OREANDA-NEWS. December 20, 2010. The annual research “Leaders of corporate philanthropy” is published in November, 2010. Rosbank took the 3rd position in banks’ rating. Other leaders are Uralsib and Binbank. In general rating of companies Rosbank is on the 11th position. It is one step higher than in the last year rating.

For some years nonprofit partnership of grantmaking organizations “Donors Forum”, newspaper “Vedomosti” and company PwC have been involved in the research. This year 53 companies with 300 mln roubles and annual audited financial report 2009. 40 commercial organizations took part in the last year research.

According to the rules of the competition companies’ philanthropy activities were assessed in five criteria groups: financial contribution, approach to philanthropy, management and operation, results and outlook and communication policy. Methodology is based on approaches used by PwC in Australia, Germany, Netherlands and on experience of award for the best European sustainability report.