Rusfond (Russian Aid Fund)

Rusfond (Russian Aid Fund) is one of the charitable foundations of modern Russia, created in 1996 as a charity journalistic project. There are 20 regional representative offices of the fund in Russia.

The fund's mission is to help treat seriously ill children and people with disabilities, promote the development of civil society and the introduction of high medical technologies.

The fund systematically publishes requests for assistance on the pages of the Kommersant newspaper and on the rusfond.ru, as well as on information resources of 148 regional partner media. Since 2011, the television project Rusfond on the First has been developing; since 2013, regional branches of VGTRK have become partners of the fund.

In 2015, over seven million viewers and readers of the Rusfond, 720 companies and organizations paid for the treatment and legal assistance of 2596 children from Russia and the CIS countries, collecting and donating over 1.578 billion rubles. Since the beginning of 2016, 318 374 398 rubles have been collected, 461 children received help.

Since 1996, individuals and companies have donated over 7.781 billion rubles to the Rusfond (as of 17.03.2016), about 20,000 children have been returned to this money. Hundreds of large and foster families, adults with disabilities, as well as an orphanage, boarding schools and hospitals in Russia received serious support. The Fund organizes relief actions during the days of national disasters. The Rusfond helped 118 families of sailors of the Kursk submarine, 153 families of victims of explosions in Moscow and Donbass, 52 families of dead Nord-Osta hostages, 100 families of victims in Beslan.

At the beginning of 2016, Rusfond launched a mobile application for iOS - more than 600 people installed it on their iPhone, of which about 30% donated through the application. In total, since the launch, users have transferred more than 330 thousand rubles. to help seriously ill children - wards of the Rusfond.

History

2022: Seizure of property owed tens of millions by NIITO Clinic

In January 2022, the Arbitration Court of the Novosibirsk Region arrested the property of the bankrupt ANO "Clinic of Traumatology, Orthopedics and Neurosurgery NIITO" in the amount of 87.7 million rubles at the request of Rusfond. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the court file cabinet. More details here.