The Kronenberg Foundation's mission is to provide assistance to programs promoting the public good in the fields of education and local development. Under Grant Program we support financially non-profit projects in the following program areas:

I. EDUCATION

• Innovations in education
• Economic education
• Cultural heritage and tradition
• Artistic activity of children and young people

II. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

• Healthcare priorities
• Social policy
• Teaching entrepreneurship

We finance, under each program area, activities such as: workshops, training programs and contests. Organizations eligible to apply for grants are foundations, associations, schools, culture centres, libraries, and local government units delivering community projects, all with an open bank account.
We do not finance: individuals, business entities, for-profit projects, administrative costs of organizations, investment projects (including construction, renovation), projects executed abroad, religious and political undertakings, conferences, symposia, seminars, equipment for teaching computer skills, publications, events (festivals, concerts, theatre productions, jubilees, exhibitions, etc.), summer camps, expeditions, sports events, scholarships, endowments.
Lists of projects and organizations supported by the Foundation, including exact amounts and applications of each grant, are listed in program area blocks in the Foundation's Annual Reports. To read about example projects subsidized by the Foundation click on "Example Projects" tab.

Grant applications are accepted via the Electronic Grant Application System. The new electronic system replaced the old time-consuming and environmentally inefficient hard copy system. It accepts input data online and displays error warnings to help users avoid missing data or entering incorrect financial information.

REPORTS, GRANT APPLICATION CONTROL
The Foundation monitors the submission of operational and financial reports from the application of its grants. We also perform regular control visits to check whether projects that received the Foundation's grants are executed correctly and truthfully, in terms of budgeting as well as their content.
Every grant-taker is obliged under contract and grant-taking rules to apply the grant in accordance with the rules and to submit reports in compliance with the forms attached to the grant contract.
At control visits the Foundation's controller checks whether a grant was applied in accordance with the contract and the grant-taker is obliged to resent complete financial and operational documentation to prove that the project was executed as in grant application. Institutions that received grants from the Foundation are also obliged to store full documentation for five years from the date of grant approval.
Results of the control visit are recorded on a special Grant Monitoring Card. In case of any irregularities or reservations on the part of the Foundation's controller in reference to the application of the grant, the grant-taker is obliged to submit a written explanation to the Foundation's office by the date assigned by the controller. Failure to submit required documents results in a reminder from the Foundation and eventually in the Foundation demanding the grant to be returned. Organisations that received more than one grant and those, whose reports differ from preliminary estimates are the first to be controlled.

Grant application reports and control reports are analysed by the Foundation's Auditing Committee. The Foundation performs controls on 80% grants annually.
Over 750 projects were controlled by the end of 2008, for the total grant amount of nearly PLN 18,500,000.