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Sustaining Positive Change
Since 1994 we have been helping leaders and organizations achieve real positive change by building partnership networks of interests, intentions and resources, and delivering measurable results for all stakeholders.
Since 1994 we have been helping leaders and organizations achieve real positive change by building partnership networks of interests, intentions and resources, and delivering measurable results for all stakeholders.
Social Investments
Socially Responsible Investing
Sustainable Development
Social Entrepreneurship
Corporate Social Responsibility
Social Innovation
Civic Journalism
Impact Media
We pioneer
WHO WE ARE
The non-profit partnership "Social Investments" is Russia's first professional organization of its kind and a pioneer in promoting the approaches, strategies and practices of corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, social and socially responsible investment.
Our consultants bring unique expertise across the commercial, non-profit and public sectors, with experience in many countries and regions and with companies of every size and industry.
We don't work with clients — we work with people. We always look for the right balance between personal interest and the common good. After all, it is in this harmony that the deeper meaning of "sustainable development" lies.
Learn more Our consultants bring unique expertise across the commercial, non-profit and public sectors, with experience in many countries and regions and with companies of every size and industry.
We don't work with clients — we work with people. We always look for the right balance between personal interest and the common good. After all, it is in this harmony that the deeper meaning of "sustainable development" lies.
WHAT WE DO
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Building partnership networks and coalitions
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Developing applied sustainable development models for organizations and territories based on the “sustainable growth matrix”
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Finding partners (business, government bodies, non-profit organizations, media)
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Diagnosing and optimizing a company’s regional policy with regard to the sustainable growth needs of territories
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Setting up “innovation pipeline” systems within organizations
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Refining an organization’s socially significant activities
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Designing and reviewing sustainable development and CSR projects
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Developing communication strategies and promoting the image of a socially responsible company
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Designing and delivering training programs for management and staff on sustainable growth and social investment
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Producing and promoting written and video content about companies’ social activities; producing project videos (civic journalism technology).
A partner of the Social Investments Agency
We produce and distribute values-driven media content, feature and documentary films, including commissions from commercial and non-profit organizations.
We champion impact media: we make media projects deliver real social effect and engage audiences and partners in socially meaningful change through our “proactive engagement” approach.
In the late 1990s we ran a series of civic journalism projects. We proved that the media can initiate social projects themselves and achieve significant results in partnership with business, government and non-profit organizations.
We produce and distribute values-driven media content, feature and documentary films, including commissions from commercial and non-profit organizations.
We champion impact media: we make media projects deliver real social effect and engage audiences and partners in socially meaningful change through our “proactive engagement” approach.
In the late 1990s we ran a series of civic journalism projects. We proved that the media can initiate social projects themselves and achieve significant results in partnership with business, government and non-profit organizations.
WHAT WE DO FOR BUSINESSES, NGOs AND THE MEDIA
News stories
informational, image and promotional videos
informational, image and promotional videos
Profiles
portrait films about organizations and their leaders, with a dramatic storyline
portrait films about organizations and their leaders, with a dramatic storyline
Training films
corporate learning courses and online modules with graphic and visual content
corporate learning courses and online modules with graphic and visual content
Industrial video
industrial footage, processes, key products
industrial footage, processes, key products
Presentation videos
for the web, with promotion included
for the web, with promotion included
Documentaries
about organizations and their projects
about organizations and their projects
Programs in civic journalism
media relations and storytelling for journalists and corporate managers
media relations and storytelling for journalists and corporate managers
Our team
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Sergey TurkinExpert in creative communications, partnership networks and sustainable development.
Founder and director of the Social Investments Agency (since 1994).
Author of more than 100 publications, lecturer and journalist. -
Kira MagidHead of GALS creative agency
Screenwriter
Producer
Director
Journalist
The Bells of Rus. Trailer
The Call of the Kalni. Trailer
Chekhov on Sakhalin. Trailer
The Old Clown. Trailer
OUR PROJECTS
ArtEl Magazine
Seeking kindred spirits
Interview
“There are two planets — one is the planet of people, the other is the planet of the Circus”
Interview
“If you work in tune with God’s providence, your bell gets cast… and it will ring”
Sergey Turkin
- Coined the term “social investments” and developed a typology of corporate social activity
- Developer of training courses on corporate social responsibility, sustainable growth and civic journalism.
- Member of the expert councils of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) and Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia).
