The Open Society Foundation is a Ukraine-based non-governmental organization, established and officially registered in March 2001.
Our goal is to contribute to the development of open civil society in Ukraine.
We have been doing our utmost to ensure that as it has taken a democratic way, Ukraine has powerful civil society capable of developing, impacting the social and political situation in the country and living up to new challenges.
Our main objectives are
to contribute to the building up of the institute of parliamentarism in Ukraine
to partake in solving legislative regulation issues
to stimulate social movement to urge democratic process in Ukrainian society
to guarantee the right of citizens to information
Key Focus Areas
Analysis and Research Studying political processes and civil society development in Ukraine, including collecting, processing and disseminating data.
Publishing
Collecting materials, compiling and publishing booklets, guides, articles, etc.
Coordination
Organizing conferences, roundtables, seminars, partaking in various Ukrainian and international projects.
We have successfully developed a number of professional and coordinating skills working in some new areas in partnership with other non-governmental organizations.
We are happy to work with all our partners and truly appreciate their experience, support and lessons they have been teaching us.
Our greatest value is the people that work with us and for us. Each and every member of our team for has proved to be highly professional, competent, tolerant and really hard-working.
We share the success we have had all these years with our donors as they have trusted us with their programs and contributed greatly to our further development.
We do believe it’s us and civil organizations like ours that the future of Ukraine’s civil society and Ukraine itself depends on.
On November 19, the Open Society Foundation organized the roundtable ‘Results of work of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in 2010 – political forces fulfilling their pledges’ in Khmelnytsky with the support of the Khmelnytsky outlet of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine. ...
On November 4, Open Society Foundation with the support of the Cherkasy outlet of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine organized the roundtable ‘The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine after the Constitutional amendments: what to expect’. ...
On October 7, the Vinnytsia Press Club hosted the roundtable ‘Results of work of the Ukrainian parliament in the first half of 2010. The political portrait of Vinnytsia oblast before the local elections’, organized by Open Society Foundation with the support of the Vinnytsia outlet of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine. ...
