Jurvneshservice Law Firm has acted as independent auditor of the National Competition “Philantropist of the Year 2009”. The purpose of the independent audit is to monitor the course of competition and the process of determining the finalists.
The Philanthropist of the Year competition was founded in 2007. Its goal is furthering the development of charity in Ukraine and promoting it through public celebration  of charitable initiatives aimed at solving urgent problems of our time.
The competition co-organizers are the Children’s World ACF, Ukraine 3000 ACF, Ukrainian Philanthropists’ Forum, and Center for Philanthropy. Legal and physical entities having rendered single or multiple charitable aid for solving social problems in 2009 take part in the competition. Experts on social development and charity, having proper experience for selecting best examples of charitable activities are in the competition’s panel.
This year the members  of the Supervisory Board of the competition are VV rock group’s frontman Oleh Skrypka, Olympic Champion in artistic gymnastics Stella Zakharova, People’s Artiste of Ukraine Mariya Burmaka, writers and publishers Vitaly and Dmytro Kapranovs. People’s Artiste of Ukraine Bohdan Stupka was elected the Head of the Supervisory Board.