World Movement for Democracy in Middle East and North Africa
- Funding Sources -
Funding Sources for Democracy Programs in the Middle East and North Africa
This section lists some of the foundations that make grants to democracy programs in the Middle East and North Africa. For more information, please visit their Web sites or contact them directly.
The Abraham Fund
www.coexistence.org
477 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022, USA
+1(212) 303-9421 - TEL
1-800-301-FUND (3863) (toll free)
+1(212) 935-1834 - FAX
info@abrahamfund.org
Contact: Staci Light, Director of Development
Office in Israel
15 Arlozorov St.,
Jerusalem, 92181
Israel
02-566-5133 - TEL
02-566-5136 - FAX
02-566-5139 - FAX
tafjer@netvision.net.il
Contact: Dan Pattir, Executive Vice President
Mission: The Abraham Fund is dedicated to promoting coexistence between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. Through advocacy and awareness campaigns, and sponsoring coexistence projects, the Abraham Fund fosters increased dialogue, tolerance and understanding between Arabs and Jews.
Airey Neave Trust
c/o House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA, UK
or
40 Charles Street
London W1X 7PB, UK
+44(71)495-0554 - TEL
+44(71)491-1118 - FAX
Mission: The Trust operates internationally in the field of education and human rights, by furthering research into personal freedom under the law of any country in the world, and by providing financial or charitable relief to any individual who has become a refugee through persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution and for his or her dependants.
Bertelsmann Foundation
www.stiftung.bertelsmann.de
Carl-Bertelsmann-Strasse 256
D-33311 Gütersloh
Germany
+49-(52) 41-81-70 - TEL
+49-(52) 41-73-882 - FAX
Mission: The Foundation supports socio-politics, the media, international understanding, culture and education, and health and medicine. It directly assists present-day social problems.
Heinrich Boell Foundation
www.boell.de
Rosenthaler Str. 40/41
10178 Berlin, Germany
+49-30-28534-0 - Tel
+49- 30-28534-109 - FAX
info@boell.de
Mission: As a political party foundation based in Germany, the Foundation promotes political education in Germany and abroad with the aim of promoting informed democratic opinion, socio-political commitment and mutual understanding. In addition, the Heinrich Boell Foundation supports artistic, cultural, and scholarly projects, as well as co-operation in the development field. The political values of ecology, democracy, gender democracy, solidarity and non-violence are its chief points of reference.
The British Council
www.britishcouncil.org
Headquarters
10, Spring Gardens
London SW1A 2BN, UK
+44(0)20-7930-8466 - TEL
+44(0)20-7389-6347 - FAX
general.enquiries@britishcouncil.org
Mission: The British Council aims to create enduring partnerships between British and other cultures by creating opportunities to connect with the latest skills, ideas and experience from the UK. It has offices in 243 towns and cities in 110 countries.
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) - Canada Fund for Local Initiative
www.canada.co.za/cidapg3.htm
200 Promenade du Portage
Hull, Quebec K1A 0G4, Canada
+1(819) 997-5006 - TEL
1-800-230-6349 (toll free)
+1(819) 953-6088 - FAX
info@acdi-cida.gc.ca
Mission: The Canada Fund funds small projects providing technical, economic, educational, cultural or social development as efficiently and quickly as possible. Approved projects fall into two large groupings:
1. social: education, health, water, humanitarian assistance are examples. It is important that the benefits derive directly to the community.
2. economic: income generating projects consist of providing the "seed money" or start-up funds to a small group (cooperative, CBO etc) in order to increase production and revenue.
CARE International
www.care.org
151 Ellis Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-2439, USA
info@care.org
For country offices, www.care.org/about/contact_info.html
Mission: CARE seeks to help poor families obtain security. It also seeks a world of tolerance and social justice, where people have overcome poverty and live in dignity and security.
The Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid (CORDAID)
www.cordaid.nl
Postbus 16440
NL-2500 BK The Hague
The Netherland
+31-70-31-36-300 - TEL
+31-70-31-36-301 - FAX
cordaid@cordaid.nl
Mission: CORDAID aims to promote a society durable to the disadvantaged. It has three main priorities: infrastructure development, human rights, and democratization. CORDAID also has three themes: gender, sustainable development, and social cohesion.
The Chase Manhattan Bank Corporate Social Responsibility Program
600 5th Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10020, USA
+1(212)332-4100 - TEL
Contact: Steven W. Gelston
Mission: The Chase Manhattan makes charitable contributions to nonprofit organizations working in various fields, such as education, race/inter-group relations, economic development, nonprofit management, community development, public affairs, and minorities.
Limitations: Supports are giving on an international basis in areas of company operations, particularly the Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York tri-state area, and in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, and South America. The program does not support religious, fraternal, or veterans organizations not of direct benefit to the entire community, disease-specific organizations, or United Way-supported organizations. No grants are made to individuals, or for health issues, higher education, endowments, or medical research.
