The goals of the Fund are set by the Council 

The Council comprises between seven and nine members. It is composed of MPs and Senators, as well as experts in the filed of development cooperation.
Chairperson and members of the Council are appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Chairperson of the Council

The Council is chaired by the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for development cooperation.

The Management Board

The Management Board is in charge of day-to-day activities of the Fund. Members of the Management Board are appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in consultation with the Council, for a three-year term of office.

Reports

Every year the Fund presents a report on the implementation of development cooperation tasks to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Sejm (lower house of the Polish Parliament).

Jakub Wiśniewski – Chairman of the SFPL Council

Marcin Bosacki

Maciej Konieczny

Anna Radwan-Röhrenschef

Krzysztof Stanowski

Konrad Szymański

Robert Tyszkiewicz

Aleksandra Wiśniewska

Maciej Żywno

Photo: Kasia Dobosz

Justyna Janiszewska – President of the Management Board

Justyna Janiszewska has been involved in the NGO sector for over twenty years. Prior to joining SFPL, she was a management board member and executive director of the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission for more than eight years. Previously, she worked for ten years at the Education for Democracy Foundation (FED) – one of the leading Polish NGOs working in the former USSR. From 2007 to 2016, she headed the RITA – Region in Transition grant-making program there, as well as other regranting projects of the Foundation, having been the CEO from 2010 to 2016. From 2003 to 2006, she was secretary of the Zagranica Group – a coalition of Polish organizations operating abroad, and later served on the management board of this organization from 2008 to 2014. She cooperated with the One World Association, the School of Leaders Association or the Stefan Batory Foundation, among others, and served on the management board of the Amnesty International Association and on the council of the Leaders of Change Foundation.  

Ms. Janiszewska received a Master’s degree in Political Science with specialization in international relations from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and a Bachelor’s degree in Management, as well as the Executive MBA diploma from the Kozminski University. Alumna of the School of Human Rights of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, the Management Program NGO PROMENGO and the IVLP – International Visitor Leadership Program of the U.S. Department of State. Justyna is a qualified trainer in Polish, English, and Russian, conducting workshops in the areas of global education, international cooperation, and project management. Awarded with the Golden Coss of Merit.  

Photo: Małgorzata Bujnik

Teresa Zagrodzka – Member of the Management Board

Teresa Zagrodzka is a graduate of the University of Warsaw and postgraduate studies at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in the field of audit, management control and accounting. She has been involved in the non-governmental sector for over 30 years. She worked, among others, for the Batory Foundation, the Foundation for Social and Economic Initiatives, the Academy of Civic Organizations Foundation, the Klon/Jawor Association, the Shipyard Foundation, the Civis Polonus Foundation. She was a member of the board of the Foundation for Poland (1997-2001), the Foundation of Integration (2007-2010) and the Empowering Children Foundation (2021-2023). 

In 2017-2021, she participated in the creation and implementation of innovative financial instruments: social impact bonds and social venture capital (the Social and Economic Investment Company) and social franchising (FRSO). She was also an expert in programmes for building a support structure and preparing the legal environment (legislative work) for social enterprises in North Macedonia (2016 – 2024).

She has many years of experience in grant programmes, including those related to educational initiatives and the development of civil society (m.in. regranting for non-governmental organisations in Ukraine), or in social entrepreneurship support programmes. She has cooperated with various stakeholders, including representatives of local governments, government institutions, universities, banks and business. She has worked in an international environment, among others with organisations from the USA (the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation), France (Fondation de France, Association Solidarite France Pologne), Great Britain (Shaw Trust), Slovenia and Macedonia.

Ms. Zagrodzka is an expert in the financial management of NGOs and social enterprises, a financial analyst, author of publications on the finance of social innovation and in the NGO sector, advisor and trainer.