Endownment Fund

Endowment Fund

The purpose of the endowment fund

Development of the legacy of Terezín composers, Gustav Mahler, and other composers, especially through live performances as well as competitions, conferences, awards, research, publications, seminars, workshops, theatre, art activities, and so on.
Promotion of the art of music, in particular the organization of the EVERLASTING HOPE festival and all accompanying activities. Promotion of artistically valuable music, European classical music, and European cultural values.
Support for young artists, budding musicians and young people interested in culture, support for the access of disadvantaged people in society to cultural values.

The statutory body of the endowment fund is the board of directors, the members of which are:

Dr. Martina Jankovská

The co-founder of the Everlasting Hope Festival has been a member of the board of the Everlasting Hope Endowment Fund since 2020. She is a lawyer and has been running her own law firm ExIure since 2014. She previously worked with international law firms in Brno and Prague. She is the author of professional publications and has helped popularize the law.

Ing. Michal Stachník

Since 2015, he has been the CEO of Cisco Systems for the Czech Republic and since 2016 also for Slovakia. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the IT business. In 2019, he was elected a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce. He studied Computer Science at the Brno University of Technology.

Arnošt Polák

He has been working with the festival since the very beginning and became a member of the board of directors in 2022. He is currently studying at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and the Faculty of Science of Charles University, where he has been a student senator since 2023.