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Submitted by admin on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 21:34America Abroad Media is grateful for the contributions and generous support of those who help to make all of our work possible. We are proud to partner with the following foundations:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.
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, with funding from the US Congress, NED supports more than 1,000 projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 90 countries.
The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. We support research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will.
Carnegie Corporation of New York makes grants to promote international peace and to advance education and knowledge - primary concerns to which founder Andrew Carnegie devoted the foundation.
Chevron makes community investments in the three areas that are the foundation of working societies the world over—health, education and economic development. Investments in health focus on training, testing and treatment for such diseases as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which are critical economic and public health challenges in some of our largest operating areas.
Dr. Scholl Foundation
As Exxon Mobile invests in communities, it pursues long-term projects with strategic goals that are aligned with global and social priorities as well as its business strengths. Exxon Mobile seeks to have a more meaningful impact by focusing the majority of our spending on significant challenges in the regions where they operate.
The Ford Foundation supports visionary leaders and organizations on the frontlines of social change worldwide.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grant-making institution dedicated to promoting better understanding and cooperation between North America and Europe on transatlantic and global issues.
US Chamber of Commerce, Global Intellectual Property Center: The Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) was established in 2007 as an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Today, the GIPC is leading a worldwide effort to champion intellectual property rights as vital to creating jobs, saving lives, advancing global economic growth, and generating breakthrough solutions to global challenges.
The Foundation was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to honor his parents who were missionary educators in China. The Foundation builds upon the vision and values of four generations of the Luce family: broadening knowledge and encouraging the highest standards of service and leadership.
The Foundation's programs have ambitious goals that include: helping to reduce global poverty, limiting the risk of climate change, improving education for students in California and elsewhere, improving reproductive health and rights worldwide, supporting vibrant performing arts in our community, advancing the field of philanthropy, and supporting disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the MacArthur Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
Founded in 1940, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund advances social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. The RBF's grant making is organized around three themes: Democratic Practice, Peace-building, and Sustainable Development.
The mission of the Smith Richardson Foundation is to contribute to important public debates and to help address serious public policy challenges facing the United States. The Foundation seeks to help ensure the vitality of our social, economic, and governmental institutions. It also seeks to assist with the development of effective policies to compete internationally and to advance U.S. interests and values abroad. This mission is embodied in our international and domestic grant programs.
The Foundation currently has assets of approximately $1.25 billion, making it one of the largest private foundations in the United States. It makes grants in a number of areas, including education, medicine and healthcare, human needs, public policy, culture and the environment.
The Una Chapman Cox Foundation works with the Department of State and non-governmental organizations to initiate and implement a variety of projects that support a strong U.S. Foreign Service. The Foundation focuses on recruiting and retaining the best possible cadre of career officers and educating a broad constituency to better understand, appreciate and support the Foreign Service.
The U.S. Department of State supports AAM's international programming with funding from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan; and the Department of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in Washington, DC.
AAM’s work in Tunisia is funded by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). More information about MEPI can be found at: www.mepi.state.gov.
USIP provides the analysis, training and tools that prevent and end conflicts, promotes stability and professionalizes the field of peace-building.
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