Ниже преведен список российских организаций финансируемых американским фондом "National endowment for democracy" ("Национальный дар (пожертвование) демократии"). Любопытный читатель пробежавшись по списку найдет там ряд достаточно известных и нашумевших организаций, а так же размер полученного финансирования. Список приведен на английском языке, в вписок попал ряд организаций находящихся за территорией России, скорее по недосмотру нежели по злому умыслу. ОРИГИНАЛ

Russia

All-Russia Public Movement “Za Prava Cheloveka” (ZPC)
$75,000*
To improve the treatment of prisoners incarcerated in Russia’s system of prisons and penal colonies. ZPC will investigate violations of prisoners’ rights, bring legal measures and public pressure to decrease the occurrence of such violations, and hold public tribunals to review particularly egregious cases. In addition, ZPC will monitor cases of torture and murder by Russia’s law enforcement agencies, especially in the North Caucasus.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$300,002
To support trade union training activities and legal advocacy, thereby strengthening freedom of association. The Solidarity Center will support union education activities at the regional level and provide training on basic unionism, collective bargaining, health and safety and labor legislation. It will assist Russian unions in strengthening their connections with unions outside of Russia and use its expertise to promote networking among workers.

Association of Public Entities “Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia”
$60,000*
To continue to defend the legal rights of Russian servicemen. The organization will provide legal aid and education to the victims of hazing and cruel treatment in military units. It will also monitor and publish recommendations on the jurisdictional conflicts between the Military and Civilian Prosecutors that arise during hazing investigations.

Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization “Center for Social and Labor Rights”
$55,861*
To maintain, expand and promote its interactive internet portal, wwwtrudprava.ru, which promotes knowledge of labor rights and issues, and provides workers with the necessary skills to defend these rights. The website will serve as an independent and objective source of information to help workers make informed decisions and improve their working conditions.

Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization “Memorial Center for the History of Political Repression ‘Perm-36’”
$49,735*
To provide support for its museum dedicated to political repression in the Soviet Union. In addition to museum upkeep, Endowment funds will used to conduct a series of seminars for teachers from neighboring regions and prepare electronic versions of historical and methodological materials.

Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Agency for Social Information”
$67,000*
To build regional NGO coalitions and to strengthen ties between regional and issue-based associations, coalitions, and networks of civil society organizations in three selected regions in Russia. In order to support local NGOs and coalitions, three small grants will be awarded for projects to strengthen networks and organize activities intended to increase public trust in NGOs.

Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Agency for Social Information” (ASI)
$65,671*
To collect and disseminate information on the activities of the Russian NGO community. ASI will maintain its network of affiliate offices located in 24 regional centers, which will provide reports that will be aggregated by the Moscow office, posted on the ASI website, and distributed via an email listserv. The ASI website serves as a primary vehicle for information exchange for the Russian NGO community.

Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Center for Social Projecting ‘VOZROZHDENIYE’”
$55,000*
To assist young political leaders on the municipal level in Pskov region. Vozrozhdenie will help to form a network of new political leaders, dubbed “political generation 2010-15,” who will become more responsive to their constituencies. The project activities will focus on the Pskov oblast municipal elections on October 11, 2009.

Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Mashr”
$55,000*
To counter the lack of official accountability and lack of respect for human rights in Ingushetia. Mashr will publicize incidents of kidnapping and forced disappearance, provide legal assistance to victims and their family members, encourage officials to investigate such events thoroughly, and use international judicial mechanisms to resolve such cases when necessary.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$137,479
To develop understanding about democracy and the market economy and build entrepreneurship and leadership skills among young people in the North Caucasus. CIPE and its local partner VIM will design and carry out a certificate program on youth entrepreneurship and leadership for university age students. CIPE and VIM will also support the graduates by establishing an alumni network and providing access to local business leaders and officials.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$74,042*
To strengthen existing proposals and formulate new approaches to eliminating corruption. CIPE will create a working group of Russian and US academics, policy specialists, and former officials to analyze issues of corruption in Russia and prepare recommendations to strengthen institutions of integrity in Russia’s private and public sectors. The working group will present its recommendations to the media, public and government at a final conference.

Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations
$50,000*
To monitor and research instances of violence or pressure against journalists. In particular, the Center’s staff will conduct investigations into murders, kidnappings, and other extreme forms of violence against journalists in order to determine if they are connected to journalists’ professional activities.

Center for Peacebuilding and Community Development
$17,340*
To conduct six lectures at Chechen universities on topics essential to democratic development. This will include: the relationship between state, society and the individual; rule of law; models of development; historic experiences with authoritarianism; and democracy and freedom of expression.

Centre de la Protection Internationale
$50,000*
To provide advanced training on international judicial procedures to human rights lawyers from Russia and other CIS countries. The Centre will train highly qualified specialists in Russia and other NIS countries on how to prepare and submit acceptable cases to the European Court.

Charitable Foundation “Support of Civil Society Initiatives ‘Fulcrum Foundation’”
$55,000*
To continue its small awards program for youth NGOs. The organization will award approximately seven small awards of about $5,000 to support projects conducted by civic organizations working in Russia’s regions. The organization will also continue to monitor and support the activities of organizations that received awards this year.

Charity Foundation “International Project - Youth Human Rights Movement”
$65,000*
To strengthen the Movement’s network of youth human rights organizations. In addition to networking and training activities, the project will include a mini-awards competition and small grants program, which will provide capacity-building and project support to regional groups that have little access to financial resources; lack management and PR skills; and are inexperienced in running public campaigns.

Chelyabinsk Regional Public Fund “Helping Hand”
$57,000*
To continue its program of legal assistance and human rights education and training in several cities in the southern Ural Mountains. Helping Hand’s “Human Rights Ambulance” will offer free legal aid, including working with inmates in the region’s prison system and their families. Helping Hand’s Human Rights School will provide courses on human rights, democracy, and civic activism.

Civil Rights Defenders
$108,338*
To hold a conference on human rights in the North Caucasus in November of 2009. The conference will take place in Stock-holm during the Swedish chairmanship of the European Union and its goal will be to draw international attention to human rights abuses in the North Caucasus.

DEMAS - Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights
$58,785
To establish crossborder partnerships between Czech and Russian NGOs. Representatives of seven members of DEMAS, a Czech NGO umbrella association, will travel to Russia to establish contacts with Russian civil society organizations. In turn, 11 representatives of Russian NGOs will be invited to the Czech Republic to become more familiar with civil society there. The program is designed to identify issues and develop programs for future cooperation and partnership.

The Foundation for the Support of Information Freedom Initiatives
$72,000*
To monitor government information resources and related practices, disseminate news and resources on the wwwsvobodainfo.org web site, and support litigation to secure greater public access to government information.

Foundation “Independent Press Center”
$50,000*
To operate its Press Center, which has working contacts with more than 80 leading NGOs that use the Center’s premises to organize press conferences, briefings, seminars and roundtables. These events provide Russian and foreign journalists with access to a wide variety of speakers on key political, economic and social issues.

Foundation - Public Commission for the Preservation of Academician Sakharov’s Heritage”
$90,000*
To organize its seventh annual “Interregional Contest of Teachers on the History of Political Repression in the USSR.” This event provides history teachers in schools across Russia with an opportunity to create an original lesson plan and supplementary materials on topics such as Stalinism, political repression, the gulag system, human rights and the dissident movement.

Friends of the CEELI Institute
$44,311*
To develop a strategy for greater advocacy on the subject of criminal prosecutions for war crimes committed during the conflict in Chechnya. The Institute will hold a workshop on international criminal law and international humanitarian law which will bring together Russian researchers, lawyers and human rights activists, and prominent western experts. The workshop will focus on a review of the existing research that has been conducted thus far and conduct strategic planning for the next stage of the project.

Institute of Public Affairs
$28,850*
To conduct a crossborder fellowship program for young Russian think tank analysts and NGO activists. The Warsaw-based IPA, one of Poland’s leading think tanks, will collaborate with the St. Petersburg Center for Humanities and Political Studies “Strategia” (Strategy) to select young Russian fellows who will receive training, participate in a 12-day training and study visit to Poland, and produce and publish a policy paper.

Interregional Association of Human Rights Organizations “AGORA”
$60,000*
To provide legal and informational assistance to Russian activists and organizations that come under pressure from the authorities as a result of their work. AGORA will leverage its experience providing human rights groups with legal and informational support to continue its assistance to persecuted activists and organizations.

