International Renaissance Foundation’s Annual Report 2025
Read the Report The world around us has become less predictable. Democracies are increasingly focused on their own domestic problems. Following the change in ...
Impulse
Goal:The main goal of the project is to help local organizations become drivers of sustainable and inclusive recovery of their communities. The program combines financial support, training, analytics, internships, and networking. It is a long-term investment in the development of a new wave of local change leaders.
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The winners of the fourth wave of the Small Grants Competition
The International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), together with the East Europe Foundation (EEF), with the support of Norway (Norad) and Sweden (Sida), is implementing the Impulse ...
The First Cohort of Impulse Thematic Grantees Reflects on Project Results: Key Lessons for Everyone Working on Early Recovery
Sometimes, it is school students who are the first to identify challenges in their communities. Displaced people can preserve and sustain a community even after losing their ...
EdCamp Ukraine conducted Ukraine’s first public accreditation of educational institutions. Here’s how it works
In December 2025, the NGO EdCamp Ukraine, an institutional grantee of The Impulse Project, developed a model, methodology, and toolkit for the public accreditation of general ...
How to Directly Shape Community Decisions: Five Tools for Participation from the Impulse Project
Resident participation in decision-making is key to the development and recovery of affected communities in Ukraine. Tools for local democracy are now available to everyone. And ...
From local initiatives to impactful advocacy campaigns: how NAM amplifies the voice of communities through the media
Not all issues important to the community are heard. Often, it is not the substance that is lacking, but a voice capable of attracting attention and influencing decisions. We are ...
Impulse Case Studies: Five Challenges and Five Solutions for Communities Seeking Answers
How should communities address their challenges? Option A: Wait for someone else to solve them for you. Option B: Take action. Grantees of the Impulse Project chose the second ...
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Democracy and Good Governance
Goal:
We help preserve stable democracy in Ukraine and make Ukrainian governance transparent and accountable
Europe and the World
Goal:
The mission of the program is to support the European integration of Ukraine as a means to introduce effective pro-European reforms in the areas of democratization, human rights, good governance and the rule of law based on the best global practices, as well as to work on increasing aid
Human Rights and Justice
Goal:
Contribute to holding Russia accountable for war crimes, continuing justice reforms in Ukraine, and protecting the fundamental freedoms of Ukrainians
Social Capital
Goal:
We build and strengthen communities that are the backbone of an open society, create prerequisites for public dialogue and cohesion based on democratic values
Civic resilience
Goal:
The program aims at strengthening organizational and advocacy competences of organisations of war veterans, internally displaced people and bereaved families, supporting development of better policies and inclusion mechanisms, and creating conditions for civic dialogue, understanding and reintegration
Whole Society Accession
Goal:
Promoting the inclusive, accountable, ecological and intelligent recovery of Ukraine as a country guided by European values and principles. The project is implemented by the Fund together with the European Union.
The Resilience Lab
Goal:
The Resilience Lab is a support program for local civil society organizations that helps them become stronger, more influential and more sustainable. It combines training, mentoring, experience exchange and institutional support to give organizations the tools to develop and work with communities. The goal of the program is to strengthen local change leaders and create effective solutions for community recovery and cohesion.
Impulse
Goal:
The main goal of the project is to help local organizations become drivers of sustainable and inclusive recovery of their communities. The program combines financial support, training, analytics, internships, and networking. It is a long-term investment in the development of a new wave of local change leaders.
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