Welcome to the School of Social Entrepreneurship

Do you have innovative ideas?

Do you want to solve social problems in your community?

Do you not know where to start?

The Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia (EFCA) and the NGO Expert Center at ALMA U announced a call for participants from Almaty, South Kazakhstan and Almaty regions for the School of Social Entrepreneurship.

The school is organized within the project "Initiative for NGO Expert Center" implemented with the support of "Chevron" in Kazakhstan. The project is aimed at development of the capacity of NGOs to engage in social entrepreneurship and learning the basics of social entrepreneurship.

Project participants will receive not only theoretical knowledge, but also practical tasks.

Training will be held at the School of Social Entrepreneurship at the NGO Expert Center, where experts and experienced trainers will provide education and advice on the subject. Training will be conducted in Kazakh and Russian languages.

Each NGO during the training will receive support and advice from the coordinator assigned to it, which will help in writing business plan, strategic plan and in dealing with other issues necessary for the development of organizational capacity and social entrepreneurship.

At the end of the School of Social Entrepreneurship participants will be required to prepare and present their projects on social entrepreneurship.

Social entrepreneurship is a pioneering work, originally aimed at the solution or alleviation of social problems in the conditions of self-sufficiency and sustainability.

To participate in the project NGOs have to fill out an application with a description of the organization revealing the above questions and send it to the following address: zhazira@ef-ca.org and bakhytnur@mail.ru until 20 April 2016.

For more information please contact: Zhazira Zhunisova, Project Assistant of the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia. Phone: +7 (727) 250 18 10, ext. 134, zhazira@ef-ca.org; and Bahytnur Otarbayeva, Director of the NGO Expert Center: +7 (727) 302 23 02, bakhytnur@mail.ru.