Award for demonstration of civil initiative in the field of cooperation between the twin cities and cooperation with the Russian regions.

Program is aimed at creation of conditions for development of the third sector, increasing of the effectiveness of the social useful activities of the youth, level of the competency of the representatives of non-commercial organizations of small towns, as well as establishing of partnership relations between NCOs in the Russian Federation.

Partnership on the global security under support of the Macarthur Foundation is presenting 8 dissertation grants on the subject: "Global security and cooperation".

The mission of the school is to provide the students with the information about NCO management, that is collected by the best professionals in this field.

Ford Foundation and Independent Institute for Social Politics (IISP) announce the grant competition for support of higher education accessibility research.

Library collection is focused at 70-s - the role of the First Lady, equal rights etc.

Program “Interregional Research in Social Science” of INO-Center (Information. Science. Education), Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Kennan Institute (USA) under support of Carnegie Corporation (New York, USA), McArthur Foundation (USA) and “Open Society Institute” is announcing the second grant competition for personal and collective grants for researches in the field of social and humanitarian sciences.

"Open Society Institute" (Soros Foundation) - Russia is announcing the open all-Russian competition in the frames of the mega-project "Pushkin library". The competition is aimed at philanthropic financing of partnership library projects directed to stirring up of countryside libraries activities by means of rendering of comprehensive methodical and informational assistance from central regional libraries. Applications for the competition are accepted until September 13, 2002.

Handspring Foundation is financing programs of non-commercial organizations aimed at assistance to children and youth from the risk groups.

AMR USA and IREX announce the second competition of partnership projects in the frames of the program "Partnership: cooperation, consolidation, development" ("Partner") for support of the projects presented by already existing and newly established Russian-American partnerships as well as to Russian-Russian partnerships.