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The Houston Endowment supports a wide range of programs, including but not limited to the arts, education, and human services. The foundation dispersed grants of $24 million from 1937 to 1962, and grant totaling $750 million by the end of the century. In 2001, the endowment was valued at $1.5 billion. [1]
Party subsidies or public funding of political parties are subsidies paid by the government directly to a political party to fund some or all of its political activities. Most democracies (in one way or the other) provide cash grants (state aid) from taxpayers' money, the general revenue fund, for party activity.
The President of the National Endowment for Democracy, Carl Gershman (second from the left), presents an award to a Tunisian leader of the Arab Spring in November 2011. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization in the United States founded in 1983 with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide, [2] [3] [4] by promoting political and ...
The organization’s development director said they were “very blessed” to receive over $1 million in grants this year as the need for affordable local housing increases.
In certain locales, taxpayer money may be given to a party by the federal government. This is accomplished through state aid grants, government, or public funding. [1] [2] Additionally, political fundraising can occur via illegal means, such as influence peddling, graft, extortion, kickbacks and embezzlement.
The International Forum for Democratic Studies (IFDS) is an analytical initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Established in April 1994, its programs include the Journal of Democracy (which has Spanish and Portuguese editions), the Network of Democracy Research Institutes, and fellowship programs such as the Reagan–Fascell Democracy Fellowship.
GSD brands itself as a nonpartisan initiative of governors who will work together to protect democracy at the state level, according to a news release from Polis. The announcement comes as the ...
The Jewish Insider, which first reported United Democracy Project’s spending, noted that after he left Congress, Hostettler wrote in a book that the U.S. engaged in the Iraq War to protect Israel.