2010 TOG Summary of Annual Report

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TOPLUM GNLLLER VAKFISUMMARY OF THE ANNUAL REPORT

1 JANUARY 31 DECEMBER 2010

Toplum Gnllleri (Community Volunteers) network has increased to 94 TOG Youthorganizations in either at university campuses or outside the universities in 60 cities of

Turkey and Northern Cyprus. These youth organizations have voluntarily carried out projectsin their local environment.

The number ofproject volunteers has risen to 23,880. Young Community Volunteers implemented 794 local, national or international projects that

reached out to 235,349 people. Total ofvoluntary hours spared for these activities totaled to 1,103,386 hours. The total

value added to GNP by minimum wage per hour has been 3.685.309 TL (2,385,313 in $ )

TOG 2010

Number of

Volunteers

Number of

People Reached

Volunteering

Hours

Value Addedcalculated by

minimum wage

(TL)

23.880 235.349 1.103.386 3.685.309

TOGs activities were spread in a variety of areas including renovation of schools in thedisadvantageous districts, support to disabled people, health education programs,

entrepreneurship training for youth, democracy and human rights trainings, reproductive

health trainings, environment projects, campaigns and trainings against discrimination,

activities that raise awareness on the disabled peoples rights projects, creation of internshippositions, scholarships and mentoring services for young people.

Young Community Volunteers from TOGs local organizations gather twice a year in TOGYouth Council. This gathering is a meeting point for representatives from TOG youth

organizations. They share their experiences and ideas of their projects and shape the future

of TOG. Also, every year they vote and elect their representatives to take place in the Board

of Directors of TOG. The 15th TOG Youth Council took place in Sakarya between February 18-

21 and 16th TOG Youth Council took place in Bolu between September 16-18.

Istanbul Pink House, Samsun Pinhole and Samsun 19 Mayis are 3 Youth Centers where youngpeople can meet, create ideas and share their skills and knowledge and learn. In the three

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Youth Centers a variety of projects, activities and trainings continued to take place for or

with young people aged between 15 and 29. In TOGs youth centers, the Young Spaceproject has been run in partnership with Sabanc Foundation, and TOG developed its youthcenter model and created a book and a programme to support local administrations and

NGOs in the area of youth centers.

For increasing the capacity of project development and implementation of young communityvolunteers 30 volunteer youth leaders have mentored TOG youth organizations. In total 35

Local Needs Analysis Meetings and 510 field visits are realised in 2010.

TOG has projects called TOG ATAK, in which young people from several local TOG youthorganizations meet for creating awareness on social issues. In these projects, young people

from different cities and regions gather to perform a project in a specific location for 2-3

days. TOG implemented 10 TOG ATAK and 23 local TOG ATAK projects on different issues

such as coastal cleaning, school renovations, global warming, cultural heritage, human rights

and workshops in volunteerism and civil society. 6 TOG ATAK projects were realized with the

partnership ofMavi Jeans.

In summer, young people realized 7 Summer Projects. Young people from differentbackgrounds met in Samsun, Antalya, Istanbul, anlurfa, Izmir, Hakkari, Bergama projectsand realised one travelling Project in Ankara, Kayseri, Sivas, Malatya ve Diyarbakir. These

projects were on the promotion of local culture, educational support for children, youth

deliquency, youth participation and environment.

Organizing 2 training of trainers (Democracy and Our Rights and Reproductive Health PeerEducation) 40 Community Volunteers began to conduct trainings on the field. Also

considering 422 local and national trainings, in which 965 trainers and 8,785 young

participants were involved, 78,558 volunteer hours were generated in 3014 training hours.

These trainings were mainly focused on Civil Society and Voluntary Work, Human Rights,

Social Rights of young people, Health Literacy, Reproductive Health, Need Analysis, Project

Management, Training of coordinators and Team Work.

Mentorship Project has continued its activities with 65 mentors and 106 mentees. Besidesproviding guidance to youngsters by matching them one-to-one with adult volunteers, the

project also organized events which helped to increase the interaction among them. In the

context of TOG Internship program, 51 corporations provided internship to 55 young

community volunteers.

TOG continues to give scholarships to 601 university students all around Turkey.

TOG celebrated Alternative Youth Week between May 15-22 including different youthfriendly activities such as panels, workshops, concerts, outdoor festivals, which is organised

by young people themselves. The Alternative Youth Week tries to create an alternative to the

official youth week designed by public authorities, which is full of elements of nationalism,

militarism and gerontocracy.

Living Library 2010 practices, funded by the European Capital of Culture Agency, have beenrealized in February and May during !f Istanbul and Theatre Festival in cooperation with TOG

and stanbul Bilgi University Youth Study Unit. Hosting its readers for five days, Living Librarybooks have been borrowed 531 times and reached 728 readers. In order to extend the

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impact, stanbul Bilgi University Youth Studies Unit, Community Volunteers from Diyarbakr,Eskiehir, Adana and stanbul and AEGEE organized a Capacity Improvement Training with 20participants from stanbul.

