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From 1993 to 2004, Eurasia Foundation invested $60 million in Russia through more than 3,000 grants. The New Eurasia Foundation (FNE) was established in 2004 by U.S.-based Eurasia Foundation, Brussels-based European Madariaga Foundation and Russia’s Dynasty Foundation. Through its 45 ongoing projects operating in 22 regions of the Russian Federation, FNE addresses the socio-economic needs of Russian society.
For more information, please visit FNE’s web site or contact Natalia Sukhorukova, communications officer in Moscow at 7-495-970-1567.
FNE implements a broad portfolio of programs, each designed to further one of FNE’s two strategic program areas: enhancing social development and human capital or improving the competitiveness and innovative potential of Russia’s territories.
Supporting Infrastructure of Youth Programs
FNE supports programs to encourage youth initiative, tap into their innovative and creative potential and promote volunteerism. By holding trainings and sponsoring internship programs for youth organizations, FNE brings international best practices to local organizations and helps groups, like students training to become teachers, learn skills that they will use in their communities. FNE also works closely with the Agency for Assistance to Children and Youth in the city of Cherepovets to help at-risk youth. By establishing a hotline that offers counseling and crisis assistance, as well as providing support to a project targeted at lowering the rate of recidivism in juvenile offenders, FNE is helping the city become more focused on youth issues.
Facilitating Migration Process Improvement
Russia faces a dramatic decline in human capital, that can be balanced by the large number of labor migrants coming in from neighboring countries. By establishing links between NGOs in countries where these workers live and regions that see high numbers of labor migrants entering their workforce, FNE encourages cooperation to help migrants find work and understand their rights. FNE has supported links between Tajikistan and the Volgograd region; Armenia and the Stavropol region; and Kyrgyzstan and the Sverdlovsk region. Additionally, FNE seeks to alleviate ethnic tensions created by migration in the North Caucasus by working with media and local NGOs.
Enabling Owner Management of Private Housing
FNE supports the Russian housing movement through regional assistance with administrative implementation of housing reforms; promotion of competition in housing and utility services markets; and development of new institutional forms in housing education and housing policy. The program brings together representatives of relevant federal agencies, businesses and public associations—with regional NGOs as the principal program participants. FNE has worked to create a housing reform information support system and support exchange of international experiences and best practices in housing self-management.
Developing Independent Print Media
Unlike their larger government-sponsored counterparts, many of Russia’s independent media outlets must make do with limited resources, and sometimes find it difficult to make their voices heard. FNE’s Independent Print Media program targets those non-governmental regional newspapers that would benefit most from training in business development and financial sustainability. This four-year initiative aims to enhance the overall capabilities of these newspapers, developing professional skills and building networks to exchange best practices.
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