FOR NGO
Academy for Educational Development (AED)
1825 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.,
Washington,
DC, USA 20009
Phone: 202 884 8000
Fax: 202 884 8400
admindc@aed.org
www.aed.org
Mission:
AED’s democracy-building and civil society development programs around the world have helped citizens monitor and influence government activities, support market reforms, defend minority and women’s rights, ferret out corruption, and protect the environment. In addition to activities that are specifically designed to build democracy, most of our programs include a component to strengthen civil society through coalition building, grant making, advocacy training, organizational development, or civic education campaigns.
Notes:
AED has extensive experience in grant making to NGOs and other civic organizations around the world. Many of the same principles and processes are used in each program, such as transparent and open competition for grants, participation of local experts in selection, rigorous assessment of financial and management capacity, and results-oriented project monitoring. However, we do not use a cookie-cutter approach to grant management. Our procedures and processes are adapted for and tailored to the cultural and professional environment in each country where we work.
America’s Development Foundation (ADF)
101 North Union Street, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA 22314 USA
Phone: (703) 836-2717
Fax: (703) 836-3379
adf@adfusa.org
www.adfusa.org
Mission:
America’s Development Foundation is dedicated to assisting the international development of democracy. ADF provides technical assistance, training, and grants to non-governmental organizations building civil society in support of democracy in countries throughout the world. ADF works to strengthen democratic values, institutions, and processes. Their approach is based on the belief that a vibrant civil society, comprised of diverse independent economic, political, social, and cultural institutions, is the indispensable foundation of democracy. ADF’s specific program areas include:
1. civil society
2. NGO institutional development
3. advocacy
4. civic education
5. local governance
6. human rights
7. legal assistance/rule of law
8. electoral processes
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA
Phone: (215) 241-7000
Fax: (215) 241-7275
afscinfo@afsc.org
www.afsc.org
Mission:
The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. The Committee works globally in the areas of economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth. Its specific programs include:
1. community relations (advocating for the rights of farmers and immigrants)
2. international programs (providing social and technical assistance programs)
3. peace building (advocating peaceful and nonmilitary resolutions to conflicts)
4. affirmative action (promoting diversity and multiculturalism)
5. women’s programs (addressing women’s needs and interests)
6. Third World coalitions
Arthur B. Schultz Foundation
620 Table Rock West Road
Alta, WY 83422 USA
Phone: 307-413-2273
Fax: 307-353-2273
info@absfoundation.org
http://www.absfoundation.org
Mission:
The Arthur B. Schultz Foundation seeks to realize a more healthy, harmonious, and accessible world, through support of environmental conservation, disabled recreation and therapy, responsible economic development, and greater global understanding.
1. Organizations and initiatives promoting conservation of healthy ecosystems and open spaces,
as well as environmental research and education.
2. Socially and environmentally responsible entrepreneurial projects recognizing an interdependent global economy.
3. Initiatives designed to promote global peace and understanding between people of different nations and ethnic backgrounds.
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
62 Northbourne Avenue
GPO Box 887
Canberra City, ACT 2601, Australia
Phone: 61-2-6-206-4000
Fax: 61-2-6-206-4880
infoausaid@ausaid.gov.au
www.ausaid.gov.au
Mission:
AusAID, the Australian Agency for International Development, is responsible for the management of the official Australian Government overseas aid program. The Agency also provides humanitarian and emergency assistance to disaster and crisis areas, sponsors a global education program on issues of development, and supports student studies through a scholarship program. AusAID’s main program areas include:
1. health
2. gender and development
3. education
4. rural development
5. governance
6. infrastructure
7. environmental sustainability
Limitations:
AusAID only funds individuals through its scholarship programs.
The bulk of its funding supports recognized, non-governmental organizations.
Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA)
Private Bag 3
14 Napier Close
Deakin ACT 2600, Australia
Phone: 61-2-6-285-1816
Fax: 61-2-6-285-1720
acfoc@acfoa.asn.au
www.acfoa.asn.au
Mission:
The Australian Council for Overseas Aid is committed to sustainable human development resulting in vibrant civil societies in which people are able to enjoy the full range of human rights, free from injustice and poverty, and in which gross inequities among people disappear. The primary focus of ACFOA’s work is to improve cooperation and communication between government and NGOs. ACFOA works to promote sustainable development as well as to respond in crisis situations.
Bertelsmann Stiftung (Bertelsmann Foundation)
Carl-Bertelsmann-Strasse 256
D-33311 Gütersloh, Germany
Phone: 49-(52) 41-81-74365
Fax: 49-(52) 41-73-882
infor@bertelsmann-stiftung.de
www.stiftung.bertelsmann.de
Mission:
It assists, in a very direct way, in solving present-day social problems.
