Eurasia Foundation - Ukraine

The Eurasia Foundation is a privately managed non-profit grantmaking organization established in 1993 with financing from the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The Eurasia Foundation supports programs in the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States) covering a wide range of activities in economic and democratic reform. The Eurasia Foundation does not administer its own programs, but finances projects on the basis of concrete proposals designed and submitted by applicants, according to a specific set of guidelines (available on request from Kiev Regional Office). The Foundation began its grantmaking operations in May 1993.

Areas of interest:
- Economic Reform: Includes management training, business education, economic education, small business development, industrial restructuring assistance, policy advice and Information systems.
- Public Sector Reform and Development of Non-Government Organizations: Includes public administration training, public policy advice and development of non-government organizations.
- Media and Communications: Includes projects in print, broadcast and electronic media that further the Foundation's goals of economic reform and democratic institution building.
- The Eurasia Foundation makes grants for expert advice, training, educational and implementation activities, and policy research. On occasion, it may make modest sums available for items such as communications equipment required to support a technical assistance, educational, training or research program. In reviewing proposals, the Foundation is particularly interested in what sustained effect the proposed grant will produce in the NIS and in a very high degree of participation of NIS citizens or institutions in preparing and supporting the grant.