Miloserdiye Platform — a platform for raising funds to help church social NGOs, created by the portal Miloserdiye.ru. Today, 37 church projects from all over Russia are represented here. To date, the Miloserdiye Platform has raised more than 42 million rubles for the work of church social projects. Among the projects — sororities to care for the seriously ill and lonely elderly, rehabilitation centers for addicts, centers to support crisis families, projects to habilitate children with severe disabilities.
The Mercy Platform is now accepting new participants. It takes place once a year. In 2024, the call for applications will last until September 1. Within two weeks, the project organizers will contact everyone who sent an application for participation in the project and will inform about the results.
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Requirements for participants:
- Applications are accepted from organizations registered at least three years ago;
- the organization must have a website, which collects funds for NPO activities, including through online donations;
- funds are not collected on personal cards of the organization's employees;
- reports on the expenditure of funds raised are published regularly;
- the organization has recommendations Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry.
To apply, please read the rules and fill out the application form at the link.
Organizations that not only provide targeted assistance, but also implement systemic charitable projects are eligible to apply.
The Platform's strategic development goals include: learning, sharing experience, building strong networks and systemic collaboration. The first such interdisciplinary initiative was the conference «Church Aid: Challenges, Meanings and Resources». About 100 people from 30 regions of Russia attended the event in person, and more than 300 people watched the online broadcast. Conference participants discussed what makes up the activities of church NPOs, their main goals and objectives, issues of organizing assistance to wards. The practical module of the forum was devoted to the practices of resource mobilization, correct routing of mentees and combating burnout.
«Platform of Mercy» was created with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund.
News and stories about church social ministry are published in Telegram channel «Affairs of the Church» and in the groups of the Synod Department for Charity in VK, OK, on Youtube channel.
.You can help refugees and affected civilians at helpvbede.rf. You can support church social projects on the online platform of the Synodal Department for Charity «Let's Help».
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