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ABOUt CCC MISSIOn OF CCC CREATIvE CEnTER:

to facilitate development of civic initiatives aimed at strength-
ening civil society in Ukraine through creative development
and implementation of charity programs and support for civ-
il society organizations, local self-government bodies, and in-
itiative groups.

CCC Creative Center started in 1993 when an Ameri- issued that were in the center of the CCC work with
can organization’s program, Counterpart International, civil society organizations.
Inc. was launched in Ukraine. The mission of this pro-
gram was to support establishment and development Gradually, the CCC extended the circle of its target
of the sector of civil society organizations in Ukraine. groups. Starting with implementation of the project De-
One of the results of implementation of this program veloping Initiative and Exercise of the Rights of Com-
was establishment of a group of trainers for working munities Provided for by the Law on Local Self-Gov-
with civil society organizations in Ukraine, Moldova, ernance (Toloka), CCC has been working actively in
and Belarus. territorial communities together with communities for
development of communities. The work at a local level
Trainers, activists of Ukrainian non-government or- becomes especially important during the decentraliza-
ganizations, learnt about the experience of work of tion period when a community receives powers to or-
American specialists, were taught to deliver and devel- ganize tis work independently.
op training programs themselves, mastered the skills
of providing qualified training and advisory support Today, CCC supports civil society organizations, char-
to the non-government sector of Ukraine. The work of ity organizations, and citizens’ self-organization bod-
this group of trainers was very successful since it was ies in their professional development, implementation
an efficient combination of foreign experience with the of their initiatives aimed at ensuring positive social
specific Ukrainian features of the “third sector”. changes in the community, state, and society, and in
improvement of their potential for implementing stra-
A logical continuation of activities of this group of tegic tasks. To this end, the CCC delivers training ses-
trainers was creation of an independent Ukrainian sions, consultations, schools and seminars for its staff
non-governmental organization. In this way, on March and activists of non-governmental organizations, pro-
28, 1996 a charity fund Counterpart Creative Center vides, consultative, methodological, grant and other
was registered, which in April 2007 was renamed as types of support.
the CCC Creative Center.
Furthermore, CCC represents and protects interests of
During the entire period of its existence, the CCC Cre- civil society organizations at various levels of govern-
ative Center aimed its effort, first of all, at developing ance. To this end, CCC takes an active part in various
the Ukrainian sector of non-governmental organiza- initiatives of civic and charity organizations, in devel-
tions. Development of the institutional capacity, im- oping, implementing, monitoring and assessing state
proving activists’ skills, ability to develop and imple- policy in the sphere of cooperation between the author-
ment projects professionally – these were the primary ities and civil society.

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