Interregional Non-Governmental Organization “Center for Information and Protection of Human Rights”
$50,000*
To support its operations including: maintaining exhibits on human rights; operating a library on the history of political repression; and providing a video center and an internet classroom for students and teachers studying human rights. It will also operate a public legal aid office, help teachers and NGO activists to develop teaching materials for young people, and offer management and financial training to NGO leaders.

Interregional Public Organization “Center for the Development of Social Partnership”
$50,000*
To continue its program of increasing citizen participation in local government in Yaroslavl region. In addition, the Center will evaluate the state of the civil society and suggest ways to make the work of NGOs more effective in cooperation with the local government and the Yaroslavl oblast Public Chamber.

Interregional Public Organization “Committee Against Torture”
$85,000*
To reduce the incidence of torture in Chechnya. The Committee will monitor and publicize cases of torture at the hands of law enforcement officials, and will offer legal aid to the victims.

Kabardino-Balkar Republic Public Human Rights Center
$45,000*
To continue its program of human rights activism in the predominantly Muslim republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus. The Center will render free legal aid; monitor the activity of the courts and encourage judicial, legal and other reforms that promote human rights and democracy; research Stalin-era crimes in Kabardino-Balkaria; and hold a series of roundtables and conferences to deepen local understanding of these issues.

Levada Center
$33,104*
To conduct two public opinion surveys, one prior to and one following the elections to the Moscow city Duma on October 11, 2009. The Levada Center will distribute information from its public opinion surveys to major national and international news agencies, and will publish an analytical report on the elections at the conclusion of the project.

MEMO 98
$54,274*
To monitor how the state-controlled media manipulates public opinion in Russia. In conjunction with the Moscow-based Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES), a NED grantee, the Slovakia-based MEMO will create a monitoring team in Russia, conduct a week-long training in Bratislava, and supervise a four-month long media monitoring program. The results of the monitoring will be disseminated at four press conferences and on the internet.

The Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights
$23,136*
To carry out a human rights monitoring and legal assistance program in Dagestan. Mothers of Dagestan staff will travel to the regions to collect information about instances of human rights violations throughout Dagestan. The organization will keep weekly office hours in its Makhachkala office to provide the citizens with free legal advice and defend the citizens’ interests in courts.

Murmansk Association of Women Journalists
$38,000*
To continue its efforts to develop independent journalism and increase the transparency of local government in northwest Russia. This year’s program will focus on the new federal law on the freedom of information, which was passed on February 9, 2009 and will go into effect on January 1, 2010.

Noncommerical Organization Fund “Kostromsky Center for the Support of Civic Initiatives” Project
$25,000*
To strengthen civil society in Kostroma and the Kostroma region by providing informational and practical support for local NGOs. The Center will carry out training seminars for NGO leaders, conduct joint press-conferences with regional NGOs, publish and distribute a newspaper, and will support a website with information for and about NGOs.

Non-Profit Organization “Information Agency ‘Memo.ru’”
$225,000*
To operate its Caucasus Switchboard website (wwwkavkaz-uzel.ru), which provides news and analysis of events in the Caucasus, as well as information on the activities of civil society groups. Over the next two years, Memo.ru plans to continue improving the quality of the website’s journalism, and expand its outreach to an international audience with more frequent updates of the English-language version of the website.

Non-Profit Partnership “Lawyers for a Civil Society” (LSC)
$50,000*
To collect and publicize a collection of federal and regional laws that regulate the work of NGOs. LSC will also create a report to analyze the state of Russia’s civil society that will help identify the regions of Russia that either completely lack or have few laws that regulate the work of civil society organizations.

Nonviolence International
$50,000*
To help local officials in the North Caucasus to implement Federal Law #131, Russia’s law on local government. This law provides a significant degree of autonomy to rural and municipal governments in areas such as provision of social services, regulation of housing and utilities, and local economic development.

Perm City Public Organization “Center for Civic Education and Human Rights”
$54,000*
To introduce human rights and civic education classes into Russia’s schools and universities. As in the past, the program will involve training teachers and university professors, developing human rights and civic education curricula, and publishing teaching materials. The Center will update its database of social studies teachers in Perm region, and will expand its alumni network to communicate better with graduates of the program.

