Sponsorship and Partnership for Community Development

This was the slogan for the training for 13 workers in the cultural sector and civic leaders that was held on June 2-5 in the Rivne faculty of the State Academy for Managerial Personnel in Culture and Art, organized by the Princes-Benefactors Ostrozki Foundation as the next stage of the project “Cultural and Educational Institutions and Community Activization” which is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

Participants studied contemporary communication models, identified their organization’s circle of ties, practiced forming announcements for future public and volunteer actions, learned to plan informational-fundraising campaigns, and put together sponsorship packets and public reports about their institution’s activities. All these instruments are used to not only effectively spread information about institutions in the sociocultural sphere and involve the community in solving local problems, but gain financing and constant financial partners among businesses and not just state and local government. 

The students were convinced that cultural institutions in cooperation with NGOs, government and business can become initiators and organizers of the restoration of playgrounds and sports fields and conduct numerous events that are important for local community development.

Since most of the participants were representatives of libraries from oblast centers, the Ostrozki Foundation gained the opportunity to place their publications on 5 Internet portals that are administered by them and in the nearest future will open correspondence points for the magazine “Philanthropy Newsletter” in Khmelnytsky and Mykolayiv.

Taking into consideration the proposals by the State Academy for for Managerial Personnel in Culture and Art and the training participants, the Ostrizki Fundation turned to the Head of the Board of Directors of the Ruslan Kraplych Foundation with the request that they start working on a methodological manual that will be dedicated to practical recommendation for the transition of cultural institutions into public activity centers. The publication will contain training materials and descriptions of the successful work models of participating project institutions.

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			Diana Zubko, tel: +380 (44) 461 95 00 | fax: +380 (44) 486 01 66 email: zubko@irf.kiev.ua office: Kyiv, Bekhterevsky Lane, 13-a, room 2