Позитивные изменения. Том 1, №1 (2021). Positive changes. Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

VESTA SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES INCLUDING MENTAL DISABILITIES WE MAKE LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ENTERTAINING AND EXCITING!

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The objective of the Vesta social project is rehabilitation, socialization and abilitation of disabled persons of juvenile age by arranging leisure, recreation and rehabilitation of special people, assistance in self-fulfillment and making a proactive strategy, improvement of social security. The focus of all works of the Center is to help young people with health restrains so that they would not feel alone and away from life. They have an opportunity to be in a cosy and comfortable homelike environment during the day, talk to each other, exercise, walk in fresh air, eat tasty food, and attend cultural events.

Scope of Activity: Education

Region: Khanty-Mansijsk Autonomous District

Year of Foundation: 2017

Company Founder: Natalya Mitrofanova (Manager, Director General)

Target Audience: Disabled people, Physically impaired people, Socially vulnerable citizens, Youths

Turnover: 4,109,000 rubles

Investments Required: For development and implementation of new technologies, we need a building of 500 square m. To buy such building, we need 15,000,000 rubles

Impact Assessment Methods: Methods statistical data, sociological polls, social and psychological examinations of disabled people

Effectiveness criteria:

A) reduced number of disability cases from childhood and in the course of life;

B) strengthening of material and technical base for rehabilitation and intervention programmes;

C) advanced training of employees in the field of social services for disabled people;

D) a positive trend on the “rehabilitation and employment of disabled people” indicator compared to the previous year;

E) a positive trend on the “satisfaction with cultural and leisure activities" indicator.

Address: Yugorsk, Mendeleeva street, 29a

Telephone: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

PROBLEM TO BE ADDRESSED

A person with a mental impairment and their family members are usually left alone with their problems upon reaching the age of majority. The lack of socialization, limited mobility, limited access to cultural, recreational and sports facilities, difficulties in social communication – all this affects their lives, creates psychological issues and causes a desperate situation. The inability to solve numerous daily problems, including issues of employment, without the support of a tutor eliminates a disabled person’s life prospects.

SOLUTIONS USED

The creation of the center allowed to settle emphasized problems partially and relieve their severity: development of communication skills; participation in cultural and sports events which allow to be involved in public life and take full part in it, thus creating a tolerant, adequate attitude to impaired people in the society, development of a sense of belonging; social and household rehabilitation in a specially created model of a living module, thus allowing to generate and develop social and household skills; relief of psychological tension; normalization of mental state with the help of systemic work of a psychologist: mental diagnostics, therapy, trainings, classes in the sensory room; work with a tutor which helps to enhance professional skills for employment in future.

ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS

The winner of the Best Social Project of the Year – 2020, the nation-wide contest of projects in social entrepreneurship, in the category the Best Social Entrepreneurship Project in the area of support and rehabilitation of people with disabilities; the winner of Person of the Year – 2020 contest in the Project of the Year category. Victory in Presidential Grants contest in 2019.

RAISED RESOURCES IN ONE YEAR

Victory in Presidential Grants contest.

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE CURRENT YEAR?

We opened Vesta center in Pionersky, KhMAO-Ugra. We launched new lines: social taxi services, home care, school of foster parents. We implemented Magical World, a project on creation of sensory room.

DIRECT RESULTS FOR THE CURRENT YEAR

Magical World project on creation of sensory room was implemented for people (particularly for children) with disabilities.

SOCIAL EFFECTS ACHIEVED IN THE CURRENT YEAR

Change of the degree of negative impact of constraints on the level of life opportunities and increase of social success level, as a result. Satisfaction of beneficiaries, legal representatives (feedback, questionnaires). Satisfaction of social partners by interaction with Autonomous Nonprofit Organization of social services for citizens "Believe in Yourself!" Developed systems-practices of effective interaction in inclusive environment conditions. Improved quality of inclusive interaction via the development of communicative competences among specialists and volunteers in the course of joint creative work with the target audience.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL IMPACT

Expansion of the active business – we plan to establish new branches both in KhMAO-Ugra and beyond (Moscow Oblast). Development of tertiary industry – implementation of new technologies, creation of new jobs – we plant to arrange production for disabled people.

