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Long believing in the benefits of giving, AVAST Software has offered quality-driven award-winning computer security software for FREE since 2001.
Following in our tradition of giving, In 2010 we established the AVAST Foundation in order to provide significant support for organizations in the Czech Republic that provide support to those who suffer from poor health or are in some other way disadvantaged, as well as to support the development of culture and education in technical fields. In 2011, we gave a total of 17,244,794 Kč (about $1 million USD) to organizations leading such projects, which included Domov Sue Ryder, Prazsky Studentsky Orchestra, MAMMA HELP, and more.
AVAST Foundation does not fund political parties or campaigns; legislative lobbying; or churches (but some exceptions may be made for religious organizations).
AVAST Foundation may take up to three months to reply to your application and will reply to the same email address which sent the application request to us.
AVAST Foundation reserves the right to reject any and/or all applicants based on its discretion.
Applications must be submitted in Czech or English to nadace@avast.comSeptember 2012
AVAST Foundation recognized by Via Bona Award nomination
The VIA BONA Award for Philanthropy is given under the sponsorship of the Embassy of the United States and the prestigious award goes to both individuals and corporations in acknowledgement of their charitable efforts. It annually highlights inspiring examples of donating, points out new trends in philanthropy, and works as a “lighthouse” that guides and inspires all present and potential donors. AVAST Foundation was nominated in the category of large companies for 2012.
A sample of organizations that have received our support.
The center helps patients with spinal injuries to adapt to a new lifestyle and supports the development of their physical and mental condition to help them return to the independent life under natural conditions. AVAST Foundation contributed to sports programs organized by Centrum Paraple.
The charity operates the Hospice, which helps terminally ill patients and their families. Patients are provided with a complete palliative care and treatment that is aimed at improving their quality of life.
Gaudia proti rakovině is a civic association providing psychotherapy, social services, and support services to patients diagnosed with cancer, as well as support for their loved ones.
ALKA provides care and services to multiple disabled persons and their families. Besides the psychotherapy it includes also the social rehabilitation and self-care training. The Foundation has provided funds for equipment for the special intensive therapy center ADELI.
Dum Tri Prani provides assistance to families with children that are facing many problems, have a temporary crisis, or find themselves in difficult social situations. AVAST Foundation provided operating funds for administrative support facilities.
The hospice offers medical, social, and psychotherapeutic care of terminally ill patients and their families at their homes, so that they can spend the last days of their lives at home with dignity, surrounded by their loved ones.
The organization provides social services to people with mental disabilities and works with them to expand their options through sheltered housing, supported employment, and day service centers.
The organization provides assistance to people with disabilities who want to work and lead a socially active life.
Charter 77 Foundation is the project account through which Bariery has supported thousands of projects since 1992. These projects are aimed at improving handicapped people’s lives and their full participation in society. AVAST Foundation participated in supporting four projects: sports without barriers, assistance to immigrants, personal assistance support, and SENSEN (a program for seniors).
This civic association helps provide a dignified life for people with severe disabilities. They live in houses on barrier-free streets in Prague and surrounding areas.
The organization uses hippotherapy to help children with musculoskeletal disorders and multiple disabilities, in order to improve their mental and physical development.
This civic association supports those who find themselves in difficult life situations that can’t be solved without help. Support is provided through financial collections, which are published on the website of the association. AVAST Foundation contributed to the treatment of six autistic children.
This charity and humanitarian organization of the Sovereign Order of Knights of Malta focuses its activities on helping a wide range of subjects – old and abandoned people, children, wheelchair users, and people with multiple disabilities, prisoners, citizens affected by natural disasters, etc.
This association is for parents and friends of handicapped children in Czech Republic. AVAST Foundation contributed to personal assistance services.
The association helps with animal-assisted therapy and hippotherapy for individuals and organizations such as medical institutions, retirement homes, hospices, or orphanages.
This association helps psychiatric patients by protecting the rights of the mentally ill, as well as improving their lives.
Prosaz provides personal assistance, day care, and home care for people with disabilities.
Anabell offers help and support to people affected by or at risk from eating disorders, to solve problems related to improper diet.
Hewer provides personal assistance to seniors and other people with physical, sensory, or mental disabilities.
Cheiron is a community center for children and young people, mostly of Roma origin, who are in a difficult situation.
