79 social projects have become the winners of “The City Is Us” competition

The competition jury considered the total of  133 project proposals coming from non-commercial sector, territorial  self-government organisations, municipal organisations, NGOs and public foundations. 

“The City Is Us” competition is an annual competition aimed at  promoting and developing partnerships between the local government and NGOs to boost  creativity and  civic engagement of residents. 

This year the competition was organised in 8 nominations with the overall grants fund of about 22,4 mln roubles, priority nomination “Perm-300” being dedicated to the coming anniversary  of the city. 

The initial number of 160 proposals from non-governmental sector  after the initial  inspection was  short-listed to  113, with the following distribution within the nominations:  «Perm-300» – 38, «Healthy city starts with you» – 37, «Perm- the territory of culture» – 24, «Public partnership» – 19, «Development of  civic society» – 17. 76 projects have become the winners and will be allocated grant subsidies from the city budget. 

The competition rules provide for additional grants to be used to finance three more projects ranking next in the list, and these will be the ones in “Perm-300” category. 

– The projects proposals were many, but their level and quality were very diverse.  I do believe we managed to provide a fair and non-judgmental evaluation of the projects by involving experts from the city administration departments and Perm City Duma, as well as NGOs,” noted the Head of the  Mayor’s Office  Alexander Molokovskikh. 

The largest number of grants-funded projects  will be implemented in two categories, namely, “Healthy city starts with you” and “Perm-300”.  “Development of civil society” and “Public partnerships”  nominations feature 11 projects in each, 9 more projects will be financed in “Perm – territory of culture” category . The residents of Perm can also join 6 projects in  the nomination “ Family – the basis of society”, with 3 more projects in categories “Nature in the city” and “Together we are united, strong and invincible!”

All the    projects  have to be  implemented by December 1, 2022.