United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
The
UNIDO vision is to improve the living conditions of people and promote global
prosperity through offering tailor-made solutions for the sustainable
industrial development of developing countries and countries with economies in
transition.
Sections:
UNIDO Weekly News; Events; Publications; Databases; Working with Us; What
We Do; Media Corner; About UNIDO; Contact; Registered Users; News by e-mail;
Jobs.
Language: English
Canadian
International Development Agency
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca
CIDA is responsible for the majority of the Canadian government's
internasional asistance programs in Africa, the
Americas
, and Eastern Europe and
Eurasia
. CIDA focuses on core democratic institutions, civil society, and public
administration/good governance. The website contains information about CIDA's
program in
Eurasia
and diskriptions of projects it has supported in the past.
Charity
Know How
www.cafonline.org/charityknowhow/
CKN is a grantmaking body which combines the funds and knowledge of 14
grantmaking trusts, charitablefoundations and individuals, and the Departament
for International Development (DfID) of the British government. The site
includes a "Contact Finder" service for NGOs from Eastern Europe and
Eurasia
, a search mechanism that is available in English and Russian.
Civilian
Research and Development Foundation, U.S.
www.crdf.org
CRDF offers periodic competitions for its Cooperative Grants Program. This
program allows joint teams of
U.S.
and former Soviet Union (FCU) scientists and engineers to apply for one-to
two-year support for cooperation in any area of civilian recearch and
development in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, and biomedical
and behavioral scieces. The FSU Co-Investigator must be a sitizen of, and
permanently reside in
Armenia
,
Azerbaijan
,
Georgia
,
Kazakhstan
,
Kyrgyzstan
,
Moldova
,
Russia
,
Tajikistan
,
Turkmenistan
,
Ukraine
or
Uzbekistan
.
Council
on Foundations
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www.cof.org
An association of foundations in the U.S. Select the link for
Links&Networking then COF Member websites for a directory of websites of
hundreds of U.S. foundations.
Database
of Funding Sources for Environmental NGOs
www.rec.org/REC/Databases/Funders/FundersFind.html
A database of more than 100 funders which support environmental projects in
Central Europe and to a lesser degree
Belarus
,
Moldova
,
Russia
and
Ukraine
. The database is maintained by the Regional Environment Center (REC) in
Hungary
.
Eurasia
Foundation
www.eurasia.org
The Eurasia Foundation is one of the major funders of NGOs in
Eurasia
. Its website includes a searchable database of grants it has made in the
past. It also includes links to the websites of its offices in
Eurasia
, which often countain bulletins about their grant programs and links to NGOs
they have supported.
European
Cultural Foundation
www.eurocult.org
"AREXchanges" offer travel grants to young artists and art
organisers from Central and
Eastern Europe
enabling them to work with colleagues from other European countries. No
applications will be accepted after August 1, 2001, however, pending a review
of this program.
European
Foundation Centre
www.efc.be
EFC was founded in 1989 by seven of Europe's leading foundations "to
build philanthropy in the
Europe
by promoting foundations and corporate citizenship." Of special interest
at EFS's website is the Orpheus Programme which is a network of NGO resource
centers in Western and Eastern Europe and
Western Eurasia
which have programs on civil society, education, environment and philanthropy.
Each program publishes a bulletin which reports on projects throughout the
region with case studies of how organizations have tackled pressing issues.
Fellowships,
Scholarships and Grants for Individuals
www.ned.org/resource/fellow/felmain.html
Maintained by the National Endowment for Democracy, this list contains brief
descriptions, contact information, and links to U.S. organizations which offer
fellowships and grants to individuals interested in international affairs.
Ford
Foundation
www.fordfound.org/global/moscow/frame2.cfm
Ford's program in
Russia
addresses four major areas of concern: human rights, legal reform, and legal
education; civil society,governance, and community development; higher
education policy, social sciences and humanities, social policy research; and
culteral institutions and media policy. The site has a page listing the
organizations which have been grantees of Ford in
Russia
.
The
Foundation Center
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fdncenter.org
The Foundation Center is an independent information clearinghouse for and
about grantmaking foundations in the
U.S.
The Center's website includes "Grantmaker Info," which has links to
nearly 1,000
U.S.
private and corporate foundations, and "Foundation Finder," a
searchable database of addresses for more than 50,000 private foundations in
the
U.S.
Foundation
on-Line
www.foundations.org
Links to hundreds of American foundation websites.
Funders
Online
www.fundersonline.org
Funders Online is an online directory of ceveral hundred European foundations,
created by the European Foundation Centre (see above).European in the broadest
sense, stretching from the
Atlantic
to the urals. It includes information on the types of projects the foundations
fund and where they are active. A searchable database yielded only seven
foundations based in
Russia
as of early 2001, but the database should grow significantly in coming years.
there is also a directory of NGO resources centers in
Europe
, with brief descriptions and links to their websites.
Fundsnet
Online Services
www.fundsnetservices.com
Fundsnet is a for-profit website which offers links to hundreds of foundations
of interest to non-profit organizations and students. It makes money through
advertising and memberships, but there is plenty of information available for
free. One of the nice features is that the links are annotated so that the
visitor can get a sense of whether it is worth the time clicking on another
link.
Funding
for Society: A Guide to
U.S.
Grantmakers Giving in Central/Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
http://www.voiceinternational.org/fd/fd.htm
A useful guide to more than 50
U.S.
organizations which fund civil society projects in Eastern Europe and
Eurasia
. The guide was compiled by VOICE International in 1997. Although the entire
guide is available at the website, Western organizations are requested to pay
a $30 fee if they download the guide.
Guide
to European Union Grants for NGOs in Earsten Europe and Eurasia
www.iefa.org
IEFA aspires to having the "premier Internet resource for financial aid
information for international students wishing to study in a foreign country.
"It offers comprehensive listing of grants, scholrships, loan programs,
and other information to assist students pursuing opportunities to study
abroad. An estimated 700,000 students visit this website in a year.
MacArthur
Foundation, John D. and Canherine T.
www.macfdn.org
The Macarthur Foundation is one of the largest in the U.S. and its
"Initiative in the Independent States ot the Former Soviet Union"
includes an Individual Research and Writing (IRW) Grants program intended to
help members of the intelligentsia carry on creative work in the face of the
many economic disruptions of recent years. projects supported under the IRW
Grants program must fall into one of the priority areas: Law and Society,
Human Rights, Environment and Society, or Peace and Security.
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TACIS
europa.eu.int/comm/dg1a/tacis.index.htm
UK
Fundraising
www.fundraising.co.uk
United
States International Grantmakers
www.usig.org
Virtual
Foundation Online Philanthropy
www.virtualfoundation.org/main.html
EurasiaHealth
Knowledge Network
www.eurasiahealth.org
International
Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
www.icdri.org
Higher
Education and Fellowships
Academic
Institutions in the U.K
www.britishcouncil.org/eis.profiles/institutions.htm
BrainTrack
University Index
www.braintrack.com
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British
Council Russia
www.britishcouncil.ru
Civic
Education Project
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General
Education Online
wcdo.sao.uwf.edu/~geo/
Grandschools.com
www.grandschools.com
Scholarland
members.nbci.com.scholarland
Central
Asia
Internet
Access Training program (IATP)
www.iatp.uz
