More than 1,500 people joined the photo flash mob #Community_is (#Hromada_tse), which took place on September 2nd, 2017, in five cities of eastern Ukraine – Berdyansk, Dnipro, Kramatorsk, Severodonetsk, and Kharkiv. The purpose of the event initiated by the GURT Resource Centre within the special media project “Information for conscious actions: hear the voice of people affected by […]
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GURT Resource centre since 1995 has been actively involved in developing local communities in Ukraine through fostering civic activism and strengthening local self-governance. Between 2011 and 2014, GURT has implemented a number of projects aimed at making change in communities of Kyiv oblast: ‘New opportunities for marginalized rural communities in Chernobyl affected […]
GURT Resource centre has been working for almost 20 years to implement the projects aimed at developing communities and strengthening their capability. Since 2007 one of the GURT instruments is development of entrepreneurial and leadership potential of community representatives. During 2014-2015 with the financial support of Monsanto Fund GURT has implemented a […]
On Saturday, September 26, 11 regional centers of Ukraine joined the flesh-mob «InForm your community», initiated by the GURT Resource Centre within the Citizen Participation Week which lasted from 21 to 27 September in the Central and Eastern Europe countries. During the flesh-mob over 1500 active citizens from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, […]
On the 20th of June, 2015 GURT Business Camp hosted a conference in the Open Space format «People and money: recipes for community development». The executive director of GURT Resource Center Bohdan Maslych was a facilitator of the event. The director of the World Jewish Relief in Ukraine Denis Denisenko addressed the attendees […]
Let’s imagine that you are a community head. You are interested in cultural development of your community and ready for resolute actions. You’ve got several possible scenarios… • Make SOMETHING on your own and at your own risk, basing on your image of what community members want• Decisively delay this SOMETHING to the better […]