[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR67.1]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 67--ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 67.1  Introduction.

    (a) The National Endowment for Democracy (hereinafter ``NED'') was 
created in 1983 to stregthen democratic values and institutions around 
the world through nongovernmental efforts. Incorporated in the District 
of Columbia and governed by a bipartisan Board of Directors, NED is tax-
exempt, nonprofit, private corporation as defined in section 501(c)(3) 
of the Internal Revenue Code. Through its worldwide grant program, NED 
seeks to enlist the energies and talents of private citizens and groups 
to work with partners abroad who wish to build for themselves a 
democratic future.
    (b) Since its establishment in 1983, NED has received an annual 
appropriation approved by the United States Congress as part of the 
United States Information Agency budget. Appropriations for NED are 
authorized in the National Endowment for Democracy Act (the ``Act''), 22 
U.S.C. 4411 et seq.
    (c) The activities supported by NED are guided by the six purposes 
set forth in NED's Articles of Incorporation and the National Endowment 
for Democracy Act. These six purposes are:
    (1) To encourage free and democratic institutions throughout the 
world through private-sector initiatives, including activities which 
promote the individual rights and freedoms (including internationally 
recognized human rights) which are essential to the functioning of 
democratic institutions;
    (2) To facilitate exchanges between U.S. private sector groups 
(especially the two major American political parties, labor and 
business) and democratic groups abroad;
    (3) To promote U.S. nongovernmental participation (especially 
through the two major American political parties, labor, and business) 
in democratic training programs and democratic institution-building 
abroad;
    (4) To strengthen democratic electoral processes abroad through 
timely measures in cooperation with indigenous democratic forces;
    (5) To support the participation of the two major American political 
parties, labor, business, and other U.S. private-sector groups in 
fostering cooperation with those abroad dedicated to the cultural 
values, institutions, and organizations of democratic pluralism; and
    (6) To encourage the establishment and growth of democratic 
development in a manner consistent both with the broad concerns of 
United States national interests and with the specific requirements of 
the democratic groups in other countries which are aided by NED-
supported programs.