The Foundation supports:
1. socio-politics
2. the media
3. international understanding
4. culture and education
5. health and medicine
Commonwealth Foundation
Marlborough House
Pall Mall
London SW1Y 5HY, UK
Phone: 44 (0) 207 930 3783
Fax: 44 (0) 207 839 8157
geninfo@commonwealth.int
www.commonwealthfoundation.com
Mission:
The Foundation provides ad hoc travel grants to promote skill building, experience sharing, and cooperation among Commonwealth nations. The Foundation supports a broad range of programs across four areas of focus:
1. arts and culture
2. civil society
3. commonwealth understanding
4. professional exchange
Limitations:
1. Grants are normally limited to a contribution toward airfare and subsistence. The Foundation does not fund the following:
2. Long-term postings, university sabbaticals or academic research;
3. Students at any level apart from medical students undertaking their elective period of work/study in another Commonwealth country;
4. Travel between developed countries of the Commonwealth;
5. General administrative costs of conferences;
6. Activities and projects within the applicant’s own country;
7. Activities lasting more than three months;
8. General appeals for funds from other agencies.
European Human Rights Foundation (EHRF)
Avenue Michel-Ange 70
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: 32-(2) 734-9424
Fax: 32-(2) 734-6831
ehrf@skynet.be
www.ehrfoundation.org
Mission:
The EHRF is dedicated to the promotion and protection throughout the world of civil, political, social, and cultural rights - collectively referred to as human rights - as they are presently articulated in international instruments, and the furtherance of endeavors to realize aims of a humanitarian nature. In working to meet these objectives, the Foundation distributes small grants to grassroots organizations around the world.
The Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd St.
New York, NY 10017, USA
Phone: (212) 573-5000
Fax: (212) 599-4584
office-secretary@fordfound.org
www.fordfound.org
Mission:
The Foundation’s goals are to strengthen democratic values, to reduce poverty and injustice, to promote international cooperation, and to advance human achievement. It encourages initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located, promotes collaboration among the nonprofit, government, and business sectors, and assures participation by men and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society.
Limitations:
The Foundation does not award undergraduate scholarships or make grants for purely personal or local needs.
Foundation in Support of Local Democracy
ul. Hauke Bosaka 11
01-540 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: (022) 869-92-00 07
Fax: (022) 839022 85
http://www.frdl.org.pl/english/index_e.htm
Mission:
The goal of the Foundation is the dissemination of the ideals of civic self-governance - understood to be the basic form of democracy - on all levels of local authority through:
1. Carrying out research and studies on the forms and problems of its activity;
2. Dissemination of knowledge on local government and the forms of its activity;
3. Supporting local civic self-government initiatives;
4. Collection of information on local self-government and civic initiatives.
Freedom House
Washington D.C. Office
1319 18th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036 USA
Phone: 202-296-5101
Fax: 202-296-5078
www.freedomhouse.org
Mission:
Freedom House is dedicated to informing and educating policymakers and the public. Central to such efforts is their work to monitor and evaluate the state of freedom around the world through annual surveys of political rights and civil liberties, press freedom, and freedom of religion and conscience.
Its programs include:
1. Visiting Fellows Program: share American experience in governance, media and NGO management with young professionals in transition countries
2. American Volunteers for Internal Development: share American experience in governance, media and NGO management with institutions in transition countries
3. Bosnia-USA Business Exchange: share American experience in business development with entrepreneurs.
4. Regional Networking Project: assist in developing cross-border cooperation and communication among policy-oriented CEE, NGOs, and think tanks.
5. Cuban Democracy Project: share experience of CEE journalists, government officials, and civic activists with Cuban pro-democracy activists.
6. Latvia Naturalization Project: assist Latvian Naturalization Board in public outreach and education efforts.
7. Romanian Government Transition Support Programs: share American experience in government communications, press relations, and organizational management with Romanian government officials and offices.
8. Partnership for Reform in Ukraine: strengthen effectiveness and sustainability of public policy institutes, or think tanks, in Ukraine.
9. Support for Serbia’s Democratic Opposition: support Serbia’s NGO and democratically minded leaders in struggle to create lasting democratic change in Serbia.
10. Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperative Initiative: strengthen the emerging cooperative relationship between Ukraine and Poland and to take advantage of Poland’s acquired expertise and lessons learned in the transition to free-market democracy.
11. Rule of Law Initiative/Global Human Rights Training and Support: promote human rights and the rule of law by strengthening judicial institutions and legal frameworks.
12. Strengthening Rule of Law and Human Rights in Algeria: strengthen rule of law reform and human rights protections in Algeria through strengthening the capacity of independent media and NGOs.
