Russian Community Foundations: Practice and Strategies

Charities Aid Foundation (2009) Johannesburg, South Africa: Global Fund for Community Foundations

This report summarizes the findings and conclusions of over six months of consultation activities carried out by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in Russia and commissioned by the Global Fund for Community Foundations. A key conclusion of the exercise is that community foundations in Russia constitute the only functioning and relatively well distributed model of community philanthropy, rooted in the local community and recognized and valued by a variety of stakeholders at community, regional and federal level.

Russian Community Foundations: Practice and Strategies