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Fund for Sustainable Development
"Our world is very slowly moving toward sustainability. New obstacles keep appearing on the way. If we try to find real successes of this movement, they will almost solely be taking place on a local community level. This is not surprising, because precisely through an effort in municipalities, through direct contacts with citizens and communities, whose sustainable development we intend to promote, it is possible to achieve not only local but, if this work is done on a mass scale, global changes. This principle guides the activities of the Fund for Sustainable Development and I would like to wish it every success in this important, much needed and noble cause."
V. DANILOV-DANILYAN,
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Water Problems and Chairman of FSDThe Fund for Sustainable Development (FSD) is an independent, nongovernmental and non-profit Russian fund created to promote regional and community sustainable development through concrete projects addressing environmental, social and economic issues across the Russian Federation.
Pursuant to its mission, FSD carries out the following activities:
- Grantmaking, including the development and support of activities and training in the sphere of regional sustainable development, environmental protection, environmental education, and civil society development;
- Collection, storage, analysis and dissemination of information on ecosystems, best practices and methods related to sustainable development and promotion of environmental and human health;
- Preparation of analytical reviews and forecasts in such areas as conservation of Russia's natural heritage and biodiversity, and the rational management of natural resources.
- Environment and public health
- Conservation and rational nature management
- Support to civic initiatives
- Energy and resource efficiency
- Education and youth development
The FSD team possesses extensive experience in promoting multi-sector interaction, bringing together local communities and interregional networks to manage projects aimed at promoting the rational use of natural resources and environmental and public health improvement and developing and utilizing energy-efficiency techniques.
FSD reputation is based on full transparency of all aspects of its activities, with special attention focused on addressing issues connected with environmental protection and sustainable development. The core principles of FSD work include transparency, openness, formation of partner teams, goal-oriented activities and achievement of sustainable project results.
The Fund for Sustainable Development has brought together professionals who have been managing socio-economic projects since 1997.
The expertise of this team is based on community development approaches and techniques tested under the ROLL (Replication of Lessons Learned) and TGP (Targeted Grants Program in the Russian Far East) and CDSP (Community Development Support Program) and others carried out with financial support from the United States Agency for International Development.
FSD has successfully fulfilled a whole range of projects with funding from USAID and Russian and international businesses, such as SUAL, BP, EuroChem Company, CITI, TNK-BP and United Technologies.
FSD is also actively collaborating with international foundations (Alcoa Foundation, Ford Foundation and Citi Foundation), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Resources (IUCN) and Russian government philanthropic organizations (Moscow Chamber of Public Organizations, Moscow Philanthropic Board and the National Health League Charitable Foundation).
From 1997 through 2009, over 600 concrete projects for an amount of nearly $14 million were fulfilled under FSD management; and lasting multi-sector interaction was established with government, businesses, NGOs and media outlets practically in all the regions of the country.
FSD has a network of partner regional centers across the country in the cities of Yekaterinburg, Ulan-Ude, Nizhny Novgorod and Khabarovsk. These centers take an active part in on-site project management.
"The basis of FSD work is involving as many local residents as possible into the development of their communities. FSD provides grants for addressing social and economic challenges, giving preference to those municipalities where government, business and local activists have demonstrated their desire to work together. Cities, districts and settlements where such consortiums are created with the help of FSD stop being simply populated centers, but become sites where citizen creative initiatives are realized. This effort also generates an important economic effect. One of the conditions of receiving a grant is reinvestment of savings resulting from energy-efficiency and other projects into community development. To someone the scope of these projects may not seem grandiose enough, but, as we know, "a journey of a thousand li begins with a single step".
Igor YURGENS,
Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development
National network of partner regional centers was formed in the cities of Yekaterinburg, Ulan-Ude, Novokuznetsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Khabarovsk.
The Fund for Sustainable Development and the network it has created are an effective mechanism for disseminating successful experience in sustainable municipal development in Russia.
FSD Board of Directors:
V. I. Danilov-Danilian, Chairman of FSD Board of Directors and Di rector of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Water Problems, Moscow.
A. B. Levintal, Deputy Chairman of the Krai Government - Minister of economic development and foreign relations of the Khabarovsk Krai.
Bennet Sheldon, Operations Director, Russia Cisco Systems, Inc., Ìîscow.
Leonid Vindman, Managing Director, Head of Russian IB Origination UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking, Moscow.
A. N. Kosarikov, Scientific Head of the Institute of environmental projects consulting.
V. M.Tarbayeva, Deputy Head of the Neva-Ladoga Water Basin Agency of Rosvodresurs of MNR RF.
Sergei Shapkhayev, Director, Buryatia Regional Association on Lake Baikal. Ulan-Ude.
Barbara Felitti, Founder and Owner, Barbara Felitti Consulting, LLC, USA.
Oleg Fokin, FSD Executive Director.
Carol N. Pierstorff, Senior Environmental Advisor, Energy Markets Group (EMG). Washington. DC. USA.
Miron B. Kupchik, General director of “Marka Podorognik” Co.FSD Steering Committee:
V.V.Posner, journalist
Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Board of Institute of Contemporary Development
V.N.Kisilev, Chair of BoD of Noncommercial partnership of energy suppliers and traders
John Dooley, Justice. Vermont Supreme Court: President. Russian-American Rule-of-Law Consortium; Board Member. Institute for Sustainable Communities; USA.
Fund for Sustainable Development
14 Gubkina St., Office 73;
Post: 117312 Moscow, box 85
Tel.: 7(495)7480552; Fax: 7(495)7480553
E-mail: info@fund-sd.ru
www.fund-sd.ru
