The Rybakov Foundation
The Rybakov Foundation is a private charity organization established by Igor and Ekaterina Rybakov in 2015.
To enable synergy in its charity projects, the Rybakov Foundation creates and develops an ecosystem of school student, entrepreneurial, women’s, educational, and parental communities to identify and promote their leaders.
Today, the Foundation’s ecosystem includes 10 independent organizations embracing hundreds of leaders in education, entrepreneurship, and research. The ecosystem communities are evolving and transforming the environment.
Today, the Foundation’s ecosystem includes 10 independent organizations embracing hundreds of leaders in education, entrepreneurship, and research. The ecosystem communities are evolving and transforming the environment.
The Foundation’s key objective is to promote a long-term transformation in education, support entrepreneurship, and improve the quality of human life. The Foundation activities are contributing to the Russian National Development Goals 2036 Initiative.
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Rybakov Foundation Ecosystem
The Rybakov Foundation ecosystem supports many initiatives:
The Rybakov Foundation is a Russian hub of the EdHeroes Network international community.
In 2020, the Rybakov Foundation launched its digital tool to assess and analyze the impact on each person engaged in the Foundation’s programs. The impact metrics are 100% validated and captured in our databases. The Rybakov Foundation uses both quantitative and qualitative impact metrics:
- We use digital data collection tools such as the school community development diagnostics tool, Arnie’s chatbot in the Big Game named after Lev Vygotsky, and the Impact Privilege Score (IPS) system to record every activity of community leaders and assess the teacher-student continuity chains
- Qualitative: participant feedback, case studies, and stories.
All initiatives under the Foundation’s umbrella collaborate in the Power of Communities Lab to join efforts for more significant outcomes.
Since 2015, the Foundation’s ecosystem
Since 2015, the Foundation’s ecosystem projects have significantly improved the lives of at least 300,000 preschoolers, school and college students, educators, entrepreneurs, and families.
projects have significantly improved
the lives of at least 300,000 preschoolers,
school and college students,
educators, entrepreneurs, and families.
Rybakov Foundation Ecosystem values:
Rybakov Foundation Ecosystem principles:
Rybakov Foundation Values and Principles
Leadership
Partnership
Support
Trust
Everyone is capable
Team thinking
Bringing people together
Margin for error
Voluntary involvement
Commitment to sustainable expansion
The communities sharing the values of the Rybakov Foundation have developed their networking strategies later validated by respectable educational theories. All this has resulted in the living education concept.
Living education is an innovative approach to learning. It focuses not just on knowledge sharing, but on the creation of a dynamic, interactive, and up-to-date learning environment to meet the challenges of the future.
Living education is an innovative approach to learning. It focuses not just on knowledge sharing, but on the creation of a dynamic, interactive, and up-to-date learning environment to meet the challenges of the future.
Living Education is the Core of the Rybakov Foundation’s Initiatives
10 living education components in the Rybakov Foundation ecosystem
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Proactivity: a person joins the community with a clear request for transformation, and takes full responsibility for their education (Jack Mezirow’s transformative learning theory)
02
Networking options meet the community member requests (Ken Robinson, Grassroots education)
03
A community consists of peers. No division into those who teach and those who learn (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
04
Educational environment. The environment as such transforms the individual (Anton Makarenko, Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, John Dewey)
05
Role models: adopting the best practices of successful people and appropriating them through real-life experience (Etienne Wenger’s situated learning theory, Jack Mezirow)
06
Community structure. Facilitators are leaders of small teams (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
07
New roles within a community. Everyone can access the social lift, reach new levels, and change the community and the world (the concept of situatedness)
08
Every community member gets stronger and more aware of their powers. Therefore, everyone is also responsible for the community (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
09
Supergoal: enable the community members to transform their lives and the world (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
10
Collaboration between communities for mutual enrichment (Barbara Rogoff, community of learners).
01
Proactivity: a person joins the community with a clear request for transformation, and takes full responsibility for their education (Jack Mezirow’s transformative learning theory)
02
Networking options meet the community member requests (Ken Robinson, Grassroots education)
03
A community consists of peers. No division into those who teach and those who learn (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
04
Educational environment. The environment as such transforms the individual (Anton Makarenko, Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, John Dewey)
05
Role models: adopting the best practices of successful people and appropriating them through real-life experience (Etienne Wenger’s situated learning theory, Jack Mezirow)
06
Community structure. Facilitators are leaders of small teams (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
07
New roles within a community. Everyone can access the social lift, reach new levels, and change the community and the world (the concept of situatedness)
08
Every community member gets stronger and more aware of their powers. Therefore, everyone is also responsible for the community (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
09
Supergoal: enable the community members to transform their lives and the world (Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy)
10
Collaboration between communities for mutual enrichment (Barbara Rogoff, community of learners).
The Ecosystem’s Philanthropists and Donors
The Rybakov Foundation is open to partnerships. Our mission is supported by the ecosystem’s philanthropists and patrons.
The Club of Philanthropists
Honorable philanthropists who continuously donate to social transformation projects. Impact: The investments made by members of the Global Club of Philanthropists significantly contribute to the sustainable development of society.
The Philanthropists
They provide personal scholarships to school, undergraduate, and graduate students, invest in endowments, support preschool education, stimulate business activities, and establish advanced kindergartens and schools.
If you share the mission of the Rybakov Foundation, please join our ecosystem and communities.