ANNUAL REPORT 2016

The Senior Mentor Program of Civic Enterprises offers new adventures in service for Hungarians over 55. In 12 cities and 35 public schools, Senior Mentor Program aims to solve serious social problems, beginning with literacy. Today more than 80 individual members serve as tutors and mentors to children in urban public schools and after-school programs, where they help teach children to read and develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in life.

“Civic Enterprises’ work is absolutely critical to expanding awareness and understanding of the unlimited and untapped power of retirees and older adults to strengthen society. Through its initiatives, CE is providing concrete models for establishing infrastructure and community capacity for civic engagement of retirees while building social capital and expanding upon the work of Robert Putnam and others in creating opportunities across the life span for meaningful and purposeful roles in society. The research in this field continues to reveal that an intergenerational approach to civic engagement is a win-win for communities while also providing measurable health benefits for older adults-ultimately helping to reduce health care costs in rapidly aging societies.” ROBERT TIETZE Executive Director and co-founder of Experience Corps Philadelphia

“I am proud to be associated with Civic Enterprises and its mentor program. I have always been impressed by the venture's commitment to its highly valuable social goal, and the founders' ability to generate more and more interest for the project. The ever-growing public recognition of both the organization and its flagship program is well deserved.” LÁSZLÓ RADÁCSI Founder of SmartLab

“Civic Enterprises is a shining example of how entrepreneurship can solve complex social problems. Their brilliant contribution is in harnessing the compassion and skills of volunteer Hungarians to help remedy the unintended consequences of a failing welfare system, thereby improving local communities. They realized that pensioners are not the problem, they are part of the solution!” MARION SMITH Founder of Common Sense Society, Budapest

www.civilvallalkozasok.hu – www.civicenterprises.org

THE POWER OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION – YOUTH EDUCATION AND CIVIC ENTERPRISES by Travis LaCouter - paprikapolitik.com

As part of our ongoing series with Hungarian entrepreneurs and innovators, Paprika Politik sat down with the co-founder of Civic Enterprises, a social network that strengthens civil-society through voluntary educational initiatives. As a university student, Marton Aichelburg was interested in politics. But as it became time to decide upon a career path, Aichelburg looked at where he would be able to do the most good. “I saw that it was necessary to step out of the dimensions of party politics and to do something in the private sector.” Influenced by Robert Putnam’s seminal work on social capital, Aichelburg came to believe strongly that “social networks have value … [and] that those societies are most successful where the level of trust [among their citizens] is high.” This social cohesion could not be manufactured by government bureaucrats, Aichelburg decided, and so he eventually left his studies and set out to start a fresh, constructive civil-society initiative, Civic Enterprises. Inspired by the example of successful non-profits he had spent time working for in America, both in New York and Washington, D.C., Aichelburg launched Civic Enterprises’ flagship program in Hungary, the Senior Mentor Program, in 2008. The Senior Mentor Program’s idea is simple: bring together retired or elderly members of the community with struggling 2nd and 3rd graders in order to focus on improving literacy rates in primary public education. The seniors who volunteer to mentor are often quite highly educated, have enough free time to dedicate to such social projects, and are eager to make connections with the younger generations. According to Civic Enterprises’ 2014 annual report, 88% of the volunteers reported an increased sense of social awareness about the needs of their community and 92% reported an increased sense of selfvalue after completing their service. Most other comparable volunteer-based services result in about three to four hours of interaction between students and tutors per month; Civic Enterprises’ volunteers spend as much as six to twelve hours a week working with students. The large majority of mentors who have participated in this program, which is entering its nineth year, have renewed their commitments year after year.