The organization provides social services such as social counseling, nursing services, personal assistance, and other support.
This organization deals mainly with training and supplying dogs for people with disabilities, but also assists with active employment for the disabled, with education and educational activities.
The company's mission is supporting active and dignified lives for the elderly in Czech Republic, through visits, outpatient and other social services and counseling. AVAST Foundation contributed to the equipment and materials for home care nursing.
The center helps vulnerable families and young people through social and community work that contributes toward functional civil society in Roudnice nad Labem and its surroundings. AVAST Foundation contributed to the realization of low-threshold facilities for children.
The center provides outpatient social services in the Karlovy Vary region. It offers comprehensive technical support to clients with severe multiple disabilities or autism spectrum disorder.
This association assists people after brain injury, as well as their families. AVAST Foundation contributed toward rehabilitation devices.
Street work is the professional organization representing individuals and legal entities operating in the low-threshold social services. AVAST Foundation contributed to the project "Street work online."
The organization is an active member of the Association of Workers in Early Intervention, which associates professionals working in early care and advocates for the maintenance and development of industry and services. AVAST Foundation participated on the purchase of a vehicle for field services.
Rozmar is restaurant in Prague operated by non-profit organization Rosemary, which is the first social firm in the Czech Republic set up to employ young people upon their leaving an orphanage.
The association was founded to help children and young people not only in difficult situations, but also with their everyday worries and problems. AVAST Foundation contributed to the operation of the organization.
The organization helps disabled people toward self-sufficiency and teaches them how to assert themselves in the labor market. AVAST Foundation contributed to the provision of project documentation for a building permit for the Centre Monastery, which will become a center of comprehensive services for persons with disabilities, as well as seniors and the public, after its reconstruction.
The organization is part of the civic association Náruč (Armful) in Řevnice, which operates a day care center for children and youth. AVAST Foundation contributed to new equipment for the Café.
The society supports people with mental disabilities by providing assistance and day care and organizing therapeutic, recreational, social integration, and other programs for severely disabled children. AVAST Foundation supported the project "a full life for families with a handicapped child."
The center focuses on improving the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families. AVAST Foundation supported the project "We want to live at home."
This association for handicapped children provides assistance and a day care center for disabled children. AVAST Foundation contributed to rehabilitation equipment and assistive devices.
The group focuses its activities mainly on the lonely, disabled, socially excluded, or otherwise disadvantaged people. AVAST Foundation supported a program for homeless people in the capital city of Prague.
The association helps young people with disabilities to integrate into society and creates job opportunities for them. AVAST Foundation supported the project "I work, therefore I am."
This equestrian club provides horse riding to young people and disabled youth, with special horses trained for hippotherapy, and also trains horses for this purpose.
The organization provides social, health, and educational services to those who – due to age, disability, or other threat – have come into an unfavorable situation. AVAST Foundation contributed to the construction and installation of lifts for the disabled in newly built workrooms.
The company provides professional rehabilitation services for persons with visual impairment. AVAST Foundation contributed toward those social rehabilitation services.
AVAST Foundation contributed to the modernization of a house for barrier-less entrance.
The group provides social therapeutic workshops and facilities for outpatient services that are designed for people with reduced autonomy because of a disability.
Dolly runs charitable activities in social, humanitarian, professional social counseling, and other support areas. The association focuses its activities on helping disabled people, seniors, and others with conditions different from the majority of society.
The group comprises the largest children's psychiatric hospital in the Czech Republic. AVAST Foundation contributed to equipping the hospital with therapeutic (relaxation) zones for discharge of aggression.
Inzulínek unites families with diabetic children, mostly from the regions of Olomouc and Zlín. AVAST Foundation contributed to the operation of a summer camp, where children with diabetes – in addition to playful fun – also learn about their disease and its needs, all under the watchful supervision of physicians.
FAKULTNI NEMOCNICE OLOMOUC is a university hospital, dedicated to a full spectrum of patient treatment. With more than 1,400 beds, it is the largest hospital in the region. AVAST Foundation contributed toward monitoring equipment for improving the care of children with acute diabetes.
AVAST Foundation contributed to the participation of men in the tournament and their advance to the summer Olympic Games.
The sports club organizes events for club members and their families, introducing new wheelchair users to sports, and supports the participation of the club representation in sports competitions – local, professional, and international.
