Khabarovsk Volunteers Learn too Launch Bold Ideas with Limited Funds
City volunteers learned how to bring their boldest ideas to life, even without substantial funding.
A gathering of managers and leaders from volunteer associations brought together over a hundred participants in a strategic session led by the winners of the municipal grants competition – representatives from the public institution “Perspective.”
This year, Khabarovsk mayor Sergei Kravchuk increased the grant prize fund by 1.5 million rubles. Additionally,the region allocated 800 thousand rubles to support social activists,totaling 5.8 million rubles distributed among applicants,” noted Sergei Khudenev, Head of the city department for public relations and youth work. “The number of applicants grows each year, and the training project from the youth association “Perspective” will help both new and experienced volunteers expand their knowledge in this area.
How do you achieve results with limited resources?
The strategic session employed a multi-format approach.
“The project aims to be multi-faceted, so we designed the session to address rallying people around a cause, finding resources – financial, human, and emotional – and preventing burnout,” explained Lyubov Krasnova, Director of the 4K Center for Leaders and Teams, who served as moderator. “We used dialog, games, and team interaction to facilitate communication.”
The creative icebreaker “Change the conversation partner” allowed participants to quickly learn about each other’s work and accomplishments. Volunteers formed mini-teams and shared their experiences.
“At school No. 1 named after Hero of Russia Sergei Orlov in Berezovka, my students and I conduct search work, researching local, regional, and national history, and tracing family trees,” shared Alexander Kondratyev, a teacher of public safety and defense of the Motherland. “I was inspired by the TV show “Wait for Me” to trace my own family history back seven generations and even visit the ancestral home of a relative from the 1900s. I then sparked that same interest in my cadet class students.”