From 1 June we will be accepting applications for the "Stronger with CSS. BECOMING SELF-SUFFICIENT"!

On June 3, the first charity sledge hockey tournament "Hockey Unites" will be held in Moscow

Our joint project with the Pskov Children's Foundation "Friendship Ball: Strengthening the family" ended a year ago. But how nice and important it is to understand, that children continue to train, compete and win!

Nikiforos Parfeniotis, the sports project manager of the CSS Foundation, became the guest of honor at the 5th All-Russian Adaptive Hockey Festival.

With joy and pride we announce the start of accepting applications for this year's first Contest "Stronger with CSS. Acting together."

It's important to Mom! – the slogan of the project, which was supported by our foundation.

We discussed social projects dedicated to the problems of youth. The focus is on how the design, management, and involvement of stakeholders in projects that were recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as the best according to the results of the competition.

On the International Sports Day, there was a big discussion about how to measure the effect of social sports.

The results of the project "Want to be together: Regions" implemented by Autonomous non-profit organization of social services "Yom-Yom Inclusive Center"

In 2022, NGO “Star Rain” implemented the project "A comprehensive early intervention program for children with autism under the age of 5" in Chelyabinsk.

The project is implemented by the Center for Assessment of Public Initiatives of the National Research University Higher School of Economics with the expert support of the "Need for Help" Foundation.

Samara Association of people with disabilities using wheelchairs “Desnitsa Association” has been implementing the project "Football for everyone" during the year 2022

The All-Russian Competition of Public Annual Reports of NPOs "Point of Reference"

The results of the project "More than Care" implemented by the Diakonia Center "Touch" for families raising children with mental developmental disabilities

The project was implemented by the Interregional Public Charity Organization supporting children "He Needs You".

Sports Festival, dedicated to the International Volleyball Day

Complex help for families in difficult life situation raising children with diabetes mellitus.

Training seminars for specialists in psychological and social support of crisis families in the Kaliningrad region.

The All-Russian Basketball Sports Festival

Roller sledge hockey master classes in the Kostroma region

for children with mental disabilities and their families

CSS and the Adaptive Hockey Federation open up new opportunities for boarding school students!

project CSS with the Tyumen Mountaineering Federation on adaptive climbing “I can!”

"Routes of assistance as a system of support for families raising children with autism and other mental developmental disabilities."

The current section on adaptive volleyball

Finalists

about foster parenthood, filmed with the support of CSS

master a class on bouldering

“ESG–(R)Evolution”, where they were once again convinced of the importance and urgency of the ESG topic

of the Udmurt Republic-2022

comprehensive assistance to families with children with diabetes in difficult life situation

- ANO «Diaconical Center Touch»

and our joint project «Exit»

It is a great honor for me to become Natalia Kovalenko's successor as President of CSS Foundation.

Dear friends, colleagues, partners!

Президент CSS Наталия Коваленко и директор по проектной деятельности Ольга Суслова посетили юбилейную, двадцатую конференцию Форума доноров, которая прошла 4 и 5 октября в Москве.

In the last days of September, a sports city tournament was held in Samara between the teams of the Football for All project

The wide program of the Forum, which held from September 22 to 24, included a presentation of the practices of inclusive education for preschool children

because today is our founder David Russell's birthday!

Online Adaptation and habilitation center for foster partnership

We have published CSS main achievements over the past year

Dear applicants of the grant program «Stronger with CSS. School of Opportunities»!

Dear applicants of the grant program “Stronger with CSS. School of Opportunities”!

In CSS we have two favorite days: when we announce the start of grant program and when we announce the finalists

Today we would like to share the news of the project “Family Center “School of Joy” of the charity center “Hesed Tikva” in Bryansk, Russia.

Such important words, and we are happy that they are spoken by the parents of the participants of the teenage group of the Open Doors project.

CSS Project Development Director Olga Suslova returned from Sochi, where the 4th All-Russian Fonbet Adaptive Hockey

Yesterday in CSS office we held a meeting of the Donor Forum PR-club, an association of large grant-giving organizations in Russia

From the winner of the grant program "Stronger with CSS" - the Charity Foundation for the Promotion of the family device "Find a family"

The first developmental classes have started in the "It's Important for Mom" project of the "Spread Your Wings" charity foundation

We share the presentation and the link to the webinar for the grant program

Dear friends, colleagues and partners! We want to stay in touch with you and expand our channels of communication.

Another experts meeting took place this week. This time, the focus was on the topic of supporting families with children and child-parent relationships.

CSS received the silver standard of the annual report 2020 in the "The Starting Point-2021" competition!

We are waiting for everyone in our friendly CSS family, now on a new account

Yesterday we met with experts in the field of Assisted Accommodation and Employment in the CSS office.

On International Women's Day we want to share the news of the «More than Care» project

Congratulations to all girls, women, mothers and grandmothers on the holiday of spring!

We don't just keep working. We are launching a new contest as part of our “Stronger with CSS” program

Dear colleagues, partners, friends, we want to reach out to everyone whose projects are funded by the Stronger with CSS program and to those who are about to apply for the competition.

