“You are from the mediate that has already deserted”, I heard this conviction from 1 individual after I told her what the Institute of civilian Affairs is fighting for.
Indeed, we are among a fewer social organizations who search fact without sticking to the left or right side in the Polish-Polish war. Since 2004, we have been fighting for the common good. Common good – what is it, can you ask? The question makes sense, due to the fact that by watching the planet behind the window and on the screens, you can get the impression that the "common good" has long gone extinct, like dinosaurs. For us, he's alive.
The common good is cash – we're fighting the lobby that wants her out. The common good is Child health – we fight corporations that want children to depend on their digital drugs. The common good is safety – we fight with business groups that want more tires on our roads.
Cash weapons, Save the Children and Tires on track, are only 3 selected initiatives of the Institute of civilian Affairs. Social economy, safe food, civic media, labour councils, global affairs, artificial “intelligence”, safe energy are also things that lie at our heart.
What binds them all? The glue is civic activity.
Our mission is to encourage Poles and Poles to become active citizens.
This is different from political parties, corporations or the media that we care about citizens who are socially active, critically reasoning and incapable to manipulate business, political, media and any another power.
Passion and discipline
"Construction of a strategy seldom starts with a uncovering of specified a necessity. Rather, it starts with passion, with the courage of conflict and the will to win," wrote Prof. Krzysztof Obłoj in the book Passion and strategy discipline.
For the last 20 years, we have proven that we have passion, that we have the courage to fight and that we have the will to win.
Sign ‘without GMOs on products in your store, 268 jobs created within the social economical sector or no smartphones in schools At the centre of the public debate are only 3 selected results from a long list of tiny and large victories in our over twenty-year organic work.
Social change is simply a long march. Not a sprint, just a marathon. Actually, the utmost walking marathon. It takes work and happiness. And incredible power decks. Powers supply us with the successes we accomplish on the civilian affairs fronts. Powers supply us with individual motivations, most frequently profoundly located in the past, due to the fact that each of us “is a product of the past”. Powers supply us with the smiles of people and their good words about what we do. But we request something else: we request iron capital.
What can you do?
Iron capital is simply a separate fund of the Institute of civilian Affairs, which aims at permanent, long-term financing of the mission and expanding our independence.
It's a fund whose core capital doesn't seem to be there. Only the income from his investment (e.g. interest, dividends, rents) is utilized for statutory purposes.
When I co-founded the Institute in 2024 from the very beginning I thought of it in long-distance categories: it is to live to 100 years and more. I'm inviting you to my birthday with 2 zeros. “I will not live” – I hear you talking in spirit. And I said, "You will live" – in memory as 1 of the donors and co-founders of the Iron Institute of civilian Affairs.
