The NGO School Foundation for Development of Non-Profit Organizations is a unique, informational, consulting and educational resource center that supports a wide range of civic initiatives.

Its mission is to create a favorable environment for sustainable and systemic development of the non-profit sector in Russia.

After 13 years of activities we have evolved from a single project into one of the largest NGO support centers in Russia. Main directions of our work include:

Evaluation of legislative initiatives of the non-profit sector;
Consulting services for individuals, groups of social activists, representatives of non-profit organizations and businesses on NGO organizing, organizational development and sustainability;
Trainings, seminars and workshops on strategic planning, project management, fundraising, financial management, public relations, social networking, etc.;
Launching startup projects: testing and spreading new technologies in implementing socially important projects;
International cooperation: adapting and applying international experience and best practices in social innovations;
Developing social partnership, setting up conditions for sharing experience and establishing ties between NGOs, businesses and government institutions.

Our experts design methods for evaluation of non-profit activities, develop technologies for building relationships with businesses, groups of social activists, government structures on the basis of transparency and openness.

Our projects are funded by the European Union, embassies of the USA, Canada, Kingdom of the Netherlands, C. S. Mott Foundation, McArthur Foundation, CAF-Russia and other donors. For example, the European Union had supported the www.jobsngo.ru portal as part of the Third Sector Without Borders project, which has become the first and currently is the only NGO employment database in Russia.

Today the Foundation offers support for corporate socially-oriented and charitable programs within the business community. With this aim in view the Foundation helps Russian and Western companies who carry on with their policies of corporate social responsibility and keep developing philanthropy in Russia despite the economic crisis to make assessment and invest professionally and wisely into the third sector.

The Foundation has successfully implemented a number of projects and programs for Russian and foreign companies including Chevron Neftegaz, Inc., Norilsk Nickel, Severstal, RusAl, GazPromBank, Renova, Avon and others.

We actively collaborate with government institutions putting into practice the principles of inter-sectoral cooperation in addressing vital social issues. Among our strategic partners are the Ministry for Economic Development of Russia, the Civil Chamber of Russia and the Presidential Council for Development of Civic Society and Human Rights.

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