Wolnoe delo

Wolnoe delo
Legal form:	Foundation, endowment
Purpose:	Promotion of programs to solve charitable and social problems
Chair:	Tamara Rumyantseva
Consist:	since 1998
Founder:	Oleg Deripaska
Foundation capital:	6.5 billion rubles
Seat:	Moscow
Website:	volnoe-delo.ru

The Wolnoje delo Foundation ( Russian Вольное дело ) was founded in 1998 by the Russian entrepreneur Oleg Deripaska and is now one of the largest private charitable foundations in Russia.

purpose

The foundation supports a number of initiatives with a special focus on education and children. The purpose is to find effective solutions to major societal problems in areas such as education, science, preservation of intellectual and cultural heritage, improving health care and improving access to social care.

Surname

The Russian Wolnoje delo means "voluntary business".

facts and figures

A decade after its inception, the foundation had allocated more than $ 230 million to support more than 400 charity programs. Among the recipients of the foundation programs are more than 86,000 school children, 4,000 teachers, 8,000 students, 4,000 academics, 1,000 retirees and more than 1,100 educational, scientific, cultural, medical, athletic, religious and other institutions.

The foundation supports Lomonosov University in Moscow and Saint Petersburg State University , the Hermitage Museum , the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters and many other educational, cultural, historical and religious centers in more than 40 Russian areas.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wolnoje Delo in numbers
2. ↑ Official website of Oleg Deripaska ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ The GAZ group took part in the 'Computers für die Schulkinder' project through the Volnoe Delo Foundation
4. ↑ Share of voluntary donations