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Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. list
re: Main List for HRC Roundtable [partial] (6 pages)
08/29/1996
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
OA/Box Number: 17869
FOLDER TITLE:
HRC Roundtable: US Assistance to Central Europe and NIS [New Independent States]
Countires [binder]
2013-0534-S
rc1743
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Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
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an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
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purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
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of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
HRC
Roundtable
U.S. Assistance
to Central
Europe & NIS
Countries
P
CIVIL SOCIETY/
DEMOCRACY BUILDING
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Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. list
re: Main List for HRC Roundtable [partial] (6 pages)
08/29/1996
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
OA/Box Number: 17869
FOLDER TITLE:
HRC Roundtable: US Assistance to Central Europe and NIS [New Independent States]
Countires [binder]
2013-0534-S
rc1743
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
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information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
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P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
as of 8-29-96
Main List for 9-4-96 HRC Roundtable
re: U.S. Assisstance to Central Europe
and the New Independent States
Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company
Mr. Joel Fleichman, President
20th Floor
521 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10175
PH: (212) 916-7340
Fax: (212) 922-0360
Status: no
Sub: no
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Mr. Michael S. Joyce, President
a
P.O. Box 92848
Milwaukee, WI 58202
-will for $
PH: (414) 291-9915
Fax: (414) 291-9991
Status: no
Sub: Dr. Hillel G. Fradkin
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
[00] ]
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Dr. David A. Hamburg, President
437 Madison Avenue
-will fax 17
New York, NY 10022
PH: (212) 371-3200
Fax: (212) 223-9873
Status: no
Sub M.David Speedie. Program Chair
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
The Eurasia Foundation
Mr. Rocky Staples, Acting President
a
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
PH: 234-7370
- will fax H
Fax: 234-7377
Status: yes
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
Guest: WSarah Carey (panelist)
Chair, Eurasia Foundation
a
PH: 429-3000
Fax: 429-3902
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
Ford Foundation
Ms. Susan V. Berresford, President
320 East 43rd Sreet
a
New York, NY 10017
PH: (212) 573-5000
-willfant
Fax: (212) 856-9330
Status: no
Sub: Joseph Schull, Deputy Director
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
The Freedom Forum World Center
Mr. Charles Overby, President and Chief Executive Officer
1101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22209
PH: (703) 284-2862 or (703) 671-2654
Fax: (703) 284-3529
Status: no
Sub: MLisa Ellis
-will fax
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
German Marshall Fund
Mr. Craig Kennedy, President
Suite 750
11 Dupont Circle, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
PH: 745-3950 (Susan)
Fax: 265-1662
-will faxt
Status: yes
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
The Gilman Foundation
Mr. Howard Gilman, President
111 West 50th Street
New York, NY 10020-1204
PH: (212) 246-3300
Fax: (212) 262-4108 (Harry Brown)
Status: no
Sub: no
W. Alton Jones Foundation
Ms. Patricia Jones Edgerton, President
232 East High Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
PH: (804) 295-2134
Fax: (804) 295-1648 (Martha Kendrick Campbell)
Status: no
DOB: Sub: V-Diane (b)(6) Edgerton Miller Sec.
SSN:
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Mr. Norman A. Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer
One Michigan Avenue East
Battle Creek, MI 49017-4058
a
PH: (616) 969-2115 (Mary Lynn Falbe)
-willfax It -will fax $
Fax: (616) 968-0413
Status: no
Sub: Dr. John C. Burkhardt, Program Director, Leadership and
Higher Education
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
Mr. Creed Black, President
Suite 3800
2 South Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33131
PH: (305) 539-0009
Fax: (305) 530-1534
Status: no
Sub: no
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Ms. Adele Simmons, President
Suite 1100
9
140 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60603-5285
-will faxH
PH: (312) 726-8000, ext. 419 (Rossi)
Fax: (312) 917 - 0200
Status: no
Sub: Kenette Benedict, Director of the Program on Peace and
International Cooperation and the Initiative in the former
Soviet Union (panelist)
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation
Mr. Neil Creighton, President and Chief Executive Officer
b
Suite 770
435 Morth Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
PH: (312) 222-3510 (Kristen)
Fax: (312) 222-3523
-will fax on Thes.
Status: ves
(b)(6)
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
William G. Bowen, Ph.D., President
140 East 62nd Street
New York, NY 10021
PH: (212) 838-8400
Fax: (212) 223-2778
Status: no
Sub: no
Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
Mr. Robert Crane, President
218 East 18th Street
New York, NY 10003
PH: (212) 475-1137
Fax: (212) 777-5226
Status: no
Sub: no
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Mr. William S. White, President
1200 Mott Foundation Building
Flint, MI 48502-1851
PH: (810) 238-5651
Fax: (810) 766-1753
Jean Simi
-wil faxt faxt
Status: MMMMM yes
under
DOB:
(b)(6)
SSN:
John M. Olin Foundation
The Honorable William E. Simon
22nd Floor
330 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
PH: (212) 661-2670
Fax:
Status: no
Sub: no
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Ms. Rebecca Rimel, President
Suite 1700
2005 Market Street
One Commerce Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7017
PH: (215) 575-9050
Fax: (215) 575-4939
Status: no
Sub: no
The Rockefeller Foundation
Mr. Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., President
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
PH: (212) 869-8500
Fax: (212) 852-8277 (Dara Major)
Status: no
Sub: no
Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
Mr. Colin Campbell, President
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
PH: (212) 373-4241
Fax: (212) 315-0996
-wilfaxt -will faxt
Status: no
Sub: LWilliam S. Moody, Program Officer for CEE (panelist)
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
Sabre Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Josiah Lee Auspitz
Suite 2-1
872 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-3013
-left msg.
PH: (617) 628-6228
Fax: (617) 628-9441
Status: ves
DOB:
(b)(6)
SSN:
Guest: \Tania Vitvitski
Fax: (617) 868-7916
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
The Sarah Scaife Foundation
Mr. Richard M. Larry, President
Suite 3900
Three Mellon Bank Center
525 William Penn Place
willcall back
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
PH: (412) 392-2914 (Alexis)
Fax: (412) 392-2922
Status: yes
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
Smith Richardson Foundation
Mr. Peter L. Richardson, President
60 Jessup Road
Westport, CT 06880
PH: (203) 222-6227 (Donna)
Fax: (203) 222-6294
-willfax4
Status: yes
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
The Soros Foundations
Mr. George Soros, President
Suite 3100
888 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10106
PH: 296-5380 (Karen Reynolds)
Fax: 296-5381
Status: no
Sub: W.Tohn John Fox Director, Open Society Institute (panelist)
3
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
- -will fax It
Starr Foundation
Mr. John J. Roberts, Vice Chairman and Trustee
American International Group, Inc.
70 Pine Street
Q
New York, NY 10270
PH: (212) 770-
6489
Fax: (212) 770-5253
fund other org. which do work
Status: yes
DOB:
- Mr, Roberts bringing stuff
SSN:
(b)(6)
w/lum to not foring
Trust for Mutual Understanding
it to no
Mr. Richard S. Lanier, Director
Room 5600
30 Rockfeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
PH: (212) 632-3405
Fax: (212) 632-3409
Status: yes
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
The Winston Foundation for World Peace
Mr. John Tirman, Executive Director
Suite 710
1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Q
Washington, D.C. 20009
PH: 483-4215
Fax: 483-4219
-will fox #
Status: yes
DOB:
SSN:
(b)(6)
617-868-7916 SABRE FOUNDATION
181 P01
OCT 03 '96 14:31
SABRE FOUNDATION, INC.
Scientific Assistance Project
telephone 617/868-3510
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
fax 617/868-7916
Cambridge, MA 02139
e-mail [email protected]
- IGA give
To: Katy Button, Office of the First Lady, The White House
heads-up re:
From: Tania Vitvitsky, Sabre Foundation
Buffalo mayor
Date: October 3, 1996
Fax: 202/456-6244
Pages: 8
Re: October 21, 1996 White House Event Suggested Invitation List
Attached please find the list organized into two sections: the 9:00 AM Bosnia and
Romania Photo Event and a list of guests for the larger event. Included in the larger list
are several members of the press, some having indicated an interest in attending the event.
Dr. Kemal Bakarsic, our Bosnian coordinator, will need to receive an invitation quickly
(with a cc: of the invitation letter to the US Embassy in Zagreb) so that he can get a visa:
Dr. Kemal Bakarsic
Assistant Minister for Science
Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports
Sarajevo
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Fax: 387 71 667-732
Dr. Bakarsic is one of the authors of an UNESCO report on higher education in Bosnia &
Herzegovina. I attach the cover page for your information.
Should you have any questions about the list, please call me at your convenience.
A
In closing, I just wanted to add that just this morning, I had a very productive telephone
conversation with Dr. Jacob Bergsland, on collaboration between Sabre and the Tuzla
project. We agreed to further discussions in Washington
Best regards and thanks for your help!
Tamin Vitrity
Papers on Higher Education
UNESCO
OFFICE IN BUCHAREST
CEPES
REPORT
ON HIGHER EDUCATION
IN
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA:
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT,
PRESENT STATE, AND
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Sreben DIZDAR
and
Bakaršić KEMAL
1996
617-868-7916 SABRE FOUNDATION
181 P03
OCT 03 '96 14:32
1
Mr. William A. Hunt
October 21, 1996 White House Event -
President
Invitation List
Solidarity Project
Dept. of History
I. 9:00 AM
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
Bosnia Photo Event:
Fax: 379-5502
Sven Alkalai
Anastasia Kokalianis
Ambassador
Financial Analyst/Donations Coord.
Embassy of Bosnia-Herzegovina
McGraw-Hill Companies
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Fax: 202-833-2061
Fax: 212-512-3354
Mr. Josiah Lee Auspitz
William A. Lindsay
17 Chapel St.
Assistant Director, CFO
Somerville, MA 02144
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA 02138-1499
Dr. Kemal Bakarsic
Fax: 617-495-5898
Assistant Minister for Science
Ministry of Education, Science, Culture,
Susan Monaghan
and Sports
University of Illinois
Sarajevo
2121 W. Taylor, Room 214
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Chicago, IL 60612
Fax: 387 71 667-732
Terence E. Monaghan
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Baldyga
President
3622 North Vacation Lane
World Book Educational Products
Arlington, VA 22207-3820
2625 Butterfield Road, Suite 212 E
Fax: 703-524-2479
Oak Brook. IL 60521
Fax: 630/575-2681
Sid Blumenthal
6805 6th St., N.W.
Andras J. Riedlmayer
Washington, DC 20012
Bibliographer
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Arch.
Beth and J. Linzee Coolidge
Fogg Art Museum - Harvard Univ.
Dusky Foundation
32 Quincy Street
101 Tremont Street, Suite 1000
Cambridge, MA 02138
Boston, MA 02108
Fax: 617-496-4889
Fax: 617-451-2398
Jeff Spurr
Mr. Joseph Duffey
Cataloguer for Islamic Art
Office of the Director
Fogg Art Museum
United States Information Agency
Harvard University
Room 800
32 Quincy Street
301 4th Street, S.W.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Washington, DC 20547
Fax: 617/496-4889
617-868-7916 SABRE FOUNDATION
181 P04
OCT 03 '96 14:32
2
Marian B. St. Onge Ph.D.
Director
II. Guests for the Larger Event:
Office of International Programs
Boston College
Mr. William Alpert
Chestnut Hill, MA 02167-3807
The William H. Donner Foundation
Fax: 617-552-0647
500 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1230
New York, NY 10110
Mr. Ronald A. Ungaro
Fax: 212/302-8734
United States Information Agency
Bureau of Information
J. Brian Atwood
301 Fourth Street, SW
Administrator
Washington DC 20547
Admin
U.S. A.I.D.
Fax: 202-358-0329
320 21st Street
Washington, DC 20523
Tania Vitvitsky
Sabre Foundation
Mr. Kenneth Bartels
872 Massachusetts Avenue
President
Suite 2-1
Paxton Properties, Inc.
Cambridge, MA 02138
685 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor
Fax: 617/868-7916
New York, NY 10022
Fax: (212) 935-6998
Romania Photo Event:
William C. Bates III
Mark D. Gearan
Office of Rep. Anna G. Eshoo
Director
(om.
308 Cannon
Peace Corps
Washington DC 20515
1990 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20526
Dr. James Billington
Librarian of Congress
Mircea D. Geoama
Admin
Library of Congress
Ambassador
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Embassy of Romania
Washington, DC 20540
Washington, DC
Romania
Hon. Hank Brown
Fax: 232-332-4852 +122
U.S. Senate
Frederick M. O'Regan
Corl.
Washington, DC 20510
Fax: 202/224-2965
Regional Director
Peace Corps
James V. Capua
Europe, Cent. Asia & Mediterranean
President
1990 K Street, NW
William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC 20526
500 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1230
Fax: 202-606-2375
New York, NY 10110
617-868-7916 SABRE FOUNDATION
181 P05 OCT 03 '96 14:33
3
James Carroll
Mr. Dave Dunn
Boston Globe
Dunn and Company
P.O. Box 2378
P.O.Box 968
Press
Boston, MA 02107-2389
75 Green Street
Fax: 617/523-4701
Clinton, MA 01510-0968
Fax: 508/368-7867
Marthena S. Cowart
Senior Advisor
James P. Fabiani
USIA, Office of Public Liason
President & Chief Operating Officer
Admin
301 Fourth St., SW
Cassidy & Associates
Suite 601
700 Thirteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20547
Suite 400
Fax: 202-619-6988
Washington, DC 20005
Fax: (202) 347-0785
Janet I. Crayne
Slavic Librarian & Bibliographer
Barry Fulton
University of Michigan
Bureau Chief
111G Hatcher Graduate Library North
Admin
U.S. Information Agency
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
Information Bureau
Fax: 313-763-6743
301 4th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20547
Paul Desruisseaux/Amy Magaro Rubin
International News
Kristen Gilley
Chronicle of Higher Education
Congressman Ben Gilman's Office
press
1255 Twenty-Third Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
Com.
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Fax: (202) 296-2691
Fax: (202) 225-2541
Jan Willem Dijkstra
Hon. Ben Gilman
Director of Marketing Services
Chairman
Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V.
International Relations Committee
P.O. Box 211
Com.
U.S. House of Representatives
1000 AE Amsterdam
Washington, DC 20515
The Netherlands
Fax: (202) 225-2541
Fax: (31 20) 685 4171
C. Boyden Gray, Esq.
Tom Dine
Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering
US AID
2445 M Street, N.W.
Admin
Bureau of East Euro. & NIS Affairs
Washington, DC 20037
321 21 Street
Washington, DC 20523
Mr. Wade Greene
Rockefeller Family
Marina Dundjserski
Room 5600
International News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
ML
Chronicle of Philanthropy
New York, NY 10112
press
1255 Twenty-Third Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
Fax: (202) 466-2078
617-868-7916 SABRE FOUNDATION
181 P06 OCT 03 '96 14:33
4
Caroline Bailey & Michael M. Hornblow
2301 Conneticut Avenue, NW-Apt. 6A
Hon. Tom Lantos
Washington, DC 20008-1730
Com.
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Mr. Reed E. Hundt
Chairman
Hon. James Leach
Admin
Federal Communications Commission
U.S. House of Representatives
1919 M Street, N.W.
Com
Washington, DC 20515
Stop Code 010
Washington, DC 20554
Anthony Lewis
The New York Times
Mr. Jason E. Isaak
2 Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Legislative Assistant
Press
Boston, MA 02109
Honorable Jim Kolbe
Fax: (617) 227-0856
Com.
205 Cannon Building
Washington, DC 20515
Anne Marie Marans
Fax: 202-225-0378
2901 Garfield Terrace, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Fred Kellogg
2027 Q Street, N.W.
J. Eugene Marans, Esq.
Washington, DC 20009
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
1725 N St., N.W.
Hon. Edward Kennedy
Washington, DC 20036
US Senate #315
Fax: 202/429-0946 or 202/429-0942
Com.
Washington, DC 20510
Fax: 202/224-2417
Daniel Matuszewski
Executive Director
Senator John F. Kerry
IREX
U.S. Senate
1616 H Street, NW
Corg.
421 Russell/ Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20006
Washington, DC 20510-2102
Fax: 202-628-8189
Kay Atkinson King Ph.D.
Guy Mayo
Employment and Housing Subcommittee
Chief Executive Officer
Government Operations Committee
Project Bosnia
Cong.
B-349A Rayburn H.O.B.
One Kendall Sq.
1526 Longworth Building
Bldg. 200, 4th floor
Washington. DC 20515
Cambridge, MA 02139
Fax: 617/621-8686
Hon. Jim Kolbe
(omg.
U.S. House of Representatives
Ms. Anne D. Neal
Washington, DC 20515
3333 Prospect Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Annette Lantos
Staff Director
cay.
Congressional Human Rights Caucus
1526 LHOB
HE
Washington, DC 20515
617-868-7916 SABRE FOUNDATION
181 P07
OCT 03 '96 14:34
5
Laura Neal
Prof. Richard E. Quandt
Cassidy & Associates
Department of Economics
700 Thirteenth Street, NW
Princeton University
Suite 400
Princeton, NJ 08544-1017
Washington, DC 20005
Fax: (609) 258-6419
Fax: 202-347-0785
Kevin Rafferty
Mr. Martin F. Oppenheimer
OFR Program
Koonce Securities, Inc.
Admin
Agency for Int'l Development
6550 Rock Spring Drive
Office of PVC
Suite 620
7th Floor, SA-8
Bethesda, MD 20817
Washington, DC 20523-0804
Fax: 301/897-9794
Fax: 703-351-0228
Jaroslav Pelikan
Mr. Calvin Reid
Sterling Professor of History
News Editor
Yale University
Publishers Weekly
P.O. Box 208324
249 West 17th Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
New York, NY 10011
Fax: 203-248-7402
Fax: 212-242-7216
Hon. Thomas E. Petri
Bill Reinckens
US House of Representatives
Office of Public Liason
Rayburn House office Bldg.
USIA
Com.
Washington, DC 20515
Admin
301 4th Street, SW
Fax: 202-225-2356
Washington, DC 20547
202/619-4370
Mr. Carter Pilcher
Office of Senator Hank Brown
Hon. Hal Rogers
Hart Senate Office Building
Com.
U.S. House of Representatives
Com.
Room 716
Washington, DC 20515
Washington, DC 20510
Fax: (202) 224-2965
Mr. James Rowe
VP for Government, Community & P.A.
Evelyn Powers
Harvard University
USA Today
Massachusetts Hall
1000 Wilson Blvd
Cambridge, MA 02138
Press
14th floor
Arlington, VI 22229
Dr. Irvin C. Schick
Fax: 703/247-3282
Senior Research Scientist
Bolt Beraneck & Newman Inc.
John R. Price Jr.
49 Marion St.
General Manager, Government Affairs
#7-D
Chemical Bank
Brookline, MA 02146
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Meeting with U.S. Foundation Leaders
on Assistance to Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS
September 4, 1996
AGENDA
10:30-10:45
Opening Remarks
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
10:45-11:00
Policy Overview: The Current State of U.S.
Relations with Central and Eastern Europe and the
New Independent States
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott
11:00-11:30
Public-Private Cooperation: Current Experience
and Future Opportunities
Panel:
Kennette Benedict, Director, Program in Peace and
International Cooperation and the Initiative
in the Former Soviet Union, The John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation;
Sarah Carey, Chair, Board of Trustees, The Eurasia
Foundation;
John Fox, Director, Open Society Institute
(Soros Foundation) ;
William Moody, Program Officer for Central and
Eastern Europe, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
11:30-12:45
Developing Cooperative Strategies: Discussion of
Ways and Means
Ambassador Richard Morningstar, Special Advisor to
the President and Secretary of State on U.S.
Assistance to the NIS, and James Holmes,
Coordinator, U.S. Assistance to Central and
Eastern Europe, co-moderators
Discussion will center on how the public and
private sectors can leverage each other's programs
to enhance sustainability and encourage the
development of indigenous capabilities in areas
such as independent media/free flow of
information, health and social services, rule of
law/crime and corruption, small business
development and education. Specific mechanisms
for coordination and cooperation will also be
discussed, along with other topics which
participants wish to raise.
12:45-1:00
Conclusions and Follow-up
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on Assistance to Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS
List of Attendees
***Further information provided by each foundation follows under
the corresponding tabs.
