Our Future (fund)

[1] As of November 2019, the fund, according to its own data, supported 254 social entrepreneurship projects located in 58 regions of Russia, 653.2 million rubles were allocated for their implementation in the form of interest-free loans.

[11][12] As of 2020, the competition has been running for 12 years, 254 projects from 58 regions of Russia have won interest-free cash loans for a total amount of 653.2 million rubles.

[13][14] Also in 2018, the fund announced the allocation of interest-free loans to socially transformative projects in the amount of 10 to 40 million rubles with a grace period of up to 3 years within the framework of a competition.

[21] Every year, the Foundation awards the Impulse of Kindness prize for contributions to the development and promotion of social entrepreneurship in Russia.

[23][24] At the 7th "Impulse of Kindness" award ceremony on October 4, 2018, an agreement was signed between the Our Future Foundation and the Social Projects Support Fund.

In the same year, the Impulse of Kindness prize won first place at the Eventiada IPRA GWA ceremony in the category "Best Project in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility".

[27] With the adoption of the law on social entrepreneurship in Russia, the organizers of the award recorded an increase in the number of applications for its receipt: 332 against 230 a year earlier.

[29] The Fund also announced a 6-month deferral for the return of previously issued loans for bona fide borrowers whose activities were suspended as a result of the pandemic.

[38][39][40] The project was launched in the form of a competition, the winners will be able to sell their products in the stores of the Lukoil filling station network in most of the regions of Russia.

By the end of 2014, the experiment was recognized as successful, and the number of gas stations with stands with products of social entrepreneurs in their sales areas increased to 42 (in Russia as a whole).

[48] In 2020, in order to create an infrastructure for the market for the sale of social entrepreneurs' products via the Internet, the Our Future Foundation signed an agreement with the Fair of Masters [ru] Internet platform, the largest platform for handmade products of small businesses, individual entrepreneurs [ru] and the self-employed population.

During the year, goods worth more than 150 million rubles were sold, 35 manufacturers from among social entrepreneurs were supported, including 8 enterprises of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.

project, in addition to filling stations, are sold in Russian hypermarkets of the O’Key and Selgros networks, as well as on the Wildberries Internet platform.

[61] On 19 March 2015, it became known that the Fund, together with the International Forum of Business Leaders, signed an agreement aimed at promoting mentoring in social entrepreneurship with a view to its development.

As a result, 30 investors were found who expressed their readiness to finance 8 regional projects in the field of social entrepreneurship for a total amount of 115.6 million rubles.

As of August 2022, agreements have been signed with the ASE of St. Petersburg, the Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar Krais, the Amur and Astrakhan Regions, and the Republic of Bashkortostan.

[75] In May 2015, the Fund, together with the Nornickel company, took part in the finalization of 15 business projects, the purpose of which is to eliminate the social problems of the inhabitants of the Arctic.

Among budding social entrepreneurs, 9 projects from 6 regions of Russia received financial support for a total amount of over 3.4 million rubles.

[78] In April 2019, the Our Future Foundation and the largest Russian petrochemical company Sibur launched a joint comprehensive program to support and develop social entrepreneurship in Tobolsk and the Tobolsky District.

Among them:[82] Experimental courses on social entrepreneurship are taught in universities, and educational programs developed with the participation of the Foundation are being introduced.

[92] A similar memorandum was signed in May 2016 with the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia (EFCA), which is a leader in promoting social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan.

[93] Outside the post-Soviet space, the Foundation cooperates with organizations and experts from Great Britain, Italy, South Korea, United States, Germany, China,[94] Singapore.

[99][100] In the summer of 2019, the Foundation organized a visit to Moscow for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus.

Within the framework of the visit, a press conference was held summing up the results of the International Social Business Day and the presentation of Yunus's book "The World of Three Zeros".

Over the years, with the support of the Foundation, translations of popular books on social entrepreneurship by David Bornstein, Craig Darden-Phillips, Gill Kikal and Thomas Lyons, Lester Salamon have been published.

How We Change the World and Make Money", by Anthony Bugg-Levin and Jed Emerson, leading experts in social performance investment.

[112][113] In the summer of 2018, with the support of the Foundation, Eksmo published a book by Roger Martin and Sally R. Osberg, Going beyond the Best: How Social Entrepreneurship Works.

[115][116] In 2020, the Our Future Foundation, together with the Higher School of Economics, conducted and published a study "World experience in the development of impact investments".

[126][127][128] In 2021, Our Future Foundation was awarded the EVPA Data Transparency Label 2021 (European Venture Philanthropy Association) “for active participation in research”.

[131] In July 2022, the foundation received a diploma from the Donors Forum (association of the largest grant-giving organizations in Russia) for the formation of the ecosystem of social entrepreneurship.

"Impulse of Kindness - 2015" award ceremony
The "More than a Purchase!" stand at the "Impulse of Kindness" award ceremony, 2016
Press conference organized by the Our Future Foundation, with the participation of Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus , 2 July 2019