Ukrainian civil society received a significant boost in 2014, when the need for charitable assistance increased sharply during the Revolution of Dignity as well as after the occupation of Crimea and the start of the war in eastern Ukraine. NGOs and charitable foundations have since proven to be an effective…

By Anna Nishnianidze, Head of Communications at Zagoriy Foundation Zagoriy Foundation has successfully implemented a pilot educational course to deepen knowledge of fundraising within the Charity Match capacity building programme for non-profits. Anna Nishnianidze, one of the course lecturers and Head of Communications at Zagoriy Foundation, shares her thoughts on why the sector needs such courses and how to correctly estimate the resources and energy need when creating any communication project to make it last.

It is hard to overestimate the importance of education. However, when it comes to the charity sector, internal growth and development are not always a priority. The ZagoriyFoundation’s new programme for small- and medium-sized non-profit organisations seeks to provide the education the charity sector needs. Many good initiatives struggle to…

Charity starts with a person — the one who once thought about helping and sharing with another to make the world a better place. However, one may face various obstacles on the way to doing a good deed, such as lack of motivation, information gaps, and distrust of charitable organisations and foundations. All these factors contribute to burnout rather than the formation of a culture of giving. In Ukraine, there is a lack of awareness of the activities charitable organisations do and even of their existence. A recent report by the Zagoriy Foundation called ‘ Charitable Giving as Viewed by Ukrainians: What is It Like in 2019? ‘ revealed that only 7% of Ukrainians support charitable foundations…

Zagoriy Foundation together with MHP — Сommunity charitable foundation announces Charity Match — a program for the non-profit sector which aims to increase the ability of organizations to create more efficient fundraising campaigns. During the course, participants will develop fundraising campaigns and will begin to implement them after graduation. In case of successful fundraising, the collected amount will be doubled by Zagoriy Foundation and MHP — Сommunity charitable foundation.

‘True excellence is a product of synergy,’ a common saying goes. For the third sector, it’s especially relevant. It’s too common for nonprofits advocating important causes to be understaffed and under-resourced. …

Having worked on developing charity in Ukraine for six years now, Zagoriy Foundation has seen the benefits of institutional philanthropy acutely over ‘direct’ help. No doubt, direct person-to-person help is helpful in various cases — a poor person knows best what they need, and those gravely ill probably need cash as soon as possible. Yet, in most cases, charitable foundations can provide the best value for a dollar donated.

In the newest article for Alliance Magazine our Executive Director Eugenia Mazurenko tells about philanthropy in Ukraine and about spheres, which need additional attention from the charitable sector. Read the article here.

In 2020, we published the following surveys: 1. Charitable Activity in Ukraine: Internal View This survey is the second phase of the charitable sector research in Ukraine conducted after Charitable Giving as Viewed by Ukrainians research. …