The BLÍŽKSOBĚ Foundation celebrated its first anniversary with the arrival of Christmas, which is another reason why we feel that this is the right time to look back and assess our work. Now we would like to briefly share some of these moments with you. In the first year of our activity we signed almost 50 contracts to grant endowments and thus created or deepened 50 relationships based on mutual trust and the belief in a better society. We refused about 130 applications – we are still learning to say no and when we do so, we do it with great gratitude and humility as in this way we manage to extend the scope of what we do not want and get ever CLOSER to what we really WANT. We created a good website, which defines us more in relation to the world around us and we are happy we can rely on strategic pillars for the field of supporting the civic society and education. We have found our path and are happy that we can walk along it – also thanks to you, our guides… Thanks for what you do and we are glad we can be with you during this.. We are sure about one thing – we have chosen the proper name of our foundation – BLÍŽKSOBĚ (CLOSER TO EACH OTHER) – we like learning and observing the progress of individual projects; we are happy about our ability to link supported organizations. It has been an enormous enrichment for us – to be with you, to get CLOSER to each other in this way and even to get to know ourselves better through meetings – BEING CLOSER TO ONESELF. We wish you a peaceful and relaxed Christmas, full of happy times and that you enjoy life in the new year; we wish you good health as well as the courage to make your dreams come true…. Yours faithfully, Marcela Murgašová and Hana Hradská for the whole BLÍŽKSOBĚ team