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News. November 2011

We are glad to congratulate our partners, Alcoa Company and Citi Company, on becoming the winners of the Fourth Annual National Survey “Corporate Leaders in Philanthropy”.

Oleg Fokin, executive director of the Fund for Sustainable Development and Tatiana Avramenko, manager of corporate social responsibility at Citi Russia

Oleg Fokin, executive director of the Fund for Sustainable Development and Galina Grigoryeva, Alcoa Foundation programs coordinator for Russia

The winners were announced at an award ceremony in Moscow on November 12, 2011. The Annual National Survey “Corporate Leaders in Philanthropy” is a joint project of the daily business newspaper Vedomosti, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Donors Forum not-for-profit partnership of grant-making organizations. The board of experts of the survey includes known authorities on philanthropy, representatives of public and non-profit organizations, international institutions, government and the academic community.

In 2011, Alcoa Russia became the leader in the ranking of 50-odd participants, rising seven points as compared with last year and increasing its charitable spending by 1.5 times - up to 36.6 million rubles. Alcoa Company is a longtime partner of the Fund for Sustainable Development in a whole range of programs: 

http://fund-sd.ru/english/alcoa/index.htm

http://fund-sd.ru/english/alcoa5/index.htm

http://fund-sd.ru/english/acqua/index.htm

Citi Company became the winner of a special nomination from the RF Ministry of Economic Development for its program “Improving Communities Right Now!” (http://fund-sd.ru/english/citi/index.htm - fulfilled from 2008 through 2010 jointly with the Fund for Sustainable Development) that was defined as promoting community development and improving the social climate in the region of the company’s presence. 

We are very glad about the successes of our partners and wish them further prosperity and new creative achievements!