Funding for Civil Society-Russian Version- VOICE Newsletter - Autumn 1998
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Since 1991, VOICE has been responding to requests for information on policies, practices and programs from civic organizations that are grappling with questions of both organizational and program development. When a nongovernmental organization describes its needs, VOICE International does its best to identify and send materials that are responsive, tested, and appropriate for adaptation for local use. While most of the materials have been from the United States, we have also provided materials from Canada and Scandinavia as well as from countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States.
VOICE has provided
thousands of documents and publications to civic organizations in areas
relating to human services, human rights, and the development of
nongovernmental organizations.
Click here to viewProfilesof the information requests VOICE has recently fulfilled and learn more about the Central and Eastern European/Eurasian NGOs who submitted them.
If any indigenous groups in the CEE or NIS have an information request related to institutional and program development, they can contact us. Send requests via email to: or via post to our Washington, DC address.
Funding for Civil Society Database
As a result of many requests for information on U.S. funders giving grants in the region, VOICE developed its publication, Funding for Civil Society: A Guide to U.S. Grantmakers Giving in Central & Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States.The guide contains detailed information on 55 funders that will provide grants directly to civic organizations in the region. It includes an index to funders by each of 22 countries and the former Yugoslavia.
The on-lineFunding for Civil Society directory is posted on this site (see Publications).
The guide is available in print from VOICE International for U.S.$30.00, shipping and handling included. We accept checks or bank drafts (drawn on a U.S. bank, please) or wire transfers. Sorry, no credit cards. We ask also that U.S. and other non-indigenous groups that use the on-line directory pay the U.S.$30.00 to assist VOICE in maintaining and updating it. Wire transfer information: Routing/ABA, Citibank, 1000 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 USA, #254070116, Branch 904, Final Credit to #66760607.
All of VOICE International's information on funding sources for NGOs in the CEE and NIS are contained in the online guide. Please do not send individual requests for additional information.
VOICE International is not a grantmaking organization.
As an extension of VOICE International’s on-going information clearinghouse activities, we have launched theResources for Civil Society project. Resources responds to the needs of the growing number of nongovernmental organizations in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States seeking to build libraries of materials to foster their organizational development, inform their public policy interests and support their programs. It will provide access to both North American and within-region educational resources.
The Resources project will work in partnership with NGO information centers throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. In cooperation with its regional partners and an international advisory panel, the project will
The initial subjects covered by the Resources project are:
In a linkage made by VOICE International, the U.S. Lutheran Student Movement (LSM) raised over $2,000 to purchase educational books and videos for the Disabilities Information and Consultation Bureau (DICB) library in Vilnius, Lithuania. VOICE researched and purchased the books and had them shipped to the DICB.
And so the Libraries for Civil Society project was born!
The Resources for Civil Society project serves groups that have some funding to buy materials for their libraries. Libraries for Civil Society will serve information centers serving civil society (e.g. information centers for human rights, women's interests, freedom of the press, business development and so forth) that do not have funding to buy materials. The purpose is to raise money to build/expand library collections that foster the institutional development of civil society organizations, inform their public policy interests and support their programs. VOICE will use the book-buying system developed for the Resources for Civil Society project to maximize the purchasing power.
Current Project Participants:
Clearinghouse Network of NGO Information and Resource Centers
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