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The program goal is to further the development of community foundations in Russia. Through this program, the Charities Aid Foundation will award small grants for start-up and consolidation of new community foundations as well as targeted grants to strengthen regional alliances and identify meaningful models for effecting social change. With this increase, the grantee will commission a detailed study on the state of community foundations in Russia. The study will consolidate much of the quantitative data gathered by the grantee in Russia over its many years of support to community foundations in Russia. At the same time, it will examine field-level qualitative issues related to the local, regional, and national impacts of community foundation work.
The Mott Foundation, through its Civil Society program, supports non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in four countries in the Western Former Soviet Union — Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. Our grants fund efforts to develop and strengthen philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, including the development of community foundations.
