#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation celebrated 25 years since its founding – it is one of the first private foundations in modern Russia. Since 1999, more than 40 thousand people have become its beneficiaries and scholarship recipients.
Today, the foundation is a non-profit grant-making organization that implements charitable programs in the fields of culture, higher education, social sports and charity in Russia.
“The Potanin Foundation has changed a lot over these 25 years. At the beginning of its journey, it only had scholarship programs for students, but now, as we know, the foundation systematically supports the development of charity and the non-profit sector in our country. The foundation has no equal in this”, says Elena Topoleva-Soldunova, the Social Information Agency’s director and chairman of the Russian Federation Public Chamber Commission for the development of the non-profit sector.
The organization’s work began with the implementation of the northern scholarship program. Excellent students at state universities outside their hometown receive additional payments. As reported by the Social Information Agency, 75 leading Russian universities are currently participating in the foundation’s scholarship program. The foundation provides scholarships to students and grants to teachers.
Over 25 years, the Vladimir Potanin Foundation has held more than 250 different grant competitions aimed at supporting Russian museums, civil initiatives, socially oriented NGOs, social sports and others.
The foundation’s mission is to develop a culture of charity, uniting around itself active creative professionals who participate in solving socially significant problems and achieving sustainable social changes, open up opportunities for the emergence of new ideas and create conditions for their implementation.
Earlier, the Potanin Foundation opened a grant competition for teachers and created the largest endowment capital in Russia at 100 billion rubles.
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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: press center of the Vladimir Potanin charitable foundation