Prague Watchdog
$49,830
To promote human rights, humanitarian assistance and freedom of information in the North Caucasus. NED funding will be used to continue operating the Prague Watchdog website, a leading source of information on the political, military, economic and humanitarian situation in Chechnya, Ingushetia and other North Caucasus republics.

Pskov Regional Public Organization “Council of Soldiers’ Mothers”
$20,424*
To conduct human rights training and consultations for approximately 1,000 draftees, draft-age youth, servicemen, and their families in Pskov region.

Public Regional Organization “Kolskaya Association of Women Lawyers”
$30,000*
To defend victims of torture and degrading treatment in the Murmansk region, and to educate activists and officials to prevent and defend against such conduct. The organization will operate a crisis center for victims of torture and degrading treatment, submit legal appeals on their behalf, train human rights activists, and conduct seminars on human rights for civil society activists and government representatives in Murmansk oblast.

Regional Civic Initiative - The Right to Life and Human Dignity
$29,474*
To publish a quarterly journal Dosh (Word) that monitors human rights and provides commentaries about political and social life in the North Caucasus. Dosh has been published since 2003 and it is one of the most popular independent printed journals in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Regional Civic Institute Research and Information Center Memorial
$50,000*
To collect and disseminate information on the activities of NGOs, as well as other important events for civil society in St. Petersburg and the Northwestern Federal District of Russia. St. Petersburg Memorial will create an informational and analytical website dedicated to human rights, ecology, and the preservation of unbiased information about the history of totalitarianism and repression in Russia.

Regional Civic Institute Research and Information Center Memorial
$40,000*
To begin the process of digitizing its vast historic archives to prevent further loss and make this vital historic information available to the general public. The project is expected to last three years, and Memorial plans to supplement or replace NED funding for the duration of the project.

Regional Civic Organization in Defense of Democratic Rights and Initiatives (GOLOS)
$75,234*
To increase citizens’ participation in the decision-making process by educating them and providing them with the necessary tools to advocate for their interests and protect their rights on a local level. GOLOS will conduct public hearings, signature collection campaigns, hold conferences and distribute brochures with the purpose of encouraging and publicizing issue based citizen activism in Russia’s regions.

Regional Non-Government Human Rights Organization “Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg”
$94,160*
To conduct its Human Rights School, as well as other workshops, for thousands of draft-age youth and conscripts. The organization will also continue to maintain a database on draftees and servicemen in order to track cases of human rights abuse at military bases across Russia.

Regional Non-Governmental Organization “International Protection Center”
$60,000*
To offer free legal representation and consultation to the victims of human rights violations in Russia. The Center will help individuals who have exhausted all available remedies under the Russian court system to pursue their cases through the European Court of Human Rights or the United Nations’ Committee on Human Rights.

Regional Public Organization “Information Research Center ‘PANORAMA’”
$65,000*
To support two teams of two young leaders from various pro-democratic organizations to undertake six months of part-time journalism work. Trainees will be chosen from youth branches of democratic political parties and civil movements such as Oborona, Young Yabloko, Young SPS, Young Republicans, I Think, Da!, Young United Civil Front, and the Social-Democratic Youth Union, as well as young journalists from independent newspapers.

Regional Public Movement “Chechen Committee for National Salvation” (CCNS)
$80,000*
To provide legal assistance to refugee populations in the cities of Nazran, Ingushetia, and Grozny, Chechnya. CCNS will also monitor human rights abuses.

Regional Public Organization for Assistance in Securing Public Information “Center for Public Information”
$70,000*
To continue to expand its network of regional partners who gather and disseminate information about human rights developments. The organization maintains regular contact with NGOs, the media and the Russian Human Rights Ombudsman’s office, which provide updates on human rights violations, the activities of human rights activists, and events and activities organized by other NGOs and public organizations.

Regional Public Organization “Independent Council of Legal Expertise”
$65,000*
To carry out a variety of activities related to the Russian legal system and the development of legislation through nongovernmental efforts. Political conditions in Russia have generally become less conducive to this type of program in recent years, as the legislative branch is now dependent on the executive, and input from NGOs is frequently not welcome in the legislative process.