- Expert in creative communications, partnership networks and sustainable development. Founder and director of the Social Investments Agency (since 1994).
- Author of more than 100 publications, lecturer and journalist.
- Author of the books The Social Dimension of Business (with IBLF, 2001), Social Investments in Business (2003) and How It Pays to Be Kind (Alpina, 2007). https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/3086877/
- Translator and editor of the Russian editions of books by partner John Weiser: Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets (2007, Vershina) and Conversations with Disbelievers: Persuading Companies to Address Social Challenges (2009, Ekonomika).
- Kalinin (Tver) State University, Faculty of History.
- Courses in non-profit management, journalism and advertising at Johns Hopkins University: Writing for a Print Media and Creative Concepts in Advertising
Kira Magid
Head of GALS creative agency
FILMOGRAPHY:
Producer, screenwriter, director, journalist
Documentaries and series:
The Bells of Rus, 2026;
The Call of the Kalni, 2024;
SakhaLon Island, 2023;
Chekhov on Sakhalin, 2023;
Chekhov in Ceylon, 2020;
produced by the Social Investments non-profit partnership and GALS Creative Agency;
The Special Guild, episodes On a Little Raft,
Alcor,
Gallery of the Present,
Civic Journalism in Russia (Internews, CAF, Social Investments, GALS Production Center).
Feature films:
Producer, screenwriter
The Old Clown, 2024, produced by the Social Investments non-profit partnership and GALS Creative Agency
EXPERIENCE
Screenwriter and research correspondent for Masha Shakhova’s programs Dachniki (ORT, NTV) and Beyond the Garden Ring (TVC); special prize of the 17th Moscow International Film Festival for The Special Guild; winner of the “I Am a Creator” contest of Sovremennik magazine; finalist of the High Concept and Children’s and Family Film screenplay and concept competitions (2019–2021).
PUBLICATIONS
Magazines: Filantrop, Nikita Mikhalkov’s Svoy, Protrud, Kinoglaz
Newspapers: Kinonedelya, SK-Novosti, Sovetskaya Kultura, Ekran i Stsena
ArtMoskovia web portal
Civic Journalism in Russia collection, Internews (2002)
EDUCATION AND INTERNSHIPS:
Moscow State Institute of Culture, 1990
BBC–Internews School of Journalism, 2000
Documentary film course, Cardiff University and the Kettering Foundation, 2002
Feature film screenwriting course with Robert McKee, 2008
Internships: PBS, CBS "60 Minutes" (USA)
FILMOGRAPHY:
Producer, screenwriter, director, journalist
Documentaries and series:
The Bells of Rus, 2026;
The Call of the Kalni, 2024;
SakhaLon Island, 2023;
Chekhov on Sakhalin, 2023;
Chekhov in Ceylon, 2020;
produced by the Social Investments non-profit partnership and GALS Creative Agency;
The Special Guild, episodes On a Little Raft,
Alcor,
Gallery of the Present,
Civic Journalism in Russia (Internews, CAF, Social Investments, GALS Production Center).
Feature films:
Producer, screenwriter
The Old Clown, 2024, produced by the Social Investments non-profit partnership and GALS Creative Agency
EXPERIENCE
Screenwriter and research correspondent for Masha Shakhova’s programs Dachniki (ORT, NTV) and Beyond the Garden Ring (TVC); special prize of the 17th Moscow International Film Festival for The Special Guild; winner of the “I Am a Creator” contest of Sovremennik magazine; finalist of the High Concept and Children’s and Family Film screenplay and concept competitions (2019–2021).
PUBLICATIONS
Magazines: Filantrop, Nikita Mikhalkov’s Svoy, Protrud, Kinoglaz
Newspapers: Kinonedelya, SK-Novosti, Sovetskaya Kultura, Ekran i Stsena
ArtMoskovia web portal
Civic Journalism in Russia collection, Internews (2002)
EDUCATION AND INTERNSHIPS:
Moscow State Institute of Culture, 1990
BBC–Internews School of Journalism, 2000
Documentary film course, Cardiff University and the Kettering Foundation, 2002
Feature film screenwriting course with Robert McKee, 2008
Internships: PBS, CBS "60 Minutes" (USA)
“Social investment is what separates the accomplished from the merely affluent.”
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Sergey Turkin, founder of the Social Investments Agency
Sergey Turkin, founder of the Social Investments Agency
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