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Aichelburg admits his program’s focus is in some ways quite narrow; but this is vital, he says, to any success it enjoys. Too many non-profits and young social entrepreneurs try to accomplish too much and wind up accomplishing nothing at all. “You need to specialize and specify,” he said, when trying to address complex social issues. The person who wants to save the world or fix every problem is displaying hubris of “biblical” proportions, he said. But that is not to say that the Senior Mentor Program does not accomplish great things. To the contrary, it provides an invaluable social good by ensuring that young students from broken homes receive the tools they need to stay out of trouble at key moments in their lives. “The problem in education is not only a professional problem among teachers,” Aichelburg said, “but it is a social problem … with much deeper causes.” Absent a loving and stable home relationship, very Meeting of Senior Mentors with teachers (photo: Dariusz Nanys) few students are going to care to maintain their schoolwork, much less respond to increased attention once they are already falling behind. Even when teachers do invest increased individual attention on their troubled students, the best they can hope for is eight to ten minutes during a forty-five minute class, and that detracts from the other students in the same class trying to learn. With a Senior Mentor, a student can expect an average of four hours per week of individualized attention. After one semester of this sort of attention, 89% of students have improved in reading; the 11% that did not improve were mostly truant youth who did not fully participate in their mentoring sessions. Without this positive influence in their lives, many students would continue to fall behind in school, become involved in drugs, crime, risky sexual behavior, and would struggle to maintain a family or hold a job by the time they are teenagers or young adults. It is just not wise to invest millions of forints in social welfare programs to support or help people that could be helped at a much earlier, more pivotal stage in their lives. “Nonprofits should target the root causes of social problems,” Aichelburg said. The genius of the Senior Mentor program is that it utilizes a great untapped social resource – the elderly – to address a particularly intractable social problem – youth illiteracy. Instead of seeing pensioners as the problem in a welfare state bloated with entitlements and disproportionate demographical distribution, Aichelburg harnessed the productive energies of a well-educated population and directed them towards a deep-seated social ill. Challenging the System But it is not welcomed by everyone, as Aichelburg quickly found out. Entrenched interests in local municipal governments and self-interested teachers unions pushed back against Aichelburg’s program because they saw it as a threat to their unchallenged status as educational authorities. The Senior Mentor Program does have a far reach; last year it was involved in twenty-three public schools, meaning it dealt with more schools than the largest school district in Hungary. Often local school districts resented the Senior Mentors, who

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Ágnes Ráczkevi mentor and mentees, Budapest X. (photo: Szabad Föld)

usually had higher levels of education than the school teachers they were helping. Nevermind that retired physicists, engineers, and doctors were giving their time freely to help young children learn to read, Aichelburg was told, public education is a national tradition that dates back centuries to Maria Theresa and must be kept squarely under the purview of career bureaucrats. Undeterred by such criticism, Aichelburg makes clear he is not trying to “destroy the existing system,” as he was occasionally accused of doing, but instead trying to help where and how best he can. In fact, the problem Civic Enterprises addresses is a social one, not strictly an educational one; school districts should not feel threatened by their work because, at its best, it allows the actual teachers to do their jobs more effectively. The volunteers are able and willing to act as grandparent, mentor, advisor, and friend, “it shouldn’t be the function of the state to provide these services” in the first place, Aichelburg says. As some municipalities cut off their funding to the Senior Mentor Program, Aichelburg simply refocused his efforts on private fundraising and procuring grants; he “skipped over” the local governments in order to most effectively help the students in need. For all his hard work, Aichelburg has seen concrete success. After a rocky start with several volunteers in 2008, national media outlets soon took notice. The Senior Mentor Program was highlighted in a twenty minute radio feature that reached 300,000 listeners and in a threepage article in one of Hungary’s largest women’s journals. The next year, Aichelburg added thirty-five new volunteers and six new school sites. Civic Enterprises has constantly built upon that success and this year Civic Enterprises will be in nearly thirty schools with more than 120 volunteers and reaching up to 400 children. By 2018 Aichelburg plans to have 100 service sites in Hungary.

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Ildikó Kelemen mentor and mentees, Budapest XIV. (photo: János Bődey, Index.hu)

Hungary is witnessing the rise of a thriving “ecosystem” of non-profits and socially conscious organizations. Civic Enterprises is part of this ecosystem; not only through its work with grassroots service programs like the Senior Mentor Program, but also through a rapidly growing Budapest-to-Washington, D.C., internship program that trains the next generation of Hungarian civil-society leaders. Through creative, flexible solutions that utilize and grow the human capitol in Hungarian society, Civic Enterprises is effectively addressing long-term social problems.

–Travis LaCouter is Managing Editor of Paprika Politik

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BENEFITS OF VOLUNTEERING The Senior Mentor Program is a movement that brings older adults into public elementary schools to improve academic achievement of students, through one-to-one tutoring, small group academic help and assisting teachers. It has been in existence for over 8 years and reached more than 30 service sites in Hungary. Between 2009 and 2016, 327 teachers were asked about the benefits that they gained from participating in the program, and an overwhelming majority reported positive effects on students.