White Hats project supported by Janssen-Cilag aiming to establish and develop communalrelations based on love, respect, tolerance and cooperation through raising awareness aboutsocial peace started in December 2009. During 2009-2010 periods the project reached 84

young community volunteers from 11 TOG Youth Organizations, 522 children, 110 parents in

6 cities. The total number of people profiting from the project- directly and indirectly - is

2894. On November and December, the projects Parent Seminars were finalized and 153parents were reached. With the involvement of local organizations, the project application

guide was revised in the evaluation meeting on October.

Solar Generation project, developed by TOG youth organizations with the contribution ofGreenpeace, has started in Diyarbakr, Trabzon, Eskiehir, Antalya, Kocaeli, stanbul and zmiras part of the Global Environment Fund- Small Grants Program run by the UNDP. Project

has been initiated in Diyarbakr, Trabzon, Eskiehir, Antalya, Kocaeli, stanbul and zmir. Witheach local organization in the seven cities composing 15 people, the overall number in theproject team totalled 105 people.

My School My Future, an education project aiming to promote school attendance andprevent drop out without diploma, started in March 2010. The project partners are ING

Bank, TOG andIstanbul Bilgi University Childrens Study Unit. Western Union also providesfinancial support to the My School My Future project. 117 community volunteers from 5

universities and 28 ING Bank employees took active role in this project and touched directly

and indirectly 928 children and 465 parents in 5 cities between March-June 2010.

Let the Tortum Cascade; Let Nature be Restored is held by Atatrk University TOG StudentClub to protect Tortum Cascade, that was announced as one of the 200 vulnerable ecologic

areas in the world in 2000. It is in the west corner of the Caucasus Ecologic Region. This

project was initiated on November 2010 with the support ofThe Life Plus Foundation Youth

Program. It aims to facilitate ecologic tourism in the Tortum Cascade and with the

cooperation of local administrations, public and civil society organizations and to increase

awareness both on local and national level.

The Think Purple! Project was implemented with stanbul Bilgi University Youth StudiesUnit by financial support of the Development Marketplace 2009 Competition, WorldBank. Within the Project activities, Anadolu, Erciyes, Gazi, Ege, Yldz, Kocaeli, Dokuz Eyll,Tokat, Samsun, Biga, Pamukkale TOG youth organizations monitored the gender equality at

their local TOG groups and also the foundation as well. Gender trainings were realized inKilis, zmir and at Pink House and Short Wave Youth Centers. Gender Equality Manual waspublished which contains the method of monitoring, the outputs and the training

programme.

The Magnifier to the Address project was implemented with the partnership of stanbulBilgi University Youth Studies Unit and NGO Training and Research Unit and by the financial

support of Delegation of the European Union to Turkey and National Endowment for

Democracy. Within the project, the local civil monitoring groups were formed in Adana,

Aksaray, Ankara, Edirne, Erzurum, Hatay, stanbul, zmir, Kars, Kilis, Kocaeli, Konya, Malatya,Mula, Samsun and Trabzon monitored the availability, accessibility, quality and efficiency of

youth services that must be provided for young people at the locals. In 2010, the localgroups monitored the services of youth centres of municipalities, European Union Offices of

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the universities/governorships, presidency of health, culture and sport at universities, youth

assemblies of city councils and dormitories and 171 monitoring visits were realized. It is

planning to prepare a report with the data from local monitoring visits and the report will be

shared with the related public bodies, NGOs and universities by a lobby marathon in Ankara.

A documentary, a final report and a project manual will be prepared.

TOG Assessment Study that aimed to realize the complementary impact of the TOG atnation-wide was published. The research was completed by the participation of 2.242 young

people from 73 cities and 117 universities and the TOG assessment on individual and social

development were measured. The research that is the output of the basis of existence,

mission and vision of TOG, was targeted to confirm at which fields and at what extents the

active participation to civil society creates a change on young people. The difference was

measured between volunteers and their peers by the time duration of two years.

TOG participated to The Strategic Paper on Social and Personal Development of Youthadvisory group meetings organized by the State Ministry responsible for Youth which aims

the development of a new youth structure in Turkey.

Faruk Nafiz zak, the State Minister responsible for Youth and his advisors visited TOG. Theopinions and suggestions about the developments in youth field were shared.

The institutional texts were published about Free and Democratic University, TheAccommodation Conditions of Young People at Dormitories and The Developments inAgenda Related to University Students.

TOG continues to be at the Advisory Council on Youth of the Council of Europe. 41 young people participated to the international training and youth exchange projects. TOG

as the sending, hosting and coordinating organization for European Voluntary Service (EVS)

continued to send young people through EVS. 23 young community volunteers had the

chance to do EVS. TOG assisted the realization of the Turkeys leg ofYEU Academy Project as a member of

international non governmantal youth organization Youth for Exchange andUnderstanding. Within the scope of the project non formal education trainings wereorganized by the trainers expert on the fields of media, new technologies and intercultural

dialogue in 5 countries Portugal, Cyprus, Estonia, Poland and Turkey. 18 young people

participated to the project from each country. Turkeys leg of the project realized in between17-20 June. A documentary film Road to Understanding was shot during the project.