TAB
A - Bradley Foundation (no information available)
Hillel Fradkin, Vice President for Academic, Cultural and
International Programs
B - Carnegie Corporation of New York
David Speedie, Program Chair, Preventing Deadly Conflict
Program
C - Eurasia Foundation
Rocky Staples, Acting President
Sarah Carey, Chair, Board of Trustees
D - Ford Foundation
Joseph Schull, Deputy Director
E - Freedom Forum World Center
Lisa Ellis, Executive Director, International Programs
F - German Marshall Fund
Marianne Ginsburg, Program Officer
G - W. Alton Jones Foundation
Diane Edgerton Miller, Secretary, Board of Trustees
H - W.K. Kellogg Foundation
John C. Burkhardt, Program Director, Leadership and Higher
Education
I - John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Kennette Benedict, Director, Program on Peace and
International Cooperation and the Initiative in the
Former Soviet Union
J - Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation
Neil Creighton, President and CEO
K - Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
William S. White, President
L - Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
William S. Moody, Program Officer for CEE
M - Sabre Foundation
Josiah Lee Auspitz, Director
Tania Vitvitski, Director, CEE and NIS Programs
N - The Sarah Scaife Foundation
Richard M. Larry, President
O - Smith Richardson Foundation
Peter L. Richardson, President
P - The Soros Foundations
John Fox, Director, Open Society Institute
Q - Starr Foundation
John Roberts, Vice Chairman and Trustee
R - Trust for Mutual Understanding
Richard Lanier, Director
S - The Winston Foundation for World Peace
John Tirman, Executive Director
Administration Representatives
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Melanne Verveer
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the First Lady
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Strobe Talbott
Deputy Secretary of State
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Ambassador Richard Morningstar
Special Advisor on U.S. Assistance to the NIS
Department of State
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James Holmes
Coordinator for Central and Eastern Europe
Department of State
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Thomas Dine
Assistant Administrator for Europe and the NIS
United States Agency for International Development
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Dan Fried
Senior Director, Central and Eastern Europe
National Security Council
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Steve Pifer
Director, Russia/Ukraine/Eurasiar Affairs
National Security Council
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Barbara Turner
Deputy Asst. Administrator for Central and Eastern Europe
United States Agency for International Development
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Paul R. Smith
Deputy Director for East European and NIS affairs
United States Information Agency
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Carol Doerflein
Director, Democratic Initiatives
Department of State
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Christa Capozzola
Special Counselor
Department of State
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Michael Hurley
Democracy Porgrams Officer
Department of State
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PREVENTING
DEADLY CONFLICT
I
n the post-Cold War world. ethnic, nationalist,
Support is given to creating and undergirding
religious, and territorial enmities both within
democratic institutions, building elements of a civil
and between states present new and formidable
society in the former Soviet bloc, and rendering
challenges to nations and to multilateral institu-
Western responses more effective against the threat
tions. Deadly conflict can occur in a wide range
of disintegration or internal destabilization in the
of circumstances. including those where the hatreds
new democracies.
and fears of groups are exploited in violent ways
The Corporation's subprogram on cooperative
by political opportunists and those where the
security and nonproliferation supports research and
potential for uncontrolled possession of nuclear,
the interaction of scholars and policymakers toward
chemical. and biological weapons menaces the
developing a new international security strategy
lives of millions.
based on principles of cooperation rather than
Under its program on Preventing Deadly
competition, integration rather than isolation, and
Conflict. the Corporation supports independent
transparency rather than secrecy. A primary
research and discussion among scholars.
emphasis is placed on the exploration of prospects
policymakers, and informed members of the public
for more robust efforts by the United States and
to examine the interstate and intrastate conflicts
other nations to curb the proliferation of advanced
of the post-Cold War era and to advance ideas for
weaponry and weapons technology that threaten
their prevention and more rapid resolution in the
to raise the stakes dangerously in regional or
future. Fundamental issues include the origins of
intrastate conflicts.
conflicts. the conditions that prevent or encourage
their deadly outbreak. the conflicts that are most
likely to escalate into violence, and the functional
requirements for an effective system of prevention.
This work is carried out under the subprogram,
preventing mass intergroup vidlence, in close
cooperation with the Carnegie Commission on
Preventing Deadly Conflict, an operating program
of the foundation.
The Corporation continues to examine ways of
strengthening democratic institutions in the former
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where especially
ominous threats to international stability loom in
the regions' ethnic and nationalist conflicts.
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VIOLENCE
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly
International Foundation for Socio-Economic
Conflict
and Political Studies
c/o Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2400
49, Leningradsky prospekt, Moscow, Russia
N Street, N.W., Sixth Floor, Washington, DC
125468
20037-1153
Two-year grant of $212,000 toward a project
One-year appropriation of $2,700.000
on problems of Russian security
administered by the officers of the Corporation
Contact: Georgy Shakhnazarov, Director,
Centre for the Study of Global Problems
Contact: Jane E. Holl, Executive Director
(011-7) 095-943-9821
(202) 429-7979
Approximately seventy actual or emerging ethnic,
Founded in 1991, the International Foundation for
nationalist. territorial. and religious conflicts exist
Socio-Economic and Political Studies, known as
throughout the world today. In their intensity and
the Gorbachev Foundation, conducts research and
number, they have the potential to threaten world
training on a variety of domestic and international
peace and have left international organizations
issues. This grant supports two strands of a project
struggling to find effective ways of responding.
on problems of Russian security, led by Georgy
To advance new ideas toward the prevention
Shakhnazarov, director of the foundation's Centre
and resolution of deadly strife, the Corporation in
for the Study of Global Problems.
1994 established the Carnegie Commission on
One strand will address the panoply of ideas on
Preventing Deadly Conflict. Over a three-year
Russian national interests. In seminars in Moscow
period, the commission members - sixteen
and in Russia's regions, the foundation's scholars
international scholars and policy practitioners -
will, in cooperation with regional and international
are pursuing three principal avenues of inquiry.
experts, examine the implications of Russia's
First, they are analyzing the nature of deadly
national interest as defined by the official regime,
conflict within or between states and considering
political parties and movements, and ethnic,
why and in what instances outside help is needed
religious, and social groups. They will assess
to deal with it. Second, they are considering how
which definitions best reflect the needs of the
to structure that help effectively, given the blend
public and explore the linkage between specific
of political, economic, military, and social tools
Russian interests and global issues such as human
that are at the disposal of the international commu-
rights.
nity. Finally, they are identifying the roles that
A second strand will address the prevention and
international institutions, regional organizations,
resolution of interethnic conflict in Russia.
individual states, and ad hoc coalitions can play
Scholars from Moscow's research institutes will
in preventing mass violence.
determine how group identities, value orientations,
Corporation president David A. Hamburg and
and internal motivations are being shaped by
former U.S. secretary of state Cyrus R. Vance
Russia's political, economic, and social transitions
cochair the commission. Political scientist Jane E.
in ways that might promote or thwart violent
Holl is executive director. A final report will be
conflict. Their work will focus on Omsk,
issued in 1997 and will be followed by à range of
Bashkc. rostall. and Knespodar, three regions willise
dissemination activities. This appropriation
degree of interethnic tension ranges from low to
supports the commission during 1995-96.
violent.
Reports from both parts of the project will be
published in Russian and English.
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Brown University
Center for Post-Soviet Studies
Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for
2 Wisconsin Circle, Suite 410, Chevy Chase,
International Studies, Box 1948, 2 Stimson
MD 20815
Avenue, Providence. RI 02912
Two-year grant of $200,000 for a research
Ten-month grant of $250,000 for a project on
project on relations among Russia, Ukraine,
Central Asia in the post-cold war era
Belarus, Georgia, and Kazakhstan
Contact: Roald Z. Sagdeev, Senior Associate
Contact: P. Terrence Hopmann, Director,
(301) 652-8181
Center for Foreign Policy Development
(401) 863-3465
Four years after the collapse of the Soviet Union,
Central Asia, a region with fifty million inhabit-
Russia's relations with the other successor states
ants, is the scene of the deadliest conflict to date
are ambiguous. The outcome of these relations will
in post-Soviet history: the civil war in Tajikistan.
do much to determine whether peace or violent
Conflicts are also germinating in Kazakhstan and
conflict will be the dominant scenario in the post-
Kyrgyzstan. At issue are not only interethnic
Soviet sphere.
tensions but the struggle for control over natural
This grant supports a study, by the Center for
resources, notably the Caspian Sea's oil reserves,
Foreign Policy Development at the Watson Institute
and domestic problems, such as Uzbekistan's
for International Studies at Brown University, of
authoritarian rule and harsh suppression of internal
Russia's intentions and policies toward Belarus,
dissent. With Corporation funds. the Center for
Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. A team of
Post-Soviet Studies' project in Central Asia has
Brown scholars, in collaboration with colleagues
organized seminars and working group meetings
in the former Soviet Union, will assess military,
to analyze these conflicts and their implications for
economic, ethnopolitical, and environmental
regional and Western security.
threats to security in the region and consider what
Under this renewal grant. the center is working
these threats imply for Russia and its neighbors.
with policymakers and conflict resolution special-
Four scenarios are envisioned: cooperative
ists to devise and implement measures that might
independence. in which the states continue to move
avert violent conflict in the region. It is strengthen-
apart peacefully; cooperative reintegration, a
ing its contacts with institutes and relevant minis-
volumary reestablishment of linkages among the
tries in Central Asia and Russia and planning a
states; coercive reintegration, Russia's use of force
monthly bulletin, Central Asian Update, to help
to reintegrate other states under its control; and
U.S. journalists, opinion leaders, and policymakers
chaotic disintegration, involving widespread
better understand developments in the region.
instability and violence.
Other activities include seminars for international
Project staff members led by center director P.
organizations involved in conflict resolution,
Terrence Hopmann will identify policy options that
meetings with U.S. congressional staff members,
regional leaders, states, and multilateral institutions
and retreats with principals from conflicts in the
might adopt to help shape a more stable and
region. Roald Z. Sagdeev, senior associate of the
peaceful "uture. A final report published in English
center, professor of physics at the University of
and Russian will be distributed to policymakers
Maryland, and director emeritus of the Moscow
and scholars in the five countries and in the United
Space Research Institute, leads the project.
States and Europe.
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Search for Common Ground
Center for Strategic and International
1601 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 200,
Studies
Washington, DC 20009
1800 K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20006
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a project on
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a project on
conflict resolution and negotiation in
U.S. policies toward Europe
Macedonia
Contact: Director, Simon Serfaty, Director,
Contact: Eran Fraenkel, Executive Director,
European Studies (202) 775-3110
Search for Common Ground in Macedonia
(202) 265-4300
Search for Common Ground (SCG) is a nongovern-
In 1995, with Corporation support, the Center for
mental organization based in Washington, D.C.,
Strategic and International Studies undertook an
that attempts to implement preventive strategies
analysis of the transition of Europe to a closer
in conflicts around the world. In 1993 it established
union of states. The project, led by Simon Serfaty,
a field operation in Skopje known as Search for
director of European studies at the center, is
Common Ground in Macedonia. The aim is to
intended to promote broad bipartisan discussion
increase the former Yugoslav republic's capacity
of the United States' interest and policy toward the
to resolve its ethnic disputes peacefully.
European Union (EU).
Eran Fraenkel, a consultant on the history,
Areas of focus include the security role of the
language. and ethnography of the former Yugosla-
EU and how an increased role might affect U.S.
via, directs the initiative, for which this grant
security interests in Eastern Europe: the question
renews support. A fellowship program operated
of whether future transformation of the EU should
in partnership with the New York University
take place simultaneously with the expansion of
Center for War, Peace, and the News Media brings
NATO; and lessons from cooperation among
together journalists from three newspapers publish-
European states that might apply to other regions
ing in Macedonian, Turkish, and Albanian and
of the world. In addition to holding meetings of
engages them in collaborative cross-ethnic investi-
academic experts and North American and
gative reporting exercises. SCG is also introducing
European policymakers, the center convenes
conflict resolution studies into Macedonian schools
working groups on such topics as transatlantic
and is commissioning a children's television series
defense cooperation. telecommunications, and
concerning ways to deal with conflict. A primer
relations between the EU and Asia. The center
on conflict resolution was published in 1995 in
commissions papers on selected working group
Macedonian and Albanian. SCG continues to hold
topics. Some of the papers are revised for publica-
meetings in Skopje and Washington to encourage
tion as in-house policy briefs or as books.
information sharing among agencies and groups
Also funding the project are the European
involved in conflict resolution in Macedonia.
Commission and the German Marshall Fund.
Support also comes from the National Endow-
ment for Democracy, the Swedish International
Development Agency. and the Winston Founda-
tion.
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George Washington University
One Palmer Square, Suite 435. Princeton. NJ
President's Office, Rice Hall, NW,
08542-3718
Washington, DC 20052
Two-year grant of $1,200.000 toward 0 project
One-year grant of $225,000 toward a study 10
on ethnic conflict in eastem Europe
develop new organizational strategies for the
prevention of internal conflict in easiern and
Contact: Allen H. Kassof, President
central Europe and the former Soviet Union
(609) 683-5666
Contact: Antonia Handler Chayes, Senior
Advisor (617) 354-5444
The Project on Ethnic Relations. founded in 1991
With Corporation support. the Consensus Building
with Corporation support. is a permanent nongov-
Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducted
ernmental organization working with leaders in
a study of international and regional organizations
eastern, central, and southeastern Europe to
and procedures in conflict prevention and resolu-
prevent or resolve violent interethnic conflict.
tion in eastern Europe and in the Soviet successor
Through its regional offices, it conducts mediation
states. The research has resulted in a book,
and research. mainly concerning Hungarian
Preventing Conflict in the Post-Communist World:
minorities in Romania. Slovakia, Ukraine, and
Mobilizing International and Regional Organiza-
Serbia. The relationship of Hungarians to the
tions, coauthored by principal investigators Abram
majority populations in these countries is fraught
Chayes and Antonia Handler Chayes, to be
with tension. The project, which has been led from
published by the Brookings Institution in 1996.
the start by Allen H. Kassof, convenes roundtable
They conclude that, despite international organiza-
discussions among representatives of contending
tions' broad range of activities to prevent
parties and experts to discuss ways of improving
interethnic conflict. successes have been limited.
mutual understanding and interethnic cooperation.
This renewal grant supports the development
Since 1993 the project has worked to prevent
of a "policy-oriented theoretical model" that will
the spread of violence in the Balkans. In 1995 it
describe how these organizations might improve
hosted a meeting in Belgrade, the first time that
on their individual and collective records in
Albanian leaders in Kosovo agreed to meet with
preventing conflicts in the region. The Chayeses
representatives of the Serb governing party. Efforts
are drawing On such sources of success as low-key,
are under way to continue the dialogue. Other
early interventions in threatening conflicts and a
discussions are proceeding in Bulgaria to address
consensus decision-making process among member
the plight of the Roma, or Gypsy minorities, in the
states. They are also analyzing the growing
region. An advisory council is preparing a report
opportunities for nongovernmental organizations
on strategies for Roma-majority cooperation.
to cooperate with international and regional
which will be disseminated to members of the
organizations. In addition to synthesizing their
Organization on Security and Cooperation in
findings in a second book, the Chayeses will
Europe. This renewal grant joins support from
organize lectures and discussions on related issues
other foundations to continue this work, which
at the Forum on Conflict Prevention and Interna-
includes publication of a quarterly bulletin, an
tional Organizations, held under the auspices of
electronic mail network linking specialists. and
the Ellion School of International Affairs at George
creation of a new regional center in Budapest.
Washington University.
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Aspen Institute Berlin
823 Ulloa Street, San Francisco, CA 94127
Inselstrasse 10, D-14129 Berlin, Germany
One-year grant of $50,000 toward Q project to
One-year grant of $100,000 toward the
develop ethnic conciliation commissions in
International Commission on the Balkans
central and easiern Europe
Contact: David Anderson, Director
Contact: Raymond Shonhoitz, President
(011-49) 30-803-9041
(415) 665-0652
Partners for Democratic Change was established
In 1995 the Aspen Institute and the Carnegie
in 1989 to pursue grassroots solutions to ethnic,
Endowment for International Peace. both operating
national minority, and religious conflicts in eastern
in Washington, D.C., created the International
Europe and Russia. Raymond Shonholtz is
Commission on the Balkans. Its mandate is to
president.
examine the roots and dynamics of interrelated
Since 1993 Partners has created local ethnic
conflicts in the region and formulate long-term
conciliation commissions in Bulgaria. the Czech
policies that outsiders - especially European and
Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The commis-
North American governments - might consider
sions. modeled on community-based conflict
in order to crcate the foundations of lasting peace.
resolution centers in the United States, comprise
The commission, based at the Aspen Institute
local leaders representing both the majority
Berlin, has six members: former Belgian prime
population and minority groups. These leaders
minister Leo Tindemans. who serves as chair;
receive training from the Partners field office in
former U.S. presidential counsel Lloyd Cutler;
communication, negotiation, and the mediation of
Polish parliamentarian Bronislaw Geremek; former
disputes. especially those generated by ethnic
British parliamentarian John Roper; Die Zeit
conflict. Issues addressed include inequality in the
publisher Theo Sommer: and former French
allocation of social services, discrimination in
minister for social and health affairs Simone Vcil.
housing and employment, and police brutality.
Through study missions to the Balkans, meetings
With renewed support, Partners is expanding
with governmental and nongovernmental leaders,
the commissions' activities in the four countries
and discussions with Western governments and
and helping them to achieve long-term
international organizations involved in the region,
sustainability. Partners will undertake a public
they are preparing a final report, to be issued in
education campaign to make the role of the
1996. The report will analyze the origins and
commissions more widely recognized, and the
current status of eight actual and potential conflicts.
commissions will offer training in dispute resolu-
involving Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Greece,
tion to those who work most closely with minority
Macedonia, and Serbia. It will identify ways to
groups: social workers. police officers, teachers,
reduce the risk of violence and suggest guiding
and nongovernmental leaders. Funding is also
principles for outside governmental actors. The
provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacAr-
recommendations will be publicized through
the Foundation and the U.S. Information Agency.
publications, press briefings. and seminars.
David Anderson, director of the Aspen Institute
Berlin, serves as commissioner C.X officio. This
grant joins support from other foundations.
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Financial Services Volunteer Corps
425 Lexington Avenue, Twelfth Floor, New
Stanford University
York, NY 10017-3909
Center for International Security and Arms
Control, 320 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA
One-year grant of $125.000 for a program on
94305-6165
conflict resolution in Europe and the former
Soviet Union
Two-year grant of $550,000 for a project on
ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union
Contact: Herbert S. Okun, Executive Director
(212) 692-1217
Contact: Gail W. Lapidus, Senior Fellow
(415) 723-2435
The Financial Services Volunteer Corps is a not-
for-profit organization that channels the expertise
of business people in the United States to countries
Ethnic and nationalist conflicts in the former Soviet
in eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet
Union are not unique to the Russian republic of
Union that are moving to a market economy. In
Chechnya. The civil war in Tajikistan has claimed
1992 it used a Corporation grant to establish the
20,000 lives, Armenia and Azerbaijan have waged
Russian-American Bankers Forum, a collaborative
interstate conflict, and competition for control of
effort with the U.S. Federal Reserve System to
the Crimean peninsula has soured Rus-
expedite reform and strengthen the capacity of
sian-Ukrainian relations.
Russia's banking and financial system.
This grant renews support for Stanford
The corps also works toward conflict resolution
University's research program on conflict manage-
in Europe. Cochair Cyrus R. Vance and executive
ment in the successor states. Founded in 1994 at
director Herbert S. Okun have responded to a
Stanford's Center for International Security and
request by United Nations Secretary General
Arms Control, the program is based on the premise
Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the U.N. Security
that the sources of current conflicts, while partly
Council to mediate in territorial disputes between
historical and partly the legacy of Soviet nationality
Serbia and Croatia and between Greece and the
policy. are triggered or exacerbated by struggles
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Their
among elites for political power and the distribu-
work on the latter resulted in the September 1995
tion of resources.
signing of a landmark agreement between the two
Starting in 1995, the center convened two off-
parties - a lifting of the Greek embargo against
the-record meetings of the national security
Yugoslav Macedonia and the normalization of
advisors to the presidents of Georgia, Armenia.
relations.
and Azerbaijan. The meetings are expected to
Under this grant, Vance and Okun are continu-
result in the formation of a trilateral working group
ing the work. Okun is also speaking at meetings
to explore such regional issues as cooperation in
on mediation and preventive diplomacy.
the use of energy resources and in the handling of
refugees. Under a similar project in Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, experts from Stanford
will travel to the region to participate in discussions
of economic and environmental concerns. One aim
of the visits is to identify midcareer specialists who
might attend relevant seminars at Stanford. Gail
W. Lapidus, a senior fellow at the center, directs
the project.
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University of Maryland, College Park
Center for International Development and
Conflict Management, 0145 Tydings Hall,
College Park, MD 20742
One-year grant of $125, 000 toward a project
on conflict resolution in the Transcaucasus and
Central Asia
Contact: Ernest J. Wilson, Director, Center for
International Development and Conflict
Management (301) 314-7711
The multidisciplinary Center for International
Development and Conflict Management at the
University of Maryland analyzes intrastate and
interstate conflicts and promotes their peaceful
resolution. With Corporation funds, the center
launched its Partners in Conflict project in 1995.
Under the project, eight scholars and journalists
representing antagonistic communities in Armenia,
Azerbaijan, and Georgia attended a semester-long
training program at the university in conflict
resolution, democracy, and human rights.
This grant supports the creation of conflict
management centers and related projects in each
of the three states. Center staff members will offer
technical advice in creating the centers, develop
and maintain a resource library to be made
available electronically to the centers and to other
regional partners in the Transcaucasus, and provide
further training in conflict management skills and
techniques. Project participants from the three
states will identify the conflict management
initiatives most needed there and will work with
Western colleagues to adapt training and other
materials to local needs and regional cultures. They
will also produce course materials and syllabi for
universities and conduct seminars in local commu-
nities.
Codirecting the project are Ernest J. Wilson,
director of the center, and Edward Kaufman, a
scholar of conflict resolution. Support also comes
from the Winston Foundation.
