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First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Kiriyenko held a meeting, via videoconference, of the Coordination Committee for holding competitions for Presidential grants for the development of civil society, during which decisions were made on the distribution of grants in 2023.
In total, 4.3 billion rubles will be received by 1,845 socially oriented non-profit organisations, winners of the competition the results of which were summed up at a meeting of the Coordination Committee. This is the first competition of the Presidential Grants Foundation in 2023. Projects for it were accepted in September and October 2022, and in November and December they underwent an independent appraisal. In total, 10,615 initiatives of non-profit organisations from 87 regions were received.
By decision of the Coordinating Committee, the Presidential Grants Foundation will provide another two billion rubles to 81 regions in order to co-finance support for non-profit organisations. These regions submitted their applications to the Foundation in December 2022.
Regional operators will distribute their own funds (3.1 billion rubles) and the received co-financing following open and transparent competitions.
In addition to this, the Coordinating Committee approved the regulations on the next competition of the Presidential Grants Foundation. Projects for it will be accepted from February 1 to March 15, 2023.
The full list of the selected projects, the regulation on the new competition and the distribution of co-financing among the Russian regions can be found on the президентскиегранты.рф website.
Over the six years of the Presidential Grants Foundation’s operation, 35,000 social and cultural projects in all 89 regions of the country have been launched based on the results of competitions held by the Foundation, as well as other operators using its model and funds provided by them. The total budget of the projects exceeded 110 billion rubles, including 62 billion financed by the Presidential Grants Foundation.
January 12, 2023