Danish Peace Foundation (Fredsfonden)
Nyhavn 21
1051 Copenhagen K.
The Netherlands
+31(33)32-44-17 - TEL
+31(33)15-71-30 - FAX
Mission: The Foundation supports activities intended to promote peace and disarmament both in Denmark and worldwide. It operates in the fields of education, international affairs and law and human rights.
Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung
www.fes.de
Godesberger Allee 149
53175 Bonn
Germany
+49-(228) 883666 - TEL
+49-(228) 883396 - FAX
Mission: The Foundation is based on three aims:
Furthering a democratic, pluralistic political culture by means of political education for all classes of society;
Facilitating access to higher education for gifted young people by providing scholarships;
Contributing to international understanding and cooperation wherever possible to avert a fresh outbreak of war and conflict.
The Foundation sees its activities in the developing countries as a contribution to:
Improvement of political and social framework conditions;
Democratization of social structures;
Strengthening of free trade unions;
Improvement of communication and media structures;
Regional and international media cooperation;
Regional cooperation between states and different interest groups;
Overcoming the North-South conflict.
The Ford Foundation
www.fordfound.org
320 East 43rd St.
New York, NY 10017, USA
+1(212) 573-5000 - TEL
+1(212) 599-4584 - FAX
office-secretary@fordfound.org
Contact: Barron M. Tenny, Secretary
Mission: The Foundation's goals are to strengthen democratic values, to reduce poverty and injustice, to promote international cooperation, and to advance human achievement. It encourages initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located, promotes collaboration among the nonprofit, government, and business sectors, and assures participation by men and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society.
Limitations: The Foundation does not award undergraduate scholarships or make grants for purely personal or local needs.
Foundation for Middle East Peace
www.fmep.org/home.html
1763 N St., NW, Ste 07
Washington, DC 20036-2801, USA
+1(202) 835-3650 - TEL
+1(202) 835-3651 - FAX
jeff@clark.net
Contact: Merle Thorpe, Jr., President
Mission: The Foundation engages in a variety of activities, all designed to inform Americans about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to assist in bringing about a peaceful solution that results in greater security for both peoples.
Foundation for Iranian Studies, Inc.
4343 Montgomery Ave., Suite 200
Bethesda, MD 20814-4401, USA
+1(301)657-1990 - TEL
Contact: Mrs. Mahnaz Afkami, Executive Director
Mission: The Foundation supports research in Iranian studies. Their interest fields are language & linguistics; literature, education, women, and minorities.
Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
www.jmgf.org
218 East 18th Street
New York, NY 10003-3694, USA
+1(212) 475-1137 - TEL
+1(212) 777-5226 - FAX
jmgf@jmgf.org
Contact: Larry E. Condon, President
Mission: The Foundation makes grants to nonprofit organizations concerned with the environment, human rights, peace and security, and New York City civic and cultural issues.
Grants:
Israel and Palestine Program
Contact: Mona Younis, Program Officer
Events over the past several years illustrate the elusiveness of a genuine and just peace agreement that delivers fundamental rights to Palestinians and peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups can contribute to promoting equitable solutions supported by international law as a means to resolve conflicts, both between Israel and Palestine and within each society. To further this goal, beginning in 2003 the Foundation will make capacity-building grants, both programmatic and institutional, to Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups.
Limitations: Typically, the Foundation does not provide funds for: endowments or annual fund appeals, capital projects, political purposes such as lobbying or propaganda, conferences or workshops, sectarian religious concerns, individual scholarships, research, fellowships, loans, or travel film or media projects, and publications.
The Global Fund for Women
www.globalfundforwomen.org
1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, California 94109, USA
+1(415) 202-7640 - TEL
+1(415) 202-8604 - FAX
Mission: The Global Fund supports efforts to improve the situation of women. It funds programs to improve women's health and reproductive rights, to challenge harmful traditional practices, to increase women's economic independence, to expand girls' access to education, to ensure disabled women's rights, to engage in peace-building and conflict resolution efforts, and to strengthen women's political participation.
Limitations: The Global Fund does not fund inside the United States.
KIOS - The Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights
www.kios.fi
P.O. Box 126
FIN-00101 Helsinki
Finland
+358-9-681-1530 - TEL
+358-9-681-1531 - FAX
Contact: Katariina Kemppainen, Executive Director
kios@kios.fi
Mission: KIOS focuses on protecting and promoting human rights work in developing countries. By providing both funding and other support for local human rights related activities, the Foundation will strengthen and foster democratic institutions, and promote civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights.
Limitation: The Foundation does not grant funds for scholarships and travel.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
www.macfdn.org
Office of Grants Management
140 South Dearborn St., Suite 1100
Chicago, IL 60603-5285, USA
+1(312) 726-8000 - TEL
+1(312) 920-6258 - FAX
4answers@macfdn.org
Contact: Richard Kaplan, Director, Grants
Mission: The Foundation is dedicated to helping groups and individuals to improve the human condition. Several assumptions underlie the policies of the Foundation: that the most important efforts to improve the human condition are those that seek systematic and sustainable change; that human progress requires reducing inequities in the distribution of power and resources; that the healthy, educated, creative individual is an essential instrument of constructive change; and that Foundation's effectiveness depends in part on its capacity to learn from others, including grantees, about the problems confronting global society.