Regional Public Organization for Promotion of Citizens’ Education “Information and Analysis Center ‘SOVA’”
$77,611*
To monitor, analyze, and disseminate information intended to oppose nationalism and xenophobia in Russia, as well as prevent the restriction of civil liberties in the name of anti-extremism.

Regional Public Organization “Mothers of Chechnya”
$58,541*
To offer legal aid and advice to the families of citizens who were kidnapped or disappeared during and after the two wars in Chechnya. Mothers of Chechnya will help relatives to continue searching for their missing relatives and press criminal charges or file civil suits in court. It will also continue to maintain and expand its database on cases of disappearance in Chechnya.

Regional Public Organization “St. Petersburg League of Women Voters”
$45,000*
To hold a series of seminars and round tables for young civic activists from six regions: Arkhangelsk, Vyborg, Kaliningrad, Pskov, Tver and St. Petersburg. The purpose of these seminars and roundtables will be to educate and train representatives of unregistered NGOs and civic initiatives in organizational capacity building.

Rostov City Non-Profit Organization “Eko-logika”
$25,000*
To help citizens engage the local bureaucracy to increase transparency and accountability. Eko-Logika will organize training seminars to teach participants how to request information from local government sources and continue operating its resource center, which provides the necessary office equipment and consultative support needed to submit such requests.

Rostov Regional Public Organization “League for Civil Rights Protection”
$45,924*
To encourage transparency and accountability in municipal budgeting processes. The project will involve education, evaluation, analytical, and information components.

Slovene Philanthropy
$75,129*
To expand a civic activism program for primary and secondary school children in Chechnya and Ingushetia. The Ljubljana-based “Slovene Philanthropy” will conduct one advanced and two basic training workshops for student mentors. The mentors will train up to 700 pupils in volunteerism and oversee their public service at local schools, hospitals, NGOs or in local communities. Copies of an informational leaflet and a Russian-language manual on Voluntary Work in Schools will distributed.

Slovene Philanthropy
$64,668
To continue a civic education and activism program for primary and secondary school students in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The Ljubljana-based NGO will train 60 teacher-mentors who will train and oversee up to 900 volunteers in 30 schools. It will also distribute 3,000 copies of an information leaflet about the program and hold a one-day regional conference that will bring together 100 teachers, NGO activists, youth activists and Ministry of Education employees.

St. Petersburg Public Organization “Environmental Human Rights Center ‘Bellona’”
$47,760*
To increase access to information about Russian human rights and environmental issues, and to encourage networking among NGOs. Bellona will maintain its website, wwwbellona.ru, a valuable source of independent information for the NGO community, media and general public. During this year’s project, Bellona will also publish four print and electronic editions of its journal, Ekologia i Pravo (Ecology and the Law).

Sverdlovsk Oblast Public Organization “Parity”
$25,000
To educate young people about their rights and responsibilities as voters and increase political participation among young people in Sverdlovsk oblast. A major new component of the program will include providing local NGOs with information and practical skills about submitting cases of voter rights violations to the European Court of Human Rights. Parity will also publish two brochures on voter rights and conduct two seminars.

Transitions Online (TOL)
$81,326*
To expand the distance learning component of a crossborder program that fosters independent journalism in Russia. In cooperation with the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the Prague-based TOL will create four self-directed learning modules based on the News University curriculum to enhance its distance-learning program for Russian journalists. It will also organize two study and training visits to the Czech Republic for 48 Russian journalists.

Vladimir Oblast Intellectual Public Movement “Lebed”
$25,000*
To operate its website, Vibor33 (wwwvibor33.ru) The web site presents political news from Vladimir in a simple but frequently-updated format, containing both factual news and analytical columns.

Zagranica Group
$40,548
To foster and increase cooperation between Russian and Polish civil society organizations. The Poland-based Group will organize a Polish-Russian Non-Governmental Forum that will bring 100 NGOs from Russia and Poland together in Warsaw. At the two-day meeting, organizations will participate in a number of workshops designed to identify issues and develop programs for future cooperation and partnership.

* Indicates Department of State funding beyond NED's annual appropriation

The grant listings posted here are from the 2009 Annual Report, published in June 2010.