13. Uzbekistan Human Rights Defender Support Project: strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of human rights defenders in Uzbekistan.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 750
Washington, D.C., 20036, USA
Phone: (202) 745-3950
Fax: (202) 265-1662
info@gmfus.org
www.gmfus.org
Mission:
The Fund’s primary focus is to help build and sustain a strong and dynamic transatlantic community. The Fund currently concentrates on four programs:
1. Economics
2. Environment
3. Immigration and Integration
4. Foreign Policy
Limitations:
The Fund generally does not offer support for:
1. Projects chiefly concerned with countries outside Europe and the United States
2. Building and operating funds
3. Broadly focused multilateral projects or large-scale research projects
4. Graduate or undergraduate education
5. Scientific or medical research
6. The arts
German Ministry of Economic Cooperation (BMZ)
Erster Dienstsitz Bonn
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche
Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
Friedrich-Ebert-Alle 40
53113 Bonn, Germany
Phone: 01888 / 535 - 0
Fax: 01888 / 535-3500
www.bmz.de
Mission:
The Ministry aims to help people in all parts of the world make use of the opportunities arising from globalization and from the disappearance of the political ideologies once cemented by the East-West divide. In addition the Ministry aims to prevent the marginalization of entire regions and groups of people. Its policies are based on the belief that no part of the world can secure its survival and shape its future without the other parts of the world. Programs are focused in the following areas:
1. debt relief
2. strengthening civil society
3. democracy and the rule of law
4. promoting regional and international networks
5. peace policy
6. human rights
7. education
8. combating AIDS
The Global Fund for Women
1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
Phone: (415) 202-7640
Fax: (415) 202-8604
gfw@globalfundforwomen.org
www.globalfundforwomen.org
Mission:
The Global Fund is committed to protecting and advancing human rights for women. It supports issues as diverse as literacy, domestic violence, economic autonomy, and the international trafficking of women, among others. It supports women’s groups based outside of the U.S. in the specific areas of:
1. economic opportunity and independence for women
2. increasing access to education
3. improving women’s health and reproductive rights
4. stopping violence against women
5. challenging harmful traditional practices
6. strengthening women’s political participation
7. ensuring equal rights for women with disabilities
8. improving women’s access to information technology
Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung eV (Hanns Seidel Foundation)
Institute for Foreign Relations
Lazarettstraáe 33
D-80636 Munich, Germany
Phone: 49-(89) 1258201
Fax: 49-(89) 1258368
www.hss.de
Mission:
The Foundation contributes to organizing and conducting international conferences, including special bilateral conferences; publishing conference results; and advancing international dialogue about foreign, security, and economic policy issues.
Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos)
Raamweg 16
2596 HL The Hague, Netherlands
Phone: 31-070-376-5500
Fax: 31-070-362-4600
hivos@hivos.nl
www.hivos.nl
Mission:
Hivos is dedicated to furthering emancipation and democracy and combating poverty in developing countries. Hivos provides financial and political support to local, private organizations whose activities are centered around five policy areas: economy and credit facilities, culture and the arts, women and development, sustainable development, and human rights and AIDS. Hivos works to fight poverty, to make society a more equitable place to live, and lobbies to influence policy in favor of these objectives. Domestically, Hivos raises awareness on development and poverty issues.
Limitations:
Hivos does not provide funds for emergency situations.
Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia (ISAR)
1601 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 301
Washington, D.C. 20009 USA
Phone: (202) 387-3034
Fax: (202) 667-3291
postmaster@isar.org
www.isar.org/isar
Mission:
ISAR’s work is guided by the belief that meeting current social and ecological challenges depends on the more equitable distribution of resources, open access to information, and greater cooperation among groups and individuals. The organization fulfills these objectives in a myriad of ways including: serving as an information clearinghouse; administering small grants programs that provide financial support to organizations implementing concrete, local projects; providing trainings and consultations on such topics as fundraising, organizational development, and media relations; producing publications that showcase the successes of NGOs and examine issues of importance to them; and hosting a Forum and Brown Bag series to promote dialogue and information sharing in the NGO community.
Interchurch Organization for Development and Cooperation
P.O. Box 151
3700 AD Zeist, Netherlands
Phone: 31-30-692-7811
Fax: 31-30-692-5614
Comm-unit@icco.nl
www.icco.nl
Mission:
ICCO’s mission is to work to eliminate global poverty and injustice. ICCO funds activities that stimulate and enable people to secure dignified housing and living conditions. In particular, ICCO sponsors projects in the areas of: health service, education, sustainable forestry, rural development and sustainable agriculture, organizational capacity building, small business development and income generation, democratization, and middle class development.
International Youth Foundation (IYF)
32 South Street, Suite 500
Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
Phone: (410) 347-1500
Fax: (410) 347-1188
youth@iyfnet.org
www.iyfnet.org
Mission:
The Foundation works to identify effective programs and approaches for young people, to advocate for improved policies benefiting children and youth, and to increase philanthropy for young people at the local and international level. These programs identified by the Foundation provide a wide spectrum of support services including: vocational training, health education, recreation, cultural tolerance, environmental awareness, and the development of leadership, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills. In addition to these existing programs, the Foundation also works more broadly to increase global awareness of children and youth issues, to strengthen the organizational skills of youth leaders, and to promote greater knowledge and implementation of best practices for young people.
Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation
PO Box 1243
S-11182 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: (8) 676-8000
Fax: (8) 21-6123
Mission:
The Foundation promotes European cooperation and development, focusing on the principles of liberty, democracy, and market economy. Providing information to organizations and individuals concerning the processes of European integration will carry out this objective.
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