On November 1, the III International Endowment Conference was held at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University with the support of the National Endowment Association of Russia and the Aurora-Ala Foundation. The participants included representatives of government authorities, universities, endowment funds, and the financial sector from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.
Following a presentation by Farhad Kuanganov, Adviser to the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the development of the draft law on endowment funds in Kazakhstan, Svetlana Lavrova, Chair of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, and Alexey Anisin, Director of the National Endowment Association of Russia, spoke about the current state of the endowment sector and the history of perpetual deposits in pre-revolutionary Russia.
In the second part of the conference, Svetlana held a master class on building successful fundraising campaigns, while Alexey spoke about how endowment communities operate, using the National Endowment Association and NACUBO as examples. At the end of the conference, the participants discussed the establishment of an endowment association in Kazakhstan.
Following a presentation by Farhad Kuanganov, Adviser to the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the development of the draft law on endowment funds in Kazakhstan, Svetlana Lavrova, Chair of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, and Alexey Anisin, Director of the National Endowment Association of Russia, spoke about the current state of the endowment sector and the history of perpetual deposits in pre-revolutionary Russia.
In the second part of the conference, Svetlana held a master class on building successful fundraising campaigns, while Alexey spoke about how endowment communities operate, using the National Endowment Association and NACUBO as examples. At the end of the conference, the participants discussed the establishment of an endowment association in Kazakhstan.