FUN STORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL INITIATIVES AND PEOPLE FROM A DEPRIVED BACKGROUND

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The foundation has grown from the same-name network of charity shops. Now the foundation implements three ambitious charitable programmes. Our mission is to help people who have fallen on hard times. Thousands of people across Russia need little support – some people do not have decent clothes, some cannot buy windows for their fire-damaged house. And some people live in a nursing home for the elderly and dream of a simple cosy blanket. In other words, the programmes of our foundation are focused on the resource support for people in difficult circumstances. We help victims of the fire, large and low-income families. Apart from this, we created an environment for socialization of elderly people and persons under care of social institutions.

Scope of Activity: Services

Region: Moscow and Moscow Region

Year of Foundation: 2012

Company Founder: Ekaterina Berman (Founder and mastermind, Director General)

Target Audience: Youths, Working youths, Volunteers, Nonprofit organization proponents, Adults 30–60 years old, Nonprofit organizations

Investments Required: We need a regular donor to ensure financial support for fire victims. In addition, we need funds to buy a truck which we could use to transport large scopes of clothes, as well as packages to the nearest regions, rather than spend huge money for shipment.

Impact Assessment Methods: The most indicative method of evaluation of social impact is the increased number of people under care, increased amount of aid, as well as recognition of the foundation in the society.

Address: Moscow, Maly Sukharevsky Lane, 7

Telephone: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: lavkaradostej.ru/

PROBLEM TO BE ADDRESSED

Helping the victims of fires, helping people living below the poverty line, helping multi-child families, supporting charities, and socializing the senior generation.

SOLUTIONS USED

Fun Store foundation helps fire victims to recover their affected homes. To do this, we solicit for contributions in our charity shops where one can buy things for charitable donations. Apart from this, we arrange door-to-door contributions for families on our web-site lavkafond.ru. For fire victims, as well as for large and low income families, we arranged a system of humanitarian aid – door-to-door dispatch of necessary seasonal clothing, as well as shipments with all things necessary for school and with New Year's gifts for the whole family.

In the framework of settling the socialization challenge for elderly citizens, we arrange stitchcraft master classes for elderly people and people which are under care of social institutions. In addition to art therapy courses at master classes, elderly people make things which we then hand over to those in need of help. Hand-made articles are sent to prematurely born infants, elderly people, homeless people. Thanks to this, participants of master classes feel that they are needed and help themselves. In the framework of settling the problem of help to charitable organizations, we send large shipments with humanitarian aid. Apart from this, our foundation implemented a project of monetary grant help to projects of nonprofit organizations in 2019–2020.

ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS

Conferral of the status Golden Standard of the annual report in the framework of Reference Point, the annual contest of annual reports.

RAISED RESOURCES IN ONE YEAR

• Private charitable donations in charity shops

• Private charitable donations on the website lavkafond.ru

• Presidential Grants

• Grants of the Mayor of Moscow

• Grant from the Ministry of Culture

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE CURRENT YEAR?

Implemented an assistant project for doctors who fought for the life of Covid-19 patients in the midst of pandemic, amounted to over 12 mln. rubles. We purchased personal protective equipment for doctors, anti-decubitus cosmetics, arranged hot meals for doctors in the red zone.

We developed and implemented the door-to-door system for fire victims, over 100 families received charity support during the year.

We held hundreds of master classes, including online, sew masks for volunteers, knitted blankets for the elderly and special stocks for prematurely born infants.

In our charity shops, we accepted tons of unneeded clothes, sorted it out, handed over a part of it to distressed people, and another part – back to charity shops where people could purchase it for donations, thus helping fire victims.

FINANCIAL STABILITY MODEL

Now we raise the majority of charitable donations through our charity shops. During the pandemic and impelled closing of shops we understood that it was necessary to develop an online donation system. Now we develop an online fundraising system, including with the help of experts from the charity sector.

