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From: CEEBP <ceebp@wxs.nl
Subject: letter of inquiry
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:15:09 +0200

Amsterdam, 4 August 1999


Dear editors

Some of you have been in contact with us for a few years. Nevertheless we
will briefly introduce ourselves.
The Amsterdam-based Fund for Central and East European Book Projects
(CEEBP) was established in 1992 and assists publishers in Central and
Eastern Europe, facing the transition to democracy and market economy. To
this end, CEEBP awards grants for the publication of quality books and
periodicals and supports projects aimed at improving the infrastructure of
publishing.

In the past few years CEEBP has received several requests for support from
cultural magazines aimed at a young reading public active in the field of
culture and sciences. So far only few of them were granted a subsidy
because the CEEBP lacked the financial means and sometimes the concept of a
journal did not fit in with our current grants scheme. Judging from the
proposals that were sent to us from Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and
Yugoslavia, there seem to be a lot of similarities: founded not less than 5
years ago, young editorial board, interest in new western movements in arts
and culture but also lack of financial means, a poor reading public (mainly
students), little or no government support, rejected by the official
establishment.

The CEEBP would like to help strenghtening the position of these journals
by developing a programme that does not include financial support alone.
Workshops on practical matters such as management and fundraising, mutual
exchange of experiences and establishing links with Western and
Eastern-European journals might be part of such a project.

Since we do not want to impose any activities, we would like to hear your
opinion. Please tell us what suggestions you have besides financial support
that could help your journal to improve, grow and survive in the long term.

As soon as a first inventory is made a short survey will be written and
sent to you all for comments. Only after the project proposal is clearly
defined the CEEBP can start to raise funds. We would like to stress that
this letter is no guarantee for support to any of the journals mentioned
below (please indicate if you have regular contact with any of these
journals). If you do not wish to be part of such an initiative, let us
know.

We look forward to your reply,




Sophie Leferink
Deputy Director




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Fund for Central and East European Book Projects
(CEEBP)
Jan van Goyenkade 5
1075 HN Amsterdam
tel. +31 (0) 20 6760222
fax. +31 (0) 20 6752231
email: ceebp@wxs.nl
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