Benefits to Students and Teachers - 87% of teachers said it was “very true” that the volunteers’ work had a positive impact. - 100% believed that the volunteers helped the children they worked with. As seen below, about 88% report that students' reading abilities improved slightly or significantly, while it was only 12% who saw stagnation or deterioration in reading skills, which was attributed to student absenteeism, concentration problems and behavioral problems in students. Improvement in reading abilities Improved a lot Improved a little Stayed the same Gotten a little worse Gotten a lot worse

38,8% 49,2% 9,2% 2,4% 0,4%

For over 83% of the students, the teachers saw improvement in self-confidence. Improvement in self-confidence Improved a lot Improved a little Stayed the same Gotten a little worse Gotten a lot worse

36% 47% 13% 3% 1%

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Benefits to Volunteers Between 2009 and 2016 187 volunteers were asked about the benefits they experienced from participating in Senior Mentor Program. The following tables show that Senior Mentor Program volunteers felt their work in the program benefited them personally. We wanted to get their opinion about their community service experience. Specifically, we were interested in how their social connectedness and usefulness to the community have changed. Social Connectedness

Much Increased

Increased

Decreased

No change

My awareness of the needs of schools in my community…

21%

63%

1%

16%

My opportunity to socialize with older adults…

4%

43%

3%

50%

My awareness of general community events or activities has…

12%

58%

1%

29%

My awareness of the value of older adult volunteers in schools has…

34%

49%

1%

17%

Usefulness to the Community

Much Increased

Increased

Decreased

No change

My sense of usefulness of my service to the school has…

32%

57%

1%

10%

My sense of usefulness of my service to the community has…

27%

54%

1%

18%

My sense of usefulness of my service to youth (students) has…

34%

51%

1%

14%

My awareness of the importance of community service has…

35%

44%

1%

20%

Summary and Implications These findings demonstrate that teachers and Senior Mentor Program members perceive that volunteering benefits the students, teachers, and volunteers, likewise, while negative effects from their involvement with the Senior Mentor Program were hardly ever reported.

Volunteers of Senior Mentor Program 2008-2016 Katalin Adamek Zsuzsanna Ambró Klára Apró Judit Arányi Kálmán Babos Éva Badó Éva Bajor Ilona Balázs, dr. Sándor Balog Ágota Bánkiné Vetsey Katalin Barnaföldi Jolán Éva Báti László Beke Jolán Beláz Mária Beleznai Katalin Bernardné Kasza Eszter Biró, dr. Mária Boromisza Éva Bosánszky, dr. Magda Bosnyák Mária Csáki Péter Csepely Mária Csergőffy Zsuzsa Csernus, dr. Ferenc Czárboch Éva Czékus Zsuzsánna Eszter Dabi Márta Dávidné Tóth Gyula Deák Klára Irén Demjén Veronika Dianné Pörge Zsuzsanna Dobos Zoltán Egeresi Katalin Erdei Anikó Ferenczné Ignácz Mária Farkas dr. Rozália Fazekas, dr. Mária Fehér Éva Fehérváriné Csépe Mária Ferencz, dr. Anikó Ferenczné Ignácz Judit Fintáné Sándor Éva Frankó Éva Fűzérné Vécsei Gabriella Gáti Márton Gede Csilla Gesztelyi Júlia Gidáli, dr. Ildikó Ginelli Ibolya Gönczi Erzsébet Gyöngyösi Zsófia Győriné Kálmán Zsuzsa Gyulai Julianna Gyurcsányi Ilona Gyurcsek Éva Hajdó, dr. Ágnes Harsányiné Mészáros Györgyi Hasitz Ronchetti Helena Judit Hetényi László Hevesi Ildikó Hevessyné Dávid Ansaf Hilu

Ágnes Horváth, dr. Éva Horváth Gáborné Magdolna Horváthné Vass Zsuzsa Hunyi, dr. Valéria Huszárné Kraft Judit Illés Ágota Jancsecz László Juhász, dr Judit Kállainé Wojtoczki Katalin Karakó László Karda Valéria Kazán Zsuzsa Katona Eszter Kedvessy Ildikó Kelemen Erzsébet Keleméri Katalin Kertész, dr. Ibolya Keszthelyi Ilona Képíró Éva Zsuzsanna Kiss, dr. Margit Kiss Judit Kiss Éva Kissné Szabó Mária Klier Katalin Kolozsváriné Reményi Ilona Kovács Mária Kozmáné Harascsák Ágnes Kövér, dr. Ágnes Kőműves Magdolna Kővári Judit Krausz Márta Kriaszter Szilvia Éva Kürthy Ibolya Lassú Sarolta Lábody Teréz Lepenyéné László, dr. Katalin Lessi Tibor Lichtmann Éva Lukácsné Illés Anna Majoros, dr. Hedvig Márkus Valéria Mária Márkus Júlia Marót Zsuzsánna Marthné dr. Simon Éva Medzihradszky Klára Megyesiné Artmann Miklós Mérő, dr. Ildikó Mészáros Gábor Miháltz Róza Mikecz Judit Miskeyné Molnár, dr. Enikő Molnár Katalin Molnár Judit Nagy Korsa Vilma Nagy, dr. Judit Nagy Zoltán Tünde Nagyné Gál Éva Nyíry, dr. Annamária Ölvedi Péter Örkényi Krisztina Országhné Benedek Judit Osztafin Ildikó Őze

