The 6 NPO startups that completed the 6-month incubation program from December 2019 to May 2020 each gave a final presentation. The June 26 th performance review day constituted of final presentations and exhibits on the startups’ activities during the incubation period. Numerous corporate social responsibility and private grant support professionals attended the startups’ presentations on their incubation experience to discuss future collaboration opportunities. The exhibition session took full advantage of the space Dongnakga provides, allowed an opportunity for attendees to learn about each team’s activities, outcomes, and PR material, and take part in the participation program unique to each of the startups.

Daum Foundation started training the second generation of startups from November 2020 to continuously discover and develop promising NPO startups. A total of 79 teams applied for the incubation opportunity, comparable to 80 the previous year, through which we could confirm that the demand for such programs were of a similar scale. The 6 teams that were selected are to participate in the program till May of 2021.

A new website was developed to showcase the NPO Startup Incubation Project supported by the Community Chest of Korea and Daum Foundation. Information and updates on the participating NPO startups are available on this website.

The scale of the 2020 ChangeON conference was reduced due to COVID-19 and public event regulations, but the depth of the discussions were the more meaningful. Daum Foundation sought to find innovative solutions to pressing issues that NPOs face with the approximately 50 activists that participated in ‘Smaller, Deeper, Stronger – Back to the starting point’ Conference. ▲Ko Byung-Kwon, Teacher at Nodl Education Center for the Disabled; Researcher at Nodl Disability Research Center ▲Lee Kwang-Suk, Professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology ▲Rye Eun-Sook, President and Researcher at KHRRC(Korea Human Rights Research Center) ▲Kim Beom-Joon, Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Physics and President of Engineers & Scientists for Change(ESC) ▲ Lee Sull-A, Writer and CEO of Hey-uhm Publisher participated as speakers.

ChangeON@, a conference series that aims to share the experiences and hardships of local media outlets, decided to switch to online in light of the COVID-19 crisis. To stay true to ChangeON@’s mission and most effectively organize the project, the number of partner organizations was reduced to 3 from the original 5. Topics such as ▲Portraying Social Solidarity Beyond Physical Distance in Times of Disasters and Crisis (Cheongju) ▲ChangeON at Busan (Busan) were discussed via online discussions and were published as an electronic archive book. (*ChangeON@ Wonju Media Center was canceled due to the intensification of the local COVID-19 infections)

The signboard officiation ceremony in April of 2020 marked the official operation of Space ‘Dongnakga’. Dongnakga means ‘a space where non-profit activists come together to create a better world’. It is a venue provided by Babo Nanum Foundation and operated by Daum Foundation.

Thanks to IKEA Korea’s contribution in designing the office space with themes such as modernity, flexibility, ergonomics and cooperation, 9 NPO startups were able to move into the office. The office was arranged also with the generous help of LG Electronics, Jungbu Foundation and T&C Foundation.

Multiple community programs including JOL(Joy Of Learning) and Dongnak Market were held for in-house activists, and small scale networking programs allowed 845 activists an opportunity to visit Dongnakga.

Daum Foundation established the ‘Dongnakga’ brand identity and created the space based on that line of branding. 357 posts on project s and daily activities were uploaded to the official PR channel(@npo.zip) on Instagram.

Human Rights Advocacy Grant recruitment was a highly anticipated event. 3 rounds of screening, which included paperwork, on-site observation and final evaluation took place to ensure a fair and precise selection process, and a total of 21 human right organizations were awarded the grant.

Daum Foundation assisted the empowerment of participants by providing an offline-networking day to connect various activities together as well as an online education week that taught the grantees essential organizational skills.

A case study research was conducted to analyze the meaning and the social impact of participating organizations’ activities, understand the general human rights activism landscape in Korea, and provide insight on how future human rights grants should be shaped and provided.

A website that introduces all of the participating organizations’ activities was newly launched. Recent grantee activities and case studies are available on this website.

A collection of cultural diversity education case studies (2018-2019) made by current elementary school teachers from the Ollybolly Cultural Diversity Teacher Research Group was distributed online. Additionally, an online cultural diversity education curriculum was developed for 104 elementary school students in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province areas who have to study online due to COVID-19. Daum Foundation hopes this curriculum will be useful to educators that have to continue conducting classes online in 2021.

Online Conference < Celebrating Our Differences > was hosted by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and co-organized by Arts Council Korea and Daum Foundation, in honor of May 21 st , the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. The speakers ▲ Choi Jae-Cheon, Chair-professor at Ehwa Womans University, Department of Ecoscience and President of The Biodiversity Foundation ▲ Kim Chan-Ho, Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts at Sungkonghoe University ▲Tyler Rasch, Television personality ▲ Lee Ra-Young, Art Sociology Researcher, Author of ▲ Kim Ye-Won, Lawyer at Center for the Disability Rights Act shared their opinions on the importance of cultural diversity and encouraged the public to reflect about the discrimination ingrained in our dail

YouthVoice has completed its registration as an incorporated association. It is currently awaiting authorization for designated donation organization, and educators and participants have been registered as initiators. Daum Foundation has supported the initial financial costs necessary for YouthVoice to register as an incorporated association and develop new partnerships.

YouthVoice hosted IT&ART workshops with the support of Kakao Impact Foundation from August through December of 2020. 98 participants from Seoul and Gyeonggi Province’s children centers and out-of-school (dropout) youth support centers including adolescents with migrant family members and youth burn victims took part in the workshops. YouthVoice was able to provide culturally underprivileged children and youth offline media education by utilizing videos, photographs and rhythms.

YouthVoice held the Green Santa Imagination School in August of 2020 and from November 2020 to January 2021 with Sanofi-Aventis Korea. 181 children with rare incurable diseases and their siblings were sent education kits and were provided media education via educational videos. The event was held online due to COVID-19, but this allowed children and youth that had not been able to participate in YouthVoice programs before due to time and physical constraints to gain access to a diverse range of media education.

YouthVoice provided SMile Music Festival Online Class with SM Entertainment since July of 2020. 17 culturally underprivileged youth and 11 education and content development supporters participated in the on/offline program. It also conducted vocal and dance training online and offline, and managed the youth supports program.