EYP experience 2011/Ivano-Frankivsk NSC/delegate/Magdalena Swider, Maks Nikolaichuk 2011/Krakow RS/delegate/Theresa Kleich 2011/Chernihiv RS/delegate/Magdalena Pietras 2012/VinSpring NSC/delegate/Roksolana Pidlasa, Dominic Degen 2012/Cherkasy MS/Head Organiser/_ 2012/Odesa IF/journalist/Vitalie Popov 2012/3rd InterRail Tour/travel organiser,chairperson/Roksolana Pidlasa, Kristina Chelmakina 2012/Amsterdam IS/delegate/Alexandre Narayanin 2012/1st Kyiv Francophone Session/organiser/Anton Verkhovodov 2013/7th NSC Ivano-Frankivsk/chairperson/Anastasiya Yanovitska 2013/Aschaffenburg RSC 2013/journalist/Monica Montovani, Sigrun Fagerfjall 2013/72nd Munich IS/ jounalist/Sophie Debrunner Hall 2013/6th Kyiv RS/organiser/Olena Yermakova, Michael Rozhkov 2013/4th Inter-Rail Tour/Head-Organiser/- 2014/75th Riga IS/organiser/Karlis Caune

National Committee Management N/A

Leadership and department activities

Fundraising Department member since February 2012 Leadership member since April 2012 International Activities Department since August 2012

Relevant working experience Mriya Agroholding - Administrative department trainee

Relevant volunteering / NGO experience: N/A

Applying for

Board Member on Fundraising

Born on: November 17th, 1992

Holder of a diploma: KNEU, BA, current MA

Communicates to fellows in Ukrainian and English, German and Spanish

Easy accessible over: leeddka@gmail.com Applying for a position of:

Motivation statement Experience in EYP tells me that those who are reading this motivation statement already do have some EYP-history behind, so I don’t need to tell a long and fascinating story of my obsession with EYP. So, let me explain my reasons for applying for this position in the order of pyramid. I am not a workaholic. But since I am managing my “chronic EYP of brain”, I feel that being constantly involved in volunteering makes me feel more useful for society, than I was before. This makes me satisfied and not looking forward to ending up with EYP. I want to be useful. Being a Head-Organiser of a large-scale event has taught me lots of things I never knew. My working capacity has increased from 5 hours to 10 hours per day without any harm to studying and health. Thus, I know that I am able to handle a wide range of responsibilities without a need of the 25th hour in a day. I want to work. Dealing with the Board has made me feel comfortable with its authority. This group of people, which might have seemed to be a closed elite society before, turned out to be always open to help and advice in fact. Managing an NGO is quite comparable with managing a session. I feel myself trained enough for that. I want to be in the team. Human Resources is the basis of any organisation. It is material in the hands of an artist. The way you prepare it will reflect the future performance of the masterpiece. I believe that managing this department has a huge effect on the future of the whole organisation. I want to contribute. Leading is teaching and learning at the same time. The key reason to apply is here: I feel ready.

Programme statement

As a Board member on Fundraising I will take the responsibility of: 1) Keeping constant record of new contacts of EYP-Ukraine and developing EYP sponsorship database; 2) Increasing the number of active participants in the Department, distribution of their tasks and control of their implementation; 3) Continue systematic grant opportunities research and active applying for them; 4) Developing flexible sponsorship scheme, adaptable to each partner’s features and requirements; 5) Collecting, analyzing and structuring financial data of the NGO and reporting on it on monthly basis; 6) Bringing educational aspect into the work of the NGO: inviting experienced trainers to hold workshops and trainings for the members of the EYP and FR department; 7) Cooperating with HR department in keeping contact with EYP-Ukraine alumna, involving them into participation in Alumni Fund; 8) Improving cooperation with PR Department in maintaining contacts with current sponsors of the NGO: sending greeting cards, invitations to particular events, letters of gratitude; 9) Providing support to the IA Department advising fundraising opportunities for delegations to the international events; 10) Cooperating with RD Department in research on regional sponsorship opportunities; 11) Creating groups of fundraising assistants for particular EYP-UA sessions, consisting of FR department members; 12) Providing Head-Organisers of sessions with advice in writing sponsorship proposals; 13) Holding FR Departments meetings and Happy Hours ever y 2 months; 14) Advising the Board in promotion of the Department members to leadership members.

Your personal provisional contribution to EYP Ukraine Except for my strive to rebuild the Department, I see my personal contribution to growth of my NGO in constant work on human resources development. I think that a key factor of prosperous future of every participant is in the extent of the knowledge and skills they gain from the opportunities taken. EYP-Ukraine gives a wide range of academic opportunities, but only some of EYP-ers gain practical experience from chairing, editing, organizing and NC management. I call such phenomenon passive membership, when participants only visit events of EYP as delegates and do not attend any other events except for sessions. This is a result of unawareness of the opportunities EYP gives. In cooperation with Regional Development and Public Relations I am going to increase the number of active participants all over Ukraine. The opportunities I am describing are not innovative, but their efficiency requires improvement. The Speaking and Learning Clubs, workshops on chairing, journalism, editing, organising, public speaking, expert panels, are the field where EYP-Ukraine has implicit advantage comparing to other NGOs, if those do not provide professional courses. This potential shouldn’t be neglected, but extended and promoted, and I want to be in charge of this process. So, if you are still not sure if the Board of EYP-Ukraine needs a person who has ambitious temper, creative ideas, persuasiveness, persistence, patience, strategic thinking and burst of productivity at 4 am, perhaps you will be inspired to vote in favour by the fact that I have good vocal.