Éva Palócz Zsófia Pajzsné dr. Rónaszegi Éva Palócz Zsuzsa Pap Valérné dr. Zsuzsanna Papp Mária Petrovics Margit Petró Irén Péterné Szabó Judit Pécsi Marika Pongrácz Anna Katalin Rácz Katalin Rácz Ágnes Ráczkevi Tünde Radnai Etelka Reindl Zoltán Rejtő Borbála Rétiné B., dr. Rimár Jánosné Katalin Róbert Bella Roszinszky Katalin Sándor, dr. Ágnes Sárközi Ágnes Selmeci Hajnalka Simonné Hajdu, dr. Ilona Solt Mária Somogyi, dr. Gizella Somogyiné Lukács Klára Somoskői Erika Spollár Ilona Staudtné Fáy Aranka Szabó Piroska Szabó Julianna Szabó Gabriella Szabóné Incze Zsuzsa Szántó Mária Szántó Anna Székely Judit Székelyné Rákosi Judit Szendrő Gabriella Szentiványi Anikó Szentpéteri Ferenc Szikszai Anna Szikszainé dr. Bérces Katalin Szondi Eszter Szövényi Edit Szőcsné Faludy Ildikó Szűcs Katalin Takács Ildikó Takácsné Hidasi Tamás Takáts, dr. Ilona Terdikné Balázs Margit Tikászné Raffai Zsuzsa Toldyné Jez Melinda Tokajiné Somlyai Ilona Török Magdi Török Anikó Tóth Ibolya Tóth Mária Tóth Tóth Tiborné, dr. Mária Trepkáné Vimmer Hedvig Üveges Katalin Vajda

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Éva Varga Magda Varga Erzsébet Vargáné Fónagy Mária Vargáné Herczeg Ibolya Vargay, dr.

István Varró Ildikó Vámosi György Vándor Klára Váradi József Károly Végh

Mária Vetőné Pásztor Judit Vrabély Lujza Zavaczky Rózsa Zsíros Erika Wagnerné Istvánfi

Staff Márton Aichelburg, Program Director Tibor Balázs, Program Coordinator Diána Bálint, Program Coordinator Anita Böröcz, Program Coordinator Gyöngyi Glückné Márton, Advisor, Trainer Eszter Hartmann, dr., Program Coordinator Katalin Herczeg, Program Director Dorottya Igricz, Program Coordinator László Juhász, dr., Program Director Orsolya Meleg, Program Coordinator Dorottya Mezőfi, Program Coordinator Réka Németh, Program Coordinator

Mária Novák, Program Coordinator Ildikó Pap, Program Director Nóra Rózsahegyi, Senior Advisor, Trainer Julianna Saly, Advisor, Trainer Éva Sári, Senior Advisor, Trainer, Program Coordinator András Stefanik, Program Coordinator Petra Tanyi, Program Coordinator Alexandra Tari, Program Coordinator Kinga Turányi, Program Coordinator Benedek Varga, Program Coordinator Péter Wendl, Program Coordinator

150 100 50 0 2008/2009

2009/2010

2010/2011

2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/2015

Individual members - number of volunteers

Senior Mentor Program Institutional Members 2008-2016 Zipernowsky Általános Iskola

Budapest III.

Ward Mária Általános Iskola

Budapest V.

Baross Gábor Általános Iskola

Budapest VII.

Bem József Általános Iskola Harmat Általános Iskola Janikovszky Éva Általános Iskola Üllői úti Tagintézmény Kada Mihály Általános Iskola Kápolna téri Általános Iskola Szent László Általános Iskola Wasley János Általános Iskola

Budapest X.

Bocskai István Általános Iskola Gazdagrét - Csíkihegyek Általános Iskola Petőfi Sándor Általános Iskola Carl Rogers Személyközpontú Óvoda és Általános Iskola Újbudai Grosics Gyula Sport Általános Iskola

Budapest XI.

Budapest School Pannónia Általános Iskola

Budapest XIII.

Dr. Mező Ferenc Általános Iskola Móra Ferenc Általános Iskola

Budapest XIV.

2015/2016

2016/2017

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Bartók Béla Általános Iskola

Budapest XXII.

