Welcome toVOICE International, Voluntary Organizations  Initiative in Central  & Eastern Europe/Eurasia, a nonprofit  information clearinghouse and technical  assistance network based in the United  States.

Clearinghouse Network and Links Information Clearinghouse 1998 Profiles Resources for Civil Society Funding for Civil Society Database Libraries for Civil Society

To Promote and Protect Women's Human Rights Funding for Civil Society-Russian Version VOICE Newsletter - Autumn 1998

Ukrainian NGO Management Guidebook

The mission of VOICE International is to assist in the strengthening of civil society by supporting the formation, independence, and diversity of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. VOICE's services are demand-driven, responding to requests directly from the region. VOICE prefers to work with groups that have a broad impact on the civic sector and to provide assistance that enables organizations to operate more self-sufficiently.

VOICE International is not a grantmaking organization.

VOICE carries out its mission through three programs:

• by serving as a Clearinghouse to facilitate the exchange of information on issues germane to the democratic development of civil society and its programs
• by creating Customized Publications that meet specific needs which are not met by existing materials
• by providing Technical Assistance to civic organizations throughout the region in implementing their pre-identified objectives

Please visit our site to learn more about VOICE's special projects like Resources for Civil Society and Libraries for Civil Society. Just click on Clearinghouse and learn the latest about these projects! Our site also houses the online version of Funding for Civil Society: A Guide to U.S. Grantmakers Giving in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. Visit ourPublications page to see who is giving grants and where.

Our site contains the home pages of GURT Resource Center and The Innovation and Development Center, two nongovernmental organization based in Kyiv that promote civil society in Ukraine. VOICE provides free web design and web space as a service to its partners in the region, like theGURT Resource Center and the IDC. There are also links to other partner organizations like the Siberian Civic Initiatives Center in Novosibirsk, Russia and the Civic Development-International Center in Tbilisi, Georgia on our new Clearinghouse Network and Links page.

VOICE International receives funding from the Eurasia Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Shaler Adams Foundation and from a number of interested individuals.

We hope you will enjoy visiting this site and that you will contact us at with your comments.

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