Moonlight Foundation for disadvantaged and vulnerable children

Moonlight Foundation seated in Subotica was registered on 5 December 2008 under number thirty-five (35) in the registry of Foundations of the Department of Culture of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina on the basis of Resolution number 126-025-00072/2008-02 of the Provincial Department of Culture.

Founder of the Foundation

Club 21 – Association for Positive Communication, Subotica (www.mesecina.subotica.net)

History

Club 21 – Association for Positive Communication, the founder of the Moonlight Foundation, launched its Moonlight Programme in 2005 with the help of the Balcan Community Initiatives Fund, Belgrade, and the Global Fund for Children, Washington. The Moonlight Programme engages in organizing leisure time activities for disadvantaged and at-risk children and youth in Moonlight Clubs. The open and free evening/night clubs, that also provide certain services of a welfare kind, gather children together around various sport, cultural and recreational activities, as well as several extra-clubhouse programmes.

The Moonlight Programme was awarded the first prize of Jefferson Institute (Belgrade) in 2006 as the most successful local non-profit initiative. In the past five years Association Club 21 proved that it operates along the principles of community foundations, as throughout its activities it had considerable achievement in raising, developing and utilizing human, social and financial capital.

Mission

The mission of the Moonlight Foundation is to support innovative civil, non-profit initiatives with social content, that implement programmes serving prevention and social integration that contribute to the equal opportunities of disadvantaged and at-risk children and youth. Our Foundation offers professional and financial support for non-profit organization in achieving and maintaining their goals. It locates, obtains and transfers the financial resources or fundraising methods to the applicants that can help implement their projects.

Main principles of the Foundation’s activity:

• Public benefit and volunteering

• Openness and accessibility

• Equality and acceptance of diversity

• Political independence

• Transparency and credibility

• Prudential and trustworthy financial management

• Avoidance of conflict of interest

Our work

• Organizing fundraising campaigns

• Contribution to the development and strengthening of the non-profit sector

• Building on local (municipal) community collaboration first, then expanding the network of relations to a regional, later national level, gradually spreading the goals and values of the Foundation by establishing a network of participant institutions.

• Encouraging corporate social responsibility