There is exactly one month left before the “Impulse of Good – 2021” award ceremony. The prize fund of the Prize this year is 2,480,000 rubles.
The Impulse of Kindness is an annual award established by the Foundation for Regional Social Programs Our Future, which is awarded to social entrepreneurs, representatives of public organizations, heads of government agencies and specialized departments, the media and educational institutions.
The “Impulse of Good” anniversary award is one of the significant events in the field of social entrepreneurship in 2021. Well-deserved awards will be given to social entrepreneurs and public figures who, over the past two years, despite the restrictions due to the pandemic, have continued to develop their good deed and achieve new heights in this, ”said Natalia Zvereva, Director of the Our Future Foundation.
This year, the organizing committee received 209 applications from 48 regions of Russia. The highest activity was shown by participants from Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, as well as the Kaliningrad region.
“It is not the first year that we have supported the Impulse of Good Award and are pleased to be a part of this important project. In recent years, the sphere of social entrepreneurship has been actively developing in our country, more and more socially oriented startups appear, measures to support social business from the state and public organizations are being perfected. TASS strives to contribute to this important cause: we tell the stories of social entrepreneurs, we actively cover everything that happens in this area. I think that by joint efforts we will be able to infect even more new participants with this project, ”said TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov. TASS is the general media partner of the Impulse of Kindness Prize.
Nominations for the “Impulse of Good – 2021” Award:
- For personal contribution to the development of social entrepreneurship.
- For a systematic approach to social entrepreneurship.
- For the best corporate program for the development of social entrepreneurship.
- For the best regional program to support social entrepreneurship.
- For the best coverage of social entrepreneurship in the information space.
- For the best Russian educational program in the field of social entrepreneurship.
- For the best impact project.
The award ceremony for the Prize Laureates will take place on October 27, 2021 at the Lotte Hotel Moscow.
In previous years, 1,843 applications from 81 regions of Russia were received for the Prize, and 89 people became laureates.
Among the laureates of the Prize of previous years are Honored Artists of Russia Sergey Bezrukov and Konstantin Khabensky, Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation Olga Epifanova, social entrepreneurs Roman Aranin and Anton Kuchumov, Channel One and TASS.