SOCIAL EFFECTS ACHIEVED IN THE CURRENT YEAR

This year, we mainstreamed the problem of assistance for fire victims. Our foundation have become well-known, therefore victims know where to address. The important social effect of this year is steady integration of charity in life of Moscow. In addition to our implemented charter activities we developed the Grandmother’s Blanket project with the support of Labor and Social Security Department of Moscow, our master classes were included in the Moscow Longevity system.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL IMPACT

We develop an idea of integration of charity in a person’s everyday life, create infrastructure for nonmonetary charity, and endeavour to shatter a concept of the elitist image of a benefactor.

CLEAN GAMES INTERREGIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND PATRIOTIC EDUCATION. WE ENDEAVOUR TO INVOLVE WIDE PUBLIC IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, INTRODUCE IT TO THE CULTURE OF CAREFUL ATTITUDE TO ENVIRONMENT

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Clean Games organization was established in 2018. The Clean Games, a team competition in cleaning up natural sites and segregation of waste, one of the organization’s largest projects, was originally implemented as part of the Interregional Non-Governmental Organization "Games of the Future". We are involved in carrying out environmental events both in online and offline formats and spreading the methods of preparing and holding Clean Games competitions through a nonprofit franchise. We endeavour to involve wide public in environmental issues, introduce it to the culture of careful attitude to environment.

Scope of Activity: Ecology

Region: St. Petersburg and Oblast

Year of Foundation: 2018

Company Founder: Dmitry Ioffe (Matters of partnerships, cooperation with business and government authorities, Chairman of the Board) Vladimir Ioffe (Administrative issues, Technical Director)

Target Audience: Parents with children, Youths, Secondary school students, Students, Working youths, Volunteers, Nonprofit organization proponents, Adults 30–60 years old, Nonprofit organizations

Turnover: As of August 26, 2020, 15,416,554 rubles have been raised in the current year. Revenue of the organization is 1,240,610 rubles.

Address: 198504, St. Petersburg, Peterhof, Shakhmatova st., 14, apt. 24

Telephone: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: cleangames.org/

PROBLEM TO BE ADDRESSED

The environmental measures taken by the Interregional Non-Governmental Organization Clean Games and supported by the non-profit franchise organization are intended to engage all levels of the population in constructive environmental activities, promote the ideas of environmental volunteer services, and form a sustainably minded life style for the population.

SOLUTIONS USED

One of our projects is Clean Games – team competitions on cleaning the natural areas from litters and waste separation. It is a prize game where participants seek artefacts, solve environmental puzzles, gather and separate litters and get points for these activities. One game can include 100–200 persons which gather 2–5 tons of litters.

The important tool to draw attention to the environment issues is distribution of the method for preparation and conducting of Clean Games using a non-profit franchise. The organization takes applications from potential organizers across Russia and abroad, signs a non-commercial agreement, provides the method, tools (web-site, brand book, templates of design layouts, official letters to the authorities and sponsors), provides information support and assists in interaction with the executive bodies of the state authorities via partners.

APART FROM THE MAIN PROJECT, WE ARRANGE

• Clean Challenges – online marathons where participants do a set of useful and creative tasks aimed at mindful consumption, re-use of things and waste recycling;

• Wheel Hunting eco-quest – an ecological team quest with the purpose to remove tyre heaps in nature.

• Baby Sharing project aimed at gratuitous exchange of children's items which can still be used.

ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS

We conducted over 850 Clean Games in 310 cities of Russia and in other 16 countries throughout the project.

In 2019, we received the Leaders of Climate Development award, Our Moscow Region – 2019 award, special prize in the category Corporate Social Responsibility and Charity of the North-West Silver Archer award.

In 2018, the Clean Games became the best eco-volunteer project in our country (Dmitry Ioffe took the 1st place in the Around Me category at the Volunteer Fighter or Russia contest) and the best environmental project in the opinion of the Russian Geographical Society.

RAISED RESOURCES IN ONE YEAR

Subsidies of Committee for Printing and Public Relations, Committee for Youth Policy, Committees for Youth Policy and Interaction with Social Organization of Leningrad Oblast.

Assistance of the Foundation of Presidential Grants for Promotion of Volunteer Practice Clean Games in the Baltic Sea countries.

