Who We Are
The Moldova Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization (with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status) in Washington, DC incorporated in 2003 in the United States.
The Moldova Foundation is the only non-governmental organization focused exclusively on advocacy matters for the Republic of Moldova not only in U.S., but also elsewhere. Following the footsteps of advocacy organizations that represent other ex-soviet nations (Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Ukrainians, etc), the Moldova Foundation is seeking to build long-lasting ties between the West and Moldova.
The foundation’s main institutional resource is the network of professionals, including the Working Group on Moldova, a.k.a. Friends of Moldova in Washington, that includes former US ambassadors to Moldova, senior people from Washington-based think tanks (CSIS, IRI, NDI, NED, Open Society Institute, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University), individual experts.
Goals and Missions
Its main goal is to increase the support from the United States, European Union and its members for economic reforms and democratic transformations in the Republic of Moldova with the aim to strengthen freedom of speech, pluralism, and private initiative in this country. Ultimately, we want Moldova to be part of Western democracy, to become a full member of the EU and NATO.We join our efforts with experts in Moldova and abroad to contribute to the resolution of the Transnistrian conflict. Our advocacy activities are also aimed at the evacuation of the existing Russian military and munitions stored in Moldova's breakaway Transnistrian region.
In 2008-2009, the Moldova Foundation became a part of the advocacy coalition of several Washington-based NGOs called the Baltic-Black-Caspian Seas Initiative that joined forces to voice regional common problems, challenges and threats from the Baltic States down to Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
The foundation sponsors the most popular country portal on Moldova -- Moldova.org.
Good to know: It is interesting to note that, in 1906, in Washington, DC, the American Jewish Committee has been established in response to a series of pogroms in czarist Russia, particularly the 1903 Chisinau pogrom. Chisinau (Russian transcript Kishinev) was a capital of Russia’s south-western Gubernia (county) Bessarabia (the Republic of Moldova today), acquired by Russia in 1812 as a result of the Bucharest treaty that ended the Russian-Turkish war of 1806-1812 (Russians obtained half of the territory of the Principality of Moldova that was under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Turkey). The Jews community in the United States, in 1906, felt the need to create an advocacy group in Washington to influence U.S. public policies towards their community in the country and abroad. Almost 100 years later, the new advocacy group was born to support democratic transformation, human rights in what was Bessarabia. (See more...)