Partnership initiatives support
The Partnership Initiatives Support charity program contemplates active interaction between the Foundation and its partners and beneficiaries and uses a range of tools and methods of work that can vary to achieve the priority goals and optimal results.
Consolidation with like-minded people is one of the Foundation’s priorities and an important part of its strategic work. Only by joining our efforts, knowledge, capabilities and resources can we have a meaningful impact on solving social problems related to helping children and teenagers.
The Partnership Initiatives Support charity program contemplates active interaction between the Foundation and its partners and beneficiaries and uses a range of tools and methods of work that can vary to achieve the priority goals and optimal results.
GOALS
- assistance in the development, application and scaling of projects that provide comprehensive support to the target groups of the Charity Program;
- comprehensive support and aid for orphans, children left without parental care, disabled children, parents or legal guardians of such children, as well as for other individuals in difficult life situations;
- promotion of inpatient replacement technologies for help to the beneficiaries, their successful social adjustment, their preparation for independent life, and integration into society;
- prevention of family problems and social orphanhood among children, including preventive measures against child abuse, restoration of the family environment favorable for raising a child, finding a new home or foster family for orphans and children without parental care;
- legal advice for families with children and young adults up to the age of 44 with special needs in the entire territory of the Russian Federation;
- assistance for projects in education, science, culture, enlightenment, and personal development;
- support for projects in health promotion and protection, as well as in advancement of healthy lifestyle and improvement of moral and psychological state of individuals;
- other goals that do not conflict with the Charter and objectives approved by the Board of the Foundation.
TASKS
- Funding of non-commercial initiatives and projects aimed at support of target groups of the Charity Program (donations to legal entities);
- Monitoring of previously endorsed projects during their implementation period;
- Evaluation of efficiency and impact of supported projects and initiatives;
- Realization of awareness campaigns and participation in social initiatives.
TARGET GROUPS (BENEFICIARIES)
- children left without parental care;
- children and young adults up to the age of 44 with health limitations and special needs due to their physical and/or mental development, and their families;
- children in extremely difficult living situation and their families;
- children suffering from abuse and their families;
- children from low-income families;
- children with behavior issues and their families;
- children, whose living conditions were objectively disturbed by certain circumstances and who are unable to rid of such circumstances independently or with the help of their families;
- children from foster families;
- foster families;
- children living at state orphanages and residential care facilities, and children temporarily staying in social shelters;
- specialists working with the above-mentioned groups;
- non-profit Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working with the abovementioned groups.
IMPLEMENTATION STAGES
Participation in the Charity Program is based on the declarative principle. Implementation stages consist of a combination of the cyclic and the non-recurrent formats of activities under the relevant local regulations of the Foundation. The Board of the Foundation decides on partner funding within the framework of the Charity Program.
Documentation of the Program "Support for partnership initiatives"
Projects
Space for Communication
Patronus
The project focused on providing legal advice services for families with children and young adults with disabilities.
Main values
Fond site
https://prostranstvo-center.ru/Space for Communication
Patronus
The project focused on providing legal advice services for families with children and young adults with disabilities.
Main values
Fond site
https://prostranstvo-center.ru/Space for Communication
Patronus
The project focused on providing legal advice services for families with children and young adults with disabilities.
Main values
Fond site
https://prostranstvo-center.ru/Space for Communication
Patronus
The project focused on providing legal advice services for families with children and young adults with disabilities.
Main values
Fond site
https://prostranstvo-center.ru/Step Up
Project «Distance learning»
The project was created for young adults – children that lived or are still living in orphanages all around Russia, children that would like to receive or improve their education but due to different circumstances do not have that opportunity.
Teachers at learning center ”Vverh” give lessons in key school subjects distantly via skype, help children prepare for and pass school exams, help improve knowledge in different subjects in order to move on to the next step in their education process without losing motivation and interest for learning.