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INSTITUTIONS
Harvard University
CNA Corporation
Russian Research Center, Archibald Cary
Institute for Public Research, 4401 Ford
Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street,
Avenue, P.O. Box 16268, Alexandria, VA
Cambridge, MA 02138
22302-0268
One-year grant of $250.000 toward a study of
Seven-month grant of $150,000 for a project to
elections in Russia
provide technical assistance for local economic
development in Russia
Contact: Timothy J. Colton, Director, Russian
Research Center (011-44-1) 865-516-662
Contact: John D. Mayer, Director, Public
Policy and Resources (703) 824-2380
In December 1995, Russian voters - the third
Since 1993 the Corporation has supported a
largest electorate in the world - chose deputies
technical assistance program by the Institute for
to both houses of the Federal Assembly, and in
Public Research. a division of the CNA Corporation
June 1996 they will elect the nation's president.
(CNAC), to aid local economic development in
Both elections will shape the nation's commitment
Russia. The program addresses one of the primary
to democracy and a market economy and will
social problems in the St. Petersburg area: a
affect policies on privatization, crime, NATO
growing, displaced, and potentially oppositionist
expansion, and relations in the post-Soviet region.
community of unemployed military personnel. The
They will also shed light on the fundamental
aim is to retrain demobilized naval officers and
principles and attitudes of citizens who are still
encourage them to develop business initiatives to
learning how to take charge of their own future.
benefit the local economy.
With this grant, Timothy J. Colton, director of
Through the program, CNAC is paired with St.
the Russian Research Center at Harvard Univer-
Petersburg's AVAKS Center, a private school that
sity, and William Zimmerman, program director
teaches general business practice and managerial
of the Center for Political Studies of the University
skills to former members of the military. AVAKS
of Michigan, are studying the two elections. By
faculty members consist of professors from St.
examining data gathered through pre- and post-
Petersburg State University and other local
election surveys, they will explain why voters
institutions, and American business practitioners
make particular choices and how their choices are
and educators. They offer retired officers and their
influenced by external factors, including the mass
families intensive seminars in marketing, financial
media. They will also outline trends in Russia's
planning, accounting, and management.
party organizations, civil society, political econ-
This final grant is enabling AVAKS to make a
omy. and foreign policy. A research group based
transition to an all-Russian staff and become self-
at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Acad-
supporting. In addition, the curriculum is being
emy of Sciences is serving as the study's primary
refined to include seminars on marketing and case
Russian partner.
studies on business practices. John D. Mayer,
The research will result in two books, whose
director of public policy and resources at the
working titles are The Russian Voter and Markers,
institute, manages the project in the United States.
Democracy, and Russian Foreign Policy.
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Stanford University
2400 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
Center for International Security and Arms
Control, 320 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA
Two-year grant of $575,000 toward the center
94305-6165
for Russian and Eurasian programs in Moscow
One-year grant of $440,000 toward a project
Contact: Stephen Sestanovich, Vice-President,
on industry restructuring and the political
economy in Russia
Russian and Eurasian Affairs
(202) 862-7900
Contact: David J. Holloway or Michael M.
May. Codirectors (415) 723-1737 or
(415) 723-9733
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's
Since 1990, researchers at Stanford University's
Moscow Center was founded with Corporation
Center for International Security and Arms Control
support in 1993. The center enables Russian
have received Corporation support to study and
scholars and policymakers. together with Western
assist efforts to convert part of the Soviet, now
colleagues. to debate issues in Russian politics and
Russian. defense industry to peacetime uses.
foreign policy.
Specialists in corporate organization, law. finance,
The work of the center is focused on eight
and employee ownership have worked with six
program areas, among them politics and society
Russian defense plants seeking to privatize their
in transition, interethnic issues, security and
factories and function in a market economy. The
national identity, and nuclear nonproliferation. The
researchers have developed models that can be
core activity in each program is a seminar series,
applied to a wide spectrum of military producers.
cochaired by a Russian associate of the center and
The models include employee-owned joint stock
a counterpart from the Endowment. The center
enterprises, employee-owned holding companies,
also enables informed Russians to interact with
and joint ventures with Western companies.
high-level U.S. administration figures who visit
This grant supports a continuation of the
Moscow. These activities are contributing to
studies. In addition, the researchers are analyzing
Russia's development of new modes of political
employment histories and transitions, especially
discourse and new approaches to security ques-
from the state to the private sector, of some 5,000
tions, and to improved interaction and cooperation
workers in Russia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
among Russian and U.S. policymakers and
Hungary. Poland. and Slovakia. The aim is to
scholars.
determine the probability of labor market restruc-
With renewed support, the center is continuing
turing in transition economies. They are also
this work. It is also launching a Russian policy
assessing new high-technology enterprises and
journal. hosting debates among leaders of political
convening workshops for those that are engaged
parties. and monitoring Russia's June 1996
in cooperative ventures with high-tech companies
presidential elections. Stephen Sestanovich. the
in the United States.
Endowment's vice president for Russian and
Center codirectors David J. Holloway and
Eurasian affairs, oversees the center, which
Michael M. May oversee the work, which also
receives added funding from other foundations.
receives funding from the Eurasia Foundation.
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Duke University
Human Rights Watch
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Box
485 Fifth Avenue. New York, NY 10017-6104
90241. Durham, NC 27708-0241
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward activities in
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward a project
the former Soviet Union
on television and democracy in the former
Soviet Union conducted by the Commission on
Contact: Holly Cartner, Director, Human
Radio and Television Policy
Rights Watch/Helsinki (212) 972-8400
Contact: Ellen Mickiewicz, Director,
Commission on Radio and Television Policy
(919) 613-7330
Responsible, independent reporting - central to
Violations of civil and political rights in the Soviet
democratic societies - is becoming increasingly
successor states serve to undermine the foundations
common in the Soviet successor states. Yet
of a sound democratic and civil society there. Both
guidelines to foster objectivity and sensitivity in
the conflict in Chechnya and ethnic-based violence
news coverage are needed there, especially for
elsewhere in Russia are hampering the nation's
journalists who cover interethnic tensions and other
ability to promote human rights in adjacent
controversial issues.
regions, as it is obligated to do under the 1975
The Commission on Radio and Television
Helsinki accords. In that pact, the signatories -
Policy, founded by former president Jimmy Carter
the Soviet Union, the United States, Canada, and
in 1990 and now a joint project of the Carter
the countries of Eastern and Western Europe -
Center in Atlanta and the DeWitt Wallace Center
agreed to respect the human rights and basic
for Communications and Journalism at Duke
freedoms of all of their citizens.
University, helps nations around the world develop
Human Rights Watch is both the founder and
media policies that promote democratic principles
the U.S. member organization of the International
and problem solving. Its fifty members meet
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. It has been
annually to consider media issues and to adopt
instrumental in encouraging Russia to develop its
recommendations based on analyses by working
own institutions of civil society and to influence
groups.
human rights practices beyond its borders. The
This grant supports a media fellows program
Moscow office, established in 1991. is a resource
that will bring ten television reporters, producers,
for human rights investigations throughout the
and editors from the successor states to Duke for
Soviet successor states and for local human rights
three weeks each. They will attend seminars on
organizations, the media, and the diplomatic
the role of the media in covering elections and
community.
interethnic conflict, the use and misuse of public
With renewed funding, Human Rights Watch
opinion polls, and comparative restrictions on free
is evaluating human rights conditions in
speech. Corporation funds will also contribute to
Uzbekistan. It is also investigating the status of
the publication of a guidebook on television and
prisoners in Russia, of refugees and internally
democracy, covering material on comparative
displaced persons in southern Russia, and of
principles and paths toward independent media.
women in Tajikistan. Supervising the work is Holly
Ellen Mickiewicz, a professor of public policy
Carther, director of Human Rights Watch/Helsinki.
at Duke. heads the program, which receives
Support also comes from other foundations.
additional funding from public and private sources.
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Foundation for a Civil Society
International Research and Exchanges Board
1270 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 609, New
1616 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006
York, NY 10020
Two-year grani of $1,300,000 toward support
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward a project
on conflict prevention in states building a civil
Contact: Daniel C. Matuszewski, President
and democratic society
(202) 628-8188
Contact: Wendy W. Luers, President
(212) 332-2890
The Foundation for a Civil Society, led by Wendy
Once a joint project of the American Council of
W. Luers, is an independent organization that
Learned Societies and the Social Science Research
promotes democracy in societies emerging from
Council, the International Research and Exchanges
political and social oppression. Its Project on
Board (IREX) became an independent organization
Justice in Times of Transition, launched in 1991
in 1991. Its initial role was to promote cooperation
to assist the shift from communism to democracy
among scholars from the United States, the Soviet
in Eastern and Central Europe, now also focuses
Union, and Eastern Europe. Following the collapse
on countries moving from civil conflict to peace.
of the Soviet empire, it launched initiatives to assist
The project brings governmental and nongov-
in the reconstruction of the successor states. Today
emmental leaders of countries in transition together
administers research, training, and collabora-
with their counterparts from countries that have
projects from its main office and its sixteen
undergone similar transitions. Through confer-
and offices. Daniel C. Matuszewski is president.
ences, workshops. and consultations, participants
This renewal grant supports IREX'S work in four
address such topics as civil/military relations, the
areas. It is offering seminars on the management
demobilization of combatants, reconciliation and
of ethnic and regional conflicts and is helping
confidence-building in negotiations, and coopera-
scholars promote economic and political develop-
tion in resolving political and economic problems.
ment as a precursor to greater stability. In addition,
Among the project's successes to date are the
it is creating sites that provide noncommercial
establishment of a truth and reconciliation commis-
users with Internet access and that furnish training,
sion in South Africa, a conflict resolution center
support, and electronic publishing. It is also, in
in El Salvador, and a network of governmental and
the attempt to develop a scholarly infrastructure,
nongovernmental representatives working to
developing university curricula to meet research
improve the accountability of security services in
and training needs and holding seminars on ways
post-Communist Europe.
to create research institutions and universities.
With this grant, the foundation is exploring
Finally, it is strengthening the ability of its field
prospects for initiatives in Northern Ireland, the
offices to implement innovative programs and
Middle East, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, and
search for new resources.
Bosnia. Additional support comes from the Charles
Further support comes from other private
Stewart Mort, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore, and Winston
foundations and from federal agencies.
foundations.
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Harvard University
Institute of USA and Canada Studies
John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79
Russian Academy of Sciences, 2/3 Khlebny
John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA
per., Moscow. 11814, Russia
02138
One-year grans of $75,000 for support of a
One-year grant of $575,000 for programs with
project on international security and
Russian military personnel and policymakers on
democratization in Russia
foreign and security policies
Contact: Sergei M. Rogov, Director
Contact: Robert D. Blackwill, Lecturer in
(011-7-095) 291-1166
Public Policy (617) 495-5863
This grant renews support to Harvard University's
A major aim of the Institute of USA and Canada
John F. Kennedy School of Government for
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences is to
programs that promote dialogue between high
increase the contribution that nongovernmental
government officials of Russia and the United
analysts make to the development of Russian
States. The programs are chaired by former
security policy. Under the direction of Sergei M.
ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, now a lecturer
Rogov, institute scholars consult with policymakers
at the Kennedy School.
from the Duma, the presidential administration,
One program helps members of the Russian
the national security council, and the foreign and
parliament, or Duma, better understand gover-
defense ministries.
nance in a democracy. The program combines an
With this grant, a core group of scholars from
academic curriculum at Harvard with travel to
the institute are focusing on civil-military relations
Washington, D.C., for interaction between the
and arms control. The centerpiece of their work
Russian participants and their counterparts in the
will be four conferences, on civil-military relations
U.S. Congress. Lecture topics for 1996 include
in a democratic society, the challenges of military
congressional oversight of the federal budget,
reform, Russian-NATO security cooperation, and
relations between the legislative and executive
the maintenance and preservation of arms control
branches. the formation of political parties, foreign
regimes. Reports on each conference will be
policy and international trade. and the role of
distributed to government officials, parliamentari-
parliaments in conflict prevention. A second
ans. journalists, and academics, with the aim of
program engages general officers of the Russian
stimulating debate and encouraging constructive
Federation at a time when morale in the armed
options for Russian military reform, defense
forces is low and resources are limited. The 1996
industry restructuring, and stable civil-military
session will bring together generals from the
relations. The reports will also be circulated to
United States and Russia for discussions of the two
U.S. and other foreign experts.
countries' security interests, especially in Eurasia.
In addition, the scholars are conducting re-
Also in 1996, the Kennedy School is launching
search. training graduate students, and exchanging
a program for senior staff serving members of the
information with researchers from other former
Duma. A week-long seminar in Moscow will give
Soviet republics, Europe, and the United States.
an overview of the everyday functioning of
A biweekly newsletter on Russian foreign and
Congress and will focus on the staffing of congres-
defense policies will be produced for executive and
sional committees. the Congressional Budget
legislative officials, leaders of public opinion, and
Office, and the Congressional Research Service.
academic researchers in Russia and abroad.
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Harvard University
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Center for International Affairs, 1737
330 Seventh Avenue, Tenth Floor, New York,
Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
NY 10001
02138-3099
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward monitoring
One-year grant of $60,000 for support of the
and analysis of legal reform in Russia
Harvard Russian Institute of International
Affairs in Moscow
Contact: Antti Korkeakivi, Consultant
Contact: Michael C. Desch, Assistant Director,
(212) 629-6170
John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
(617) 495-4432
Although the collapse of the Soviet Union has led
The 1993 Russian constitution includes language
to intellectual freedom in Russia, social scientists
that protects the rights of individuals and estab-
there still face daunting challenges. Foremost is
lishes the precedence of international human rights
the financial crisis that plagues all of Russian
law over national law. The challenge for lawyers
academia. Social scientists must work at two or
and human rights advocates in Russia is to bridge
three jobs to make ends meet, and many have had
the gap between theory and practice.
to abandon scholarship altogether. Moreover,
The Lawyers Commitree for Human Rights has
because universities and research institutes can no
monitored and analyzed the Soviet legal system
longer afford to subscribe to or purchase Western
since 1987. In addition to publishing reports, it
publications, it is increasingly difficult for Russian
works with lawyers, human rights advocates, and
scholars to maintain contacts with Western
local nongovernmental organizations (NGOS) to
colleagues.
promote Russian compliance with international
A Corporation grant is funding the Harvard
human rights agreements. With renewed support.
Russian Institute of International Affairs, which
the committee is analyzing new state-of-emergency
works to address these problems. Operating since
legislation, which could allow the Russian govern-
1994 as the Moscow branch of Harvard's John M.
ment to scale back human rights standards during
Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, the institute
political crises. A report on the work will be sent
provides stipends to young Russian scholars of
to the Council of Europe, which Russia joined in
international relations, enabling them to develop
February 1996 and which regularly assesses
research skills and work independently of state
members' human rights records. The committee
support. Each year it recruits seven to nine Russian
is also producing a study of Russia's refugee law,
fellows, most of them young diplomats or postdoc-
with the goal of enabling local NGOs to press
toral students of international affairs, who take a
officials to comply with international standards.
course on Western research methodologies and
To increase access to the judicial system in a
meet periodically to discuss and critique each
country where lawyers are scarce and expensive
other's work. The institute also promotes interac-
and where legal aid does not exist, the committee
tion between Western and Russian scholars by
is exploring the possibility that Russian lawyers
hosting seminars, conferences, and roundrables that
working with U.S. fums in Moscow could provide
are open to the public.
pro bono services.
The Harvard Russian Institute is overseen by
Finnish lawyer and journalist Antti Korkeakivi
Michael C. Desch, assistant director and senior
is in charge of the work in Russia. Additional
research associate of the Olin Institute.
support comes from other foundations.
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INSTITUTIONS
e Aspen Institute
P.O. Box 222, Queenstown, MD 21658
One-year grant of $950.000 toward support of
the international activities of the Congressional
Program
Contact: Dick Clark, Director, Congressional
Program (202) 736-5825
In 1986 Dick Clark, former U.S. senator and a
senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, used Corpora-
tion support to launch a series of bipartisan
conferences and smaller meetings for congressional
leaders on relations between the United States and
the Soviet Union. Since the end of the Cold! War,
the project has evolved to include U.S. policy
toward the successor states and the new democra-
cies of eastern Europe. The aim of the project is
to help members of Congress bridge the gap
between the scholarly analysis of foreign policy
:s and the political realities of dealing with
: issues as an elected official.
To date, seventeen five-day conferences have
been attended by ninety-four members of Congress
and by parliamentarians from Russia, Ukraine, and
other European nations. Several of the project's
core participants have subsequently convened study
groups and have become increasingly engaged in
committee hearings and floor debates about topics
addressed by the conferences. In 1995, as part of
a second series of annual conferences. members
of Congress and the Russian Duma met in Madrid
to discuss U.S.-Russian relations in the context
of current domestic policies in both countries and
the need to establish communication and coopera-
tion across party lines in the Duma.
This grant continues Corporation funding
during 1996, in support of a conference on U.S.
relations with Russia, Ukraine. and the states of
eastern Europe and a second Congress-Duma
conference.
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NONPROLIFERATION
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Institute for EastWest Studies
2400 N Street, NW, Washington, DC
700 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
20037-1153
Fourteen-month grani of $250,000 toward a
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward 0 project
project on subregional security and cooperation
on nonproliferation
Contact: Oleksandr Pavliuk, Program
Contact: Leonard S. Spector, Director, Nuclear
Associate (011-482-2) 268-595
Non-Proliferation Project (202) 862-7954
Created in 1984 and directed by Leonard S.
Several subregional organizations emerged in
Spector, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project of
Eastern and Central Europe in the early 1990s.
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
including the Council of Baltic Sea States, the
is the preeminent nongovernmental source of
Carpathian Euroregion Group, and the Black Sea
information and analysis on the spread of nuclear
Zone for Economic Cooperation. All these groups
weapons and technology This grant renews
have confined their agenda to economic, financial,
support for four of the project's core activities.
and cultural cooperation in their respective regions.
The project's annual global proliferation survey,
None has yet emerged as a forum for addressing
Tracking Nuclear Proliferation. spotlights declared
issues of arms control and security.
and suspected nuclear programs around the world.
The Institute for EastWest Studies, with offices
Its full text, including charts and maps, is being
in Poland. Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. was
placed on line. Project staff members are continu-
founded in 1981 to advance the goal of a secure,
ing to produce, jointly with the Monterey Institute
democratic, and integrated Europe. Its approach,
of International Studies, Sovier Nuclear Successor
that of promoting "strategic dialogue," is based
States: Nuclear Weapons and Sensitive Export
on the premise that back-channel discussions are
Status Report. a semiannual update on the produc-
indispensable in resolving differences between, and
tion. deployment, and dismantling of nuclear
promoting cooperation among, states. With this
weapons in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and
grant. the institute is examining the capacity of
Belarus. The project is also adding its Nuclear
subregional organizations to enhance European
Non-Proliferation Network, an on-line database
security. Through consultations, field surveys, and
shared by seventy-five member institutions in ten
meetings with policymakers and academics in
countries, to the World Wide Web. The project's
European countries, staff members will explore
annual international conference, the largest
the implications of these organizations' expansion,
gathering of nonproliferation specialists in the
assess the potential for broadening their mandates
world. is expected to bring together more than 300
to include political and security issues, and clarify
representatives of governments, academia, and
their relationship with Europe's regional structures.
nongovernmental organizations in 1997.
Directing the work from the institute's Warsaw
Additional support comes from the Ford
office is historian Oleksandr Parlink. A final report
Foundation.
will he distributed and discussed at the November
1996 summit of the Organization on Security and
Cooperation in Europe, to be held in Lisbon.
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Atlantic Council of the United States
Monterey Institute of International Studies
910 Seventeenth Street, NW, Suite 1000,
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 425 Van
Washington, DC 20006
Buren Street, Monterey, CA 93940
One-year grant of $150,000 toward programs
One-year grant of $70,000 toward research and
on Ukrainian-American relations and the
education on the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction
reduction of the risks of nuclear proliferation
Contact: William C. Potter, Director, Center
Contact: Andrew J. Goodpaster, Cochair
(202) 463-7226
for Nonproliferation Studies (408) 647-4154
The Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the
The Atlantic Council of the United States, founded
Monterey Institute of International Studies was
in 1961, works to advance U.S. global interests
established with Corporation funds in 1991.
through analysis, prescription, and public educa-
Directed by William C. Potter, a professor of
tion. This grani renews support for two of its
international policy studies, the center conducts
projects, which are also funded by other founda-
research, training, and public outreach to
tions and the Defense Nuclear Agency, an arm of
strengthen nuclear safeguards and promote
the U.S. Department of Defense.
international commitment to nonproliferation. A
The Further Reins on Nuclear Arms project is
major focus of attention is the danger of nuclear
led by council cochair Andrew J. Goodpaster.
proliferation in the Soviet successor states.
Central to its strategy are consultations between
This grant is enabling the center to absorb and
council delegations, consisting of members of the
consinue two activities of the recently disbanded
project's steering group and its senior staff, and
Program of Science and International Security of
government and military leaders, academicians,
the American Association for the Advancement
and journalists from Europe. Asia, and the Soviet
of Science (AAAS). The first activity is a summer
successor states. The consultations. which cover
orientation program for twelve to fifteen early- to
national security, economic growth, and interna-
midcareer government officials, parliamentary
tional politics, encourage participants to rethink
staffers, academics, journalists, and members of
nuclear strategies and develop other measures to
nongovernmental organizations from the post-
ensure mutual security. The consultations and
Soviet states. The participants come to Washing-
related conferences held by the council will result
ton, D.C., for two weeks of lectures and seminars
in a series of publications.
