{"id":8011,"date":"2014-02-03T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/2014\/02\/03\/blind-masseurs-win-ngo-of-the-year-award__trashed\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:30:42","slug":"blind-masseurs-win-ngo-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heakodanik.ee\/en\/news\/blind-masseurs-win-ngo-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Masseurs Win NGO of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\t\t<strong>The Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations (NENO) has awarded the NGO prizes of 2013, with the Union of Blind Masseurs winning the top prize.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Union of Blind Masseurs, formed on the initiative of people with visual disabilities 15 years ago, has changed society&#039;s perceptions of visually impaired people and has actively included them in the job market,<a href=\"http:\/\/uudised.err.ee\/v\/eesti\/8cca2f34-d663-4f26-9dd2-262d3e8111c1\" target=\"_blank\">uudised.err<\/a>&nbsp;reported NENO saying on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNENO and Parliament Speaker Ene Ergma presented the awards today.&nbsp;The title of the NGO of the Year comes with a 5,000-euro award from the National Foundation of Civil Society.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAmong other individuals and organizations honored, Jaan Aps received the mission award for his longtime work in increasing the influence of NGOs, and Vahur T&otilde;nissoo was recognized for his efforts to find the best solutions for Rail Baltica in terms of planning and local communities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe co-operation between the community of Paide, the city government, the J&auml;rva county government and volunteers to organize the Paide Opinion Festival was named Act of the Year. According to NENO, this kind of co-operation sets an example to other organizers of major events and ensures the continued existence of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe award for Public Authority of the Year went to the Tartu City Government for its &quot;bold&quot; experiment with participatory budgeting where voters decided at referendum how to spend 1 percent of the city&#039;s budget. The Entrepreneur of the Year is Reet Aus, who demonstrated how to successfully combine passion and social responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNENO has been giving awards to people and organizations that contribute to civil society since 1996. Nominations can be made by anyone, and winners are selected by NENO&#039;s supervisory board.<\/p>\n<p>\n\thttp:\/\/news.err.ee\/v\/society\/4928e2c4-9d1e-479b-bac6-71e59b281c73<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations (NENO) has awarded the NGO prizes of 2013, with the Union of Blind Masseurs winning the top prize.&nbsp; The Union of Blind Masseurs, formed on the initiative of people with visual disabilities 15 years ago, has changed society&#039;s perceptions of visually impaired people and has actively included them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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