While choosing an investment vehicle in public infrastructure the preference is given to initiatives which are aimed at achievement of significant social changes in the region of operation provided that volume of expenses for execution of these initiatives is substantiated and commensurable to the expected result. NIAEP encourages targeted charity projects aimed at life quality improvement of people connected with organizations of State Corporation ROSATOM. NIAEP executes social projects which are not budget-substituting and which support tendering procedures on determination of the best social initiatives.
In 2012 the volume of monetary funds allocated by NIAEP for charity purposes amounted to 84 million rubles. Significant funds (60 million rubles) were allocated to public orthodox organizations for construction and reconstruction of churches (Nizhny Novgorod and Rostov Regions, Lithuania, and Republic of Belarus).
In 2012 charity funds were distributed between the following types of organizations:
- Public organizations;
- Local authorities;
- Educational, healthcare and cultural institutions;
- Sports organizations;
- Religious organizations.
Charity support in the amount of 1.5 million rubles was rendered by NIAEP to municipal formations, enterprises and public organization of the Nizhny Novgorod, the Rostov, the Tver and the Kaliningrad Regions for arrangement of charity events, improvement of infrastructure and land, execution of cultural-mass and sports events, rendering assistance to war and labor veterans and disabled people.
For the first time in 2012 NIAEP organized and carried out a Charity Projects contest in regions of its operation. The contest was announced on April 2, 2012. The total grant fund of the contest amounted to 12.3 million rubles.
102 projects (from 86 organizations) were submitted to the contest. In total the requested funds amounted to 63.3 million rubles. 32 projects (from 33 organizations) were selected by the jury as the winners of the contest.
Table 7.54. Number of Projects Awarded in Competitions
Table 7.55. Number of Projects Awarded in Competitions
