Philanthropy Europe Association

EU Legislative Interests

Company law legislation/ECBA/28th regime Civil Society Strategy Social Economy Action Plan VAT Directive Tax policy New AML Package EU SNRA Rule of Law report Implementation of Article 11 TEU Freedom of capital MFF / InvestEU Taxonomy Competition law / State Aid / Public procurement Defense of Democracy Package / Democracy Shield Charter of Fundamental Rights Global Gateway

Communication Activities

Position papers, press releases, meeting reports and publications online at http://www.philea.eu Key policy engagement events of foundations/philanthropic organizations with policy makers: annual EuroPhilantopics most recent one in December 2025 and next one in December 2026 - increased dialogue among philanthropy/foundation sector and European Commission DGs (DG INTPA/DG EMPL/DG CONNECT/DG RTD etc) Implementing Philanthropy Manifesto campaign with 4 key policy asks (1. Empower philanthropy, 2. facilitate cross-border philanthropy, 3. engage with philanthropy and 4. partner with philanthropy) Joining wider Civil Society and social economy partner asks Contributions to consultations: Single Market/Savings and Investment Union/Public Procurement/ Start up and scale up/European Civil Society Strategy/Social Economy Action Plan/ECBA/28th regime/MFF

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

• Social Economy Europe (SEE) is the EU-level representative institution for social economy. It was set up in November 2000 under the name of CEP-CMAF. SEE aims to promote social economy as a sector that produces both economic and social wealth, to promote the role and values of social economy actors throughout Europe, and to reinforce political and legal recognition of social economy and the cooperatives, associations, mutual societies and foundations at the European level. Philea is a board member http://www.socialeconomy.eu.org/ • Worldwide Initiatives from Grantmaker Support (WINGS) is a global network of more than 140 membership associations and support organisations serving grantmakers which was formally created in January 2000. Organisations have joined together to create opportunities to learn from and support one another, develop modes of communication and collaboration among themselves, and contribute to the strengthening of philanthropy worldwide. Philea is a board member http://www.wingsweb.org/ • European Charities Committee on VAT (ECCVAT) is a group of associations and charities that has come together to research the impact of VAT and other taxes on the work of NGOs and to make representations to the EU institutions. http://www.eccvat.org/ • Federation of European and International Associations established in Belgium (FAIB) is a non-profit, non-political association that promotes and defends the interests and activities of its Members https://faib.org/ We engage with the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) - https://ernop.eu and the International Society for Third Sector Research Founded in 1992, the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) is a major international association promoting research and education in the fields of civil society, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector http://www.istr.org/ We also collaborate with some European Civil Society networks such as Civil Society Europe https://civilsocietyeurope.eu and European Civic Forum https://civic-forum.eu as well as the European Fundraising Association (EFA) https://efa-net.eu

Organisation Members

We are a membership organisation and have a membership of more than 200 foundations philanthropic organisations and 27 national foundation and donor networks as well as a number associate members - more information about our membership can be accessed at https://philea.eu