Она готова рисковать ради проекта.

Готова is the short-form adjective agreeing with она (she), which is feminine singular.

• готов = masculine singular
• готова = feminine singular
• готово = neuter singular
• готовы = plural

So:

• Он готов = He is ready
• Она готова = She is ready
• Они готовы = They are ready

In this sentence, готова means ready/willing/prepared to.

In Russian, the verb to be is usually not expressed in the present tense.

So English She is ready becomes simply:

• Она готова

But in the past or future, forms of быть do appear:

• Она была готова = She was ready
• Она будет готова = She will be ready

After готов / готова / готовы, Russian often uses an infinitive to say what someone is ready to do.

So the pattern is:

• готов + infinitive
• готова + infinitive
• готовы + infinitive

Examples:

• Он готов помочь. = He is ready to help.
• Она готова ждать. = She is ready to wait.
• Мы готовы начать. = We are ready to begin.

So Она готова рисковать literally means She is ready to risk / to take risks.

Рисковать means to risk or to take risks.

It can be used:

1. Absolutely, without naming the exact thing being risked:

   • Он любит рисковать. = He likes taking risks.

2. With an object in the instrumental case:

   • рисковать жизнью = to risk one’s life
   • рисковать деньгами = to risk money

In your sentence, it is used in the broader sense: to take risks for the sake of the project.

Ради means for the sake of and it requires the genitive case.

So:

• проект = nominative
• проекта = genitive

That is why the sentence has:

• ради проекта = for the sake of the project

More examples:

• ради семьи = for the sake of the family
• ради детей = for the sake of the children
• ради успеха = for the sake of success

Not exactly.

• для usually means for, in a more neutral or practical sense
• ради means for the sake of, often with a stronger emotional, purposeful, or self-sacrificing nuance

Compare:

• Это для проекта. = This is for the project.
  (intended for the project / meant for the project)

• Она рискует ради проекта. = She is taking risks for the sake of the project.
  (the project is the reason or cause motivating the risk)

So ради fits well here because it emphasizes motive.

Yes, Russian word order is quite flexible. This sentence is in a neutral, standard order:

• Она = topic/subject
• готова рисковать = what she is prepared to do
• ради проекта = the purpose/motive

Other word orders are possible, but they change emphasis:

• Ради проекта она готова рисковать.
  Emphasizes for the sake of the project

• Рисковать ради проекта она готова.
  Emphasizes the action to risk for the project

A learner should treat the original version as the most neutral one.

It can mean any of those depending on context.

In this sentence, готова suggests:

• ready to
• prepared to
• willing to

Because the action is рисковать (to risk / take risks), English often naturally translates it as willing to risk or prepared to take risks.

So Russian готова is slightly broader than any one single English word.

Рисковать is imperfective.

That makes sense here because the sentence is talking generally about being willing to engage in risky action, not about completing one single risk as a finished event.

Russian often uses the imperfective infinitive after готов when talking about general readiness to do something:

• готова ждать = ready to wait
• готов помочь = ready to help
  (here помочь is perfective because it can refer to a single completed act)

With рисковать, the imperfective sounds natural because taking risks is usually understood as an ongoing or general kind of action.

Yes. That is also natural, but it is slightly different.

• Она готова рисковать ради проекта = She is ready/willing to take risks for the sake of the project.
  This can suggest repeated, general, or broad risk-taking.

• Она готова пойти на риск ради проекта = She is ready to take a risk for the sake of the project.
  This often sounds more like a particular risk or a concrete risky step.

So both are correct, but the nuance is a little different.

The stress is on the final -ва́ть:

• рискова́ть

A rough pronunciation guide:

• ri-ska-VAT'

And the full sentence has these stresses:

• Она́ гото́ва рискова́ть ра́ди прое́кта.

Stress is very important in Russian, so it is worth learning words together with their stressed syllables.