Understanding Hungary: How to shape the future
Our success depends on our ability to understand, from several different perspectives, the decisive social processes now taking place in…
Our success depends on our ability to understand, from several different perspectives, the decisive social processes now taking place in…
Community foundations offer signs of hope despite growing official repression of civil society. (21 August 2018) Hungary’s general elections in…
I was recently recovering from the results of the general election in Hungary, and desperate to find new ways to…
Community Foundations in Hungary have reached an exciting milestone. On the one hand, three new foundations have emerged this year…
Thanks to a shift in attitude towards community foundations in Hungary, local groups are now embracing the concept and are…
The Hungarian Live Crowdfunding Night is based on an international example that we acquired through the London-based organisation The Funding…
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Often times called the 'greatest" Hungarian, Count István Széchenyi (1791 - 1860) was also a generous philanthropist exhibiting many of the attributes of enlightened philanthropy. He always had the big picture in mind, liked giving with fellow aristocrats, and spent a lot of his times nurturing his investments. No person, tourist or resident, can imagine Budapest without the 'results' of his philanthropy such as the Chain Bridge, Hungarian Academy of Science and the 'lovasság'.
St. Stephen, the first king of Hungary, ordered the church to use some of the funds it collected on behalf of the state to look after the poor.