Grants of the Macarthur Foundation

Interregional Charity Social Foundation "Sozidaniye" invites for participation in the competition of materials for informational and practical collected articles "Social capital" illustrating the best experience of fundraising from private sources, commercial organizations for social useful activities of young people.

Competition is conducted by RF President Commission for Human Rights, Moscow Human Rights School, Ministry of Education RF, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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.

Organization "Penal Reform International" is announcing the grant competition according to the Small Grants Program "Penal Reform in Russia" under financial support of the Soros Foundation.

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.

German-Russian Forum is granting for the third time the award for civil initiative with Russia in order to support civil initiatives as well as to attract public attention to activities of civil initiatives in Russia.

"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.