Eurasia Foundation

The Eurasia Foundation is a company operating exclusively on the territory of the former Soviet Union, publicly funded but run by private personalities Foundation, which was founded in 1993 and headquartered in Washington, DC. Seeks to strengthen civil society and private enterprise and public administration reforms and political reforms in twelve successor states of the Soviet Union. The main sponsor is the U.S. development agency USAID. Other governments, the World Bank and private companies such as the mining company Newmont Mining are among the sponsors. By the year 2003, the Foundation has spent about 130 million U.S. dollars for 6500 projects. Also, loans are granted.

The Eurasia Foundation funded sub-organizations such as the New Eurasia Foundation in Russia, East Europe Foundation in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, Eurasia Partnership Foundation in the South Caucasus and the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia, based in Kyrgyzstan. In many funded by the foundations regions information platforms have been created on the Internet as alternatives to the government press, such as in Kyrgyzstan or Ukraine. That there was launched in December 2013 Project Open City served not only to introduce Ukrainian- English street signs in Kiev, but also created a platform for bringing together the activities of NGOs and citizen protests.

In Ukraine, the Foundation also manages the extensive resources of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Largest beneficiary of the funds in Ukraine was in the period to 2003, the Centre for Philanthropy, which was almost entirely dependent on the foundation funds. This is also known as " obstacle to the internal social anchoring of the NGOs ".