Conference hosts and partners will share the results of the previous conference day and will start you off to the day ahead.

Why should business integrate the SDGs into their strategies, operations and reporting? What competitive advantages does it bring? Leading international and Russian companies will share what business opportunities they see in embedding the SDGs in their social strategies.
In Partnership with the United Metallurgical Company (AO OMK)

Interview with Professor Maurizio Zollo, Imperial College London, who will talk about:

Why meditation is important to build sustainability in companies?
Where should decision-makers start when they decide to integrate SDGs into their strategies?
How does an organisation win when it ensures gender, age and racial diversity in its team?

Professor Zollo will discuss all these questions with Yulia Vesenyova, Senior Manager in Communications & Public Affairs, at Janssen, Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical companies, in Russia and CIS, member of the Board of the Russian Donors Forum.

What do Russian top managers think about the impact of the pandemic on their business and society? How to build a business and social investment strategy in an era of uncertainty? How do leaders see the “New Normal” and what will be the place Of the Sustainable Development goals? This will be discussed by the participants of the discussion — leaders of Russian and International companies.

The session will bring together business, state and civil society to discuss how to ensure an effective dialogue among stakeholders to embrace a truly sustainable development of our society, and how to align this transformation with the SDGs.

Moderator: Dmitry Burenko, Co-founder and Director Anthropocene Epoch project

What are the global trends in the development of social strategies in the context of corporate social responsibility? How are they highlighted in the leading international study on corporate giving «Giving in Numbers»? What are the global trends in the development of social strategies in the context of corporate social responsibility? How are they highlighted in the leading international study on corporate giving «Giving in Numbers»? The speakers of this session will discuss how these global trends are reflected on national specifics of corporate social investments. This discussion will be organized in collaboration with the Russian Donors Forum project «Leaders of Corporate Philanthropy».

Moderator: Elena Feoktistova, Managing Director for corporate responsibility, sustainable development and social entrepreneurship of RSPP

Conference hosts and partners will share the results of the previous conference day and will start you off to the day ahead.

Leading donor foundations in Russia will present their vision of the prospects for the development of the philanthropic sector in Russia and will share how to ensure sustainability of foundations and their beneficiaries.

Leading Russian charities will share how they were impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, what lessons have been learned and how they will plan to build their activities and relationships with stakeholders moving forward.

In partnership with SIBUR Holding PJSC

There is an increasing number of foundations which re-align their activities with SDGs – they integrate SDGs into their strategies, design their programme priorities in accordance with the SDG framework, build their communications around it. What is the pragmatic value of SDGs for foundations? What is the role of foundations in the achievement of SDGs, and what is their competitive advantage in comparison with other stakeholders? These questions will be raised by leaders of the foundation sector in Europe and Russia.

Why integration of SDGs into annual reports and non-profit communications is considered to be one of the best practices? How does this help in building communication with stakeholders? This discussion will be organized in collaboration with the Russian Donors Forum projects “Transparency Rating of NGOs” and "Tochka otschota".

Conference hosts and partners will share the results of the previous conference day and will start you off to the day ahead.

This year, support for education was in the spotlight of the expert community not only because of the traditional popularity of this area among donors, but also due to the affect of COVID-19 on educational processes all around the world. During this Benchmark session, there will be an open discussion of leadership cases on the implementation of SDG 4 "Quality Education", as well as of the results of the study on education carried out by the Russian Donors Forum.

Интервью с Бэном Дэвисом, Директором Фонда Johnson&Johnson и глобальным руководителем Центра инноваций в области здравоохранения Johnson & Johnson (CHWI), руководителем глобального сообщества по Европе, Ближнему Востоку и Африке (EMEA).

During the COVID-19 crisis, whereas some projects in healthcare received additional resources, others struggled to receive support in case they were not directly affected by COVID-19. During the session, the participants will discuss how the pandemic changed the requirements for successful healthcare projects and how foundations and companies integrate the sustainable development agenda into their projects.

The key to sustainability of both the organization and the community is not only in preventing acute social challenges, but also in building a diversified system of management and teams. The participants of the session will discuss how to create an ecosystem where the potential of women will be most fully realized in economic, social projects, in corporate and public administration. The session will bring together successful cases of Russian and foreign companies and foundations.

Many companies have been able to demonstrate flexibility in implementing social programs and supporting their beneficiaries and the most vulnerable groups during the pandemic. This workshop will present the most successful business cases on transforming their community programmes and creating a sustainable model.

Conference hosts and partners will share the results of the previous conference day and will start you off to the day ahead.

Participants of the session will go through a quest in a real time: the experts and you will help the main characters to overcome difficulties in their work with local communities. Your task will be hard - how to invest in the local communities in an efficient way.

Participants will learn

- What are the most common mistakes (and even failures) happen in the work dedicated at supporting local communities?
- How can these situations be foreseen? What should be done to avoid or solve them?
- How to see the change - that the local community is indeed "developing" and the needed impact is achieved?

Sustainable Development Goals are complex tasks that require non-trivial approaches to their solution and urge to rethink the traditional formats of philanthropy and search for new partnership opportunities. Social investment based on comprehensive organisational support and assessment of social impact is considered to be one of the best practices in the sector.The session will present a case-study of the strategic partnership of the Sberbank Charitable Foundation “Vklad V Budushchee” with various stakeholders in the supported employment of young people with learning disabilities.

This online ceremony will finalize the results of the Russian contest "Focus Philanthropy", where the winners of specific nominations and the public vote will be announced. Along with the Russian contest, the results of the European FOCUS: Philanthropy contest will also be announced during the ceremony.

Today, there is a demand from business in Russia for the development of corporate volunteering and effective CSR programs, taking into account SDGs and its targets. During this challenging year, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the volunteer movement and thousands of organizations have demonstrated their willingness to cooperate in order to achieve common goals. On the example of the action #МЫВМЕСТЕ (we are together), the participants will discuss how companies have restructured their programs and how volunteering has become an effective mechanism for mobilizing forces.

Сессия проводится в партнерстве с Ассоциацией волонтерских центров.