Érdligeti Általános Iskola

Érd

Petőfi Sándor Általános Iskola

Pécel

Árpád Fejedelem Általános Iskola

Ráckeve

Chernel István Általános Iskola

Agárd*

Gárdonyi Tagiskola

Gárdony*

Petőfi Sándor Tagiskola

Salgótarján

Vajda Péter Általános Iskola

Szarvas

Tisza Kálmán Szakképző Iskola

Orosháza*

Rókusi Általános Iskola

Szeged

Szent András Általános Iskola

Szentendre

Lackner Kristóf Általános Iskola

Sopron

Základná škola s materskou školou s vyučovacím jazykom slovenským a maďarským

Veľký Kýr (Nyitranagykér)

* program launched independently from Civic Enterprises

30 20 10 0 2008/2009

2009/2010

2010/2011

2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/2015

2015/2016

2016/2017

Institutional Members - elementary schools

600 400 200 0 2008/2009

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2013/2014

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BUDAPEST – WASHINGTON D.C. INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Budapest - Washington D.C. Internship program at Young Leaders Dialogue with America (YLDA) Forum. YLDA participant’s meeting with Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State. Treaty Room. Photo: U.S. Department of State (2012)

The goal of the internship program of Civic Enterprises is to provide promising future leaders an opportunity to have meaningful professional experience at Washington-based NGOs, thereby facilitating the adaptation of latest models of social innovation for the Hungarian nonprofit sector upon their return. 2012-2016 participants: Alexandra Tari Upon finishing a bilingual high school, Alexandra continued her studies at the University of Northern Denmark on the faculty of Natural and Cultural Heritage Management. The Danish practice oriented education system taught her how to apply the previously gained knowledge in her field. She had been appling to the internship program of Civic Enterprises as part of her university studies. During the eight months she had the chance to work in various projects of the organization. Her most important tasks centered around the main program, called Senior Mentor Program. Alexandra was in charge of recruitment, including campaigns and member screening interviews, and organized volunteer trainings. Another part of her job was to conduct researches on the concept of Individual Tutoring Service and launch it in the framework of Civic Enterprises. Finally, she participated in the organization and the execution of various RETURN U.S. Alumni projets in Hungary. Afterwards, with the Hungarian American Coalition's internship program, she could travel to Washington DC. The second phase of Alexandra’s internship took place at AARP Foundation Experience Corps. She had the opportunity to join a professional team and gain experience through working on a literacy program with such a huge organization. During four months her job included the recruitment of new members, conducting volunteer satisfaction surveys and concentrate on member retention. In that way EC aimed to offer a high quality program that is beneficial for both the students and the tutors. Civic Enterprises and the Hungarian American Coalition granted her a great opportunity to improve both personally and professionally through the challenges she faced in these culturally diverse environment.

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Kinga Turányi Kinga spent five months volunteering for Civic Enterprises as a Program Coordinator of Senior Mentor Program in 2014. The same year, she spent five months in Washington D.C. as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD), an NGO focusing on advancing the understanding, development, and implementation of effective, and accountable systems of governance for sustainable development. She was responsible for researching on climate change communication related issues and assisted with the Institute’s media and outreach of its fast action climate mitigation campaign, focusing on short-lived climate pollutants. She also attended lectures, briefings, press conferences, and panel discussions at distinguished research institutions and think-tanks on topics of climate change, environmental policymaking, urban development and communication. Dániel Szabó Dániel was a member of the Civic Enterprises Supervisory Board. As an undergraduate, he studied International Business at the Corvinus University of Budapest and enrolled to the Management and Leadership Masters program. Parallel to his university studies, Dániel took part in several projects abroad: he worked in the International Atomic Energy Agency in the UN Headquarters in Vienna, Austria; he spent one semester as an exchange student at the Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris, France and assisted a strategy consulting project in Warsaw, Poland as a Visiting Associate of the Boston Consulting Group’s Budapest office. In line with this international character, Dániel spent four months in Washington DC, where he interned at the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurship Week project. This one week long celebration of entrepreneurship has worldwide presence; therefore it is also organized every November in Hungary, too. Its goal is to encourage everyone to be creative, entrepreneurial and pursue their dreams via creating their own startup. Following his return from the States, Dániel shares his experience and findings about entrepreneurial culture and startup ecosystems with Hungarian youths through a number of nonprofit initiatives. He likes to spend his free time with swimming, scuba diving and traveling. Dorottya Igricz During her 5-month internship period with Civic Enterprises Nonprofit Organization in Budapest Dóri was responsible for coordinating the organization’s main project, named Senior Mentor Program. The program aims to engage people over 55 to tutor students struggling with reading and learning abilities. As being in charge of the recruitment process Dóri was conducting and evaluating interviews as well as organizing training sessions. In addition, she has assisted in launching the Senior Mentor Program in new Hungarian host institutions (e.g. in Salgótarján) and also in Slovakia. This work experience provided her a chance to observe how the Hungarian non-profit sector works and how to foster social change by using social capital itself. Thanks to the generous support of the Hungarian American Coalition (HAC) the second part of her internship program was held in Washington, D.C. where she spent five months and continued working with three nonprofit organizations. As the intern of HAC, besides supporting the organization’s office in D.C., she assisted in coordinating the Coalition’s Annual Gala event, honoring Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker and The Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris. Dóri also worked with the National Civic Art Society, a non-profit educational institution dedicated to the traditional humanistic practice of architecture, urban design, and the fine arts, where she was involved with fundraising and research activities. Her third host organization, the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, gave her the opportunity to support its Sustained Dialogue Campus Network program (SDCN). SDCN’s mission is to develop everyday leaders who engage differences as strengths to improve campuses, workplaces, and communities. While working for SDNC she was responsible for researching and building database of contacts. Having worked for these Washington-based non-profits was exceptional due to their outstanding working environment and vibrant community. During these five months in Washington, D.C. Dóri also attended several lectures and events organized by prestigious universities (e.g. Georgetown University), research institutions, and think-tanks (e.g. Brookings Institution, Center for Strategic and International Studies) in the field of international relations and economy, as well as urban culture and regeneration.

