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The President of the National Endowment for Democracy, Carl Gershman (second from the left), presents an award to a Tunisian leader of the Arab Spring in October 2011. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization in the United States founded in 1983 with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide and counter communist influence abroad, [2 ...
NED cofounder Allen Weinstein told The Washington Post that "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." [56] In 1989, the president of the NED defended routing money for the Nicaraguan opposition through the NDI by saying that "There is a lot of Soviet and Cuban money coming into the Sandinistas. This is an attempt to ...
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—by the United States government. [ 8 ] Polish National Foundation [ pl ] (PFN) - by the government of Poland through the state-owned companies.
Súmate is a non-governmental organization (NGO) whose stated aim is to promote the free exercise of citizen's political rights, and the discussion of matters of public interest. The group's mission is to promote, defend, facilitate, and back the political rights accorded to citizens by the Constitution of Venezuela .
IRI has been funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). After Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency cut funding to the NED by blocking disbursement from the US Department of Treasury in February 2025, IRI was forced to lay off two-thirds of its work force in Washington, D.C. and closed more than 20 of its overseas offices ...
CEVRO [10] is an NGO that works to support politicians and democracy by providing seminars, workshops, and other activities to build up skills that support democracy. Democracy and Culture Studies Center (CDK) [ 11 ] is a non-profit organization that took up the initiatives of publishing and monitoring of democracy prior to 1989.
The Governance Center for Public policies works in partnership with the national fundporting democracy (NED group) to do workshops and national conferences about seven national issues like: 1. National Reconciliation – the center held a number of workshops for this topic in ( Baghdad , Babil , Dhi Qar Governorate and Basrah ) in addition to a ...
Through his foundation, Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation, he has contributed to the empowerment and education of youths of his constituency, senatorial district and state. [29] In 2019, he donated $273,000 (N100M) for the rehabilitation of failed portions of the road linking the South Eastern Nigeria to the nation's capital, Abuja .