Abstract
In the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it has been increasingly clear that building democracy is a complex, uncertain, time-consuming process that is necessarily dependent upon domestic factors. External assistance, however, can play a supporting role in this process. Although there has been considerable attention given to the activities of the international financial institutions and official assistance programs, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), there has been relatively little given to the role played by foundations in helping build democracy in Eastern and Central Europe (ECE).1 In this chapter we hope to begin to remedy that deficit by focusing on one aspect of foundations’ recent role, that is, their efforts to help rebuild civil society through their work with the nongovernmental organization (NGO) sector.2
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