The Future of Ukrainian-American Relations
on the formulation and implementation of U.S.
arms control and nonproliferation policy.
project, also headed by Goodpaster, sponsors
The second activity is a project to promote
semiannríal exchanges in Kiev and Washington for
Russia's implementation of the Chemical Weapons
policymakers from both countries. Among the aims
Convention. Russian and U.S. experts, officials,
are sharpening U.S. interests in and policies
and scientists will attend a workshop in Russia to
toward Ukraine, introducing Ukrainian leaders to
discuss how chemical weapons might be destroyed
alternative economic and military policies, and
in ways that are responsive to concerns about
encounging further development of Ckraine's
safety, health, the environment, and proliferation.
nongovernmental sector. Policy recommendations
Findings and recommendations will be incorpo-
are distributed to governmental and nongovern-
mental leaders in Ukraine and the United States.
rated in a published report.
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University of Georgia Research Foundation
National Academy of Sciences
204 Baldwin Hall, Athens, GA 30602-7411
2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC
20418
One-year grant of $100,000 toward a project
on export control enforcement in the former
One-year grant of $300,000 toward support of
Soviet Union
the Committee on International Security and
Arms Control
Contact: Gary K. Bertsch. Codirector, Center
for International Trade and Security
Contact: Jo L. Husbands, Director, Committee
(706) 542-2985
on International Security and Arms Control
(202) 334-2811
The Center for International Trade and Security
Created in 1980, the Committee on International
at the University of Georgia seeks to reduce the
Security and Arms Control (CISAC) of the National
likelihood of weapons proliferation from the Soviet
Academy of Sciences draws together the highest
successor states by promoting the implementation
scientific and technical talent to address security
of export controls there. Under a project begun
and defense issues. CISAC has received Corporation
in 1990, the center encourages the states to comply
support for two types of projects. It has engaged
with existing nonproliferation export control
scientists and policy analysts in the United States
regimes, to enact legislation consistent with
and their counterparts in other countries in
international norms and agreements, and to
establish systems to implement and enforce these
discussions of ways to develop ideas that promote
laws.
cooperative approaches to security problems. In
addition, it has analyzed these problems and
Model export control centers have been
established in Moscow and Minsk, and training
published its results and recommendations as policy
reports. Jo L. Husbands is director.
programs for governmental officials and nongov-
emmental expens have been held at the center and
This grant supports a continuation of CISAC's
efforts to promote a cooperative security relation-
in the successor states. The center promotes export
ship with the Soviet Union through dialogue with
control laws and systems through conferences,
workshops. and reports. It publishes an annual
a counterpart group at the Russian Academy of
series of NIS Nonproliferation Export Control
Sciences. CISAC is also establishing dialogues with
Reports on Russia and also issues a quarterly
Chinese scientists and policy experts on nonprolif-
newsletter detailing the progress of export control
eration issues and is exploring ways to create
development. The project now also includes the
similar discussions in Ukraine. A major focus of
CISAC'S policy dialogues and analyses is the
alerting of weapons producers and exporters to
their responsibilities. With renewed support, the
encouragement of responsible policies on pluto-
nium. It promotes and disseminates the recommen-
center, codirected by Gary K. Bertsch and Igor
Khripunov, is continuing this work and producing
dations of its 1994 study, Management and the
export control reports on Belarus, Kazakhstan. and
Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium.
Ukraine. Additional support comes from other
Funding also comes from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
foundations and the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The Eurasia Foundation, established in 1993 with a major grant from the US Agency for
International Development, promotes democracy and market economies in the twelve countries of
the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The Foundation, working through
offices in eight NIS cities and Washington, DC, provides grants to US-NIS partnerships and
directly to NIS organizations. Since it was established, the Foundation has awarded over 1400
small grants, more than 70% of which were made directly to NIS organizations through the
Foundation's field offices. The Foundation awards grants totaling approximately $17 million per
year.
Eurasia Foundation grants are awarded in three programmatic areas:
Economic Reform: to facilitate the transition to market economies. this programmatic focus
includes small business development, business education and management training,
economics education, agribusiness and business policy advice and research.
Governmental Reform and the Non-Profit Sector: to support greater citizen involvement in
civic decision-making, the Foundation supports grants aimed at NGO development, public
administration reform, public policy advice and research, legal reform and conflict resolution.
Media and Communications: to improve the flow of information available to citizens of NIS
countries, the Foundation supports programs in the print and broadcast media and improving
access to the Internet.
In addition to its grantmaking program, the Foundation takes the lead in mobilizing private and
government resources to address critical needs not being met by other assistance programs.
The Foundation currently manages three special initiatives which leverage significant amounts of
private and government support:
The Small Business Lending Program: Working through local banking intermediaries, the
Foundation provides small loans (up to $100,000) to entrepreneurs on more favorable terms
than are available from commercial lenders. The program not only provides much needed
capital to the fledgling private sector, but also involves intensive and hands-on training for
bank staff in credit analysis. The program currently operates in Ukraine and Armenia.
The Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC): The EERC was created to
Improve economic policy making through programs aimed at raising the level of the
economics profession in Russia and Ukraine. In Ukraine, the EERC supports the
development of a Master in Economics Program at the University of Kiev Mohyla Academy.
In Russia, the EERC supports small research grants and a series of complementary activities
which help build a professional community of Russian economists. Consortium members
include: the Eurasia Foundation, the Open Society Institute (Soros), the Ford Foundation, the
World Bank and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Media Viability Fund: The Media Viability Fund is a joint effort of the Eurasia
Foundation and the Media Development Loan Fund, with critical support from USAID. it aims
to strengthen the independent media through two mechanisms: targeted, low cost loans to
newspapers and other media organizations for the acquisition of equipment and small grants
for technical support, improved access to information and management training.
For more information on Eurasia Foundation programs, please contact Elizabeth Powers at 202-
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The Ford Foundation is a private, non-profit philanthropic institution dedicated to
international peace and the advancement of human welfare throughout the world. Under
the policy guidance of a Board of Trustees, the Foundation grants and lends funds to
governmental and non-governmental institutions for educational, cultural, research,
training, developmental, and community-oriented efforts that hold promise of producing
significant advances in the fields of its program interests. The Foundation is not driven by
a particular theory or ideology of economic, political, and social development. Rather, it
is guided by a core set of values: a belief in democracy and human rights, support for
world peace and the alleviation of poverty, and a commitment to promote pluralism and
equality of opportunity and to eradicate discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or gender.
Established in 1936 by the American industrialist Henry Ford and his son Edsel, the
Foundation began as a small philanthropy that contributed to charitable and educational
institutions in their home state of Michigan. In 1950, following settlement of the founders'
estates, the Foundation was transformed into a national philanthropy with substantial
assets. It opened its first overseas office in India in 1950 and subsequently developed an
extensive international program of giving. Today, in addition to its New York
headquarters, the Foundation has offices in 17 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa
and Latin America, and grantmaking extends to over 50 countries worldwide. In January
1996, a field office was opened in Moscow to direct Foundation programming in Russia,
and planning is underway for a new field office to be opened in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Grantmaking is conducted by a Program Division which currently encompasses
seven broad program areas: Urban Poverty, Rural Poverty and Resources, Rights and
Social Justice, Governance and Public Policy, Education and Culture, International Affairs,
and Reproductive Health and Population. Program priorities in particular regions and
countries usually are defined more narrowly in an evolving fashion which reflects local
needs and opportunities as well as available resources.
During the post-World War II period, the Foundation began to sponsor a range of
activities involving the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, particularly in the area of
educational and cultural exchange. Between 1950 and 1988 the Foundation spent some $60
million to improve Western understanding of the region, analyze key issues in East-West
relations, and to promote freedom of expression, cultural pluralism, and respect for human
rights.
After 1989, the Foundation expanded and refocused its work in response to events
taking place in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Where previously
Foundation activities were largely limited to support of intermediary Western organizations
with an interest in the region, grantmaking now shifted to direct support of indigenous
organizations engaged in the transformation process in these societies. Currently, the
Foundation is making grants directly in Russia, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech and
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geographic area. Between 1989 and 1996, the Foundation has spent over $40 million on
projects and activities in the region.
Three broad goals currently provide a thematic focus for our work: (1) to promote
economic reform and development and to support efforts to address the social dimensions
of building market-based economies; (2) to advance the reform of political and legal
institutions, broaden public access to justice, and promote the integration of international
human rights standards in domestic law and practice; and (3) to strengthen advanced
research and training in the social sciences. The Foundation also continues to provide
some support for enhancing U.S. and Western capacity to understand events in the region.
Our grantmaking supports research, policy analysis, training and capacity-building, and
institutional development. Increasingly, the Foundation is seeking to work in a sustained
fashion with a defined range of partner institutions in countries of interest, primarily at the
non-governmental level, in order to build their capacity and facilitate their consolidation as
enduring civil society actors.
The Foundation's grantmaking in Russia is now conducted out of a Moscow field
office and program guidance is exercised by a Representative and two Program Officers.
Grantmaking in Eastern Europe is conducted out of the New York headquarters under the
direction of a program unit responsible for developing projects, evaluating grant
applications, and recommending grants. Staff in New York and Moscow share a common
set of program interests and collaborate closely on regional activities which link Russia and
Eastern Europe.
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The Freedom Forum is the largest media foundation in the United States and
fosters free press, free speech and free spirit worldwide.
The foundation's international programs focus on:
organizing international forums on global media issues;
developing and managing a network of news and journalism libraries, ten of which
are located in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia;
administering fellowship programs that bring international journalists, including
those from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, to the USA for
study and internships; and
training international journalists through partnerships with other media organizations.
The Freedom Forum's European Center in London, United Kingdom serves as
the hub of the foundation's initiatives in Europe. Other international offices include an
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n 1989, as possibilities for democratic practices and processes multiplied in Central and
Eastern Europe, the Fund integrated several of these nations into its programs. The Fund
supports work in Albania. Bulgaria. the Czech Republic. Hungary. Poland, Romania and
Slovakia under two programs: Political Development and Environmental Reform.
Political Development
This program seeks to contribute to the development of political pluralism. Grants encourage
public participation in local and national decisionmaking processes; promote cooperation between
governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). networks and institutions; enhance the
capability of NGOs to educate or to advocate issues; and strengthen the news reporting of the
local and national independent press.
In 1992 the GMF began to administer a special project under this program, the United
States Democracy Fund for Central and Eastern Europe, with funds from the United States
Agency for International Development.* The project is particularly concerned with supporting
individuals and organizations engaged in defending the rights of minorities and ethnic groups.
The GMF funds projects in this program that support training, leadership and organization-
al development and network building.
Environmental Reform
This program makes grants directly and through the Environmental Partnership for Central
Europe, a Fund project supported by a consortium of foundations. Both programs encourage envi-
ronmental reform and public participation. Direct grants support projects with a national and
regional outreach, and local pilot projects if these are not eligible for support from the Partnership.
The Environmental Partnership focuses principally on local efforts.
Projects help NGOs develop strategies to address environmental problems; assist in the trans-
fer of environmental management tools to environmental professionals: enhance communication
between different levels of government, industry and NGOs; and strengthen environmental media
and community education.
Funding is given for fellowships, conferences. workshops and organizational development.
On the following pages, grants partly or totally funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development are labried "USDE"
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W. ALTON JONES FOUNDATION
232 EAST HIGH STREET
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 22902-5178
The goal of the W. Alton Jones Sustainable World Program is to build a sustainable society by
developing new ways for humanity to interact responsibly with the planet's ecological systems.
The Foundation divides this program into four areas: maintaining biodiversity, promoting
environmental economics, eliminating systemic contamination, and promoting renewable energy
and addressing climate change. This program does not operate in Central Europe, but does
undertake grant making in Russia. In particular, the Foundation has concentrated its efforts on
addressing industrial and military pollution in the former Soviet Union and facilitating the
protection of biodiversity in Siberia. The Foundation has placed added emphasis on improving
electronic communication in the former Soviet Union to ensure the ability of grassroots
advocates throughout the region to build common cause, to seek expertise beyond their
immediate locality, and to benefit from other experiences.
Other areas of Foundation concentration include -
Maintain Biodiversity:
Promote wise policies in the multilateral
In three watersheds:
development banks
Amazon
Promote the sustainable use of biological
Coastal Louisiana
resources
Pantanal and the Paraná-Paraguay River
watershed
In three forest ecosystems:
Pacific Northwest
(including Southwestern Canada)
Irian Jaya
Siberia
Through international agreements and
treaties related to:
Biodiversity
Forests
Promote Economics for a Sustainable Planet:
Create models which value biodiversity,
balance the economy with the
environment and assess the full cost of
human activity on the planet
Promote the understanding and economic
value of biodiversity
Balance economic and environmental needs
Promote sustainable trade policies through
international agreements, with an
emphasis on the Western Hemisphere
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Develop new sources of energy usage and address
the related climate changes:
Promote renewable energy in developing
countries
Develop renewable urban energy policy in
Brazil and Russia, Ukraine and the other
Newly Independent States
Promote a hydrogen economy
(transportation and stationary sources)
Support multinational climate treaties
Eliminate Systemic Contamination:
In Aquifers
In three areas affecting the health of
children:
Pesticides and endocrine disrupters
Air pollution
Lead poisoning
In Eastern Europe, Russia, and the other
Newly Independent States
Environmental Law and Media:
Promote and develop activities that
complement the foundation's areas of
environmental grantmaking
The goal of the W. Alton Jones Secure World Program is 10 build a secure world, free
from the nuclear threat. The Foundation divides its work in this program into four areas:
ensuring common security, eliminating nuclear weapons. preventing the massive release
of radioactive materials, and assessing the full costs of being a nuclear state. This
program does not conduct grantmaking in Central Europe; however, grantmaking is done
in Western Europe, and in Russia and the other Newly Independent States. In these
regions, among others, the Foundation sceks to promote common security and
confidence-building measures, to facilitate further nuclear weapon reductions, to prevent
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and to prevent widespread nuclear
contamination (as the result of nuclear accidents, hostile or terrorist uses of nuclear
materials. storage and transport of plutonium, or unsafe disposition of nuclear waste).
Areas in which the Foundation concentrates are:
Common Security:
Global strategy
Specific regions
Former Soviet Union
Middle East, including Iran
Northeast Asia (Korea, China, Japan)
South Asia (India, Pakistan, China)
Europe (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons:
Stop development, production and testing
Prevent proliferation
Prevent use
Dismantle existing weapons
Prevent Massive Release of Radioactive Material:
Eliminate plutonium
Prevent nuclear accidents
Dispose of nuclear waste
Prevent hostile use of radiation
Assess the Full Costs of Being a Nuclear State:
Economic
Societal
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The Kellogg Foundation regards the Salzburg Seminar as a powerful tool for
strengthening and building new networks between its grantees and other geographic
regions of the world, particularly Eastern Europe.
The Salzburg Seminar was founded by three Harvard students, following World
War II, to provide an international forum to promote dialogue and understanding in a
neutral setting. The seminars, held at Schloss Leopoldskron, a 17th-century estate outside
of Salzburg, have evolved into highly regarded educational experiences. Sessions are
usually limited to 55 fellows (from 25 or more countries) with government, business,
media, nonprofit, and academic backgrounds.
The Kellogg Foundation has supported the Salzburg Seminar since the mid-1960s,
and since 1991, has provided more than $5.2 million to fund a total of 16 seminars. Due
partly to Foundation support, the Seminar has increased it operations from a few weeks
per year to a year-round academic program. Seminar topics have included: improving
management for nonprofit organization leaders; studying new global issues in
philanthropy and volunteerism; and, promoting the understanding and practice of
philanthropy in the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, and the former Soviet
Union.
In the Foundation's experience, the seminars provide fertile ground for new
insights and collaboration between people who might not otherwise meet. These linkages,
be they in health, agriculture, or youth development, help leverage the Foundation's
grantmaking in exciting, yet cost-effective ways. For seminar attendees from Kellogg
projects, the Salzburg experience extends the impact of Foundation grantmaking to a new
dimension.
Geographically, the Kellogg Foundation will continue to focus its grantmaking on
the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and southern Africa. Yet through
special opportunities such as the Salzburg Seminar, it is committed to helping leaders
from Central and Eastern Europe gain new skills and insights about social issues and the
great potential for a strong nonprofit sector.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Strategy for Worldwide Involvement
The Kellogg Foundation concentrates its grantmaking in the United States, Latin
America and the Caribbean, and southern Africa. However, through fellowships and other
educational programs, the Foundation may occasionally extend support to other areas of
the world as well. In such instances, Foundation grants are limited to funding endeavors
which directly support these networks and their related activities.
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Initiative in the Newly Independent States
of the Former Soviet Union
About the Initiative
The MacArthur Foundation in 1992 established a grantmaking program in the
independent states of the former Soviet Union, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
The MacArthur Foundation Initiative seeks to:
- Support independent research and creative approaches to pressing societal issues
- Promote the role of the scholar-practitioner in building civil society
- Enhance the skills and capacities of scholars and practitioners
- Sustain and encourage links between scholars and practitioners in the independent
states of the region; and support interaction between those individuals and their
colleagues abroad
About the Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation is a non-profit charitable foundation, established by John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur in 1978. The Foundation is based in Chicago, Illinois,
United States. In addition to the Initiative in the Independent States of the Former
Soviet Union, the Foundation has established grantmaking programs in a number of
substantive areas: health, education, environment, population, international peace and
cooperation, individual creativity, mass communications, and in Chicago and Palm Beach
County, Florida, the arts and community development.
PROGRAM AREAS
The MacArthur Foundation Initiative concentrates on four issue areas:
Law and Society
Development of legal culture; public understanding of the role of legal procedures to
protect citizens' rights; legal frameworks for economic and political reform; separation of
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government powers; constitutional and judicial practices; law enforcement; social welfare;
legal basis for the development of a non-profit, non-governmental sector; civilian
oversight of defense and foreign policy; legal basis of economic, political, and security
policies between the independent states of the former Soviet Union
Human Rights
- Enhancement of civil liberties, the study of discrimination and stereotyping; the rights
of women and minorities, the impact of economic changes on women and minorities;
supporting the equal participation in society of women and minorities; women's
reproductive rights; ethnic conflict and its resolution; and mechanisms for monitoring
human rights violations
Energy and the Environment
Creative approaches to efficient energy use and conservation; economic and
environmental impacts of energy production and use; renewable and alternative energy
sources; the preservation of ecosystems; the preservation of biodiversity; legal and
economic aspects of environmental protection and resource management; promoting
sustainable development
Development of Independent Mass Media
Fostering plural viewpoints; promoting non-commercial, public interest programming;
protecting the rights and freedoms of the mass media and media professionals;
broadening public understanding of media rights, legislation, and regulation;
strengthening communication and cooperation of mass media enterprises throughout the
independent states; developing strategies for the sound management of media enterprises
APPLYING FOR GRANTS
Eligibility
Grants are made to individuals, groups, and organizations within the territories of
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Women and emerging specialists are especially encouraged to apply.
The Foundation cannot support for-profit business activities. Grants are not permitted to
support political parties, or political activities.
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Review Process
The initiative relies on peer review of proposals and convenes international advisory
committees to ensure fair and thorough consideration of each proposal. The Foundation
regrets that it is unable to respond to inquiries about the status of a proposal during the
review process.
Grantmaking Activities
The Initiative is comprised of three categories of grants:
- Research and Writing Grants for Individuals
- Foreign Travel Grants
- Special Project Grants
RESEARCH AND WRITING GRANTS FOR INDIVIDUALS
These grants support research and writing projects which have practical applications for
policy making and society. Interdisciplinary analysis is encouraged as well as historical
approaches with demonstrated contemporary relevance.
Individuals researchers may request funding for a period up to 18 months. Grant funds
may cover stipend, research materials, research-related travel, publication subsidy, and
equipment necessary for the execution of the project.
How to Apply
The Research and Writing program is an annual competition. Application forms are
available from the Moscow and the Chicago offices. Applications are accepted through
either office. Deadlines for this year can be found at the end of this brochure.
The competition is open to individuals, including scholars, journalists, policy analysts and
other practitioners. Eligible applicants must be citizens and current residents in one of
the states of the former Soviet Union during the proposed grant period.
Applicants must submit, in either English or Russian, five copies of the following
materials:
1. An application form to be obtained from the MacArthur Foundation's Moscow or
Chicago office
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2. A budget detailing project expenses
3. Two letters of reference from colleagues familiar with the applicant's work and the
specific project proposal
4. A curriculum vitae including a list of publications
5. A sample of previous writing
Reporting
Grantees will be expected to submit reports to the Moscow office on the progress of the
research and to account for the use of funds spent in support of the project. Detailed
information on reporting requirements will be included in the grant agreement.
FOREIGN TRAVEL GRANTS
These grants are designed to facilitate travel abroad for individuals from any of the
Independent States who are invited to give a paper at a conference or to participate in a
workshop relevant to their profession. The Foundation encourages applications from
those who have not previously had opportunities to travel abroad for professional and
scientific purposes.
