Pylyp Orlyk Institute receives Eurasia Foundation grant (03/17/96)

Pylyp Orlyk Institute receives Eurasia Foundation grant

by Olenka Dobczanska

WASHINGTON - The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation has received a new grant for $127,600 from the Eurasia Foundation to support the activities of the Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy in Kyiv.

As one of the first institutions of its kind operating in an independent Ukraine, the Pylyp Orlyk Institute has earned a reputation as a reliable, non-partisan information resource for Ukrainians on democracy and civil society. Among other activities, the institute maintains a library on public policy issues, provides informational support to policy-makers and the media, and provides regular feedback on how events in Ukraine are viewed by policy-makers in the West, particularly in the United States.

The Eurasia Foundation is a privately managed grant-making organization established with financing from the U.S. Agency for International Development. It supports technical assistance, training, educational and policy programs in the new independent states of the former Soviet Union, excluding the Baltic States.

In just over two years, the Eurasia Foundation has awarded over $25 million in grants to over 800 projects and set up six field offices, including one in Kyiv, to help generate new indigenous projects and evaluate on-going ones.

The Eurasia Foundation's previous grant of $78,000 was instrumental in the Pylyp Orlyk Institute's ability to provide timely and independent information in 1994-1995. This new Eurasia grant validates the USUF's efforts and will enable the Pylyp Orlyk Institute to continue its proven activities while further broadening the public policy debate in Ukraine.

The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization whose goal is to foster democratic and free-market development in Ukraine.

For more information about its activities, contact: U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, 1511 K St. NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005; telephone, (202) 347-4264; fax, (202) 347-4267; e-mail, ukraine@access.digex.net.

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