The Eurasia Foundation

Linked with our presentation of Valentyna Dovzhenko – Ukraine, and of Kyiv regional office for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldava, and also of Magic Reasons for Prosperity.

Ukraine NGO Resource Centers Development Program:

Objectives: To strengthen the infrastructure of civil society within Ukraine, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Eurasia Foundation have co-funded this program to promote sustainable NGO Resource Centers that are better able to serve their clients and promote community development at the regional level. The program will support and provide technical assistance to leading NGO Resource Centers in nine regions. Project activities will include establishment of regional Press Centers and representative offices; training on social management for volunteers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, and local community leaders; creation of a philanthropy methodology database; and, establishment of a group of information offices at state cultural centers to provide consultation for regional NGOs.

Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans CEDO

Excerpt: … One night not so very long ago, I could be found barefoot, my jeans’ cuffs rolled up, peeping at star fish in tidal pools under Puerto Peñasco’s night sky, full of its stars. I shared this glorious experience with a group of flashlight-wielding Colorado university students and their renowned professor of invertebrate science, thanks to the local Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans, CEDO. … /

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The Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, Jammu

Linked with our presentation of Kundan Lal Chowdhury MD – India / Kashmir., and The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict.
The legal owners of the hospital: It is functioning as a trust and there are five trustees at present. The trust is formally registerd in Jammu. J&K state (Kashmir), India. K.L.Chowdhury is one of the trustees.

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See the whole presentation of this Hospital on our blog Our Projects (about Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital).

See also our presentation Search for donors.

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NGOs and private sector link up in cyberspace

Bangkok Post, 17 February 2005, by TUL PINKAEW

An initiative to bring together the public and private sectors to promote biodiversity, conservation and economic development was kicked off yesterday as the world’s first network of cooperation was inaugurated.

« Perhaps we can speak of two sides of a coin, or two parts of a duet. What is key is that the two parts, namely non-government organisations (NGOs) on one side and the private sector on the other, must be considered together, » said Paul Wedel, executive director of the Kenan Institute Asia (KIAsia), a Thai-US non-profit development organisation headquartered in Bangkok that is spearheading the move.

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