Main values
Fond site
https://vverh.su/Big Change
Implementation of program activities of the fund
The goal of the program is to assist foster children in the development of subject knowledge and general intellectual abilities, as well as in communication, social, self-organization and planning skills, to increase the motivation, goal-setting and self-esteem of children.
Main values
Fond site
https://bigchange.ru/Big Change
Community of adoptive parents interested in solving issues with children’s education
It is a pilot project created to organize communities of supportive parent united by the theme of education of children who experienced orphanhood in Novosibirsk and Moscow.
Main values
Fond site
https://bigchange.ru/Second Breath
Clothes for life
The project focused on providing humanitarian (clothing) assistance to children living in low-income families. In 2020, 7,500 beneficiaries received humanitarian aid. A total of 11.3 tons were shipped.
Main values
Fond site
https://vtoroe.ruBureau of Good Deeds
Gift a profession
The project consists of professional workshops implemented with support from the curator of the foundation and experienced teachers to help boarding school students raise their proficiency’s and obtain modern competitive jobs.
Main values
Fond site
https://burodd.ruStart in Life
Project «Supporting Talent with CSS»
The goal of the project is helping talented and diligent graduates from poorer families get into the university of their dreams, successfully study there, learning foreign languages.
Within the program “Supporting Talent with CSS”, while studying in 11th grade, winners of the contest from different regions of Russia will receive free access to the best online courses.
Main values
Fond site
https://putevka-v-zhizn.ru/Umka
Project «Umka online»
Inclusive center of childhood and family “Umka”, located in the city of Chkalovsk (Nizegorodskaya region), with the help from CSS shifted to online practice.
Yoga, preparation for school, Lego-construction, speech and psychological therapies are all available for children without having to leave their homes.
Main values
Fond site
http://umka.chkobr.ru/Look at Me
Educational books for kids
With support from CSS preparations began in 2020 for a series of books for children with mental disabilities called: “I am not afraid of growing up”.
These books will inform and support children, young adults and their parent about their own boundaries, puberty, sexually maturing, sexual competence and prevention of sexual violence.
Main values
Region of Mercy
Child Camp
Charity program development center “Kray Miloserdiya” (”Region of Mercy”) and CSS Foundation organized a family inclusive camp for children with mental disabilities located on the Black Sea seaside.
Project activities were aimed on rehabilitation of children, raising the social interaction among children and adults by performing intensive courses using special methodic that takes into consideration the abilities and recourses of each child.
Main values
Fond site
https://краймилосердия.рфBielsko-Ustyensky orphanage
Project «Zaluzie»
With support from CSS Foundation in the region of Pskov houses were built for independent living of graduates of boarding school for disadvantaged children.
Main values
Fond site
http://bddi.ru/Space for Communication
Spreading best practices on support of families with disabled children in regions of Russia
The goal of the project is to support the participation of Russian regional professionals in informational and educational events/programs dedicated to the new methods of working with families raising children with developmental disorders.
Main values
Fond site
https://prostranstvo-center.ru/Space for Communication
Integrative programs for children/young adults with disabilities
The project involves the creation of inclusive centers for children with developmental disabilities, as well as the provision of psychological and legal support to families raising children with disabilities.
Main values
Fond site
https://prostranstvo-center.ru/Step Up
PROFI
In the context of the project “Vverh” (“Up”), participants find out more about different professions, figure out their interests and strong suits, try using their knowledge and experience in searching for job opportunities.
This year 102 students participated in project “PROFI”. Of which:
13 students passed their interviews;
13 students did an internship;
11 students found temporary jobs;
8 students found a permanent job.
Main values
Fond site
https://vverh.su/Big Change
Project «Recourse center»
This project of Foundation “Bolshaya Peremena” (“Big Change”) is aimed at sharing long-term experiences in working with people out of orphanages and Psychoneurological Dispensaries. Along with that they prepare methodologists that use unique instruments of the Foundation in their work with children in different parts of the country.
Project “Recourse Center” is relevant for scientists, teachers, social workers, foster parents, volunteers and many others.
Main values
Fond site
https://bigchange.ru/