Any development requires additional resources.. We have healthy ambitions for growth, and they require the support of our partners and friends. Although our team is making the most of our time and resources, our goal is to scale our activities and fully cover the areas where we already have results and a vision for how to proceed and bring about change.

We plan to expand our work with youth in frontline regions. The information war waged by the enemy against us blurs the lines between good and evil, friend and foe, Ukrainian and Russian. The future of our state depends on the values with which the current generation grows up. In the east and south, the enemy’s subversive information activities are most intense, and therefore countermeasures there must be organized more vigorously. We visited a number of youth centers as part of “Mission East” and plan to scale up the Free People Course, primarily in the southeastern direction.

Our outreach efforts in May 2020 were recognized by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), which named MNC one of the top 10 most influential youth organizations on social media. We aim to build on this success and expand our impact. To do this, we need to bring our photo and video content up to a professional standard and increase the amount of time we devote to social media management. Additionally, at the beginning of the year, we developed a project to launch a youth-oriented magazine, which is intended to fully replace our newspaper “Teren. Ukraine,” which we published from 2001 to 2014.

In addition, we conduct analytical work, thanks to which last year we uncovered an entire network of interconnected pro-Russian organizations, prevented some of them from joining the Public Council of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and identified their misuse of state funds. We have a number of threads that we need to continue pulling on, but our team currently lacks the time to handle everything; however, your support will help change that.

The above does not cover all of our plans and areas where we need to scale up: this also includes the need to expand our network, establish even more active connections with student organizations and youth centers, increase the amount of time dedicated to internal training work with MNC members, and resume publishing worldview literature, among other things.

We’ve calculated that a total of approximately 65,000 UAH (or $1,500) per month in support from all donors will help us scale up our impact and take our work to the next level. If this amount is divided among just 10–15 donors, the regular donation amount is insignificant on a business scale and comparable for some to an evening at a restaurant, a weekend of shopping, or a single day at a nice hotel abroad. If the regular donation is $10, we will need to find just 150 people willing to donate 2–3% of their average salary.

Of course, to ensure the growth of MNC and improve the quality of our work, we are open to new types of partnerships and support: consulting, financial, resource-based, legal, volunteer, and more. If you would like to become our partner or support us, please send an email to mnk@mnk.org.ua with “Partnership Proposal” in the subject line.