On anniversaries one might think of summaries of what has been, but also of presentations of prospects for the future. It seems impor- tant to recall the genesis of the reforms of the system of state sup- port for civil society in Poland. The programme of changes that we are implementing today was developed in 2013 by Wojciech Kacz- marczyk and myself as a parapolitical project, indeed as part of a broader political programme. Over ten years ago, I wrote an article about this in the non-governmental press. At that time – together with a number of civically engaged people who are now rather on the other side of the political scene in Poland – we also put forward an initiative for these reforms. For third sector organisations, a process of change initiated from within the system is surely the most natural. And so it is in the case of the Polish third sector, the only difference being that in recent years we have had more leverage than before in terms of the political decisions supporting these changes. Therefore, the reforms have gone much further in terms of the breadth and scale of state support. Hence the transfer of support for the sector to a central place in government, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister; hence the establishment of the Public Benefit Committee and the National Freedom Institute.