Donation from LLC LENTA for Nation-Wide Award of Litter Fighters Internet project

Amount of fundraising – 15,416,554 rubles.

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE CURRENT YEAR?

We launched Clean Challenges, an ecological online championship designed to teach people to sort out wastes effectively, reduce consumption of disposable products and clean the environment.

Team contests Clean Games are now decentralized – the event was splitted into several points with as many as 30 persons instead of common games with approximately 100 persons in one place with unified start and finish. Teams started at different time and gathered litters during one hour, results were displayed as online rating. Baby Sharing project was in the original format.

With the support of the Press Committee of Leningrad Oblast, Interregional Non-Governmental Organization Clean Games began to provide consultant services to socially-oriented nonprofit organizations of Leningrad Oblast in the framework of the project Resource Support of socially-oriented nonprofit organizations.

FINANCIAL STABILITY MODEL

Interregional nonprofit organization Clean Games attracts not only grants and subsidies but works with corporate clients: arrange Clean Games for employees of companies in the CSR framework. We take ongoing efforts with partners which support activities conducted by Clean Games organization. In addition, Clean Games organization takes part in public procurements on the appropriate subject.

DIRECT RESULTS FOR THE CURRENT YEAR

A series of online challenges was conducted in the framework of Clean Challenges, with publications of challenge posts as answers to tasks in social media. The project allowed to involve about 1000 participants in ecological volunteering. Aggregate information coverage of the project amounted to over 100,000 views (social media and news outlets). Furthermore, team competitions in the decentralized format are held on the basis of non-profit franchise. Assistance in registration of nonprofit organizations were provided to 5 teams, over 40 nonprofit organizations received consultations regarding the grant support, all these were in the framework of the project Resource Support of Socially-Oriented Nonprofit Organizations of Leningrad Oblast.

SOCIAL EFFECTS ACHIEVED IN THE CURRENT YEAR

Clean Games Organization was able to continue the activity focused on involvement of citizens in constructive ecological activities, replication of the best practices of ecological volunteering, development of environmentally responsible lifestyle.

RUSSIAN DESSERT MUSEUM MUSEUM OF TRADITIONS OF PEASANT TEA TABLE

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NPO "Russian Dessert Museum" holds guided tours on the traditions of the Russian peasant and merchant sweet buffet, the candy shop of the late 19th century, the Russian stove. At the workshops in the museum you can learn how to paint gingerbread, sculpt sugar flowers, bake black bread, barankas and pies. Russian Dessert Museum implements a social project "The Museum will give in good hands a centuries-old baranka craft", aimed at the development of small businesses and the revival of the baranka craft.

PROBLEM TO BE ADDRESSED

Renaissance of Russian cuisine as an element of national culture.

SOLUTIONS USED

Sightseeing tours where participants will learn about the traditions of Russian peasant cuisine, as well as master classes where we teach people to cook dishes following old-time recipes in a real Russian stove.

Scope of Activity: Tourism

Region: Moscow and Moscow Region

Year of Foundation: 2014

Company Founder: Tatyana Feina (Designer and Ideologist, Director)

Target Audience: Elderly people, Parents with children, Youths, Preschoolers, Primary students, Secondary school students, Students, Adults 30–60 years old

Investments Required: The museum needs help in developing its collection, reparing its room. We also need a computer.

Impact Assessment Methods: The most important thing is returnability of people. Roughly every third person once attended an excursion becomes more interested in Russian culture and cuisine, many people come back for new information, to learn how to cook wholesome dishes in stove. Moreover, some people start to apply acquired knowledge in their life. For instance, they do not buy bread at grocery store any more, but make their own according to a recipe we provide to every our attendee at excursions.

Address: Zvenigorod, Frunze st., 23/2

Telephone: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS

The museum is the winner of Cultural Mosaic, the nation-wide contest of towns and villages, and the Best of the Best of the charitable foundation of Elena and Gennady Timchenko; the contest of grants of the President of the Russian Federation; the contest of grants of the Ministry of Culture of Moscow Oblast; nation-wide contest the Best Social Project of the Year – 2018.