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RETURN – U.S. ALUMNI IN HUNGARY In January 2015 alumni organizations of young Hungarian professionals who have returned home after their experiences in the United States rebooted the tradition of an annual „RETURN – U.S. Alumni in Hungary” conference. Following the success of the 3rd annual conference, the 1st RETURN Alumni Retreat was held in Chateau Bánó in Felsőmocsolád between April 10-12. The aim of the retreat was to promote cooperation and communication between the alumni organizations in Hungary, to support the reintegration of returnees, bridging between members and sharing information on projects of individual participants. The theme of the event was Better Together, symbolizing the participants goal about restoring Hungarian Community by building bridging RETURN Alumni Retreat participants and János Horváth economist, politician, social capital. Most of the alumni groups was member of the National Assembly. Felsőmocsolád – Chateau Bánó, April 12, 2015 represented in this retreat: Calasanctius Training Program, Common Sense Society, Fulbright Association, Hungarian American Coalition Internship Program, Hungarian American Enterprises Scholarship Fund, Institute of International Education and IvyPlus. We also had the pleasure to meet new organizations and their members like David Ginn (Danube Church) and Rich Leary (Cru). The first formal program was “Image of Hungary in the World” group discussion moderated by Common Sense Society director Emese Böröcz. The discussion provided a good overview about the collapse and revival of the Hungarian Community. In CSS’s blog, observers of Hungary (both inside and out) present their thoughts on current politics, economic trends, and the state of society and culture at all levels. The participants could share their thoughts with each other about the image of Hungary from many points of view because there were not just the Return alumnies but also native Americans who were living in Hungary for more than a decade and also who had just moved to Hungary in less than a year. Besides them we had the privilege to enjoy the remarkable company of János Horváth, “The Most Outstanding RETURNer” of our event. János Horváth (born 1921) is a Hungarian economist and politician, member of the National Assembly from 1945 to 1947 and from 1998 to 2014. János had been the oldest Member of Parliament since 2003. He was also the youngest member of the Hungarian Parliament in 1945. His outstanding experiences and history of life taught us an abundance about foreigner’s view of our country and about Hungary’s prospects as well.

PÉLDAKÉP ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETITION Marton Aichelburg, co-founder of Civic Enterprises has been selected to the Top50 finalists of Példakép Foundation's "Role Model of the Year" competition. Thank you for supporting us. In the last 6 years we had more than 200 supporters. Without them this would not have been possible. Példakép Foundation is a civic initiative that aims to familiarize and have successful Hungarian entrepreneurs acknowledged by the public. Not only to be proud of them and their results but also to show up a role model for young adults they can look up to. Because a role model is a driving force that is irreplaceable - it gives you Márton Aichelburg, Katalin Valentínyi, President of Példakép Foundation, strength, belief and motivation for a whole life. Viktor Orbán, Prime minister of Hungary and Csaba Árendás Példakép Gala January 17, 2014

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Membership and Supervisory Board of Civic Enterprises 2008-2016 Márton Aichelburg Zsombor Baki Tamás Hende Péter Lányfalvi Tivadar Limbacher (sb)

József Kerekes Orsolya Meleg Pelles Péter Kinga Petro, dr. László Radácsi, dr. (sb)

Dániel Imre Szabó (sb) Mária Magdolna Tariska Benedek Márk Varsányi, dr. Péter Wendl