Applications will be accepted from all regions of the former Soviet Union for
conferences in the program areas of the Initiative. Applications from groups will not be
accepted. Conference participants must apply on their own behalf.
Grants will contribute towards round-trip transportation and related travel costs. No
funds will be awarded to support the travel of family members.
Please consult the insert to this brochure for deadlines.
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants must submit four copies of the following materials, in either English or
Russian:
1. A опе-раде letter of request, addressing the need to attend the conference or
workshop and the topic of the presentation
2. An official invitation from the conference hosts or organizers which states the dates,
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location, and subject matter of the conference and explicitly invites the applicant to
participate as a speaker or panelist (Invitations sent by telex or electronic mail will not
be accepted)
3. A one-page budget estimating the costs of conference participation and disclosing all
sources of financial support for the travel other than the MacArthur Foundation (all
costs must be estimated in U.S. dollars) costs must be submitted in US dollars
4. A curriculum vitae
5. An abstract of the paper to be presented
Reporting
Foreign travel grantees are required to submit a report on their conference participation
and an accounting of their expenditures.
SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS
Special project grants are awarded to support groups or organizations engaged in
research and practical work in the areas of priority interest to the Initiative. The
MacArthur Foundation will identify prospective projects and organizations for grant
support and invite submissions of proposals. The Foundation is unable to accept
unsolicited proposals for special project funding.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact:
Tatiana D. Zhdanova, Ph.D., Director Alice L. Hill, Associate Director
Moscow Office
MacArthur Foundation
Khlebnyi Pereulok 8, Suite 2
121069 Moscow Russia
Telephone: (7 095) 290-5088
FAX: (503) 956-6358 (international satellite)
(7 095) 956-6358 (within NIS)
E-mail: [email protected]
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Andrew C. Kuchins, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer
MacArthur Foundation
140 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1100 Chicago, IL 60603
TEL: (312) 726-8000
FAX: (312) 917-0200
All material submitted becomes the property of the Foundation. When appropriate, the
Foundation may submit inquiries or proposals to outside review.
Access by Internet: Complete information about the Foundation is available on the
Internet. The Foundation's gopher URL is: gopher://gopher.macfdn.org:3016/
APPLICATION DEADLINES
Research and Writing Grants for Individuals
Applications for the 1996 Research and Writing competition will be available in early
March and may be obtained from the Moscow or Chicago offices. The deadline for
submission is June 15, 1996. Decisions about grant awards will be announce in March
1997. Deadlines for future competitions will be announced in early 1997.
Foreign Travel Grants
Applications must be
For travel beginning
received by:
after:
June 1, 1996
September 1, 1996
September 1, 1996
December 1, 1996
December 1, 1996
March 1, 1997
March 1, 1997
June 1, 1997
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Subject: McCormick Tribune Foundation Grants to Central/Eastern Europe
Date: September 3, 1996
In the past two years, The McCormick Tribune Foundation has made two grants in the subject
area:
1994: $25, 000 to The American Council on Education for the Business-Higher Education Forum
to devise and conduct a two year training program in telecommunications policy, management,
and issues in Hungary, The Czech Republic, and Poland. (U.S. State Department provided a grant
of $537,000 to same project)
1995: $60,000 to Kemal Kurspahic, correspondent and former editor of the Sarajevo daily,
Oslobodjenje, for the study of American journalism and to enhance his ability to develop
professionally and contribute to his newspaper.
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Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine.
T
he Charles Stewart Mott Foundation,
In support of its Civil Society program, the
established in Flint, Michigan, U.S.A., in
Foundation opened a field office in Prague in 1994
1926, is a private, philanthropic organization that
to help gain a better understanding of the issues
supports programs for charitable purposes
affecting the region, as well as to become a more
throughout the United States and, on a limited
tangible and approachable resource for individuals
geographic basis, internationally. It is among the 15
and organizations working in those countries. The
largest foundations in the United States with assets
primary geographic focus of the Foundation's
of $1.48 billion.
interest in the region is Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Its grantmaking was $59.9 million in 1995.
Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak
About 20 percent of its grants are international in
Republic and Ukraine.
scope. In 1995, the Foundation made grants
The Foundation seeks to strengthen emerging
totaling $5.8 million for projects in Central and
civil societies in the region in their transitions to
GRANTMAKING OBJECTIVES
Central/Eastern Europe, Russia and the Republics
The Mott Foundation has three current
3. The Foundation sceks to strengthen the effec-
grantmaking objectives in this area:
tiveness of the nonprofit sector as a whole
1. The Foundation seeks to develop appropriate
through:
legal frameworks and political and economic
Encouraging the expansion of in-region
structures to ensure and sustain democracy
financial resources to ensure the long-term
and the market economy through:
sustainability of the nonprofit sector.
Training and technical assistance to the
Building the operational and management
public sector particularly related to
capacities of nonprofit organizations,
rule-of-law structures and systems.
particularly those providing sectorwide
Training and technical assistance in
services.
business and management skills for new
Assisting in the development of policies,
entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized
laws and regulations that recognize and
enterprises.
protect the legal status of nonprofits and
2. The Foundation seeks to help prevent conflicts
encourage the growth of charitable giving
in the region through training and technical
and volunteerism.
assistance in alternative dispute resolution
Building the capacity of nonprofit
methods by:
organizations to effect positive change in
Building capacity and sustainability of
select issue areas, focusing first on the
indigenous organizations engaged in
environment and energy.
training and mediating conflicts or
In all three objectives, the Foundation's prin-
potential disputes.
ciple aim is to build capacity and leadership with-
Supporting training and application of
in local communities and regions, and at the
conflict management and consensus-
national level.
building methods.
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open, democratic and pluralistic societies, and TO
dation. The proposal may then be approved by
market economics by strengthening the nonprofit
the President under delegated authority or
sector and providing technical assistance and
referred to the Board of Trustees, which meets
training to the public and privare sectors. The
quarterly, for further action.
Foundation is also interested in efforts that
The entire review process takes up to four
encourage interaction among these sectors.
months from the time the proposal is received.
The Central/Eastern Europe, Russia and the
Therefore, proposals should be submitted at
Republics program area is part of the Foundation's
least four months prior to the start of the
Civil Society program, one of four major programs
proposed grant period.
in which it organizes its grantmaking. The others
The Foundation observes the following
are Environment, Flinr (the Foundation's home
limitations:
community) and Poverty.
No grants are made to individuals;
The Civil Society program is home to most of
Grants for capital development and
the Foundation's international grantmaking and
endowment are rarely made;
also includes activity in South Africa and the
Support for research is provided only
United States. In addition, the Foundation reserves
when it is instrumental for planning,
a Special Initiatives area TO support unique
implementing or evaluating grantmaking
opportunities that address emerging civil society
activities or for strengthening public
issues outside of its priority geographic areas.
policy relevant to the Foundation's
objectives;
GRANTMAKING PROCESS
No support is extended for religious
General information queries can be made to
activities or programs that serve, or appear
the Foundation's field office in Prague. Letters
to serve, specific religious groups or
of inquiry and/or formal proposals can be sent
denominations; and
either to the Foundation's home office in Flint
Grants normally are not made for local
or to the field office in Prague.
projects that are not part of a regional or
Although proposals may be submitted at
national plan or Foundation-planned
any time, we strongly encourage applicants to
nerwork of grants, and that do not have
submit their proposals during the first quarter
clear and significant implications for other
of the year for which funding is requested.
communities.
Applicants should be aware that grant funds for
any given year are determined by September 1
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
of that year. Both multi- and single-year
Foreign applicants are urged to submit either a
proposals are acceptable, as are those for shorter
letter of inquiry or a brief proposal and not
periods.
prepare a lengthy, detailed proposal exclusively
We observe strict conflict of interest rules
for the Mott Foundation unless advised to do
for both staff and Trustees. Therefore, all
so by Foundation staff. All letters and proposals
applications must follow the Foundation's
must be in English, and must be submitted by
standard processing procedures.
a bona fide charitable, educational or
Proposals are reviewed by program staff for
governmental organization. Two copies of the
initial recommendation of denial or approval.
letter and/or proposal are required.
The Proposal Review Committee composed of
Videotapes are discouraged. They should be
senior management, makes the final recommen-
attempted as a method of application only if
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the Foundation requests them. Tapes will not
davit and public support schedule to determine
be returned.
equivalence as a tax-exempt institution under
The Foundation has no formal application
U.S. law before a grant can be made. The
form. However, proposals should contain the
Foundation's program staff will provide the
following:
forms as well as assistance in filling them out.
1. A cover letter detailing the amount of
All submitted materials, such as articles and
money requested and the grant period and
bylaws, must be in English.
signed by the person ultimately responsible
Because we believe in the importance
for signing grant contracts on behalf of grant
of accountability for the nonprofit community,
applicant.
an applicant will be required to submit copies
2. The project description, including an
of its published annual report and its audited
explanation of why the project is needed,
financial statements (if available) before any
who will be served and what will be accom-
grant is made.
plished during a specific period of time.
Proposals should be clearly marked
3. Information on the feasibility and sustain-
GRANT PROPOSAL and addressed either to
ability of the proposed grant activity.
the Prague office at the address below or to:
4. Information on lasting benefits to the orga-
nization, program participants, the commu-
Office of Proposal Entry
nity or other organizations working in the
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
field.
1200 Mort Foundation Building
5. An appropriate plan for evaluation, report-
Flint, MI 48502-1851
ing and dissemination.
U.S.A.
6. A documented line-item budget and pro-
jected sources of funds for the proposed
Prague-Based Staff
grant period.
Jon R. Blyth, Program Director
7. Information about the organization seeking
Clare Brooks, Associate Program Officer
funds, including its staff, board of directors,
- Central/Eastern Europe
legal classification, and history and accom-
Shannon Lawder, Associate Program Officer
plishments.
- Russia and Ukraine
Organizations whose proposals are to be
Jikta Yousifová, Office Administrator
recommended for approval also will need to
Lenka Zemanová, Office Manager
complete these additional requirements:
U.S. government regulations require the
Flint-Based Staff
Foundation to collect from all foreign
Jeanette Mansour, Program Officer
applicants except governmental units an affi-
CHARLES STEWART
MOTT FOUNDATION
Central/Eastern Europe Field Office
Liná
6/8
120 00 Prague 2
Czech Republic
Telephone: 42-22-499-3180, 42-22-499-3181
Fax: 42-22-499-3183
U.S. Office
1200 Mott Foundation Building
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1993-1996 Grants
for Central/Eastern Europe, Russia and the Republics
Note: This listing includes all grants made from 1993 through July 1996. For grant programs starting prior to
1993, total funding since program inception is shown. The years shown identify the start and end of the grant
period. Abbreviations used include CEE for Central/Eastern Europe, FSU for Former Soviet Union, and NGO
for nongovernmental organization. Grants listed for an individual country must be combined with selected
grants under multi-country headings to obtain the complete scope of the Foundation's support for a country.
MULTI-COUNTRY/CROSS REGIONS
Political/Economic Structures
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education, Washington, DC
$50,000
Central and East European Law Initiative-Commercial Law Project (1 grant, 1993-95)
To support a fund to engage American legal expertise to benefit the development of market economies and
economic reforms in Central Europe.
American Council on Education, Washington, DC
$35,000
Summit on What Works: Building Capacity in CEE (1 grant. 1993)
To support a conference in Prague in November 1993 to examine current management training and economic
education programs being conducted in CEE.
Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
$5,000
International Conference with Central Europeans (1 grant. 1995)
To support an international conference in April 1995 on the Carpathian Euroregion to Link American and Central
European specialists in community and economic development.
Atlantic Council of the United States, Washington, DC
$50,000
Project: Marshall Plan Project (1 grant, 1993-96)
To assess the lessons and applicability of the Marshall Plan used to help revive Europe after World War II as a
current reference for Central Europe and the FSU.
Center for Strategic & International Studies. Washington. DC
$50,000
New European States Project (1 grant. 1994-96)
To support an assessment of the political issues facing the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
for the benefit of American policymakers.
Foundation for a Civil Society, Ltd.. New York. New York
$105,000
Project on Justice in Times of Transition (2 grants, 1992-96)
To support conferences, workshops, meetings, and special consultations to address human and civil rights issues
in the emerging democracies of CEE, FSU, and South Africa.
International Foundation for Election Systems, Washington. DC
$95.000
Association of Election Administrators of CEE (3 grants, 1993-96)
To provide support for administrative COSIS, conference expenses, and special projects for an organization that
promotes professionalism and provides technical assistance and training in the field of election administration to
officials in CEE.
Shorebank Advisory Services, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
"How To" Manual on Microenterprise Programs for Central Europe (1 grant. 1993-95)
To publish a revised manual highlighting model microenterprise lending programs in the U.S. and emerging
model programs in Central Europe.
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Stichting East-West Parliamentary Practice Project. Amsterdam. Netherlands
General Purposes (4 grants, 1990-97*)
$423,860
(*Includes 1990-94 support of $173,860 for this project awarded to the European Cooperation Fund)
legislative, constitutional, and rule-of-law structures and issues.
To provide technical assistance to newly elecsed parliamentarians in Central Europe and Russia on a range of
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution, Research and Resource Institute, Tacoma, Washington
Institutionalization of Conflict Resolution Processes in Russia/Poland (1 grant. 1996-99)
$175,000
To provide training and supportive services to build the capacity and institutionalize the processes of mediation
and public involvement in at least six Russia cities as well as in Poland
Foundation on Inter-Ethnic Relations. The Hague, Netherlands
General Purposes (1 grant. 1995-98)
$150,000
To support research, policy analyses, consultations, mediasions. and country-specific activities related to conflict
prevention and resolusion for ethnic/minority populations in CEE, as assistance to the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe.
National Peace Foundation. Washington, DC
Conflict Resolution Assessment Project (1 grant, 1994-95)
$50,000
Africa. To assess the status and impact of conflict resolution projects in emerging democracies in CEE, FSU, and South
Partners for Democratic Change. San Francisco, California
$375.000
Ethnic Conciliation Commissions in Central Europe (2 grants, 1992-97)
To establish and assist commissions in several CEE countries develop as effective resources for preventing and
resolving conflicis based upon ethnic, national, and related differences.
Partners for Democratic Change, San Francisco, California
Conflict Management Centers in CEE and Russia (5 grants, 1991-96*)
$1,100,000
(*Includes general purposes support of $300,000 for 1996, which is aligned with the $800,000 project support
granted for conflict management centers for 1991-95)
To support the establishment of conflice resolution centers in a number of CEE countries for advancing training
in conflict resolution, and 10 assist the centers to become independent.
Nonprofit Sector
Charities Evaluation Services. London. England
$98.545
Assessment of Nonprofit Resource Centers in CEE (1 grant, 1995-96)
To evaluate the value and effectiveness of a network of national nonprofit sector resource centers, and to assist
the centers with planning and ongoing self-assessment.
Environmental Law Institute. Washington. DC
$375,000
Environmental Program for Central and Eastern Europe (2 grants, 1991-97)
To provide technical assistance to organizations and individuals to advance the environmental law profession and
strengthening environmental public policy in a number of CEE countries. Russia. and Ukraine.
European Anti-Poverty Network. Brussels, Belgium
$20,000
Central/Eastern Europe NGO Support for Networking Seminar (1 grant, 1996)
To support travel and networking for bringing together NGOs in CEE active in anti-poverty programming with
counterpart groups in Western Europe.
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European Cooperation Fund, Brussels, Belgium
Dissemination of Eastern Europe Funders Guide (I grant. 1993)
$7,000
the Foundation Center in the U.S.
To disseminate copies of the Imernational Guide to Funders Interested in CEE to the 200 cooperaring libraries of
European Foundation Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Membership Support for Eastern European Foundations (4 grants, 1991-97*)
$454.000
(*Includes grants prior to 1995 for this program awarded to European Cooperation Fund)
To pay for special guest memberships for selected CEE foundations in the European Foundation Centre, which
serves as an information and nerworking resource for European foundations and international foundations with
grantmaking interests in the region.
European Foundation Centre. Brussels, Belgium
Orpheus Programme Civil Society Mutual Support Project (2 grants, 1994-98*)
$500,000
(*Includes support awarded prior to 1995 for this program to European Cooperation Fund)
the independent sector in CEE.
To provide networking and services to build the capacity of national resource and support centers for advancing
Institute for East-West Studies, Inc., New York. New York
Fund for the Development of the Carpathian Euroregion (4 grants, 1994-97)
$2,086,241
To establish and support a regional foundation with five country offices that provides funding for building the
Hungary, and Romania.
capacity of NGOs and local governments in the Carpathian Euroregion of Poland, Slovak Republic, Ukraine,
International Center for Not-fort-Profit Law, Washington, DC
$25,000
Conference on Regulating the Nonprofit Sector in Central Europe (1 grant. 1994)
To support a conference in Romania in May 1994 on the legal and regulatory environment for nonprofit
organizations in Central Europe.
International Institute for Energy Conservation, Inc., Washington, DC
$250,000
Implementing Energy Efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe (2 grants, 1993-97)
To support regional and in-country activities toward rapidly increasing energy efficiency in CEE, including
working with the multilareral development banks (MDBs).
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
$750,000
Eastern European Nonprofit Sector Training Program (4 grants, 1991-97)
To provide training and technical assistance for emerging nonprofit sector leaders in CEE, through training-of-
trainers, internships, and in-country workshops, and in collaboration with in-country partners.
Oxford Brookes University, Headington Oxford, England
$25,000
Poland and Belarussia: A Comparative Study of Voluntary Sectors (1 grant, 1994-95)
To complete a comparative study of the activities. capabilities, and roles of the nonprofit sectors in Poland and
Belarussia at national and local levels.
Tides Foundation. San Francisco, California
$25,000
Environment and Democracy Campaign - Central Europe Work (1 grant, 1993-94)
To support a series of organizing and leadership development training and exchanges designed to strengthen
grassroots environmental action in Central Europe.
University of Minnesota Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
$150,000
Strengthening Business Contributions to CEE Sustainable Development (1 grant, 1996-97)
To develop an understanding of how private sector investment in CEE impacts upon the environment. toward
identifying beneficial public policies for encouraging environmentally sustainable business development.
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Special Projects
Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
$100,000
Social Exclusion and Human Dignity Program (I grant. 1995-97)
To support research and policy analyses on poverty and social exclusion throughout Europe, and especially
within the emerging Central and Eastern European democracies.
National Civic League, Denver, Colorado
$106,267
Emerging Leaders Forum (1 grant. 1994-95)
To support a training program in community leadership for emerging leaders from the public, private, and
nonprofit sectors in Katowice, Poland and L'viv and Reszow, Ukraine.
Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, London, England
$100,000
Partnership Capacity Building in Central Europe (1 grant. 1994-96)
To train representatives from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors from selected communities in Central
Europe in partnership building techniques, toward fostering cross-sector community-based collaborations.
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Multi-Country
Nonprofit Sector
Center for Citizen Initiatives. San Francisco, California
Environmental Program (5 grants. 1989-96)
$330,000
To support the marching of resources and interests among American and citizens and organizations in the FSU to
address critical environmental and energy issues.
Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe - Warsaw, Poland
$45,000
Center for Pluralism Network Expansion to Russia and Ukraine (1 grant, 1995-96)
To assist emerging NGOs in Russia and Ukraine through information services and field-based networking and
regional meetings.
ISAR. Washington. DC
$120,000
General Purposes (5 grants. 1989-97)
To support joint efforts between Americans and citizens and NGOs in the FSU to strengthen the nonprofis sector
and promote citizen initiatives.
ISAR, Washington. DC
$200,000
Information Clearinghouse (2 grants, 1994-97)
To provide information and networking resources to environmental NGOs and local government organizations
throughous Russia and other former Soviet republics.
Sacred Earth Network. Petersham. Massachusetts
$120,000
Environmental Telecommunications for the Independent States (2 grants. 1994-96)
To improve electronic communications, information. and networking among environmental groups in the former
Soviet republics and links with international resources.
Socio-Ecological Union, Moscow
$100,700
General Purposes (2 grants, 1994-97)
To provide core support for the Largest nongovernmental environmental organization working in and providing
services to numerous local NGOs throughout the FSU.
United Way International. Alexandria, Virgimia
$150,000
Independent States Nonprofit Sector Development Program (2 grants, 1993-95)
To support a nonprofis sector development program in Russia. Belarus, and Ukraine, including the opening of
United Way offices in Moscow and Minsk.
Special Projects
Center for Citizen Initiatives, San Francisco, California
$1,005,000
General Purposes (8 grants. 1989-97)
To provide institutional support for a lead organization in fostering exchanges and joint ventures between
Americans and citizens and organizations of Russia and other former Soviet republics.
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Russia
Political/Economic Structures
Atlantic Council of the United States, Washington. DC
Future of Russian-American Relations in a Pluralistic World (1 grant, 1994-96)
$100,000
To support dialogue between Russian and American government officials and NGO communiry leaders on
political, economic, and military security reforms.
Center for Citizen Initiatives, San Francisco, California
Russian Initiative for Self-Employment (2 grants, 1994-97)
$300,000
underemployed Russian women in the St. Perersburg area.
To provide entrepreneurship training. access to microloans, and business incubator support for unemployed and
Committee on American-Russian Relations. Washington, DC
Russian Legal Reform Project (2 grants, 1991-93)
$70,000
To retrain Russian jurists to develop and implement legal practices that ensure important rights including
individual, property, and citizen engagement in private enterprise.