Limitations: The Foundation does not support programs or activities that are among the routine or accepted responsibilities of government. Nor does the Foundation support political activities or campaigns or attempts to influence specific legislation. The Foundation does not provide scholarships or tuition assistance for undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate education. The Foundation does not provide support for organizations which provide direct humanitarian or disaster relief, nor does it contribute to capital campaigns, debt retirement, or completed projects. The Foundation does not provide general support to annual fundraising drives, institutional benefits, honorary functions, or similar appeals.
Friedrich Naunmann Stiftung
www.fnst.de
Margarethenhof
Königswinterer Straße
53639 Königswinter
Germany
+49-2223-7010 - TEL
+49-2223-701188 - FAX
Contact: Executive Chair Fritz Flliszar, Director-General Dieter Priegann
Mission: A political party foundation based in Germany, the Stiftung provides assistance to democratic groups around the world. The Foundation is committed to freedom - freedom of opinion and action, in all walks of life and all over the world.
Rockefeller Foundation
www.rockfound.org
420 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10018-2702,, USA
+1(212) 869-8500 - TEL
+1(212) 764-3468 - FAX
Mission: The Foundation seeks to identify and address the causes of human suffering and needs. The Foundation's programs are organized around nine core strategies: African Initiatives; Agricultural Sciences; Arts and Humanities; Health Sciences; Equal Opportunity/School Reform; Global Environment; and Population Sciences. These strategies constitute the Foundation's commitment to help define and pursue a path toward environmentally sustainable development consistent with individual rights and a more equitable sharing of the world's resources.
Limitations: As a matter of policy the Foundation does not:
Give or lend money for personal aid to individuals;
Contribute to the establishment of local hospitals, churches, schools, libraries or welfare agencies, or to their building and operating funds;
Support attempts to influence legislation; or
Except in rare cases, provide general institutional support or fund endowments.
The San Francisco Foundation
www.sff.org
225 Bush Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104-4224, USA
+1(415)733-8500 - TEL
+1(415)477-2783 - FAX
srh@sff.org
Contact: Sandra R. Hernandez, M.D., CEO and Director
Mission: The Foundation aims to improve quality of life in the areas of community health, education, child and youth development, environmental and social justice, arts and culture, affordable housing and workforce, neighborhood and community development.
Limitations: The Foundation does not make any grants for annual campaigns, general fundraising campaigns, emergency or endowment funds, deficit financing, matching funds, or for scholarships or fellowships, except when designated by donor.
Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.
www.srf.org
60 Jesup Rd.
Westport, CT 06880, USA
+1(203) 222-6222 - TEL
+1(203) 222-6282 - FAX
Contact: Cheryl Keller, Senior Program
Mission: The Foundation divides its grantmaking into two general program areas: domestic and international. In each area the Foundation supports pragmatic research and programs that seek to inform important public policy debates. The Foundation's international policy program supports programs and research projects on security issues central to the interests of the United States. The Foundation seeks opportunities to define the important challenges facing the United States in the post-cold war security environment, to illuminate key issues affecting U.S. interests in Europe, the former Soviet Union, East Asia and the Middle East, and to underwrite historical research with clear implications or lessons for current policy.
Limitations: The Foundation does not make grants for: deficit funding or previously established projects; building or construction projects; arts and humanities projects; historic restoration projects; research projects in the physical sciences; renewals of local grant awards; evaluations of direct service organizations conducted internally; educational or other support to individuals.
The Starr Foundation
70 Pine Street
New York, NY 10270, USA
+1(212) 770-6882 - TEL
+1(212) 425-6261 - FAX
Contact: Florence A. Davis, President
Florence.davis@starrfdn.org
Mission: The Foundation is interested in the areas of higher education, culture, arts, and health & human services.
Texaco Foundation
www.texaco.com/support/index.html
2000 Westchester Ave.
White Plains, NY 10650, USA
+1(914) 253-4150 - TEL
+1(914) 253-4655 - FAX
Contact: Maria Mike-Mayer, Secretary
Mission: The Foundation's purpose is to enhance the quality of life by providing support for cultural programs, higher education, social welfare, public and civic organizations, hospitals and health agencies, and environmental protection.
Limitations: The Foundation does not support religious organizations, private foundations, fraternal, social, or veterans' organizations, social functions, commemorative journals, or meetings, or political activities. The Foundation does not make grants to individuals, for general operating support, capital funds, or endowments. The Foundation does not provide loans.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy
www.wfd.org
2nd Floor,
125 Pall Mall
London, SW1Y 5EA, UK
+44-0-207-930-0408 - TEL
+44-0-207-930-0449 - FAX
wfd@wfd.org
Contact: Stephen Cox, Chief Executive
Mission: The Foundation exists to promote democratic development worldwide. It directs most of its funds to supporting democratic institutions in Central Europe, the former Soviet Union and Anglophone Africa, but each year worthwhile projects in other parts of the world also receive support.
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