aim of the Norbuling Switzerland association is to give children in Nepal a good start in life. These are children whose own families are unable to take on this task for the most varied of reasons, such as poverty, death, or natural disasters.
Education is the first foundation of the path towards self-sufficiency and therefore towards an independent life. Education cannot be sold, stolen or lost. Everyone who can read and write has better chances of standing up for their rights and thus of taking responsibility for their own life. The main emphasis of the support is on children and women as, for them, life represents a particular challenge in India.
Nevandra promotes the education of girls in India.
This is a politically independent, non-denominational organisation that deals with the causes and consequences of National Socialism and its crimes. Since 1992, young volunteers have been sent to countries where the Nazis and their helpers committed crimes or where survivors of the Nazi killing machine live today. During their one-year period of duty, memorial service volunteers look after young people, take care of elderly people, or work in archives and museums. Since 2016, the volunteering law has meant that men and women are equally entitled to participate in the «Gedenkdienst» programme.
Educational projects for school classes.
The South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town.