The UCMD plans the journal’s three-monthly release, its inclusion in the subscription list of periodicals and its distribution among the associate UCMD members.
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The International Charitable Foundation “Ukraine 3000” notifies that it is in no way related to the establishment of the Harmony.ltd (Financial Harmony) organization. The origins of the organization set forth above are unclear while its activities contradict the principles and ideas of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation. The organization has shamelessly used the foundation’s name along with the names of other reputable non-government and charity establishments.
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This year’s choice was extremely demanding as expert opinion split, said Oleksandr Maksymchuk, Head of the Board of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation. Finally the choice fell upon two editions at once, one on culture, the other on history.
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Kateryna Yushchenko thanked all the authors who with their inspirational creative work draw the audience’s attention to ecological challenges. “You provide a good example by demonstrating that everyone should partake in the environmental protection”, - she pointed out.
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The Ukraine 3000 Foundation plans to support the publication of one volume of the “3000: Ukrainian Poetry” series each year, Kateryna Yushchenko said. Special expert council will be established to chose the works to be supported.
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After a lively and substantive discussion Kateryna Yushchenko presented a two-volume textbook “Corporate Social Responsibility” to the Lviv Business School. The book was created on her own initiative by the leading scholars of the University of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine.
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After asking the audience on their motives for doing the MBA Mrs. Yushchenko told them of her studies in Chicago. “Because I wanted to work in Ukraine and help the country when it becomes a sovereign state I realized that I need to study economics, finances, management, strategic planning, marketing, operational management and accounting”, - she said.
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Recent research published by the American Psychological Association (APA) has proved that our wish to help other people makes us live considerably longer. Volunteers live longer than people who help the others only to their own advantage or don’t care for the others at all.
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The Organising Committee underscored the importance of the interactive component in this year’s contest proceedings, particularly regarding the prize “People’s Philanthropist”, the special award of the Philanthropists’ Association of Ukraine. This is an opportunity to openly give thanks to your own philanthropist using social networks, where everyone is welcome to publicly nominate philanthropists. Moreover, social network users can vote for their favourite philanthropists and inform the audience on the great things they do to benefit the community or individual persons.
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Applicants can submit papers in several competition’s nominations to an unlimited number of topic choices. Papers in joint authorships can be submitted. The application close is December 31, 2011.
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Please note the changes in the competition’s terms and conditions. Firstly, this year charitable projects launched at the beginning of the calendar year – in January (not at the beginning of the school year in September like in the previous years) are accepted. Secondly, the contest documentation is to be sent in electronic form ONLY.
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“Such big success and interest in Ukrainian cinema demonstrates that Ukraine gradually becomes part of the global film industry,” Mr. Khalpakhchi summarized the Cannes results.
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Addressing the audience, Mrs. Yushchenko said, “Kobza and bandura players were true carriers of Ukrainianness. From town to town, from house to house would they carry the Ukrainian language and song, the Ukrainian history. Thus, when just another occupational regime would decide to suppress all things Ukrainian, kobzars were the first to suffer. They had been slaughtered by both czars and secretaries general, but nobody could mute their voice. Because it was the voice of Ukraine itself.”
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May 27, 2011, the Cinemateka hall of the Cultural Center at Kyiv movie theater (Kyiv, 19 Vasylkivska St.) will host the Ukrainian Cinema Conquers the World: the Victorious Cross-Country in Cannes press conference.
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The Ukraine 3000 Foundation took part in forming the tournament’s prize fund and donated books to the total of UAH 3,000 through the organizing committee.
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Winners of the Fourth Doing Good Starts with You All-Ukrainian Charitable Project Competitions are 12 children’s and youth groups from 10 Ukraine’s oblasts. Another 10 charitable projects were named as laureates. The winners also received money prizes: UAH 5,000 for first places, 3,000 for second, 2,000 for third, and 1,000 for the laureates.
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The first part featured two big events: a research and practical workshop presenting and discussing children’s charitable projects and the Children and Charity: Everybody Can Do Good round table.
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The little philanthropists together with Kateryna Yushchenko colored their makeshift flowers and wrote their lists of good deeds on them. The flowers were installed at a green meadow. The participants of the action also spoke about what would be good for Ukraine, what they can do for this, and what all Ukrainians can do.
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The Community works in various areas: helping the poor (orphaned children, the homeless, the imprisoned, the disabled, and people with AIDS), peacemaking and humanitarian activities aimed at solving military conflicts and helping the regions suffering from poverty and war. The Community is one of the few international organizations successfully fighting AIDS in Africa.
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Summing up, the participants of the working meeting stated that the state bodies had to clarify their position regarding further implementation of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health project. In part, public and charitable organizations stepped forward with the initiative to bring the issue to the agenda of the meeting of the Public Council at the Ministry of Health care, scheduled for May 26.
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