George Washington University. Washington, DC
$25,000
Assessment of American Assistance to Russia (1 grant, 1995-96)
To support an overview and assessment of American foreign aid directed to help Russia during its economic and
democratic transition.
Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, Inc., Washington, DC
Lawmaking for Democracy Project (1 grant. 1994-95)
$27,370
To support the visit of eight Russians representing the State Duma to the U.S. to learn about the concepts and
operating principles of decentralization and federalism.
Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, Inc., Washington, DC
$24,973
Federalism in Russia - Volga Regions (1 grant, 1995-96)
To support training and technical assistance activities on democrazic governance issues for oblast/regional
officials in Samara, Saratov, and Volgograd, Russia
Research and Publishing Center for Political Studies in Russia, Moscow
$50,000
Civilian Control of Military Institutions in Russia (1 grant, 1996-98)
To conduct research and analysis followed by educational seminars aimed at encouraging civilian control of
military institutions in Russia.
Togliatti Russian-American Cultural Center. Togliatti. Russia
$20,000
General Purposes (2 grants, 1994-97*)
(*Includes $5,000 awarded in 1994 to the Russia/USA Society for this program)
To support community and economic development initiatives and other activities benefitting the citizens of
Togliani, Russia, a sister ciry of Flint, Michigan.
Southeastern Institute for Law & Commerce, Nashville, Tennessee
$125,000
Trial by Jury Training Program (2 grants, 1994-96)
To train Russian criminal defense lawyers in techniques and principles of a fair jury trial, a concept being
reintroduced into the Russian legal system.
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Nonprofit Sector
ASI Center. Moscow
Creating a Network of Regional Affiliates in Russia (1 grant, 1996-97)
$29,913
To enable an organization specializing in data collection for NGOs to expand information services throughour
Russia through creating a nerwork of regional affiliates.
Center for Citizen Initiatives, San Francisco, California
Russian Nonprofit Management Training Program (3 grants. 1994-97)
$395,000
To provide training, internships in the U.S., and small grants to selected Russian NGO leaders for the purpose
of building the capacity of Russian nonprofit organizations.
Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Chevy Chase. Maryland
Environmental and Health Databank on Russia (I grant, 1995-96)
$80,000
To create a comprehensive and easily usable data base on environmental and health conditions in Russia.
Charities Aid Foundation, London. England
$280,000
Russia Office (3 grants, 1994-98)
To provide support for research, information and legal services, training. and other support for Russian NGOs
and for advancing the independent sector in Russia.
Interiegal USA, Inc., New York, New York
$10,000
Russian Nonprofit Sector Conference (1 grant. 1993)
To support a two-day conference in Moscow on the Russian nonprofit sector involving over 150 Russian and
western leaders from government, business, and voluntary sectors.
International Society for Ecological Economics. Solomons, Maryland
$11,469
Russian Ecological Economics Project (1 grant, 1993-94)
To support the translation into Russian of prominent literature on ecological economics for distribution to
scientists, economists, and policymakers.
St. Xenia Hospital Foundation, Inc.. Orlando. Florida
$50,000
St. Petersburg Charitable Society (1 grant. 1994-95)
To support the planning for the development of a community foundation-like entity in St. Petersburg, Russia.
United Way International, Alexandria, Virginia
$50,000
United Way Moscow (1 grant. 1996*)
(*$150,000 previously awarded to grantee for 1993-95 development work in FSU)
To support the nonprofit sector in Russia and raise funds and in-kind support for social service organizations,
toward advancing the concept of philanthropy.
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
$6,000
Women, Politics, Environmental Action-Symposium (1 grant, 1994)
To support a symposium to bring together 200 woman from Russia and the U.S. to launch a two-year
environmental policy planning and training project.
Special Projects
Center for Citizen Initiatives, San Francisco, California
$265,000
Urban Gardening Project (4 grants. 1992-97)
To provide education, technical assistance, and seeds to Russian farmers and gardeners in cooperation with
western seed companies and other agricultural interests.
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ana Arbor, Michigan
$20,000
ICAST Fellowship Program for Russian Theoretical Physicists (1 grant. 1993-94)
To provide support for world-class Russian physicists in quantum field theory from the Russia Academy of
Sciences 10 conduct research in the U.S. for several months.
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Ukraine
Political/Economic Structures
Former Members of Congress, Inc., Washington. DC
Parliamentary Democracy in Ukraine (1 grant, 1996-97)
$50,000
on a number of important needs.
To provide technical assissance and training through interns and expert advisors to Ukraine's Rada (parliament)
Institute for East-West Studies, Inc., New York, New York
Ukraine Action Fund (2 grants, 1995-96)
$56.300
To escablish and support a fund to enable the institute to provide rapid response and longer-term technical
assistance to Ukraine, its president, and ministers.
International Executive Service Corps. Stamford. Connecticut
Public Administration Training for Government Managers (2 grants. 1994-97)
$100,000
To provide training and technical assistance to 50 senior Ukrainian public administrators on local governance
issues based on democratic models.
U.S. Ukraine Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy (1 grant, 1996-97)
$150,000
To support a leading Ukrainian public policy organization providing information and assistance to improve
democracy at national and local government levels.
Conflict Resolution
IDR Associates. Washington. DC
$141,318
Enhancing Democratic Decisionmaking in Ukraine (1 grant, 1996-97)
To provide training in collaboration with a Ukrainian partner 10 leaders in Odessa to facilitate dialogue and
resolve disputes berween government, business, and environmental interests.
Search for Common Ground. Washington. DC
$49,850
Dialogue on Privatization Project (I grant. 1996)
To partner with Donetsk Regional Mediation Group in Ukraine to create problem-solving processes in two model
factories in order to mediate disputes and improve planning.
Nonprofit Sector
Eurasia Foundation, Washington, DC
$142.500
Strengthening NGO Resource Centers in Ukraine (1 grant, 1996-98)
To strengthen the Ukrainian NGO Infrastructure through support for six regional resource centers and minigrants
for smaller NGOs located outside the major Ukrainian cities.
Other FSU Republics
Conflict Resolution
Charities Aid Foundation, London, England
$200,000
Conflict Resolution Conference for Moldova (2 grants, 1994-97)
To support ongoing efforts to bring peace to the conflict between Moldova and the breakaway region of
Transdniestria, with use of Northern Ireland facilitators and mediators.
Conflict Management Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$60,000
Joint Georgian and South Ossetian Dialogue (2 grants, 1995-96)
To provide dispute resolution assistance 10 representatives in the region toward negoriaring peace in a seven-year
war between Georgia and South Ossetia.
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Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio
Tajikistan Conflict Resolution Training Project (1 grant, 1994-96)
$300,000
To support training in conflier resolution and policical dialogue to bring peace to Tajikistan, a pivotal Central
Asian republic currently embroiled in violent ethnic conflict.
National Peace Foundation, Washington. DC
Conflict Resolution Training Project in the Former Soviet Union (3 grants. 1991-94)
$140,000
To train Russian and Armenian government officials, educators, and graduate students in conflict resolution
principles, consensus building, and shared decisionmaking.
National Peace Foundation, Washington, DC
Transcaucasus Women's Dialogue (1 grant. 1995-97)
$100,000
To support a dialogue among women professionals and civic leaders in Armenia, deerbaijan. and Georgia
toward the resolution of conflicts in the Transcaucasus region.
Nonprofit Sector
Estonian Foundation Centre, Tallinn
General Purposes (3 grants, 1993-97)
$105,000
To support core expenses of an organization that provides leadership and information, training, and other
services for NGOs in Estonia.
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VISEGRAD COUNTRIES
(Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary)
Multi-Country
Political/Economic Structures
Central Europe Institute, Kosice, Slovak Republic
$75,000
Business in the Community Program (1 grant. 1994-95)
To assist five communities in the Czech and Slovak republics create chambers of commerce for enabling business
enterprises to advance both their goals and community well-being.
Nonprofit Sector
Foundation for a Civil Society, Ltd., New York, New York
$375,000
General Purposes (4 grants, 1992-97)
To support an organization with a number of projects for advancing an open and democratic society and a
free-market economy in the Czech and Slovak republics.
German Marshall Fund of the United States. Washington. DC
$1,125,000
Environmental Partnership for Central Europe (6 grants, 1991-97)
To build the capacity of groups to improve environmental policies and practices in Central Europe through
country offices in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak republics that assiss and regrant funds to local
NGOs and carry out related environmental activities.
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, DC
$25,000
Assessment of the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe (1 grant, 1996-97)
To support an outside assessment of a program. which over six years has spent over $6 million and made over
1,000 grants to build environmental infrastructure and address environmental issues in Central Europe.
Olga Havel Foundation, New York, New York
$15,000
General Purposes (1 grant. 1995-97)
To strengthen the aim of a philanthropy essablished to give humanitarian assistance to those in need and who
face chronic, long-term health problems in the Czech and Slovak republics.
Tides Foundation. San Francisco. California
$200,000
Civil Society Development Program (1 grant. 1994-96)
To implement a rwo-year, train-the-trainers program for nonprofit sector leaders in Hungary and Poland, with
emphasis placed on training 16 Individuals through a full-time effort.
United Way International. Alexandria. Virginia
$300,000
Central/Eastern Europe United Way Development Program (I grant. 1995-96)
To support efforts to establish and expand United Way activities to build in-country capacity for increasing
philamhropic initiatives in Hungary. Poland, and Slovak Republic.
Special Projects
American Council on Education, Washington, DC
$49,000
Business-Higher Education Telecommunications Training Program (1 grant, 1995-96)
To provide training for policymakers. regulators. and academics in support of building the telecommunications
infrastructure in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland
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Political/Economic Structures
American Trust for Agriculture in Poland. McLean. Virginia
$150,000
Women in Rural Enterprise Development (1 grant, 1994-96)
To provide training, technical assistance, and appropriate access to microloans for women in rural areas who
wish to start or expand business enterprises.
Policy Education Center on Assistance to Transition, Warsaw
$280,000
General Purposes (2 grants, 1993, 1996-99*)
(*Includes 1993 grant support of $80.000 to the Institute for East-West Studies for establishing the center)
To provide core support for an independent policy research and information center in Warsaw specializing on
issues and impacts associated with western assistance to CEE.
Sister Cities of Flint, Inc., Flint, Michigan
$28,760
Flint-Kielce, Poland Municipal Training Program (1 grant, 1993-95)
To support a six-week training/imernship program for nine Polish students and faculty in municipal governing
techniques in Michigan, with follow-on training of others in Poland.
University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. Michigan
$68,300
Research On Development of Market Economies (2 grants, 1994-98)
To support a collaborative economic research and information project with scholars at Jagiellonian University in
Krakow, Poland, and the Polish Central Statistical Office.
Conflict Resolution
RESOLVE, Inc., Washington, DC
$75,000
Mediation of Local Environmental Conflicts in Poland (1 grant, 1995-97)
To support two pilot projects in environmental conflict resolution in Poland with an emphasis on mediation
techniques.
Nonprofit Sector
American Committee for Aid to Poland. McLean. Virginia
$50,000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1993-95)
To establish and nurture linkages between U.S. nonprofits and Polish NGOs with the aim of ceasing operations
once these linkages were effectively operating.
Civil Society Development Foundation-Poland. Warsaw
$100,000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1996-98)
To support a new Polish-based training organization for NGOs formed as the result of a two-year training-of-
trainers program administered by the Tides Foundation with previous Mott support.
Forum of Polish Foundations, Warsaw
$80.000
General Purposes (4 grants. 1993-96)
To support core expenses of an organization that provides leadership and information, training, and other
services for foundations in Poland.
Institute for Sustainable Communities. Montpelier, Vermont
$150,000
Community Environmental Action Project in Poland (1 grant, 1994-96)
In collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Warsaw, to promote democratically based
environmental action in mid-size communities in Poland.
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Institute for Sustainable Development. Warsaw
$120,000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1995-97)
To support activities 10 advance development in Poland that are both economically and environmentally sound
through building bridges between the environmental. scientific, business, government, economy, and social
interest communities.
Polish Children and Youth Foundation, Warsaw
$325,000
Local Youth Partners: Building NGO Capacity (3 grants, 1993-97*)
(*Includes 2 grants totaling $225,000 awarded in 1993 to the International Youth Foundation for the early work
of the Polish Children and Youth Foundation)
To support the work of a leading Polish philanthropic organization in building the capacity of NGOs serving
children and youth through training, seed grants, and other services.
Polish Ecological Club National Board. Krakow
$35,000
Central and Eastern Europe Bankwatch Network (1 grant. 1995-96)
To support a network of environmental NGOs in seven CEE nations established to influence environmental
policies and actions undertaken by MDBs.
Polish Foundation for Energy Efficiency. Warsaw
$95.000
Integrated Resource Planning Project (2 grants, 1993-97)
To support information and technical services for building in-country capacity in energy efficiency. especially in
integrated resource planning, in Poland.
Support Office for the Movement of Self-Help Initiatives (BORIS). Warsaw
$40.000
Open Society Network Project (1 grant, 1995-96)
To strengthen information and technical assistance services to NGOs in the human services field through five
regional service censers in Poland and a national information center.
Special Projects
Foundation in Support of Local Democracy, Warsaw
$50,000
Kielce DIALOG Program (1 grant. 1996-98)
To strengthen and expand a community-based model for increasing citizen involvement and linkages with local
government 10 identify and address community needs.
Krakow Development Forum. Krakow
$50,000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1996-97)
To support a new forum established by government, business, academic, and NGO leaders 10 work
collaboratively on the economic and social development needs of the Krakow, Poland region.
Polish Higher Education-Business Forum, Warsaw
$75,000
General Purposes (2 grants, 1993-97)
To improve relations and collaborations between Polish universities and the business community.
Culture Centre of Podkowa Lesna. Podkowa Lesna
$10,000
Podkowa - An Open Community (1 grant. 1996-97)
To support an exemplary community center that advances local traditions of multiethnic tolerance and assistance
to refugees and provides for the needs of all in the community, especially young people.
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Center for Democracy and Free Enterprise. Prague
Legal Resource Center (1 grant. 1995-96)
$37,872
profession and the application of rule-of-law in the Czech Republic.
To provide educasional and training programs and information services intended to advance bosh the legal
International Executive Service Corps. Stamford. Connecticut
Technical and Managerial Assistance Program (1 grant, 1995-98)
$225,000
To provide volunteer executive assistance to newly privatized business enterprises as they restructure to meet
demands of the market economy.
Nonprofit Sector
Civic Forum Foundation. Prague
General Purposes (2 grants, 1994-97)
$48,000
To provide core support for a leading philanthropy engaged in advancing educational. cultural, and historic
preservation in the Czech and Slovak republics.
Energy Efficiency Center, Prague
Integrated Resource Planning Project (3 grants. 1993-96)
$94,000
the utility industry and demand-side energy conservation.
To build capacity in the Czech Republic for energy efficiency by promoting integrated resource planning within
Information Center for Foundations, Prague
General Purposes (4 grants, 1993-96)
$226,000
To provide core support for an organization that provides leadership and information, training. and other
services for NGOs in the Czech Republic.
Institute for Environmental Policy. Prague
General Purposes (1 grant. 1996-98)
$90,000
business, academia, and environmental community sectors.
To advance environmentally sustainable development in the Czech Republic, through working with government,
Special Projects
Czech Helsinki Committee, Prague
Helsinki Counseling Centre for Refugees (1 grant, 1995-96)
$5,000
To support civic education as part of a larger counseling program to help Bosnian refugee families integrate into
the Czech democratic society.
Slovak Republic
Political/Economic Structures
Association for Regional Development. Rimavska Sobota
Business Development Projects (1 grant, 1996-98)
$18,990
business skills training for Romas.
To support business enterprise development in one of the most depressed areas of the Slovak Republic, including
Center for Democracy, Washington, DC
$50,000
Conference on Judicial Training for the Slovak Republic (1 grant. 1996)
To support a training conference in support of establishing an independent judiciary for 70 Slovak jurists from
all levels of the court system, including the Constitutional Court.
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Regional Advisory and Information Center. Povazska Bystrica
Micro Loan Fund Project (1 grant, 1996-97)
$25,000
To support a new fund in northwestern Slovakia for making micro loans to small businesses, coupled with
management training for entrepreneurs.
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
$70,035
Entrepreneurial Business Development Program in the Slovak Republic (1 grant. 1996)
To provide technical assistance for accelerating the development of new small businesses in the Slovak Republic.
Nonprofit Sector
Center for Environmental Public Advocacy, Poniky
$60,000
General Purposes (3 grants. 1993-97)
To provide training and technical assistance to build the capacity of Slovak environmental organizations and to
strengthen the Slovak independent sector.
Healthy City Banska Bystrica Foundation. Banska Bystrica
$90,000
General Purposes (1 grant. 1995-97)
To provide seed funding for a new community foundation established into central Slovak Republic with marching
funds from the city government and additional support from community interests.
Slovak Academic Information Agency, Bratislava
$198,000
Third Sector Training and Information Project (4 grants, 1993-96)
To provide core support for an organization that provides leadership and information, training, and other
services for the independent sector and NGOs in the Slovak Republic.
Support Center, Washington. DC.
$86,580
Slovak Nonprofit Technical Assistance and Training Project (2 grants. 1993-94)
To provide technical assistance to nonprofit groups on organizational and financial management and build in-
country capacity to continue with such assistance.
Special Projects
Wide Open School Foundation, Ziar nad Hronom
$10,000
Rroma Community Project (I grant, 1996-97)
To support a preschool censer for needy families, especially Romany. in northeast Slovakia, wish a community-
based approach to education.
Hungary
Conflict Resolution
Reflex Environmental Protection Society. Gyor, Hungary
$25,000
Collaborative Local Decisionmaking in the Szigetkoz (1 grant. 1994-95)
To work with local government, cirizens, and technical experts to assess the impacts and generate solutions for
problems caused by the diversion of the Danube River in the region.
Nonprofit Sector
Civil Society Development Foundation-Hungary, Budapest
$100,000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1996-98)
To support a new Hungarian-based training organization for NGOs formed as the result of a rwo-year training-
of-trainers program administered by the Tides Foundation with previous Mon support.
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Communication Exchange and Training Foundation. Budapest
$21,460
Community Foundation Development Pilot Project (1 grant. 1995-96)
To support a planning activity for developing a model for advancing philanthropy as the community level. toward
developing community foundations in Hungary.
E.L.T.E. Nature Conservation Club, Budapest
$8,000
Greenway Energy Working Group Conference (1 grant, 1994)
To support a four-day conference as part of the ongoing work of Central/Eastern European NGOs to discuss and
formulate improved energy policies.
Environmental Management and Law Association, Budapest
$100,000
General Purposes (2 grants, 1994-97)
To advance the development and application of law and public policy as important tools in the management of
environmental and economic development in Hungary.
Hungarian Association for Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Foundations, Budapest $19,500
General Purposes (1 grant, 1995-96)
To provide core support for a membership organization providing services to more than 90 education, science.
and cultural nonprofit organizations in Hungary.
Hungarian Chamber of Nonprofit Human Services. Budapest
$20,000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1995-96)
To provide core support for a membership organization providing services to more than 140 nonprofit human
service organizations in Hungary.
Hungarian Foundation Centre. Budapest
$30,000
General Purposes (2 grants, 1994-96)
To provide core support for an organization that provides information, training, and other services for
foundarions in Hungary.
Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance. Budapest
$310,000
General Purposes (6 grants, 1991-96)
To provide core support for a leading Hungarian foundation that provides technical assistance, seed grants, and
loans to interests primarily associated with ethnic minorities and low-income communities.
Independent Ecological Center. Budapest
$50,000
Community Environmental Action Program (1 grant, 1994-95)
To continue demonstration work on community-based environmental decisionmaking and action in several
Hungarian communities.
Independent Ecological Center, Budapest
$100,000
General Purposes (2 grants, 1992-97)
To support an important Hungarian environmental organization which is a regional model for strengthening civil
society and environmental protection.
Kentucky Coalition, Inc., London. Kentucky
$35,000
Community Organizing Project (2 grants. 1993-95)
To provide training and sectinical assistance on community organizing and NGO management for environmental
and NGO leaders, principally in Hungary and Poland.
Nonprofit Foundation. Budapest
$60.000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1994-96)
To support the publication of Kurazi, a newsletter that provides information on the nonprofit sector in Hungary
to people active in the sector and to the general public.
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Nonprofit Information and Training Center Foundation. Budapest
$100,000
General Purposes (2 grants. 1994-96)
To provide core support for an organization that provides leadership and information, training, and other
services for the independent sector and NGOs in Hungary.
United Way - ESE Social Center Foundation, Pecel
$10.000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1996)
To support a community-based organization in central Hungary that provides social services and employment
training and jobs, and represents a model for other communities in the region.
Special Projects
Budapest School of Politics, Budapest, Hungary
$66,226
Leadership for Democracy Program (1 grant. 1995-96)
To provide training for 30 community leaders from three Hungarian cities toward building collaborations among
the private, governmental, and volumary sectors.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
$37,312
Leadership for Democracy Program (I grant, 1994-95)
To support the planning of a leadership development program for Hungarian community leaders (see above
implementation grant to the Budapest School of Politics).
