NEW EURASIA FOUNDATION is a nongovernmental, noncommercial organization established in Moscow in 2004. The New Eurasia Foundation improves the lives of Russian citizens by consolidating the efforts and resources of the public, private, and nongovernmental sectors and implementing social and economic development programs at the regional and local levels that are based on the most advanced domestic and international expertise and innovative technologies.

NEW EURASIA is a social development agency whose primary objectives are to assess and analyze various aspects of socio-economic development of Russian territories, to design proposals, recommendations, and strategies addressing territorial development problems, to implement socially meaningful projects and mobilize interior and exterior resources required to support their implementation. Over the period of its operation New Eurasia has successfully implemented more than thirty social development projects and programs.  

MAIN AREAS OF OPERATION

NEW EURASIA FOUNDATION:

• Designs projects and programs, implements and supports implementation of complex territorial development programs in the Russian Federation.
• Supports modernization of regional education systems (general, vocational, and tertiary education).
• Supports development of local self-governance and implementation of the housing reform.
• Facilitates development of an enabling business environment and supports development of small and medium-sized businesses.
• Creates favorable conditions for maximal self-realization of youth.
• Develops regional innovation support infrastructures.
• Creates conditions for effective utilization of the migration resource.
• Improves efficiency of mass media.

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS

• Creates cross-sectoral social partnerships.
• Optimizes social investment programs.
• Utilizes quality assessment, monitoring and evaluation systems for social programs.
• Provides advisory and methodological support for project implementation.
• Organizes training programs, including exchanges and internship programs.
• Organizes conferences and public awareness campaigns.
• Involves representatives of local communities in territorial development processes.
• Promotes technologies, methods, and best practices through mass media and own publications.

CAPACITY AND RESOURCES

• Involvement in multilateral partnerships – the Foundation cooperates with 24 RF subjects, local self-government bodies, businesses, educational and public organizations.
• Involvement in broad expert networks in Russia and overseas.
• Experience in raising budget and non-budget funds required for effective and sustainable development of socially significant programs.
• Experience in establishment of professional organizations and associations.
• Experience in application of proven innovation technologies, methods, and best practices in socioeconomic development of territories.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! The New Eurasia Foundation does not accept grant applications, nor does it issue grants on the basis of the “open door” principle. All grant programs are only administered on the basis of competition and as part of the Foundation’s current projects and programs. Requests for proposals are published in the “News” section of the FNE website.