Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
CCSI presents excerpts from the Agency for Social Information (ASI) e-mail
information bulletin. Translated from the Russian by Dana Tumenova, CCSI
intern. For more information on how to receive ASI's bulletin regularly,
contact:
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AGENTSTVO SOTSIALNOI INFORMATSII
Kutuzovskyi pr. 22 pod. 14a,
Moscow, 121151
Tel./fax: (095) 249-3989
E-mail: [email protected]
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N 36
September 3-9, 1996
Samara Nonprofit Organizations Promote Development of The "Third Sector"
On September 4-6, the British organization "BEARR Trust" with the support
of the British government and an organization "Charity Know How" organized
a seminar "Development of Nonprofits in Samara Oblast." Trainers from the
charity foundations "Dobraya Vo lya" (Ekaterinburg) and "Soprichastnost"
(Moscow) presented basics of operating a nonprofit organization to 60
seminar participants. Participants also met with the Chair of the Samara'
Duma Committee on Legislature and representatives of city and oblast
administration. Representatives of the Soros and Eurasia foundations
informed trainees on grant application procedures.
To reflect the development of nonprofit organizations in Samara oblast,
Samara's historical and ecocultural association "Povolzh'e" has recently
published a handbook of nonprofit organizations in Samara oblast with the
support of the "BEARR Trust" organiz ation and "Charity Know How."
According to the director of the "BEARR Trust" Moscow office, Julia
Brooks, a second edition of the handbook will include information on
nonprofits in small towns of Samara oblast.
The "BEARR Trust" and "Charity Know How" also helped the Moscow charity
foundation "Soprichastnost" (Complicity) to publish a guide for nonprofit
organizations on how to be successful in their initiatives, to find their
niche among other nonprofits, to fi nd support, and to attract attention
of the mass media. For more information about this publication, contact:
ul. Novoslobodskaya 62-19-294 Moscow 103055 Tel./Fax: (095) 972-1798
E-mail: [email protected]
Volunteer Association of Moldova Nominated Its Candidate
for the Republic's Presidential Elections.
A member of Moldova's Parliament, Marichika Levitskaya, was nominated as a
candidate from non-governmental grassroots organizations for the upcoming
Presidential Election in December 1996. Dr. Levitskaya is a founder and
the Chair of the Volunteer Associ ation which unites children and people
with disabilities, orphans, and low-income people. Dr. Levitskaya holds a
Doctor's degree in sociology and law and has worked as a notary and a
legal adviser. Having suffered from polio in her childhood years, Dr.
Levitskaya has first-hand experience in what it is to be disabled. She
was one of the founders of the first Moldovan Society for the Disabled and
later of the Republican Charitable Rehabilitation Center for children with
disabilities, orphans, and the el derly. Recently, she has helped to
create a Center of Medical Rehabilitation for children with osteopathic
problems. Dr. Levitskaya is a member of the World Volunteer Association
and has traveled around the world visiting countries such as Japan, Austri
a, Germany, Norway, the U.S., Australia, and Sweden. Contact tel.: in
Moscow (095)952-0431; in Chisinau (0422) 56-76-82.
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