Amerikaiak a Magyarokért Alapítvány        Amerikai Magyar Klub

Pro Ecclesia Hungariae - In Honor of Hungary

and the Almási Balogh family, whose contributions included free medical treatment of the poor, creating HANGYA the cooperative that allowed small farmers to compete, the Economic University (Közgazdasági Egyetem), a home for blind children, scholarships, and the first seminars to help Hungarian executives adapt to western business.

 



 
On March 26, 2010  in Tordas, Hungary the Amerikai Magyar Klub under the auspices of the Amerikaiak a Magyarokért Alapítvány (Americans for Hungarians Foundation) sponsored a planning conference to design a new cooperative movement in Hungary based on the pre World War II success model called the HANGYA cooperatives. Attending were past managers of these cooperatives, local farmers and business people as well as agricultural experts from the University of Debrecen and  from the financial indutsry.

Dr. Horváth János, past HANGYA cooperative leader, senior member of Hungarian Parliament, Truman-Reagan Award winner, and HANGYA Alapítvány Founder speaking about the new cooperative movement. Also present on dais, left to right, Mr. Balogh, Dreisziger Zsuzsanna, Co-President of AMKA, and Mr. Varga István,   President of the Hungarian Tax Payers Association all Kuratorium members of the HANGYA AlapÍtvány.

Mr. Balogh Gyula, grandson of the HANGYA founder

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Almási Balogh Elemér memorial and grandson Gyula. The elder Balogh, funded by Grof Károly Sándor, created  the HANGYA Cooperatives in 1898 in Hungary and managed them for 38 years