The „Support for Advisory Initiatives (Wip)” Program is implemented by a partnership of 4 organizations: the Science for the Environment Foundation, the „Wiatraki Mazur” Association, the SMK Local Fund Foundation, and the Żywiec Development Foundation. The program is implemented throughout Poland, with each Operator covering 4 voivodeships to ensure equal access to the program for all interested entities. The „Science for the Environment Foundation” implements the Wip program in the following voivodeships: West Pomeranian, Pomeranian, Greater Poland, and Lubusz.

Program Objective

The objective of the Wip program is to support advisory organizations without legal personality through small grants for the implementation of advisory initiatives and to conduct animation and educational activities aimed at professionalizing, increasing the potential and sustainability of advisory organizations without legal personality by strengthening the competences and organization of local leaders and their activities. The activities supported under Wip are to ensure accessibility for people with special needs.

The partnership of 4 regional organizations will annually provide financial, animation, and advisory support to informal groups operating within non-governmental organizations, university law clinics, and diocesan and parish family counseling centers of the Catholic Church or other religious associations.

The topics of the advice provided may cover the following areas: legal, civic, psychological, family-pedagogical, consumer, health-promoting, professional, and/or ecological.

Addressees

The following entities can apply for grants:

Advisory organizations without legal personality and informal groups – including university law clinics and diocesan and parish family counseling centers of the Catholic Church or other churches and religious associations – that cannot independently incur obligations.
Informal groups consisting of at least three natural persons (adults with full legal capacity, holding a PESEL number) who plan to implement an advisory initiative and cannot independently incur obligations.

The groups mentioned above can submit an application through an intermediary organization, the so-called Patron, provided that none of the individuals belonging to the aforementioned groups can sit on the board of the Patron with whom they are submitting the application. Furthermore, members of the informal group cannot be related (by economic interests, political ties, family relationships, or other situations that could affect the impartial and objective resolution of grant competitions) to members of the Patron’s authorities or the Operator providing the grant.

The Patron can only be a non-governmental organization or an entity listed in Article 3(3) of the Act on Public Benefit Activities and Volunteer Work, whose statute clearly allows for the provision of advisory activities or activities in the area covered by the advisory topic indicated in the grant application. The statutory activity of the Patron must fall within the sphere of public benefit to which the initiative described in the grant application relates.

Implementation Periods for Funded Initiatives

The duration of a funded initiative cannot be shorter than 3 months and must fall within the period from June 1 to November 30, 2025.

Deadline and Method of Application Submission

The completed application (according to the template constituting Annex 1 to the regulations) should be saved as a PDF file and sent no later than April 30, 2025, to the appropriate Operator covering the area of the initiative’s implementation (if the initiative is implemented in an area covered by 2 Operators, the registered office or office of the Patron is binding):

Science for the Environment Foundation (West Pomeranian, Pomeranian, Greater Poland, and Lubusz Voivodeships), e-mail: wip@ndsfund.org
„Wiatraki Mazur” Association (Warmian-Masurian, Podlaskie, Masovian, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeships), e-mail: wip@wiatrakimazur.org.pl
SMK Local Fund Foundation (Subcarpathian, Lesser Poland, Lublin, and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships), e-mail: wip@fundacjasmk.pl
Żywiec Development Foundation (Silesian, Opole, Łódź, and Lower Silesian Voivodeships), e-mail: wip@zfr.org.pl

A scan of the Patron’s statute must be attached to the application.

Grant Amount

Under the Wip Program, grants of up to PLN 15,000.00 are expected to be awarded. The total amount of funds for grants in 2025 available to the Operator, the Science for the Environment Foundation (1 of 4 Operators), is PLN 66,000.

Advisory Duty Hours

We will be happy to answer any questions during our duty hours (by phone, e-mail, online):

Monday: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Advisor and Animator: Anna Kałamarz, tel. 530 909 892

advisor and animator: Anna Kałamarz, tel. 530 909 892

Local Coordinator

Information and support for interested parties from the West Pomeranian, Pomeranian, Greater Poland, and Lubusz Voivodeships is provided by the team of the Science for the Environment Foundation, office: ul. Andersa 32, 75-626 Koszalin

e-mail: wip@ndsfund.org

Regional Coordinator: Urszula Sadłowska, tel. 533 335 443

Advisor and Animator: Anna Kałamarz, tel. 530 909 892

Wip Program Coordinator: Iwona Olkowicz, tel. 608 305 766

REGULATIONS_WIP_2025 (PL).pdf

Attachment_1_Draft application-WIP_2025 (PL).docx

Attachment_1_Draft application-WIP_2025_context-sensitive help (PL).docx

2_formal_assessment_card_WIP25 (PL).pdf

3_substantive_assessment_card_WIP25 (PL).pdf

4_Grant_agreement_Wip_2025 (PL).pdf

5a_REPORT on the implementation of the Wip 2025 initiative (PL).pdf

5b_Report – summary of accounting documents Wip 2025 (PL).xlsx