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Charity: to give or to receive: MARGARITA GRISHECHKINA at TEDxKaliningrad

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Film & Animation

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I was born on March 9, 1975 in Nizhny Novgorod, where I graduated from high school. I have higher education and in 2000 graduated with honors from the Russian Institute of Textile and Light Industry specialty engineer garments. The same year in Nizhny Novgorod I was introduced for the first time to activities of the "third sector" in Nizhny Novgorod NGO "Institute Social and Political Psychology. After three years I changed place of residence because of marriage, but I remained true to non-profit organizations and continued to work in newly established a charitable foundation of the community "Kaliningrad", first in Deputy Director, then Director of Development, and from 2009 to the present in the position of Executive Director. In 2006 I gave birth a daughter Arina. Work in the nonprofit sector also gave me rise to a professional development. I have been growing my skills each year by taking part in various workshops, conferences and training both in Russia and abroad. Over the past ten years I has passed retraining program management training for national economy of the Russian Federation (President's program), education in Moscow School of Policy Research. I participate in programs to study the experience of Nordic countries technologies about Energy efficiency and renewable energy and also in "Open World" program - a study visit to Washington and Chicago (USA). I become acquainted with the work of community foundations State Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) during school visit. My development have started with distance learning courses "General Management NCO," "NCO Financial Management", "Protection of public interests", "Attracting resources" NGO Support Centre, School of NGOs and the course "Relations public in the third sector" in Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University of N.A.Dobrolyubov. In addition I passed more than 30 various seminars and training sessions for coaches, including: * Professionals seminars Tacis Local Support Office in Kaliningrad; * Business training "Leadership in emotional economy"; * "Building the future of the organization" (Keith Coates, Durban, RSA Consulting company "Tomorrow Today"); * "Consciousness coach" (George Lakey, Philadelphia, USA, Training for change); * Multi-level training courses for Trainers Training Centre "Dove" (Moscow), the Center for Civic Initiatives (Voronezh); * The Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe; * Russian children's associations; During my work at the community foundation "Kaliningrad" there was 20 million rubles attracted to the region implementation of various socially oriented programs in the field of culture, housing education, NGO support, financing of rehabilitation and treatment of children and Support the poor, individual support to charitable aid vulnerable groups. And more than 3 million euro was attracted to the project implementation in ecology, culture and housing to municipalities, public institutions and HOAs. Selecting a charity and "third sector" as a profession, I try to find time for social activities, not income. In September 2012 at the Public forum Kaliningrad organizations selected the Public Council under Chapter, the Kaliningrad, where he eventually became vice-president. In September 2012 at the Public forum Kaliningrad organizations I was elected to the Public Council at the head of the city of Kaliningrad, where I eventually became vice-president.

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