Soros Foundation-Hungary, New York, New York
$322.000
Community Education Project in Hungary (4 grants, 1992-97)
To support a partnership program wish the grantee to establish a network of pilor community schools and
advance the concept of community education in Hungary.
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Multi-Country
Political/Economic Structures
Institute for East-West Studies, Inc., New York. New York
$73,236
Project: Legislative Issues Service (1 grant, 1996)
To support a training and assistance program through the institute's European Studies Center for the legislarive
research staffs for Bulgarian and Romanian parliamentarians.
Nonprofit Sector
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Washington. DC
$8,100
Legal Delegation to Bulgaria and Romania (1 grant, 1993)
To cover the costs of a five-person delegation of legal experts to travel to Bulgaria and Romania 10 provide
technical assistance on the development of charity law.
Union of Bulgarian Foundations, Sofia, Bulgaria
$31,360
Balkan NGO Empowering Program (1 grant. 1995-96)
To develop a regional network among not-for-profis leaders and organizations in the Balkans, including cross-
country internships in Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania.
Special Projects
Aspen Institute Berlin. Berlin, Germany
$100.000
International Commission on the Balkans (1 grant, 1995-96)
To support an international commission to study current disputes in the Balkans and develop policy
recommendations for U.S., Western European, and Canadian governments.
Bulgaria
Political/Economic Structures
Institute for East-West Studies, Inc., New York. New York
$35,000
Bulgarian Privatization Funds Technical Assistance Project (1 grant. 1996)
To assist the Bulgarian Center for Mass Privatization in attracting and managing investment funds in support of
the transferring of approximately $1.5 billion of assess into private hands.
Nonprofit Sector
ACCESS Association. Sofia
$30,000
General Purposes (1 grant, 1995-97)
To support the exchange of information among NGOs engaged in promoting democratic and multicultural reform
in Bulgaria and the Balkan region.
Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia
$165,000
Nonprofit Research and Advocacy Project (3 grants, 1993-96)
To support a nonprofit research and law project toward enhancing the understanding of the nonprofit sector and
improving the legal and regulatory framework for the sector.
Delphi International, Washington, DC
$50,000
NGO Training and Community Organizing (1 grant, 1995-96)
To support the training of Bulgarian community organizers and effors to strengthen NGOs in several Bulgarian
communities.
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Nova Zagora Community Foundation, Nova Zagora
$20,540
Romany Elementary School Project (1 grant. 1996-97)
To support the primary project of a new community foundation established in a city in south central Bulgaria
with a high population of low-income Romany.
Open Society Fund-Sofia, Sofia
$1,012,500
Bulgaria Community Foundation Program (2 grants, 1994-97)
To support the development of community-based foundations in six Bulgarian cities, with grant funds used for
training, technical assistance, evaluation, and regranting.
Union of Bulgarian Foundations. Sofia
$123,500
General Purposes (4 grants, 1993-96)
To support a membership organization of charitable foundations and associations dedicated 10 the promotion of
philanthropy and the nonprofit sector in Bulgaria.
Union of Bulgarian Foundations. Sofia
$15,000
Emerging of the Third Sector in Bulgaria Project (I grant. 1995)
To support research to define and describe the range of organizations and activities, as well as financial data,
comprising the nonprofis sector in Bulgaria.
Romania
Nonprofit Sector
Assistance Center for Non-Governmental Organizations, Bucharest
$50,000
General Purposes (1 grant. 1995-97)
To support a new organization formed to provide assistance to improve citizen participation and build the
capacity of grassroots organizations in small communities in Romania.
Opportunity Associates - Romania, Bucharest
$19,375
Training for a Sustainable Future for Romanian NGOs (1 grant, 1995-96)
To addresses the critical need for developing local training capacity for strengthening NGOs by supporting a
training-of-trainers program for 100 representatives from major groups.
Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation. New York. New York
$70,000
General Purposes (1 grant 1994-96)
To support a leading Romanian philanthropy with national and community-based programs benefitting children,
the arts, and the least advantaged in Romania.
Regional Environmental Center for CEE, Budapest, Hungary
$16,533
Feasibility Study on Energy Efficiency in Romania (1 grant, 1995-96)
To support an investigation of energy issues in Romania, toward the aim of identifying options for energy
efficiency initiatives and opportunities for stimulating such initiarives.
Former Yugoslavia. Albania. Macedonia
Conflict Resolution
Croatian Democracy Project, Washington. DC
$75.000
Centers for Ethnic Reconciliation (1 grant, 1995-96)
To support the development of was community centers to promote ethnic reconciliation between Muslim and
Croat populations and others in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Parents, Teachers & Students for Social Responsibility, Moretown, Vermont
$70.000
Citizen Peacemaking in Bosnia (1 grant, 1995-96)
To support the creation of community centers in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia, 10 encourage and promote
local citizen peace building among Croats, Muslims, and Serbs.
Nonprofit Sector
Center for Development of Nonprofit Organizations. Zagreb
$10,000
General Purposes (1 grant. 1995-96)
To support a new organization established to provide leadership and services for NGOs in Croasia.
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ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND
1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK. NEW YORK 10104-0233
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has been active in East
Central Europe since the early 1980s. Prior to the historic changes
of 1989, the Fund's grantmaking focused on issues of sustainable
resource use and world security. Since 1989, when rebuilding civil
society in the region became a priority, the RBF has also focused on
strengthening the nonprofit sector in East Central Europe.
With a primary emphasis on Poland, the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, and Hungary, the RBF seeks to promote greater acceptance
and understanding of the importance of sustainable resource use; to
encourage progress in consolidating democracy and strengthening
civil society; to contribute to increased self-sufficiency for promising
nonprofit organizations; and to encourage greater interchange and
cooperation among those four nations and their neighbors to the east
and south. The Fund is particularly interested in supporting
initiatives that embrace holistic or integrative approaches to change;
that attempt to create an enabling environment for the nonprofit
sector and sustainable resource use; and that help to strengthen the
institutional capacity of nongovernmental organizations.
Grantmaking in the area of world security has been
temporarily suspended, pending the completion of a special two-year
Project on World Security, a comprehensive effort to review and
consider new approaches to international security relations at the end
of the twentieth century. New grantmaking guidelines for the Fund's
security program, which includes East Central Europe, will be
announced in early 1998.
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(Cumulative List as of May 31, 1996)
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SECURITY
AFS International (R,FSU)
$323,000 (1984-87)*
Alerdinck Foundation (R,FSU)
$90,000 (1987-92)*
American Center for International Leadership (R,FSU)
$340,000 (1988-90)*
(see also AFS International)
American Council of Learned Societies (IREX) (P,Ro)
$227,000 (1982-91)*
Center for Foreign Journalists (R)
$34,000 (1990)*
Central Connecticut State University (P)
$50,000 (1991)
Central and East European Publishing Project (R)
$120,000 (1990-92)
Charitable Fund "Carpathian Euroregion" (R,U)
$140,000 (1995-96)
Czechoslovak Management Center Foundation (C,S)
$450,000 (1991-96)*
(now Czech Management Center Foundation)
Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships (C,S)
$50,000 (1992)
European Cooperation Fund (R)
$125,000 (1986-91)*
Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Europeenne (R)
$75,000 (1988-90)
Friends of WWB/USA (P)
$225,000 (1992-95)
Fund for Private Assistance in International Development (R)
$180,000 (1988-90)
Government of the Republic of Hungary (H)
$25,000 (1991)
Harvard University: Kennedy School of Government (R,FSU)
$400,000 (1990-95)*
Harvard University Graduate School of
$200,000 (1992-94)
Business Administration (R)
Hudson Institute (Baltics)
$100,000 (1991-92)
Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund (H)
$75,000 (1993)
Institute for EastWest Studies (R,FSU)
$1,973,000 (1983-97)*
(formerly Institute for East-West Security Studies)
*
Multiple grants given
(C)
Czech Republic
(FSU)
Former Soviet Union
(H)
Hungary
(P)
Poland
(R)
East Central Europe (regional)
(Ro)
Romania
(S)
Slovakia
(U)
Ukraine
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Institute for Human Sciences (R)
$650,000 (1990-97)*
Institute of Public Administration and Local Government (U)
$25,000 (1993)
T
Institute for Soviet-American Relations (FSU)
$45,000 (1986-88)
International Executive Service Corps (P)
$75,000 (1989-90)
International House (R,FSU)
$140,000 (1988-95)*
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (R)
$24,550 (1993)
International Management Center (H)
$150,000 (1994-95)
(see also University of Pittsburgh and Hungarian-American
Enterprise Fund)
International Marketing Institute (Ro)
$1,000 (1990)
Junior Achievement (P)
$75,000 (1991-92)
Miroslaw Dzielski Institute of Industry and Commerce (P)
$100,000 (1990-92)
National Forum Foundation (R)
$150,000 (1990-92)
Portland State University Foundation (P)
$10,000 (1991)
University of Pittsburgh (H)
$225,000 (1988-91)*
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (R,FSU)
$290,000 (1984-95)*
Subtotal:
$7,162,550
SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE USE
American Latvian Association in the United States (Latvia)
$55,000 (1991-92)
American Trust for Polish Agriculture (P)
$1,125,000 (1987-92)*
Beneficial to the Public Fund (S)
$120,000 (1995-97)
Biocultural Association (H)
$50,000 (1989-90)*
Budapest University of Economic Sciences (H)
$30,000 (1990)
Center for Clean Air Policy (C)
$115,000 (1993-95)
Center for Environmental Public Advocacy (S)
$10,000 (1993)
Center for International Environmental Law (R)
$25,000 (1993)
Centre for Environmental Studies (H)
$150,000 (1994-96)
*
Multiple grants given
(C)
Czech Republic
(FSU)
Former Soviet Union
(H)
Hungary
(P)
Poland
(R)
East Central Europe (regional)
(Ro)
Romania
(S)
Slovakia
(a)
Ukraine
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Colorado Outward Bound School (FSU,H)
$75,000 (1988-90)
East European Environmental Research Foundation (H)
$40,000 (1990)
Eastern European Independent Environmental Foundation (H)
T
$75,000 (1990-95)*
(Independent Ecological Center)
Economic Perspectives (P)
$165,000 (1984-87)*
Environmental Law Institute (R,FSU)
$240,000 (1988-95)*
Environmental Management and Law Association (H)
$150,000 (1994-96)
European Natural Heritage Fund (Euronature) (R)
$225,000 (1995-97)
Federal Committee for the Environment of the Czech
$21,500 (1992)
and Slovak Republic (C,S)
Foundation for a Civil Society (C)
$120,000 (1996-97)*
(see also nonprofit sector listing for this foundation)
Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture (P)
$100,000 (1995-96)
(see also American Trust for Polish Agriculture
and Economic Perspectives)
Friends of the Earth (France) (R)
$120,000 (1994-95)
German Marshall Fund of the United States (R)
$1,170,000 (1991-97)*
Goncol Foundation (H,Ro)
$40,000 (1993-94)
Green Library (P)
$75,000 (1988-90)
Greenways-Zelene Stezky (C)
$90,000 (1994-96)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (H)
$20,000 (1989-90)
Institute for Environmental Policy (C)
$370,000 (1992-98)*
Institute for Environmental Protection of Ukraine (U)
$25,000 (1993)
Institute of Sociology (C,S)
$150,000 (1990-92)
Institute for Sustainable Communities (H,R)
$175,000 (1992-95)*
(see also Vermont Law School)
Institute for Sustainable Development (P)
$500,000 (1991-97)*
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (R)
$50,000 (1994-95)
International Foundation for Development Alternatives (H)
$17,500 (1990)
*
Multiple grants given
(C)
Czech Republic
(FSU)
Former Soviet Union
(H)
Hungary
(P)
Poland
(R)
East Central Europe (regional)
(Ro)
Romania
(S)
Slovakia
(C)
Ukraine
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International Institute for Energy Conservation (R)
$300,000 (1993-95)
International Network of Resource Information Centers (R,FSU),
$225,000 (1986-91)*
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
$206,000 (1985-89)*
and Natural Resources (R)
Kentucky Coalition (R)
$17,500 (1993)
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (R,FSU)
$150,000 (1991-93)
Ministry of Agriculture of Czechoslovakia (C,S)
$53,000 (1990-92)*
National Academy of Sciences (R,FSU)
$135,000 (1986-91)*
Palacky University (C)
$9,000 (1993)
Panos Institute (H,R)
$50,000 (1990)
Policy Sciences Center (R)
$65,000 (1989-90)*
Polish Ecological Club (R)
$180,000 (1995-97)
Project for Public Spaces (C)
$200,000 (1994-95)*
Quebec-Labrador Foundation (R)
$375,000 (1986-96)*
Resources Development Foundation (P,H)
$150,000 (1993-96)*
Rutgers University (P)
$135,000 (1990-92)
Sabre Foundation (R)
$15,000 (1988)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (FSU)
$16,500 (1987)
University of Minnesota Foundation (R)
$180,000 (1988-92)*
Vermont Law School (R)
$25,000 (1991)
Veronica (C)
$165,000 (1995-97)
Wharton Econometric Forecasting (P)
$10,000 (1982)
Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development (R)
$19,500 (1992)
World Wildlife Fund and the Conservation Foundation (R)
$90,000 (1990-95)*
Subtotal:
$8,465,500
NONPROFIT SECTOR
American Committee for Aid to Poland (P)
$107,000 (1990-94)*
*
Multiple grants given
(C)
Czech Republic
(FSU) Former Soviet Union
(H)
Hungary
(P)
Poland
(R)
East Central Europe (regional)
(Ro)
Romania
(S)
Slovakia
(C)
Ukraine
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American Council for Voluntary Action (R)
$90,000 (1991-93)*
Case Western Reserve University (Ro)
$40,000 (1992-93)
Catholic University (P)
T
$15,000 (1993)
Committee of Good Will (Olga Havel Foundation) (C)
$30,000 (1992-94)
Council on Foundations (R)
$197,000 (1990-93)*
Foundation for Central European Center for
$42,500 (1995)
Behavioral Economics (P)
Foundation for a Civil Society (C,S)
$369,000 (1990-96)*
(formerly Charter 77 Foundation-New York)
Foundation for Educational Programs (C)
$25,000 (1995)
Foundation for Social Innovations (FSU)
$25,000 (1991)
Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance (Autonomia Alapitvany) (H)
$660,000 (1990-96)*
Information Center for Foundations (C)
$90,000 (1994-95)*
International Youth Foundation (P)
$150,000 (1993-95)
Interphil USA (R)
$35,000 (1989)
Johns Hopkins University (P)
$415,000 (1987-96)*
Nonprofit Foundation (H)
$48,000 (1995-96)
Nonprofit Information and Training Center (H)
$34,000 (1994)
Research Project on Nonprofit Organizations (H)
$25,000 (1993)
Research Project on the State of the Voluntary Sector
$116,165 (1992-93)*
in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland (R)
Slovak Academic Information Agency (S)
$100,000 (1993-95)*
Support Office for the Movement of Self-Help Initiatives (P)
$156,000 (1995-97)*
Tides Foundation (R)
$223,500 (1993-96)*
Vaclav Havel Foundation for the Revival of Prague Castle (C)
$15,000 (1993)
Subtotal:
$3,008,165
TOTAL:
$18,636,215
(includes forward commitments for 1996-98)
*
Multiple grants given
(C)
Czech Republic
(FSU)
Former Soviet Union
(H)
Hungary
(P)
Poland
(R)
East Central Europe (regional)
(Ro)
Romania
(S)
Slovakia
(S)
Ukraine
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SABRE FOUNDATION, INC.
Scientific Assistance Project
telephone 617/868-3510
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
fax 617/868-7916
Cambridge, MA 02139
e-mail [email protected]
SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANCE PROJECT: Current Activities and Initiatives
Sabre Foundation, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered as a Private
Voluntary Organization (PVO) with the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). Sabre's
Scientific Assistance Project specializes in providing college, secondary and elementary level educational
materials to institutions and individuals in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and selected
countries in other regions of the world.
Since 1986, Sabre Foundation has donated over 2 million new books and journals to its on-going
programs in Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakstan, Kyrgyz Republic,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Russian Federation, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. New Sabre programs
are in the process of being established in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ghana, Grenada, South Africa, and the
West Bank and Gaza. Sabre has also worked both independently and with other organizations to send
books to Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cuba, former East Germany, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kenya,
Nepal, People's Republic of China, Romania, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and (in
cooperation with the Peace Corps) to twenty countries in Africa and Asia.
The book shipments help fill the needs of scholars, students, scientists, researchers, medical
professionals, lawmakers and fledgling entrepreneurs. Almost 200 American and European publishers
have contributed new texts in areas such as: business and economics; English language and literature;
science and engineering; computer science; medicine, nursing, and health care; law and government; and
political and social sciences. Sabre also administers a purchase program for reduced-cost books and
journal subscriptions, and places private libraries and special collections in institutions abroad.
In each country, a designated non-profit partner organization, or affiliate, is responsible for title selection,
identification of recipient institutions, and country-wide distribution. From inventory lists provided by
Sabre, partners are able to select titles and quantities. The books and journals are then packed at Sabre's
warehouse and sent in 40' ocean freight containers (holding approximately 20,000 books) to partner
organizations for distribution. On-going programs receive between one and three containers per year,
depending on the size of the program and available funding.
Sabre's "Virtual Reference Center" manages a number of Internet and digital-based technical assistance
and training projects. These include: a pilot document delivery service in collaboration with the Prague
Institute of Advanced Studies; a pilot project exploring the feasibility of a low-cost and portable digital
camera/CD-ROM recordable module for preserving archival materials; and a series of Internet training
programs focused on "training of trainers", World Wide Web "Homepage" development and accessing
legal materials on the Internet and other on-line services. Training sessions are provided at Sabre's
Cambridge office and, as funding becomes available, at a number of sites overseas.
Additional information is available on the Internet via Sabre's World-Wide-Web site:
http://www.sabre.org/
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Technical Assistance Project
telephone 617/868-3510
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
fax 617/868-7916
Cambridge, MA 02139
e-mail [email protected]
Virtual Reference Center ---- Activities Update
July 1996
Sabre is developing a World Wide Web inter-active resource site on book donation programs and agencies
world-wide. The site will cover subject specialization, geographical focus and contact information.
The Ukraine: FAQ Plus archive has greatly expanded its subject range from Business/Commerce, Culture,
and Publications to Economics, Law, Language and History. The archive is currently sponsoring World Wide
Web "Homepages" for a number of institutions including the Ukrainian Legal Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine.
URL for Ukraine: FAQ Plus: http://www.std.com/sabre/UKRAINE.html
Pilot Document Delivery Service. With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sabre and Prague-
based "Plantnet" are implementing a pilot document delivery service in Eastem Europe. "Plantnet", a project of
the Prague Institute of Advanced Studies, includes scientists working in plant biology, agriculture, environment,
medicine and ecology. Documents will be ordered via the Internet and sent to the pilot sites over the Internet,
by fax, or mail.
CD-ROM Project for Digital Preservation. With a grant from the Ukrainian Studies Fund, Sabre staff are
exploring the feasibility of a low-cost and portable digital camera/CD-ROM recordable module that can be
used for preserving archival materials. This pilot project focuses on research, technical advising, hardware and
software purchase, and content indexing.
Training on Internet Resources and Tools. Sabre continues to provide Internet training for overseas clients
at the Sabre office in Cambridge. Such services are being expanded to include in-country training abroad as
funding becomes available. Several examples follow:
Internet Training in Ukraine. Sabre is assisting the Lviv State University in initiating a "training of Internet
trainers" program at the University. Specific activities include: development of training modules for students,
faculty, researchers and administrators; compilation and translation into Ukrainian of training materials on
Internet usage; development of manuals for the "training of trainers"; on-going technical support; and purchase
of specific computer hardware components and software. Funding has been provided by USAID through the
Eurasia Foundation.
U.S.- Based Internet Training. Sabre, in collaboration with the Computer Center at the University of Kiev-
Mohyla Academy, is developing a U.S. based "training of Internet trainers" module tailored to specific user
groups. In this project, participants will take professional training development courses, specific Internet-
oriented courses and visit sites involved in Internet technologies, services and training. This training module
will allow participants to experience first-hand the benefits of public access to information and the integration
of the Internet in all spheres of a market society.
Training on Law Resources on the Internet. As part of a larger library development and technical assistance
project with the Ukrainian Legal Foundation (funded by US AID through ARD/Checchi), Sabre is conducting
Kyiv-based training workshops on accessing legal materials available on the Internet.
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Rule of Law Project
telephone 617/868-3510
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
fax 617/868-7916
Cambridge, MA 02139
e-mail [email protected]
UKRAINIAN LEGAL LIBRARY RULE-OF-LAW PROJECT
The Sabre Foundation is assisting the Ukrainian Legal Foundation (ULF) in the development of
a national law library in Ukraine through the expansion of the library's collection, adoption of an
appropriate cataloging system, the extension of a computer network linking law libraries in
Ukraine, and training on Internet-based resources. Sabre is a non-profit organization specializing
in book donation programs in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The law library
development program is funded through the Rule of Law Program of the United States Agency
for International Development (US AID) administered by ARD/Checchi.
The library, the first specialized legal library in Ukraine, is intended to meet the needs of
scholars, law students, lawyers, judges, members of parliament and government and their staffs
as well as the general public.