Membership of Civic Enterprises Association 2009-2016 Márton Aichelburg Luca Aichelburg Judit Arányi Kálmán Babos Zsombor Baki Judit Balogh Biroda Kft. Éva Bosányszky, dr. Edward Sanborn Exosphere LLC Tamás Fehér, dr. FITS Magyarország Kft. Fox Post Zrt. Éva Gulyás Tamás Hende iSLCollective Ágota Jancsecz Tamás Jávor Edmond Józsa László Juhász, dr. Kerekes József

Éva Kiss, dr. Péter Lányfalvi Tibor Lichtmann Tünde Lukács Zsuzsanna Petronella Magosányi Éva Medzihradszky Orsolya Meleg Krisztina Morvay MrCoin Ltd. Balázs Németh Éva Nyíry, dr. Octarine Labs Judit Osztafin Zsuzsanna Papp Péter Pelles Róbert Pelles Petro Kinga, dr. Pipacshon Kft. Zoltán Rejtő Ágnes Rémes Katalin Róbert

Nóra Rózsahegyi Júlia Saly Gáborné Éva Sári Shinrai Skool Mária Somogyi, dr. Anna Stumpf SwatSigma Kft Dániel Imre Szabó Zsolt Szekeres Krisztina Szenci Gabriella Szentiványi Mária Magdolna Tariska TerraCycle Margit Tikászné Raffai Ákos Tolnai Krisztina Túry Benedek Márk Varsányi, dr. Péter Wendl

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! As always, we want to acknowledge the generosity of our Partners and Supporters who contribute financially and also give their time and expertise to ensure the success of Civic Enterprises’ programs!

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Budapest Bank GE Capital Google Hardcastle Trading AG Hungarian American Coalition Microsoft MrCoin Ltd. Process Solutions

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Biroda Kft. John & Edith Lauer Petro Kinga & Philippe de Chalendar Skool TerraCycle

100.000 HUF ÉS 499.999 HUF KÖZÖTT Jeff & Barbara Allen A Petőfi Jövőéért Alapítvány Balogh Judit Cantium Kft. Egri András & Varga Enikő Ékszerpalota Kft. Dr. Fehér Tamás Ügyvédi Iroda Exosphere LLC First Class Group Kft. FITS Magyarország Kft. Hende Tamás iMind Kft. Kálmán de Chalendar Kerekes József KódGarázs Kft. Lányfalvi Péter Lányfalvi Sándor Octarine Labs Poleposition.hu Smart Alarm Bt. Ronnie és Jane Stevens SwatSigma Kft. Szekeres Zsolt Tariska Mária Magdolna Telenor Magyarország Zrt. Varró István Varsányi Benedek Márk, dr. Vodafone Magyarország zrt. Wall Plus Bt.

25.000 HUF ÉS 99.999 HUF KÖZÖTT Aichelburg Luca Arányi Sándorné Angeli Zsuzsanna

Ferenc B. Nagy Zsombor Baki ZsoltBalai Éva Bosánszky, dr. Common Sense Society Alapítvány Cru Máté Csanád Márton Eörsi, dr. FoxPost Zrt. Enikő Galánfi Ákos Gebri Anna Mária Gergely Éva Gulyás Gabriella Gulyás János & Linda Horváth, dr. Imre Orsolya iSLCollective Kft. Tamás Jávor Edmond Józsa Zoltán Keresztény, dr. Éva Kiss Barb és Rich Leary Tünde Lukács Éva Lukácsné Illés Tibor Lichtmann Orsolya Meleg Norina Miszori Krisztina Morvay Balázs Németh Máté Olti Zsuzsanna Papp Péter Pelles Róbert Pelles & Magdolna Egervölgyi Zoli Piroska Éva Réz Júlia Saly Edward Sanborn Éva Sári Anna Stumpf Dániel Imre Szabó Krisztina Szenci Margit Tikászné Raffai Kinga Turányi Krisztina Túry Judit Vrabély Péter Wendl Károly Gyula Wendl

1.000 HUF ÉS 24.999 HUF KÖZÖTT Kálmán Babos Viktor Bak Noémi Bánhidi

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Anton Benediktov Beáta Borzási Magda Bosnyák Igor Breitner Gergely István Buday Petra Czeiner Réka Domonics Egeresi Zoltán Dorián Elek Ágnes Alice Fekete, dr. Rozália Farkas Tibor Frank Future Planner Development Kft. Csaba Fülöp László Galántai Zsolt Garami, dr. Dorottya Gódor Zsófia Győriné Kálmán Enikő Horváth András Jókuti Suhaib Kaissi Máté Káló Péter Kanizsai Zsuzsanna Katonáné Varga Dávid Keresztes Zsanett Kodela-Jámbrik Emőke Korzenszky György Kovács, dr. Zsófia Kővári András Krajnyák József Laczkó Tibor Laczkó Zsolt Lavicza Sarolta Lábody Veronika László András Máté Lázár Zoltán Lengyel

