Growing Ambition in a Shrinking Space: Hungary’s Community Foundations after the election

The general elections held on 8 April gave (once again) a constitutional majority to the ruling coalition government for the next term. It’s a green light to further pursue policies including the demonization, discrimination and harassment of NGOs – along with ‘softer’ techniques such as squeezing out funding. This sounds like a textbook example of shrinking space for civil society. And indeed, it is increasingly difficult for community foundations to maintain credibility to work on bettering our communities. However, it is not impossible! Read the full article here.