Sabre is soliciting materials from sources including publishers, law firms, libraries, universities,
individuals and bar associations. Priorities include hornbooks, treatises, federal statutes and
regulations; international, comparative and constitutional law; commercial law; human rights law
and European Community law; restatements and uniform laws; and reference works. To date,
Sabre Foundation has sent the ULF 1,602 books, journals and other law-related materials.
A library consultant is advising the ULF on the adaptation of an appropriate cataloging system.
The Soviet cataloging system subdivided legal materials into four categories, as opposed to the
more than one-hundred categories under the Library of Congress system. The new catalog will
be computerized to allow for inter-library loan between libraries across the country and can serve
as the basis for a new national cataloging system. Libraries will also have access to the database
of legal terminology being prepared by the Ukrainian Legal Foundation.
As part of the project, Sabre is conducting trainings for librarians, law students and legal researchers
in accessing legal materials via the Internet and other computer networks. Information obtained
through these electronic means is often more current and more easily obtained than in printed
form.
Sabre has ongoing book donation programs in fifteen countries of Eastern Europe, former Soviet
Union, and other parts of the world. Other Sabre programs include technical assistance and
training on Internet on-line resources. The Ukrainian Legal Foundation was established in 1992
to pursue projects in institution building that promote the establishment of the rule of law in
Ukraine.
If you would like to more information or to contribute materials, contact Rebecca Schneider.
e-mail: [email protected]
July, 1996
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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15219-1708
(412) 392-2913
September 3, 1996
VIA FAX
Ms. Katy Button
Office of the First Lady
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Ms. Button:
Concurrent with the disintegration of the USSR, and the opening of Central and
Eastern Europe, under Presidents Reagan and Bush, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the
Carthage Foundation began funding of private sector groups working in these regions to:
1) Train leadership groups in preparing for free and open elections. And to:
a) establish democratic institutions
b) develop political party structures
c) conduct electoral campaigns
d) establish polling procedures to assure open and honest voting.
2) Begin exchange programs between U.S. and FSU-E-C.E. scholars and
universities to:
a) encourage these newly independent countries to adopt constitutions
that incorporate the rule of law, balance of governmental powers, property
rights, market systems, limited government powers, freedom of expression,
human rights and other basic prerequisites to a free and open society, and
to preclude "the tyranny of the majority."
3) Included in 2) above were economists, political scientists, legal scholars and
U.S. business people. The latter work with the smaller, newly established businesses to provide
advice and council to these new entrepreneurs.
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Our goal is to provide existing and emerging leaders the information and education
to overcome their lack of experience with democratic tradition. And to take the long view in this
effort.
Sincerely,
Richard Richard M. Larry M. Lang
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Grant Making to Promote Democracy
In Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Policy: In Eastem and Central Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union, the
Smith Richardson Foundation has supported projects (1) that evaluate the effectiveness of
U.S. democracy assistance programs and (2) that identify and disseminate the lessons
learned in the course of reforms. SRF does not attempt to engage in humanitarian
assistance, technical assistance, training/exchange programs, capacity building, or civil
society projects in the former Communist states. Instead, the Foundation has sought to
support projects that help to shape U.S. assistance policies and that inform policy makers
in the United States and post-Communist countries about the state and effectiveness of
reforms undertaken by individual countries.
Smith Richardson Foundation projects: Although the SRF Governors have identified
democracy promotion as a priority research area, it has been one where limited resources
have been designated. Below are brief sketches of the principal democracy promotion
projects supported by the Foundation:
Democracy Resource Center: Two years ago, the National Endowment for Democ-
racy established a think tank -- the International Forum for Democratic Studies -
dedicated to examining issues related to the promotion and consolidation of
democracy. Shortly after the opening of the Forum, SRF provided about $200,000 in
each of two years to create the Democracy Resource Center. The DRC was
composed of a library and an electronic database and internet site that serves as 2
major resource for democracy activists abroad and for U.S. institutions that support
democratic development. The DRC makes available information about building
democratic institutions and provides a database of democratic activist organizations
around the world. It provides a forum for exchanging lessons learned by such activists
in their efforts to promote and consolidate democracy.
Reform Roundtable: In July 1996, the Foundation approved about $90,000 to support
the International Center for Economic Growth's Reform Roundtable. The project
involves the creation of a network of economic think tanks in Eastern and Central
Europe and the former Soviet Union that produces reports on the nature and success
of individual economic reforms. The ICEG works closely with each think tank to
identify and design the studies to be undertaken and provides modest financial support
for research and publication costs. Once a report has been produced, it is translated
and disseminated throughout the network of ICEG-supported think tanks, thus
informing policy debates not only in the country where the report was produced but
also in other countries facing similar problems. Reports are also made available to
policy makers in Western countries and international financial institutions who need to
evaluate the course of economic reforms in the post-communist states.
Surveys of Political and Economic Freedom: Freedom House has produced the
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the world During the last two years, the Foundation has provided about $50,000 to
support the production of this survey. In addition, the Foundation provided about
$170,000 during each of the last two years to support the creation of a survey of
economic freedom These reports are extraordinarily influential, particularly because
their release receives so much media attention both here and abroad. In every post-
communist state, the Freedom House ratings of political and economic freedom stir
debate about government policy and reforms.
Civic Education Project: The Foundation provided $45,000 to support an evaluation
of U.S. assistance programs to institutions of higher education in Eastern and Central
Europe and the former Soviet Union conducted by the Civic Education Project. The
report of that project will shortly be released, but we do not yet have the findings.
This project illustrates, however, the kind of evaluation project we seek to support. It
focuses on a narrow set of assistance programs, involves significant field work to
gather original data, and will produce a report with recommendations about how U.S.
policy might be improved.
Policy Evaluation Conference: The Foundation provided $25,000 to support a
research conference organized by the Atlantic Council on problems associated with
U.S. assistance programs to the post-communist states. This project had a broader
sweep in terms of the types of assistance programs evaluated and attracted
participation by most of the significant policy makers in this area.
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What is the Open Society Institute?
The Open Society Institute-New York (OSI-New York) is a private operating and grant making
foundation that promotes the development of open societies around the world both by running its own
programs and by awarding grants to others. The Open Society Institute-New York develops and
implements a variety of domestic and international programs in the areas of educational, social, and legal
reform, and encourages public debate and policy alternatives in complex and often controversial fields.
The Open Society Institute-New York is part of an informal network of more than 24 autonomous
nonprofit foundations and other organizations created and funded by philanthropist George Soros in
Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Haiti, and South Africa, as well as in the United
States. Together with its Hungary-based sister organization. the Open Society Institute-Budapest and the
Open Society Institute-Washington, the Open Society Institute-New York assists these foundations and
organizations by creating regional programs on common issues and by providing technical and
administrative support.
What is the Soros Foundation Network?
The numerous nonprofit foundations and organizations created and funded by the philanthropist George
Soros are linked together in an informal network, the Soros foundations network. At the heart of this
network are 24 autonomous organizations known as "national foundations" and located in Albania,
Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Haiti,
Hungary, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia,
Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia. These foundations share the common
mission of supporting the development of open society. To this end, they operate and support an array of
programs in education, civil society, economic reform, media and communication, publishing, human
rights, arts and culture, and social and legal reform. Other organizations created by George Soros include
the Central European University, The Open Media Research Institute, and the Open Society Archives. In
1995, these organizations received a total of approximately $350 million in support.
What is an Open Society?
Open society is a form of social organization based on the recognition that nobody has a monopoly on
the truth, that different people have different views and different interests, and that there is a need for
institutions to protect the rights of all people to allow them to live together in peace. The term"open
society" was popularized by the philosopher Karl Popper in his book, Open Society and Its Enemies.
Broadly speaking, an open society is characterized by a reliance on the rule of law, the existence of a
democratically elected government, a diverse and vigorous civil society, and respect for minorities and
minority opinions.
Who is George Soros?
George Soros, founder and chairman of the Soros Foundations. was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930.
He emigrated in 1947 to England, where be graduated from the London School of Economics, and in
1956 to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an international
investment fund he founded and managed. Mr. Soros's earnings from his investment activities are the
source for his personal financing of the Soros Foundations. Mr. Soros established his first foundation,
the Open Society Fund, in New York in 1979, and his first Eastern European foundation in Hungary in
1984. While a student at the London School of Economics, Soros came under the influence of the
writings of the philosopher Karl Poppers, whose book, Open Society and Its Enemies, had a profound
influence on his thinking and later on his philanthropic activities.
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ORGANIZATION
SPAN AMOUNT PURPOSE
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1 American -Russian Youth Orchestra
1993-96
$135,000
Collaboration between young Russian and American musicians on
summer tour in the U.S. and Russia; Hillary Rodham Clinton is
Honorary Chairwoman with Naina Yeltsin.
2 Business Council for International
1987-97
$549,500
Business briefings for U.S. ambassadors and other foreign service
Understanding
personnel; includes Eastern European countries.
3 Carnegie Endowment for International
1995
$300,000
To support activities of the Carnegie Endowment's public policy
Peace
research center in Moscow; explores political, economic and security
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issues affecting Russia and the post-Soviet states.
4 Center for Strategic & International
1970-99
$12,249,700
Broad support of activities
Studies
(50,000)
- Moscow Conference 1992
(100,000) - St. Petersburg Commission, 1993 & 1995
5 Foundation for a Civil Society
1993-98
$262,500
Scholarships enabling gifted high-school students from Czech
Republic and Slovakia to study in U.S. prep schools.
6 Institute for East West Studies
1995-96
$125,000
To support Institute's mission to build secure, prosperous,
democratic and integrated Europe; help build civil societies and
effective market economies.
AIG ROBERTS
7 International Rescue Committee
1961-95
$753,350
Many programs have benefited Eastern Europeans; most recently,
rescue efforts in the former Yugoslavia.
8 International Research & Exchanges
1989-98
$5,590,000
Numerous grants to help develop civil societies in Central and
Board
Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
9 Natural Resources Defense Council
1991-95
$350,000
Includes a project to promote efficient energy use in Moscow.
10 People-to-People Health Foundation
1994-96
$300,000
Pediatric Burn Center in Moscow.
11 Project on Ethnic Relations
1993-96
$800,000
Encourages peaceful resolution of ethnic conflict in new democracies
of Central and Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation.
12 U.S. Russia-Business Forum
1996
$35,000
Promotes understanding of issues affecting trade and investment.
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The Trust for Mutual Understanding was estab-
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10112
lished in 1984 by an individual benefactor as a
private, grant-making organization dedicated to
encouraging increased understanding between the
TRUSTEES
people of the United States, the then Soviet Union,
Richard S. Lanier
and East/Central Europe. At present, most of the
Elizabeth J. McCormack
Trust's grants are appropriated for activities relating
Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
specifically to Russia, with the balance being
allocated primarily for exchanges with the Czech
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.
Ruth Adams
TMU's current programmatic emphasis is on
Wade Greene
providing grant support to American non-profit
William H. Luers
institutions working with their counterparts in
Isaac Shapiro
Russia and in East/Central Europe on exchange
projects in the cultural and environmental fields.
ADMINISTRATION
The Trust's annual grant budget is approximately
Richard S. Lanier, Director
$2,000,000, roughly two-thirds of which is awarded
Paulette Rosselet, Program Associate
for cultural and one-third for environmental
Wendy S. Newton, Program Assistant
activities.
The Trust's main goal continues to he to help
foster better understanding, improved commu-
nication, and closer cooperation between the
United States and the other countries included in
its program. To that end, TMU's grants assist
projects that involve the international exchange of
specialists in the ans and in the environmental
sciences, and priority consideration is given to
activities in which direct, professional interaction
plays a major role.
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The Trust provides grants for international
Although the Trust's program focuses on
travel, per diem, and related expenses of Russian,
supporting institutional activities which foster the
East/Central European, and American participants
exchange of individuals as participants in projects,
in cultural and environmental exchanges. A modest
it does not make grants directly to individuals, nor,
allocation, usually not exceeding twenty percent of
as a general rule, to organizations for activities in
the total amount awarded, is sometimes provided
which only a single participant is involved.
to help defray administrative costs.
Also ineligible for TMU assistance are one-
Among the types of activities supported by
person exhibitions, solo performance tours,
TMU that are common to both the cultural and the
fellowships for individual research and academic
environmental fields are advanced training
study, or retroactive funding for expenses already
programs, workshops, conferences, seminars, and
incurred. The Trust does not usually make multi-
joint research projects. The Trust also assists a
year commitments or support inter-regional
variety of specific cultural and environmental
exchanges
exchanges as described below.
Because its grant budget is limited, the Trust
does not currently fund institutional operating
CULTURE The Trust's cultural program encompasses
expenses; capital campaigns and construction
the visual and the performing arts, and exchanges
costs; salaries, honoraria, and fees; youth and
eligible for assistance include exhibitions, perfor-
undergraduate exchanges; literature and
mances given in conjunction with lecture/
publication projects; library and equipment
demonstrations, creative collaborations, curatorial
purchases; film, media, and mass communica-
research projects, art conservation and historic
tions programs; activities pertaining primarily to
preservation initiatives, arts management programs,
nuclear weapons and arms control; or programs
and cultural documentation activities.
concentrating on economic development, public
health, and agriculture.
ENVIRONMENT Examples of environmental exchanges
supported by TMU include ecosystem and habitat
conservation programs, land use planning projects.
activities promoting more effective international
contact between environmental organizations, and
efforts to encourage ecologically sustainable
development and biodiversity.
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An itemized budget and timetable for project
support for a particular project, a short, written
planning and implementation.
description of the activity for which assistance is
An indication of how the project relates to any
being sought should be sent to:
other programs - past, present, or planned -
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Brief background information on key individual
Initial inquiries may be made at any time, but
and institutional participants.
contact should be established with TMU at least six
A list of other sources being approached for
months prior to the planned date of project
financial and in-kind support, the amount of any
implementation If an activity is eligible for review
assistance already secured, and a summary of
by the Trust, more detailed information will be
plans for obtaining the balance of the funding
requested prior to the formal consideration of a
required.
final proposal.
A. copy of IRS certification of the tax-exempt
status of the organization applying for support.
FINAL PROPOSAL The Trust does not have a standard
Any supplementary. information the applicant
application form. and the final proposal should be
feels might be helpful to the Trust in considering
presented in the format that the applicant feels
the final proposal. (Audio-and videotapes, slides,
most effectively conveys the scope and character
photographs, publications, and similar materials
of the activity for which support is needed. Initial
will be returned upon request following the
inquiries may originate from individuals and
meeting at which an application is considered.)
institutions in the United States, Russia, or
East/Central Europe, but the final proposal should
be submitted by the American non-profit
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organization most directly involved in the project.
Funding decisions are made at meetings held
Letters of endorsement should be enclosed from
in the winter, spring, and fall. Grant awards are
each of the primary institutional participants,
announced immediately after each meeting, and
together with the following:
the deadlines for submitting final proposals are:
A narrative description of the project and a
statement concerning how its objectives are to be
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THE WINSTON FOUNDATION
FOR WORLD PEACE
The Winston Foundation for World Peace
Guidelines, 1996
The Winston Foundation, established in 1985, is principally a grant-making
institution dedicated to conflict prevention and reconciliation, cooperative security,
and nonproliferation of weapons.
The Foundation defines its objectives in five categories:
Preventive diplomacy, which may include a broad range of activities aimed
to alert and spur officials to prevent or deter conflict.
Peacemaking and peacekeeping, which are best pursued by the U.N. or
regional security organizations.
Codes of conduct, encompassing a revision of international norms that will
chart a peaceful course for the post-Cold War world.
Demilitarization, the gradual contraction of the size and scope of national
military establishments.
Fostering the conditions of peace, including economic vitality and equality,
human rights and democracy, and protection of natural resources.
The types of activities we support may vary greatly. We are particularly
drawn to daring and bold actions that offer the prospect of tangibly moving toward
cooperative security. Unofficial diplomacy, strengthening the capacity of NGOs
worldwide, bolstering the abilities of multilateral institutions, pressure and plans
to reshape the military and reduce its size, holding officials to standards of
democratic decision making these are a few broad examples of action-oriented
approaches we favor.
The Foundation awards approximately $1.5 million per year in grants, of
which roughly 75% is directed toward conflict prevention activities. Currently
projects of this type are under way in Central America, Africa, the former
Yugoslavia, the Middle East, the Transcaucasus, and South Asia. We devote the
remaining 25% of our grants to the non-proliferation of weapons, including
conventional arms, light weapons, and nuclear arms.
John Tirman, Executive Director
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Grants Program in the Former Soviet Union
During 1995, the Winston Foundation began a review of its grant making
strategies in Russia and the former Soviet Republics. The Foundation will now
pursue a course which addresses some broad issues, such as the role of the media
and its coverage of conflict, but which places the emphasis of conflict prevention
and reconciliation programs in the Transcaucasus area (which includes Southern
Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan).
Toward this end, we are currently supporting the following organizations:
Center for War, Peace and the News Media, New York University, for its
Media and Conflict Program, which includes joint-reporting programs in Southern
Russia (Ingushetia and North Ossetia);
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, whose journal, WarReport, now
covers the Transcaucasus;
The Center for International Development and Conflict Management,
University of Maryland, which is supporting the creation of indigenous conflict
resolution centers in the Transcaucasus;
Foundation for Global Community, which is supporting indigenous conflict
resolution efforts between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the disputed region of
Nagorno-Karabakh;
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, which works with
minority groups throughout the Caucasus to develop diplomatic skills and improve
interaction with multilateral agencies; UNPO also conducts investigations of
complaints filed by its members, such as civilian groups in Chechnya;
International Alert, which continues to investigate the feasibility of
organizing early warning systems for the former Soviet Union: and various non-
proliferation projects, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, which
analyzes weapons issues and informs public debate in tHe U.S. and Russia on
disarmament.
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GRANTS RELATED TO THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
May 1996
New York University Law School, New York, NY, $5,000. in support of a conference on the conflict
in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
March 1996
Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale, Rome, Italy. $35,000 to engage policy makers in
Washington and Brussels on implementation of the peace plan.
Search for Common Ground, Washington, D.C., $22,500 to assess opportunities in Bosnia for
conflict resolution activities.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting. London, England. $35,000 to expand War Report and
journalist training in Bosnia, geared to the elections.
Balkan War Resource Group. New York, NY, $5,000 for a guide to NCO peace activism in Bosnia.
November 1995
Search for Common Ground, $25,000 in renewed support for its conflict prevention mission in
Macedonia.
*Refugees International, $25,000 to fund early-warning of conflict and general advocacy for
preventive actions.
June 1995
*Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Prague, $30,000 for this network of NGOs working on a range of
conflict prevention activities in the Balkans and former Soviet sphere.
*United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Geneva, $40,000 to study and recommend
ways to disarm adversaries in peace accords.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, London, $20,000 in renewed support for its WarReport
periodical, providing news from the Balkans.
March 1995
Peace Research Institute, Oslo, $20,000 to assess NGO conflict prevention programs in Macedonia,
focusing on Search for Common Ground.
November 1994
Search for Common Ground, $25,000 to keep open their center in Macedonia, a pivotal crossroads
of Balkans conflict.
*Refugees International, $25,000 for this extraordinarily effective "early warning system" and prod
to officialdom.
*General support of program rather than grant specifically related to former Yugoslavia
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"Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Prague, $30,000 for a brond variety of conflict prevention activities in
Europe's hot spots.
*Balkans Peace Project, Cambridge, MA, $35,000 to work with CSCE officials to develop functional
liaison with NGOs to promote preventive diplomacy in Europe.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, London, $20,000 to again help this small but effective
group give voice to constructive reporting from the Balkans.
*British American Security Information Council, Washington, DC, $25,000 for a range of activities
to promote nonviolent solutions to conflict in Europe.
Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale, Rome, $13,000 in a supplemental grant to convene a
workshop on multilateralism's failures in the Bosnia war.
February 1994
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York, NY, $15,000 for its work to bring human rights
violators in Bosnia to justice.
Ars Publica, Santa Fe, NM, $7,500 to train women conflict mediators from the former Yugoslavia.
September 1993
Search for Common Ground, Washington, DC, $15,000 to begin a process of conflict mediation in
Macedonia and Kosovo.
Balkans Peace Project, Cambridge, MA, $40,000 to conduct conflict mediation workshops in Kosovo
and Macedonia.
Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale, Rome, $13,000 for this think tank to investigate why
collective security systems failed in the Balkans.
Independent news media in the Balkans, $32,000 to support four news organizations in the
Balkans, and related projects.
June 1993
Search for Common Ground, Washington, DC, $25,000 for a meeting of the Balkans Policy Group.
"British American Security Information Council, Washington. DC, $30,000 for general support on
disarmament and peace building in Europe.
*Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Prague, $25,000 for citizen activism in Europe, including former
Yugoslavia.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, London, $20,000 for its efforts to publicize moderate voices on
the Balkans conflict.
March 1993 (special out-of-cycle grant)
Search for Common Ground, Washington, DC, $30,000 for a meeting of the Balkan Policy Group, a
gathering of officials from the U.S. and Europe to explore the failure of multilatoralism in the
former Yugoslavia.
SUMMARY:
Totals per year, including general grants:
1996 (partial year):
$102,500
1995:
$160,000
1994:
$195,500
1993 (partial year):
$260,000
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