Fundacja Miasto Kotów

Fundacja Miasto Kotów (FMK), whose name translates roughly as "City of Cats Foundation," is a Polish non-profit organization established in 2013 in Piotrków Trybunalski. It operates as a foundation (fundacja) with the stated mission of helping animals, improving their living conditions, and combating homelessness, with a particular focus on cats. The foundation is led by Dagmara Roszkowska, who has served as its president since its creation. The organization's core work centers on reducing cat homelessness and improving the welfare of free-living urban cats. It runs an adoption program supported by a network of temporary foster homes (domy tymczasowe), where animals awaiting adoption are housed. Between 2013 and 2020 the foundation completed 430 adoptions. It also promotes the idea of temporary foster care and helps organize networks of such homes. Beyond adoption, Fundacja Miasto Kotów engages in education and outreach. It conducts lessons and workshops for children and young people in schools and cultural institutions, gives lectures and workshops for adults on pet care, animal-protection law, and pre-veterinary first aid, and publishes brochures and leaflets distributed in public places around Piotrków Trybunalski. The foundation also provides diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation for injured or abandoned animals, and runs sterilization programs to limit animal populations. A distinctive area of activity is the care of city cats. The foundation works with social caretakers (so-called feeders) of free-living cats, organizes recurring campaigns to build and distribute cat shelters for urban cats free of charge, and offers legal advice on the rights and obligations of people who care for city cats. It also works to shape the urban ecosystem in a way that is friendly to free-living animals. In September 2016 the foundation obtained the status of a public benefit organization (organizacja pożytku publicznego, OPP), which allows taxpayers to direct 1% of their income tax to its statutory activities. Fundacja Miasto Kotów raises funds through a variety of channels, including the Patronite patronage platform, BLIK mobile transfers to a dedicated phone number, the ratujemyzwierzaki.pl donation platform, and affiliate shopping programs with partners such as Zooplus and Fanimani. It also collects clothing, accessories, and books for resale, receiving 50 groszy per kilogram for its cats. In 2012, before its formal registration, the initiative was a beneficiary of the social campaign "Mafia w sieci" organized by Charytatywni Allegro, which featured YouTube films with Polish actors and personalities.

Fundacja Miasto Kotów was established in 2013 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, as a foundation dedicated to animal welfare, with a special focus on cats. Its founding president, Dagmara Roszkowska, has led the organization since its inception. The foundation's stated goals are to help animals, improve their living conditions, and combat homelessness. Even before its formal registration, the initiative that would become Fundacja Miasto Kotów was a beneficiary of the social campaign "Mafia w sieci" in 2012. Organized by Charytatywni Allegro, the campaign encouraged support for the foundation's animals through a series of YouTube films featuring Polish actors and personalities including Piotr Cyrwus, Michał Czarnecki, Marcin Sztabiński, Piotr Bujnowski, Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Bohdan Łazuka, and Łukasz Jakóbik. From its early years, the foundation built its work around a network of temporary foster homes (domy tymczasowe), where rescued animals live while awaiting adoption. Between 2013 and 2020, the foundation completed a total of 430 adoptions. It also developed educational activities as one of its statutory goals, delivering lessons and workshops for children and youth in schools and cultural-educational institutions, lectures and workshops for adults on pet care, animal-protection law, and pre-veterinary first aid, and publishing brochures and folders distributed in public places in Piotrków Trybunalski. A major milestone came in September 2016, when the foundation obtained the status of a public benefit organization (organizacja pożytku publicznego, OPP). This status allows taxpayers to donate 1% of their income tax to the foundation's statutory activities, providing a stable source of public support. The foundation also became known for its work on behalf of free-living city cats. It cooperates with social caretakers, known as feeders, organizes recurring campaigns to build cat shelters that are distributed free of charge to interested people, and provides legal advice on the rights and obligations of those who care for city cats. It also runs sterilization programs to limit animal populations and provides diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation for injured or abandoned animals. In the 2020s the foundation continued to expand its fundraising and outreach. It maintains a presence on the Patronite patronage platform, accepts BLIK mobile transfers to a dedicated phone number, receives donations through the ratujemyzwierzaki.pl platform, and participates in affiliate shopping programs with Zooplus and Fanimani. It also collects clothing, accessories, and books, receiving 50 groszy per kilogram for its cats. Its official website, miastokotow.pl, serves as a hub for adoption listings, donation options, and news about its campaigns, including shelter-building events such as the one planned for Piotrków Trybunalski in September 2026.

• 2026

  A cat shelter-building campaign was planned for September in Piotrków Trybunalski.

• 2020

  By this year, the foundation had completed 430 adoptions since 2013.

• 2016

  In September, the foundation obtained public benefit organization (OPP) status.

• 2013

  Fundacja Miasto Kotów was founded in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.

• 2012

  The initiative that would become Fundacja Miasto Kotów was a beneficiary of the "Mafia w sieci" social campaign organized by Charytatywni Allegro.

A grassroots Polish animal-welfare foundation focused on cat rescue, adoption, and humane management of free-living urban cats.

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