AVAST Foundation supported the holding of the 18th Championship in wheelchair table tennis in Ostrava.
The educational program One World at Schools offers schools a documentary film and accompanying teaching aids to teach modern history and current world topics.
AVAST Foundation is committed to long-term education project for orphans and independent farmers in Ethiopia for this humanitarian organization, which focuses on assisting in crisis areas and promoting respect for human rights worldwide.
AVAST Foundation contributed to the annual festival of documentary films focused on human rights.
CISV is a unique, independent, apolitical, non-profit, and volunteer organization that annually provides many children and young people a way to meet new friends, make contacts at the international level, and look under the surface of different cultures.
CVUT provides support for promising students, their research activities, and student projects within the group 3SG, under the Department of Computer Science.
AVAST Foundation provided support to the youth orchestra summer camp held in August 2012 in Litomysl.
This association’s main purpose is to create an archive of significant performances in order to preserve the memory of the theatre for future generations and those who are not allowed to visit personally. AVAST Foundation contributed to a program that preserves performances of Theatre University students.
This educational and cultural center provides modern amenities for the elderly. AVAST Foundation supported a united project with the rock band Please The Trees and the seniors choir Elpida.
AVAST Foundation contributed to the meeting of chamber music and performance courses for talented musicians in Litomysl in 2012.
AVAST Foundation supported a concert of classical music in the Salvator church in Prague in March 2012.
CTU is a technical university that welcomes and supports wide humanitarian interests, including music. AVAST Foundation supported the project "Meeting with the music."
AVAST Foundation supported Berg, a young band that provides attractive new projects, with its emphasis on contemporary music and music of the 20th century, and combines it with theater, film, dance, visual arts, etc.
Thespis publishes theater plays on VHS and DVD and supports the IUVENTA program – joint project of Thespis and DAMU (academy of theatre arts), the aim of which is to record the performances staged at academy theatre DISK.
Český svaz pozemního hokeje, known internationally as the Czech Hockey Association, holds qualification tournaments for the Czech Hockey Team’s involvement in the Olympic Games.
Matematika s chutí is a project initiated by professionals from the field of pedagogy and mathematics and produced under the auspices of the Institute of Social and Economic analyzis. The goal of this project is the quality and attractiveness in teaching mathematics, with a focus on students in primary schools.
Útulek pro psy Modřany is a dog shelter that, rather than using traditional locked pens, provides a ‘family environment’ to small and non-aggressive dogs.
Středisko vodících psů is part of a united organization for the blind and visually impaired and dedicates itself to education and training of guide dogs for those who are visually impaired.
Stodola is a joint project of an evangelical choir and the company Fokus Vysočina Havlíčkův Brod, aimed at reconstructing an old barn as a therapeutic workshop for mentally ill clients, as well as a creative space for exhibitions and educational programs for the general public.
Sportovní klub vozíčkářů is a civic association that creates conditions for disabled people – especially those in wheelchairs – to participate in sporting activities. AVAST Foundation contributed toward personal assistance for year 2012.
Dobrý skutek is a civic association supporting those in difficult life situations. AVAST Foundation contributed to the treatment of two autistic children.
Apropo Jičín is a civic association that helps families with disabled children by providing personal assistance and day care, as well as support for parents and caregivers, so that the people involved can develop as normal a life as possible.
Caballinus is a civic organization providing hippotherapy, or equine therapy, as part of a long-term rehabilitation strategy for improving the quality of life for disadvantaged children.
Programátorská soutěž is the “Central European Regional Contest” (CERC) for programming, organized by Czech ACM Chapter ICPC.
Hospice Cesta Domu provides professional care for terminally ill patients and ongoing support for their families, and as well contributes to societal changes designed to improve conditions for care.
Oliver Matous Stanislav (individual) was born with severe disabilities, which among other areas affected motor skills, included acid reflux, and required a special diet and cranio-sacral therapy.
ALKA o.p.s. helps people with severe physical disabilities, providing physiotherapy that is linked with social rehabilitation as a daily self-care routine. AVAST Foundation sponsored an intensive-therapy center for immobilized patients.
Spolecnost DUHA provides assisted-living, employment services, and professional development in ‘ordinary’ settings, to help adults with intellectual disabilities to function with dignity.
