Who We Are
The Moldova Foundation is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status established in the spring of 2003. Although it is incorporated in the US (Virginia) our network of members and affiliates include professionals from Australia, Germany, Israel, Moldova, Nigeria, as well as from the United States.Today, the Moldova Foundation is the only organization outside Moldova advocating exclusively for getting more support to Moldova from Western countries (mainly US and EU). 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 sponsors the most popular country portal on Moldova -- Moldova.org.
The foundation’s main institutional resource is the network of professionals, including the Washington Working Group on Moldova, a kind of 'friends of Moldova' group, that includes former US ambassadors to Moldova, senior people from Washington-based think tanks (CSIS, IRI, NDI, NED, Open Society Institute, Project on Transitional Democracies, Jamestown Foundation, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University), individual experts. Moldovans abroad with pro-Western views and sound background and expertise are another great resource, still not fully used. Among them are employees of private corporations, international organizations, academia, graduates of Columbia, Harvard, Oxford and other leading universities.
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.We also want to promote transparency and accountability at all levels of governments, increase stability and predictability of Moldova’s domestic and foreign politics.
In particular, we advocate for the improvement of the social and economic performances of the country and for Moldova 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.
The Foundation is pursuing the mission to raise solidarity among politicians, democratic activists and political scientists with civil society in Moldova, to raise necessary funds for the implementation of joint projects.