FAQs

Structurally it is the fund of funds, it is the aggregator of opportunities, knowledge, resources, and experience. We are not engaged in targeted help, we don’t mediate the relationship between donors and funds, we don’t focus our support for lifelong period, still we help them to become sustainable and independent. You can learn more in the section “Programs”.

You can click the button “Support us” and go to the page of donations. Then choose the method of payment you prefer, after that follow the instructions.

Our activity is fully transparent, you can find all the reports in section “Reports”.

If you would like to cooperate with the fund, please, send us an e-mail: friends@friends-foundation.com or fill in the form. If you want to support one of our programs, please, find a presentation of a particular program on its page and read about possible ways of cooperation, and an e-mail which you can use as a contact of the program team.

You can find the announcements of the future events and read about the past on the page “Blog”, also you can follow us on Telegram and VKontakte.
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Moscow school of professional philanthropy it is one of our projects that unites module NPO management program, specialized open seminars, integration of employees of the funds we paternalize into current educational programs and non-commercial sector researches.
To apply for candidature of a speaker, please, send us an e-mail: education@friends-foundation.com.

To study in our school, please, send a request on the school website.

All seminars are free of charge and open for all employees and active volunteers of NPOs. Pre-registration is required for each of them. We make an announcement about each seminar in social networks Telegram and VKontakte, also on our website on the page “Blog” with a link for registration.

ProCharity is an online platform, that unites NPOs and professionals, they share their expertise pro bono. It is a new technological way for volunteers to fulfill the need for good deeds and interesting professional tasks, for NPOs it is the way to receive help from qualified professionals.

An NPO publishes a task in any of professional spheres on ProCharity, platform, a volunteer responds. They discuss the details of the project, so that the one who executes a task, gets it correctly. As soon as the work is done, an NPO receives it and evaluates a volunteer. A volunteer closes his task and chooses a bonus from a partner.

Together with ProCharity you can pump your hard and soft skills, improve your portfolio, meet colleagues, and change charity sphere as part of a large picture.
Your tasks are solved by professionals on ProCharity, also ProCharity is fully in charge of communication with volunteers and their reward.

ProCharity offers several options to become a partner. You can choose either of them suitable for you. You can become an intellectual partner. It means you can use the platform as a CSR tool.

You can involve employees into your work with charity projects, motivate them and improve the level of a particular specialist as well as the whole team.

You can become a bonus partner: you can give our volunteers discounts for your products, service, and gifts.

You can invest in the product or organize a collaboration. You can learn more about it (see the presentation and other forms of cooperation) — here.

“The Team of Professionals” is the fund program. It supports NPOs and its development towards professional NPO. Within this program we share our resources and expertise because we are absolutely sure in the following statement: if an NPO is managed correctly, it becomes more sustainable and the social effect from its activity will multiply grow.

The aim of the program» is a qualitative change of NPO work towards its professional development.

The first step of our joint work with NPO is the analysis of program activity and finance and legal sector. For each NPO in the program we give strategic session, in its conclusion we form an individual plan for support from charity fund “Friends”. It can include:

  • HR consulting,
  • Trainings and supervising for NPO team,
  • Business education for NPO executives in Moscow school of Professional Philanthropy and in partners’ educational programs,
  • Hiring one or more executives for an NPO,
  • Mentorship of an executive of an NPO.

We bring the best business practices into the work of charity organizations, working in culture, medicine, education, and other social programs. We seek to create NPO professional community with the results, which have major social effect, with quality of work, that can be trusted, and with professionalism, that can provide you with an expertise.

In 2019 4 new NPOs joined the development program “The Team of Professionals”. There are 16 organizations in total on the platform. You can learn more about them following the link – “Friendly Funds” «Фонды-друзья».

If you would like to become a partner of the program, please, don’t hesitate to write us an e-mail: education@friends-foundation.com.

The accelerator of “The Team of Professionals” is one of the educational programs of Moscow school of professional philanthropy and it is a logical step for participants, who continue studying at the course for NPO executives. Only executives course graduates can apply.

You can keep a track of the admission dates to “The Team of Professionals” and “The course for NPO executives” on our website.

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