The Gratitude Fund describes itself as "a non-profit organization which was created to provide assistance to the forgotten heroes and veterans of the active struggle for freedom and human rights in the former USSR such as ex-political prisoners, who were imprisoned for many years, and to the families of those dissidents who perished in the Soviet prisons." A nonprofit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit, or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... A political prisoner is anyone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image either challenge or pose a real or potential threat to the state. ... A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively opposes an established opinion, policy, or structure. ...
Yuri Fedorov founded the Fund in 1998 and serves as its president. Yuri Fedorov (Russian language: Юрий Фёдоров; born in 1943 in Moscow) is a Soviet dissident and human rights activist. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Vladimir Bukovsky early photo Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Russian: ; b. ... Alexander Ginzburg Alexander (Alik) Ilyich Ginzburg (Russian: ; November 21, 1936 Moscow – July 19, 2002 Paris), was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident. ... Eduard Kuznetsov (Russian language: Ðдуард Кузнецов; born in Moscow, 1939) is a Soviet dissident, human rights activist, and writer. ...
The GratitudeFund (GF) is a non-profit organization which was created to provide assistance to the forgotten heroes and veterans of the active struggle for freedom and human rights in the former USSR such as ex-political prisoners and the families of those dissidents who perished in Soviet prisons.
All funds raised by GF are distributed to the recipients in accordance with the available information relative to their needs.
This is a noble and important initiative - the effort to organize a fund for supporting veterans of the democratic movement in the former Soviet Union former longtime prisoners of labor camps and prisons--and also for supporting the families of champions of democracy who perished in those camps and prisons.
This endowed fund was established in memory of Dr. Earl W. Burgner by his wife, Lois A. (22), and friends for the purpose of providing financial assistance to a premedical student at The University of Akron selected on the basis of academic achievement.
The fund provides grants?in?aid for excellence in the pursuit of the study of Latin, Greek, archaeology, or ancient history to undergraduate and graduate students now enrolled, and graduates of the University who are currently enrolled in graduate studies in the classics or allied fields at other colleges or universities.
Irwin Flickinger established this fund in gratitude for the education she received at The University of Akron and the newspaper job that made it possible for her to attend.
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