Dum Tri Prani is dedicated to the establishment and operation of shelters for children with immediate critical needs, as well as comprehensive professional services to families in crisis. AVAST Foundation covered costs of daily administrative operations.
Cerveny Kostelec/Hospic Anezky Ceske offers comprehensive care for terminally ill patients and their relatives, as well as equipment services for use in the home environment.
MAMMA HELP counsels victims of breast cancer, to relieve (via empathy gained from personal experience) the emotional shock of diagnosis and treatment. AVAST Foundation purchased special Nordic walking poles for the autumn Walking to Health event and for daily patient use thereafter.
Paraple Centrum helps victims of spinal cord injuries adapt to their new way of life, providing support for both a physical and mental return toward self-sufficiency in their natural environments. AVAST Foundation contributed to sports programs organized for disabled children.
POHODA assists the needs of people with mental or physical disabilities, so that they may live more normal, self-sufficient lives – with dignity. Services include help with housing and day programs.
FAKULTNI NEMOCNICE OLOMOUC is a university hospital, dedicated to a full spectrum of patient treatment. With more than 1,400 beds, it is the largest hospital in the region. AVAST Foundation contributed toward monitoring equipment for improving the care of children with acute diabetes.
Vseobecna Fakultni Nemocnice v Praze delivers a full range of medical, nursing, outpatient, and diagnostic care, including complex care to children with perinatal disabilities. AVAST Foundation contributed toward technical equipment for the newly opened center for perinatal disabilities.
Nadace Charty 77 sponsors cultural activities, supports human rights for people with disabilities, and backs health-related projects that include innovative technologies for health-care facilities. AVAST Foundation participates in four long-term projects: Sports Without Barriers, Help to Immigrants, Help for Personal Assistance, and SENSEN – the Great Seniors.
Obcanske Sdruzeni Pod Kridly assists young people from socially disadvantaged families, or who have grown up in orphanages or foster care, to develop skills for an independent life. AVAST Foundation contributed toward technical and IT equipment necessary for daily operations.
Prazsky Studentsky Orchestra brings together young musicians with the most promising talent in the performing arts, providing tutelage and opportunities to perform and develop professionally. AVAST Foundation sponsored concerts in Bremen and Prague.
Gaudia proti rakovine is a civic organization providing psychotherapeutic and social services and support to cancer patients and their families.
Asistence is an organization that provides support services to people with multiple physical disabilities and assists them with employment and active inclusion in society.
Oblastni Charita Vyskov is a charity organization that provides social, health, and humanitarian support. AVAST Foundation contributed to the purchase of a car for recipients of a social integration program.
Klub vozickaru (Wheelchair Club) Petyrkova is a civic association that helps severely disabled people to live in barrier-free houses on Petyrkova Street in Prague, to help them toward living more dignified and fulfilling lives.
Domov Sue Ryder, Praha provides care and support to seniors who are, due to age or illness, dependent on the assistance of others.
Strasnicke divadlo is the only repertory theater in Prague district 10 and thus the only stage for over 110,000 inhabitants. AVAST Foundation contributed to remodeling the theater, including the installation of more comfortable seating.
Trutnov Gymnasium (high school) uses Devin Cottage, in Krkonose National Park, for students’ studies in nature and ecology. AVAST Foundation supported the water treatment plant at the cottage, without which the cottage would have had to close.
Česká hudební splečnost is an institute that produces Czech musical concerts and related endeavors. AVAST Foundation sponsored the 2011 summer camp for young musicians in Litomysl – hometown of 19th Century composer Bedrich Smetana.
Človek v tísni (People In Need) is a humanitarian organization that assists people in crisis and conflicts areas, with its goal to protect human rights globally. AVAST Foundation is participating in the long-term project One World in Schools.
AVAST Foundation also contributed to help provided for famine and drought stricken people in Somalia.
Additionally, AVAST Foundation is participating in a long-term educational project for small farmers and orphans in Ethiopia.
Ochotnické divadlo Jablonský Jindřichův Hradec is an amateur theatre group. AVAST Foundation sponsored a representative tour for Czechs in Ireland, with a photo exhibit at the Czech Embassy in Dublin and cooperation with an Irish teachers and actors club.
Martina Břeňová
Manager
Email brenova@avast.com
Jarmila Baudišová
Board of Trustees Chairwoman
Milada Kučerová
Board of Trustees
Libuše Tomolová
Board of Trustees
