The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 1,900 grants to support the projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 90 countries.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 1…
Each year, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) makes more than 2,000 grants to support the projects of nongovernmental groups abroad who are working to advance democratic goals and strengthen democratic institutions in more than 100 countries.
Thematic Priorities NED Staff and partners at the Third Summit for Democracy in Seoul, South Korea NED anchors its grantmaking in country and regional strategies that respond to context-specific democratic challenges. At the same time, just as authoritarians are learning from each other and working in concert, democracy champions must do the same.
On behalf of the United States, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been instrumental in supporting freedom and democracy around the world since its founding in 1983. NED was born from President Ronald Reagan’s visionary call during his 1982 Westminster Address to foster the “infrastructure of democracy” globally. His leadership, along with that of Congressman Dante Fascell ...
NED—along with its four core institutes, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, and the Solidarity Center —responded to the growing needs of democracy movements throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region, and Africa.