Teréz Lepenyéné László Marcell Lőrincz Gábor Miháltz Zita Mirk Judit Miskeyné Molnár, dr. Hajnalka Csilla Mendlik Gergely Mohay Éva Eszter Nagy Katalin Nagy Krisztina Nascsó Ádám Németh & Zsuzsanna Dankó Krisztina Oláh Pap Valérné Petronikolou Kyriaki Judit Pécsi János Pokol Gábor Rosta Katalin Róbert Sarok Józsefné Simon Schlőgl Anett Sóti Péter Szalay János Szekeres Krisztina Szipőcs Katalin Takács Márta Tankó Gergely Tihamér Takács Gergely Tar TerraCycle Balázs Trócsányi Orsolya Ujj Klára Váradi Lilla Vukovics Viktória Zoltán Erika Wágnerné Istvánfi Tamás Weiszbart

TERMÉSZETBENI ADOMÁNYOK Arven PR & Communications Kft. Robert Berenson Pál Békés Catherine Bocskor CMS Cameron McKenna LLP Copy Guru Dariusz Nanys Zoltán Ecseri Natália Fábics Michael Fullen & Alysia Johnson Fullen Balázs Gianotti

András Gönczy, dr. Zsófi Jobbágy Tibor Molnár Murat Ozguc Róbert Pelles Marion Smith László Stachó Márton Vizkelety Benedek Varga Wendl és Társa Kft. Zámbó és Társa Ügyvédi Iroda

SZERVEZETI PARTNEREK American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) AARP Experience Corps A Petőfi Jövőéért Alapítvány Asociation Intercultural La Galeria Budapesti Városvédő Egyesület Campaign For 3rd Grade-Level Reading Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Centro de Formação Profissional das Indústrias da Madeira e Mobiliário (CFPIMM) Colabs Startup Center Common Sense Society Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. Cru Danube International Church Design Terminal European Entrepreneurship Foundation Embassy of Slovak Republic Budapest English Unlimited Exosphere Fiatalok az Élet Küszöbén First Book FIVOSZ Global Entrepreneurship Week HandsOn Greater DC Cares Heyman Interages Center Jewish Council for the Aging Hungarian American Coalition (HACUSA) Hungarian Business Leaders Forum (HBLF) Heritage Foundation ImpactHUB Institute of International Education (IIE) International Leadership Foundation Klebelsberg Intézményfenntartó Központ Kőbányai Pedagógiai Szolgáltató Központ LeaderImpact LOFFICE Magyar Pedagógiai Társaság National Civic Art Society Önkéntes Központ Alapítvány Panevezys district Educational Center Péceli Református Egyházközség Puli Space Regionalne Centrum Mladeze Kosice SmartLab Tanácsadó Smarter Learning Group StartupSafari Sustained Dialogue Campus Network U.S. Embassy Bratislava U.S. Embassy Budapest Újbudai Pedagógiai Intézet Új Reformkor Temple University Intergenerational Center VÁTI Nonprofit Kft. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Women for Women International Young Leaders Dialogue with America

INVEST IN EDUCATION BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! Civic Enterprises is dedicated to help children improve in reading and to maintain and strengthen the Hungarian Education System. Our job is more important now than ever and in order to continue and broaden the Senior Mentor Program, we need your support. The truth is that Civic Enterprises is supported by less than 100 individuals who recognized that without comprehensive reading, pupils in their 2nd and 3rd grade lag behind. I hope you will continue participating in this important social issue and support our organization before 31st December. Amongst the uncertainties - including the coming reform of the Education System - one thing is for sure: Civic Enterprises will continue its mission so that children in difficult social situations could progress in reading skills. We have been doing this for 8 years now, and we will continue with your help. Senior Mentor Program of Civic Enterprises offers a new model that revolutionize public education system in favor of private communities. Having received only limited support from the state, Senior Mentor Program could still flourish thanks to its private supporters. Please consider supporting Civic Enterprises with donating money. There is no better investment in education and development of reading skills then supporting our mission at Civic Enterprises. Thank you for considering donating to us and I wish you all the best for Christmas. Sincerely, --Márton

CONTACT Civil Vállalkozások - Civic Enterprises H-1056 Budapest, Irányi utca 3 3rd floor 4 +36 30 855-6691 www.civilvallalkozasok.hu – www.civicenterprises.org [email protected]

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