To stay in touch in any situation, we have created a telegram channel

We continue to accept applications under the “Stronger with CSS” grant program

On February 19, an art residence for teenagers from the city of Polyarny, who are registered with the Commission on Juvenile Affairs, and study at schools and colleges of the city, began its work

February 22, 2022 at 11:00 am (Moscow time)

Today, February 15, we start accepting applications for the STRONGER WITH CSS. SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT».

“Our Children” Foundation shared impressive results for January (project "Do not spill water")

This is the only association of foundations and companies in our country systematically engaged in charitable activities.

The most frequent and popular question in our direct is, of course, the start dates for accepting applications for grants under the “Stronger with CSS” program.

The Raul Charity Foundation came specially from St. Petersburg to our office to congratulate us on the 3rd anniversary.

Our team congratulates and thanks the founder of CSS foundation - David Russell! Without you, none of this would have been possible.

We continue to tell you about the winning projects of our grant program. Today we will talk about the project "Support Service: Social Patronage of Families in a Difficult Life Situation".

As promised, tell in detail what joint long-term results we managed to achieve with the winners of the “Stronger with CSS” program.

We hope you had a great long holidays and, like CSS team, are energized for new challenges in 2022.

Dear friends, colleagues and partners!
Traditionally - some numbers and results of the year in our December video.

Today we congratulate the president of our foundation, Natalia Kovalenko, on her birthday!

At the end of the year, it is customary to share achievements, and soon we will definitely tell you about what we managed to create and bring to life in 2021. In the meantime, we are glad to share the good news: our foundation was included in the Top-10: The Best Missions of Russian Non-Profit Organizations according to the version of the Greenhouse of Social Technologies.

So the guys from the Career Guidance group of Downside up charity foundation painted clay toys under the guidance of the jeweler Sergey Zamyshlyaev.

Last month 140 families with 278 foster children received assistance in four support centers for foster families "Find a Family" (Krasnodar, Moscow Region-South, Moscow Region-North and Gatchina, Leningrad Region).

Our partners annual meeting took place on 30 November, for the first time offline.

Today CSS hosted a meeting of specialized experts in the field of sports.

From November 24 to November 28, the Russian Taekwondo GTF Championship and Championship is held in Kazan.

Today, within the framework of cooperation between the Naked Heart and CSS, two foundations present the book "How to organize leisure for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities".

Today is a special day for the entire CSS team, as we are ready to announce the winners of the Stronger with CSS grant program to support the NGO. We want to thank each applicant - we know what a titanic work you do every day! This time, the fund's team, together with the expert council, identified 16 projects.

In the summer, “Our Children" foundation received our grant for Complex work with families in crisis, where there is a risk taking children to the orphanage (in the city of Smolensk and the Smolensk region).

"Stronger with CSS" program has not ended yet this year, and our team is already thinking about the formats of the charity program for NGOs in 2022.

News from our partners - winners of “Stronger with CSS” charity program:
In October, as part of the creation of an inclusive center for social and pedagogical support "Big Change" in Novosibirsk, a business trip took place to a regional base in this city.

The last three days have been busy - we have completed interviews with potential finalists of "Stronger with CSS" charity program.

Today we want to tell about III Conference “A family raising a child with special needs. Psychological assistance in different contexts ”, which has been held thanks to the financial support of our foundation.

CSS charity foundation has a very interesting name history.

Today we want to share the results of our project “Circle. The system of comprehensive assistance to children with disabilities ”.

Less than a month left before the announcement of "Stronger with CSS" winners.

At the beginning of September, we wrote about the start of the project "Family Center" School of Joy "of the regional Bryansk Jewish community and charitable center" Hesed Tikva ". Today we are happy to tell about the first successes of his students and share some photos.

Today we would like to inform you about the start of new project "Developing Together: Group Classes for Families with Children with Disabilities from 2.5 to 18 Years", which our foundation implements in cooperation with the ANO "Assistance".

Our partner, winner of "Stronger with CSS" charity program - ANO "Worthy Special World" invites students and specialists of the fields "psychology", "social pedagogy", "special education and rehabilitation" to take part in the "Important help" project (training of specialists and volunteers to accompany people with mental disabilities).

Dear Colleagues,
CSS Foundation, together with “Space for Communication” center, has developed a series of unique personalized webinars for NGOs that supervise families with children with disabilities.

Today we want to tell you about Moscow Donors Forum Conference. It is a key discussion platform for practitioners of philanthropy and social investment in Russia. The annual conference brings together leading experts in the field of philanthropy and social investment, representatives of business, charitable foundations, government bodies and the scientific and academic community.

Our partners, «Stronger with CSS» program winners - the Solar City Charitable Foundation is launching an online workshop for NGOs working in the field of child protection.

Today is a big day for the whole CSS team - we've published our first annual report for 2020, which we've been working on over the past few months!

Today, September 20 is the birthday of CSS Founder, our leader and mastermind David Russell!

