Best Practices - Marathons
Georgian Pro Bono Network's and its Partners' Marathon 2023
On 6 July 2023, the Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) organized Georgian Pro Bono Network and its partners' fifth Pro Bono marathon 2023.
This year, 14 pro bono consultants from eight different companies participated in Marathon and prepared graphic videos for four CSOs describing their work.
The marathon was preceded by joint preparatory meetings of companies' pro bono consultants and representatives of civil organizations, which included various work stages: material processing, video concept formation, structure and main message formulation, scenario development, and visual style determination.
On the basis of this material, video animations were prepared on the day of the marathon. Video presentations were held at the end of the event.
The participating companies in Pro Bono Marathon 2023 included:
ACT Global Research and Consulting Company
Insurance Company "GPI Holding"
Beneficiary civil organizations:
Young Pedagogues Union in Guria
Keep Georgia Tidy in Tbilisi
Orioni in Imereti
Komli in Shida Kartli.
About Project: Pro Bono Marathon is organised with the support of the European Union (EU) and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) funded project ‘Civil Society STAR Initiative: CSOs as Sustainable, Transparent, Accountable and Resilient Development Actors in Georgia’.
The project is implemented by the Consortium led by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and composed of the following CSOs: Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG), Civil Society Institute (CSI), Center for Training and Consultancy (CTC), Education Development and Employment Center (EDEC), and Institute for European Politics (IEP).