Speaking at the session "Social Investments 2.0: How Endowments Are Changing the Rules of the Game in the Regions," moderated by Lyudmila Panteleeva, a leading expert in the endowment capital market and director of the Philanthropist endowment fund, Valery Goncharov emphasized the need for a change in approach: instead of multi-directional investments, a system of proactive territorial endowments to support the operation of facilities.
"For the FEDC, social investment isn't charity, but rather part of a territorial development strategy," emphasized Valery Goncharov. "We see our role as helping implement initiatives where every ruble invested in infrastructure is returned to social projects through regional endowment funds. For example, by reconfiguring the investment declarations of regional endowments to favor investments in infrastructure and sub-federal bonds."