How you can help

The IIRE is an active institute, which is proud of its achievements. We want to expand our activities, which we feel are badly needed in the present world situation. We invite everybody who agrees with our aims to help us with the further development of our project, financially or through other forms. Founded in Belgium, we were officially recognized as an international scientific foundation by a Royal Decree of 11 June 1981. Contributions to our work are tax-deductible in several countries, for example in the US through the Centre for Changes International Fund.

Compared to other similar institutions, we carry out our work with an absurdly low budget. We receive no government subsidies. No money is spent on high staff salaries, public relations or luxurious meals or accomodations for participants. Everything is done with a minimal staff, with unpaid international Fellows and volunteers who often pay all or part of their fares to and from Amsterdam, and with the labour contributed by the participants themselves. We could not have launched and maintained t he IIRE without the help of many people: not just donors, but the many volunteers who have come from several countries to help with painting, repairs, and electrical work.

The International brigade

We are also grateful to the friends who have left their libraries to us in their wills; and particularly our lecturers, translators and interpreters, many of whom wholly or partly donate their services. This multi-faceted help will be as essential in the next century as it has been in our first two decades. If you can help in any of these ways, please contact us. Despite these contributions, the Institute costs money. We need money for plane fares: plane fares from the Third World must more and more often be completely covered by the Institute. We need money for our building, which though beautiful is old. We have carried out major renovations and improvements in recent years, but more are needed....

Emergency repairs

Our new roof

1999: The Year of the (Expensive) Infrastructure

We also need money for food (although participants cook for themselves during their stays). We need money for gas, water, light, heat, property taxes, photocopying, phone calls.... In recent years we have benefited from the support of Germany's Jakob Moneta Stiftung, Canada's Kimeta Society and Sweden's Tom Gustafsson Memorial Fund, as well as from generous legacies in one or two wills. But regular, annual, individual donations remain crucial to our survival. We confront simultaneously a rise in costs and a struggle to find new donations. We are doing our part to breathe new life into hope and faith in the future. But we can only do it with new sources of financial support: we must acquire new donors if the Institute is to maintain and expand its work. We rely on your help.

Donations can be made to the institute by:

• Making a giro or bank transfer to Netherlands Postbank account no. 2079557, in the name of IIRE, Amsterdam. For international transfers you will need our International Bank Code (IBC) - PSTBNL21 - and International Bank Account Number (IBAN): NL30PSTB0002079557. For transfers inside the euro zone, indicating "shared costs" should ensure the lowest possible bank charges.
• Mailing a US check (tax-deductible), made out to "Center for Changes" and earmarked "International Fund-IIRE", to us in Amsterdam.
• In Germany, you can make a tax-deductible contribution via a giro or bank transfer to the Jakob Moneta Stiftung, account number 90800 004, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, Bankleitzahl 500 500 00, earmarked "IIRE".
• In Switzerland, making a giro or bank transfer to 40-8888-1, COOP Bank, 266233.290005-6, Förderverein des Studienzentrums, earmarked "E. Mandel/IIRE".

Thank you for your past and future support!