The Center for Civil Society International was notified in February of a grant of $89,500 by the United States Agency for International Development through The Eurasia Foundation.

The bulk of the grant will support work in the field of "New Communications Technologies." In this project, beginning March 1, 1994, CCSI will seek to enhance use of the worldwide communications networks, such as the Internet, to deliver a wide variety of information to individuals working to develop pluralistic institutions in the societies of the newly independent states (NIS) formerly in the Soviet Union. Many of the resources that CCSI now produces in print form--e.g., this newsletter and Civil Society--USA: A Guide to Organizations and Opportunities for Linkages in American Society--will be made available on electronic media. CCSI also intends to produce a catalog of "civil society building" resources accessible through the Int ernet or similar computer networks.

Other elements of the grant will support a new edition of Channels, our highly regarded guide to service opportunities in the NIS.

Having some sense of how many useful and important projects are at work in the NIS, we arevery gratified by this award. We intend to use it to improve the quality and usefulness of the informational resources we have been producing, and to make them avai lable by new media to users formerly beyond our reach.

--Holt Ruffin CCSI Director

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Last updated: June 7 1996

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