Zagoriy Foundation
Zagoriy Foundation is a Ukrainian charitable family foundation, founded in 2015 by Glib, Kateryna and Volodymyr Zagoriy. The Foundation systematically develops a culture of charitable giving in Ukraine, participates in charity events, and supports public initiatives to promote charitable activities. CEO of Zagoriy Foundation is Eugenia Mazurenko (since January 2019). Activity. History. For a long time, the Zagoriy family was privately involved in cultural, educational, and charitable activities. In 1994 Volodymyr Zagoriy took part in the creation of the League of Ukrainian Patrons of Art. Today he is the president of the league. In 2015, the family founded  private charitable foundation. According to the co-founder of the foundation, Glib Zagoriy, Zagoriy Foundation was founded to transfer family philosophy, values, and experience in addition to money. In 2019, the Zagoriy Family Foundation had its name changed to the Zagoriy Foundation. Research of Ukrainian charity. Zagoriy Foundation systematically conducts research on the state of the charity sphere in Ukraine. Research materials have been repeatedly cited in the scientific and analytical literature. Since 2015, the foundation has been a long-term partner of the Ukrainian Catholic University, which it helps to introduce European education in Ukraine. Thanks to the development  program at the Ukrainian Catholic University, the material and technical base and the academic campus are being updated, and the best students receive annual scholarships to study in Lviv and Kyiv. Also, since 2016, the foundation has been supporting the training of specialists in rehabilitation medicine. The School of Rehabilitation Medicine introduces a modern model of providing rehabilitation assistance and teaches students professional practices on master's programs. Project result: 1735 participants, 18 training sessions, 17 open learning sessions, and 7 educational conferences. The total support budget is about UAH 6.3 million. During 24 August – 29 October 2017, with the  support of the Zagoriy Family Foundation, an exhibition "The Eneyida project" was held at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The project brought together about 200 artifacts: illustrations, easel painting and graphics, theatrical posters and animation, photo and video materials, book publications related to the visual images of the poem by Ivan Kotliarevsky. The exhibition was attended by over 20,000 people. In September 2017, the Eneyida art train was launched in the Kyiv metro. In 2018, the foundation supported Kyiv School of Economics to create an educational program on the basics of entrepreneurship for Anti-Terrorist Operation and Joint Forces  Operation veterans. The Foundation is one of the key donors of the program, which has already been implemented in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mykolayiv, Vinnytsia, and other cities of Ukraine. By the end of 2019, four waves of training were conducted for more than 100 participants, who implemented about 50 projects. In 2018, a series of lectures was launched to introduce Ukrainians to the bearers of current and emerging global trends. Ukraine was visited by Professor of the UC Berkeley Business School Naim Zafar (September 2018); author of the book "Netocracy: The New Power Elite and Life After Capitalism", member of the  Army of Lovers group Alexander Bard (October 2018); British composer and artist, considered the world's first cyborg Neil Harbisson (April 2019); American writer and author of the book "New Power" Jeremy Heimans. On the initiative of Katerina Zagoriy, the All-Ukrainian Day of Good Days GivingTuesdayUA (Generous Tuesday) was founded in Ukraine (as part of the international movement Giving Tuesday), which first took place on 27 November 2018. Together with the Foundation, the initiative group included the Ukrainian Philanthropists Forum, the Tabletochki Charity Foundation and the Dobrodiy Club Charitable Organization. In the first year in Ukraine, the movement collected  UAH 15 million. And on 3 December 2019, about UAH 18 million was collected. Since 2019, the Zagoriy Foundation has supported the Global Teacher Prize in Ukraine. The national award was established in 2017 by Osvitoria NGO, which signed a memorandum with the Varkey GEMS Foundation. In 2019, the winner of the nomination "Chemistry Teacher Award from Zagoriy Foundation" was Oleksandr Lysych, a chemistry teacher from the Chernihiv region, who was included in the TOP-10 of the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2018. The teacher teaches in the village of Chornotychi. The average score of EIT in the chemistry of his  pupils ranges from 180 to 196 points. In 2020, the Foundation became one of the four sponsors of the award. In 2019, a presentation of the visual research of angels from iconography to mass culture was held in Lviv. More than 400 museum and private exhibits were used: archeological objects, sculpture, and painting, artifacts of mass culture. Financial support of the project by the Zagoriy Foundation amounted to UAH 1 million. In February 2020, the Zagoriy Foundation and the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation signed a Memorandum of Cooperation under the Cultural Charity UCF program. Zagoriy Foundation became a strategic partner of  UCF. Zagoriy Foundation supports projects that have passed the competitive selection of the UCF, in the amount of UAH 1.5 million. Management. Eugenia Mazurenko is CEO of the Zagoriy Foundation (28 January 2019), an expert on institutional and operational development in the non-profit sector, the author of a column on philanthropy in the Internet magazine "Platform". The Zagoriy Foundation founders: Volodymyr Zagoriy, Kateryna Zagoriy, Glib Zagoriy.