The intention of the Fred Foundation is to inspire a more functional, balanced and caring society. It aims to stimulate people to be self-reliant and contribute to sense of ‘self-responsAbility’. Our projects are based on mutual co-existence through sharing and caring, rather than a society of competition and inequality.
The Fred Foundation offers co-funding for projects that are proposed by inspired individuals and organizations. With financial support, the StartFund aims to contribute to the empowerment of people. The focus of the StartFund’s support is on projects in the fields of healthcare, care for nature & environment and community care.
StartFund was founded in 1996 with the aim to offer individuals and organizations co-funding for inspiring creative small scale projects at the grassroots level. The projects range from the field of healthcare to the fields of community work and environment. The aim of StartFund is to empower people through the realization of these projects. The co-funding aspect is important as the project initiators are stimulated to take responsibility in finding the remaining funds when their project is approved by StartFund. Until so far StartFund Netherlands has co-funded over 200 projects worldwide.
The updated and revised UK paperback edition is available from March 2009, launched in London, UK alongside the second series of 'Rediscover Your Heart Awards' for inspiring and empowering projects for and by young people. For more details see: www.rediscoveryourheart.org
Other foreign language editions are also in progress.
Fred's book is 'Rediscover Your Heart', published by Findhorn Press. The US hardback edition was launched in New York in July 2008.
In honour of the memory of Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova some exciting new awards for young people are being launched in Moscow this month. A series of awards of 70,000 RUB are being offered forcommunity-based, humanitarian, environmental, educational or health-orientated and heart-warming projects created by young people in the Russian Federation that aim to empower, inspire and bring smiles to peoples’ faces. These Rediscover Your Heart (RYH) Awards have been created by Dutch humanitarian and philanthropist, Fred Matser, to support young people and their initiatives towards creating a more functional society. The awards are named after Matser’s book Rediscover Your Heart which aims to inspire positive changes in the world.
The Raisa Gorbachev Memorial REDISCOVER YOUR HEART AWARDS for the inspiration and empowerment of young people The Moscow Times, 21 September 2009
