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Community Chest of Korea NPO Startup Incubation Project\
Nonprofit startups have emerged as up-and-coming players in the nonprofit sphere by offering innovative solutions to social problems and creating communal value. Daum Foundation works with the Community Chest of Korea on the ‘NPO Startup Incubation Project’ to support budding nonprofit startups. CCK provides grants and utilizes its fundraising network to enhance the startups’ financial sustainability and Daum kick-starts the startups’ development by providing vital training, coaching and managerial feedback
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Space Dongnakga with Babo Nanum Foundation
Dongnakga is a building donated by Daelim Industrial’s Honorary Chairman Lee Joon-young to the Babo Nanum Foundation in January of 2019. The Babo Nanum Foundation has provided the space to Daum Foundation for 3 years rent-free so that it could be used for nonprofit activists working in public interest. Dongnakga is currently being utilized as an office space for nonprofit startups and community space for nonprofit activist
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Human Rights Advocacy Grant with Open Society Foundations
With the support of Open Society Foundations, Daum Foundation provides grants of up to 30,000,000 KRW to each human rights team, organization and institution so they can manage their projects and operational costs. Daum Foundation supports organizations that work in various fields including women’s rights, LBTIQI rights, immigrant/refugee rights, platform workers’ labor rights, youth’s rights to adequate housing, peace and human rights.
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Hosting of Online Conference to Celebrate UN Cultural Diversity Week
Online Conference <Celebrating Our Differences> was held in honor of May 21 st , the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. Hosted by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and co-organized by Arts Council Korea and Daum Foundation, the conference highlighted the ‘power cultural diversity holds as a catalyst for social change’ from the view point of ecologists and sociologists; and reflected upon the prevalent discrimination and prejudice that still plagues our daily lives
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YouthVoice in collaboration with the Life Insurance Social Contribution Committee and Kyobo Life
With support from the Life Insurance Social Contribution Committee and Kyobo Life, YouthVoice has been meeting media educators and adolescents through more diverse programs since 2017. The programs include ‘YouthVoice media education’, which helps adolescents discover themselves and take part in media creation activities, ‘YouthVoice Camp’, in which participants make their own media products over 2 nights and 3 days, and ‘YouthVoice Conference’, which involves sharing changes and imaginations concerning adolescent education.
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Green Santa in collaboration with Sanofi-Aventis Korea and BeautifulStore
‘Green Santa’ is a project that provides support to help positively energize the lives of children with rare and non-communicable diseases and pediatric cancer and alleviate emotional stress they undergo during the treatment process. Sanofi-Aventis Korea, BeautifulStore, and Daum Foundation ran media education programs, ‘The Green Santa Imagination School’ and ‘The Green Santa Imagination Playground’, for child patients for 2017 Green Santa Project.
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Diversity Korea in collaboration with Google.org
Diversity Korea Project is supported by Google.org under the goal of raising social awareness of diversity, particularly to promote sensitivity to cultural diversity among elementary school students and teachers. To this end, the ‘Ollybolly Online Picture Book’ homepage has been improved and upgraded, and the ‘Ollybolly Cultural Diversity Education’ homepage for teachers has also been newly launched. On top of this, constant full-time support is being provided for cultural diversity classes and training targeting elementary school teachers as well as elementary school students.
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ChangeOn in collaboration with kakao
ChangeOn is held in a total of 5 regions including Seoul, Busan, Daejeon, and Jinju to allow non-profit organizations that carry out public interest activities to create new value by using media and to share creative and innovative ideas and information required for a driving force for social change. ChangeOn involves domestic experts in various different fields including IT, media, organization culture, and liberal arts and plays its part to support the growth of non-profit organizations.
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