TOG partnering with Uan Sprge and Heartland International provided 15 young leadersworking at the youth, environment, women civil society organizations to take part at the

exchange project From The Ground Up: Building Civil Society Organizations' Capacity toSucceed realized in Chicago and Washington between 7-27 April and also 15 young leadersfrom Chicago came to stanbul and Ankara between 15-22 october for the project.

4 young people have come to do EVS in TOG from Denmark, Italy, Spain and Latvia. 7 youngpeople interned at the International Relations Department from Germany, United States and

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In the Worlds oldest motor race Peking-Paris Rally, the rally drivers of Anadol A1; Ahmetngn and Erdal Tokcan, who raced for the Community Volunteers youth, brought thesecond prize to Turkey. Within the context of Give Way to Education Project to supportthe fellowships of the youth Community Volunteers, Ahmet ngn and Erdal Tokcan passedthe way from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. With this Project, the 4 years fellowships of

76 university students were paid. The Peking-Paris Rally Project, which is arranged since 103years, today stil takes attention of the international public as being in the most interesting

organisations. Anadol, which is the car that raced for the Give Way to Education Project inthis organization, is maintained with the support of the main sponsor lker, and thesponsors: Ford Otosan, Otoko, Pressan, eta, Eresinler, Gantek, Mart, Claude Nahum,Akbank, Lassa, Garanti Bank, Yap Kredi, Adios, Akkk, Blackout, Borusan Holding, CalyonBank, Deniz Bank, Finans Bank, Dominos Pizza, Eczacba, Bank, Karadeniz Holding,Kumport, Migros, Pegasus, TAV, Alcatel-Lucent, Remondis, iecam, Serdar Bostanc, Dita,R2D2, Jingleturk and Classic Automobile Club. All the earnings from the sponsors and project

were donated to the Community Volunteers.

In the TOG Bazaar organization, 250.000 TL resource was purchased for the projects of theCommunity Volunteers. The organization was in Esma Sultan Mansion in May, 2010. Eighty-

six associations had fairstead in the organization and they show their products over 1500

visitors.

Heartfelt Conversations were arranged by the Community Volunteers and Yap KrediCrystal Card to support the social responsibility projects of the youth and all precede was

moved into the Community Volunteers. Heartfelt Conversations hosted many importantguests in the year 2010.

Arzu Kaproladvertised her Re-Fine 2011 Spring-Summer Collection in Paris Fashion Weekand after that she introduced her new collection in stanbul to the advantage of ComunityVolunteers youth in Pera Palace, stanbul. The special designs of the Re -Fine Collection weresold in auction and the income was donated to the Community Volunteers.

In the campaign of "Young People in Community Service", which had began in 2005, 22associations supported the projects of Community Volunteers with their regular monthly

contribution in the year 2010.

Personal Support Campaign Valuing The Young People was started in 2010 by CommunityVolunteers. This Campaign provides an alternative social network, supports individual

development of youth, provide self declare opportunity to the youth even outside the school

with the lifelong learning approach and enable them to have self life practice.Within the

context of this campaign, individual contributors made difference in life of a young person

with 280 TL in a year. They support the youth in being more successful in self Express, more

self-confident, and active citizens, who is taking initiative in problem solving. In the year

2010, 548 young people were supported by Valuing The Young People Campaign.

In the year 2010, 433 news in the print media, 101 news in the visual media, 567 news in theelectronic media and totally 1101 news were published about Community Volunteers and its

projects. Besides, the activities of the Community Volunteers were shared with the

community by using different TV and radio programs.


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1 JANUARY 31 DECEMBER 2010 INCOME EXPENDITURE STATEMENT (TL)

INCOMEPERIOD INCOME 6.980.905DONATIONS 1.834.187

RESTRICTED PROJECT DONATIONS 1.218.741

CONDITIONAL FUNDS 111.088

SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS 1.712.620

IN-KIND DONATIONS 545.511

INTEREST INCOME 435.804

TURNING FUNDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 1.105.976

OTHER INCOME 16.978

TOTAL INCOME 6.980.905

EXPENDITURE

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE 562.072

PURPOSIVE EXPENDITURE 5.170.037

OTHER EXPENDITURE 10.928

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 5.743.037

PERIOD INCOME SURPLUS 1.237.868

TURNING RESTRITED FUNDS 186.088

TURNING PROJECT AND SCHOLARSHIP FUND 1.051.780

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 6.980.905

Audition: All the expenses of TOG are audited by an international independent audit company

Mazars-Denge.

TOG's Expenditure

Administrative Expenditure* Purposive Expenditure**

2008 %7 %93

2009 %9 %91

2010 %10 %90

* The legal maximum rate for administrative costs is 33%.

**The legal minimum rate for purposive costs is 67 %.

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