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100% Project support
The Friends of Waldorf Education provide support funded exclusively through donations. This distinguishes us from trusts or endowed foundations, in that we do not have capital that belongs to us. Our income is derived solely from the donations of many individuals, Waldorf Schools and our other partner institutions and foundations. Since we started working we have passed on 100% of the received donations.
Over 95% of all the donations we receive are designated for specific purposes. Donors support projects because a report has moved them to help, or perhaps because they have a personal connection with the project. Thus we have many regular donors supporting for example the Favela Monte Azul Project in Sao Paulo, or the Waldorf Schools in Windhoek or Katmandu, just to mention a few.
We work together with foundations and other aid agencies in order to make larger investments possible.
>> List of all projects supported last year.
Our International Support Fund
We receive requests of varying degrees of urgency almost daily. Here we are able to help by using the undesignated funds we have received, which total approximately 80,000 Euros annually. At our monthly board meetings we discuss all requests and decide how best to assist.
The International Support fund has, for example, helped to equip a new curative education centre in El Salvador, and is funding new Waldorf initiatives e.g. in China or Pakistan, particularly in crisis situations (such as loss of a building through fire). We also provide urgently needed funding necessary to train staff and cover travel costs for tutors and advisors, etc.
Twice annually we launch appeals for funds on behalf of the various projects and work areas, the International Support Fund, the grants and sponsorships, and additional specific projects. Since these appeals cannot be funded through our normal budget, we make an exception to our principle of forwarding 100% of all donations received, and use these to cover the external costs (such as design, printing, postage, etc) of our appeals.