In our stories, you can often see how school-age children learn the skills of different professions. This is the Give a Profession program of Good deeds bureau charity foundation, supported by CSS.

And we continue a series of posts about our business trips to partners throughout Russia. Victoria Petrukhina visited the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Assistance Center for families of children with disabilities" in Rostov-on-Don.

We are happy to announce the start of the project "Family Center School of Joy" (on the basis of the regional Bryansk regional Jewish community and charitable center" Hesed Tikva”). It became possible to fully implement this project thanks to our support within the framework of “Stronger with CSS” grant program.

Today we congratulate all those involved with the Day of Knowledge: schoolchildren, teachers, parents! But separately we would like to highlight and congratulate the participants of the project "Support talents with CSS", which we are implementing together with the "Start to Life".

We are starting a series of posts about our business trips and personal acquaintances with CSS grantees. Olga Suslova returned from St. Petersburg, where she met her colleagues from the Partnership for Every Child Foundation.

Within the framework of our project "Supporting Talent with CSS" (together with "Start to Life" charity foundation), we financed an intensive course for program students in the "Coalition" school. In the video, the participants of the program themselves told about their impressions.

In the near future, a course of classes for parents from crisis families "Shalash for parents" is being launched. This is made possible thanks to CSS grant support.

Today we want to tell you about «ABC of a happy family» project - regional clubs. Parent Clubs "ABC of a Family" are weekly meetings in online or offline format under the ABC of a Happy Family program. 30 Lessons of Conscious Parenting”, developed by experienced psychologists and educators.

Partner of the month - Williams Syndrome Charitable Foundation, where with the support of CSS, the project "Rare Lessons" has been successfully completed. This is a series of video tutorials for children and adolescents with mental disabilities.

Despite the summer season, August is rich in events for CSS: several projects are being completed, which we will talk about in the near future, and a grant competition for NGOs is being launched. And now we meet busy working days in our new office.

CSS Launches "Stronger with CSS-2021" grant program for NGOs.

From time to time we receive questions about how CSS works and what our team does during the competition and outside of the competition procedures. Today we will tell you about the program staff - those people with whom our winners and partners communicate directly.

This is the name of our new joint project with the Pskov Regional Office of the Russian Children's Fund.

The first season of online training for young people with autism and mental disabilities is over. The project, supported by CSS, was implemented by the Smart Environment Charity Foundation.

In the village "Family Fairytale" (Novosibirsk, Russia) a summer camp "Big Change" has started.

Since October 2020, the Cherepovets city public organization "I CAN!", the winner of the "Stronger with CSS" grant competition, has been implementing the project "School of IT Design and 3D Modeling".

A few years ago, one mother from Denmark tied an octopus toy with spiral tentacles for her premature baby After baby spent some time with the toy, he became calmer, and his breathing returned to normal. Such therapeutic toys began to spread throughout the world. They came to Holland, Sweden, Belgium, and then to Russia.

Few days ago a two-day All-Russian scientific-practical conference was held on the topic “Ethics of interaction with a person with mental characteristics and his loved ones. The role of NGOs in organizing support and support: problems and solutions" from our partners Downside Up charity foundation.

With CSS financial support, Naked Heart Foundation is preparing a practical guide with video materials for everyone involved in leisure activities of people with autism. The entire package of teaching materials will appear in the fall of 2021.

We have already told you about our project "Patronus". Let us remind that this is a specialized legal service that provides free, fast-response, highly professional assistance throughout Russia. And we want to end this working week with fantastic results that our colleagues have shown in the work of the service.

Meeting of the Ethics Club “Dreams and Reality in the Evaluation of Social Projects. Critical, honest and merciless ”, which was attended by our president, Natalia Kovalenko.

We were glad to meet and discuss past and future projects with our long-term partners - Big Change charity foundation.

This is a special dayfor us, because our foundation supports projects aimed at solving problems of children and families. In 2020, we helped 2,000 families and 1,500 children become stronger and happier.

Last week CSS team visited the office of our partners “Children +” charity foundation.

With joy and excitement, we are ready to announce the winners of «Stronger with CSS» grant program. Thanks to the increased budget of the competition in 2021, we will be able to finance 24 Russian charitable foundations!

Time of "partner of the month" rubric and now it becomes GTF Taekwondo Federation in the Republic of Tatarstan.

At CSS, we try not to stop, our goals and scope are growing, and the fund's team is growing as well.

On April 25-30, the Russian Taekwondo GTF Cup is held in the Moscow region, children with intellectual disabilities are competing as well.

The Presidential Grants Fund, together with the Donors' Forum, held a round table yesterday, at which a barometer of grant competitions was presented, as well as research on the development of corporate philanthropy.

Meanwhile, our joint mentoring program with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Russia is developing in full. The program implies individual selection and training of mentors for children from orphanages aged 9 to 23 years.

Khabarovsk regional public organization “There are no other people's children” with CSS support opened 2 branches in Birobidzhan and Komsomolsk-on-Amur cities (Russia).

Dear “Stronger with CSS” grant applicants, CSS team would like to thank you for your interest. We have received about 200 applications.