NGO Center, Riga $16,900
For core support, for a public awareness campaign for changes in NGO and philanthropy legislation, consisting of seminars, newspaper articles and meetings with NGOs, and toward the improvement of advocacy skills among NGOs through legal consultation and assistance.

NGO Center, Riga $8,100
For core support, and for an advocacy campaign for changes in NGO and philanthropy legislation involving meetings with national government officials.

Latvian Human Rights Institute, Riga $8,818
For core support, and for research on and identification of legal restrictions on public access to government information, and for corresponding recommendations for legislative change.

Transparency International, Delna, Riga $3,677
For core support, and for research and training on access to government information procedures, and for the dissemination of information on legislative and policy issues affecting NGOs that depend on free access to government information.

Transparency International, Delna, Riga $7,923
For core support, and for identification of the restrictions on access to public information in government institutions, and advocacy for legislative changes that will ensure unhindered public access to such information.

Latvian Small- and Medium-Size Enterprise Association, Riga $1,177
To a coalition of professional associations and small- and medium-size enterprise organizations for core support and to lead an advocacy campaign for improvements to tax laws that inhibit nonprofit activity.

Cabinet of Ministers, Riga $18,500
To establish an interactive Web site that promulgates and solicits public feedback on all draft laws and regulations before they are reviewed in the Cabinet.

NGO Center: Implementation of the Training and Consultations for NGOs, Riga $67,082
For tailor-made training and consultations to the 12 grantees (listed below) of the NGO Institutional Development Program, complementing the grants made to each organization.

Drug-Prevention Center, Riga (projects in Madona, Ogre, Limbazi and Jekabpils) $17,035
For core support, and for a program of drug prevention activities for youth.

Regional Business Development Center, Kuldiga $17,898
For core support, and for training in entrepreneurial skills and promotion of alternative employment for unemployed farmers, and for local discussion groups on economic development issues.

Regional Development Foundation, Tervete $9,322
For core support, and for the development of local rural communities through tourism and improvement of the natural environment.

Organization Hope. Help., Riga $13,596
For core support to a Russian-speaking organization that provides low-income, non-Latvian women the counseling, training and courses necessary to receive Latvian citizenship.

Youth Club, Riga $10,806
For core support to a multi-ethnic association organizing conventions that focus on youth awareness of various political issues, including EU accession and minority integration.

Consumer Rights Protection Center, Balvi $7,700
For core support, and for local advocacy and public awareness campaigns for consumer rights.

Community Center "The White Home," Lîvâni $19,322
For counseling, support groups and a family crisis hotline.

National Consumer Rights Protection Association, Riga $21,840
For core support, and for research on corruption, programs in consumer education and development of legislative agenda proposals in the relevant issue areas.

European Movement in Latvia, Riga $7,373
For core support, and for the planning and implementation of structured and informed dialogue between NGOs and the government on EU accession and related issues.

NGO Association and NGO Support Center, Tukums $12,132
For core support, and for improvement of access to municipal information and campaigns to increase public participation in local decision-making.

Latvian Association of Railway Employees, Riga, with railway in Gulbene $10,434
For core support, and for exploration and implementation of development possibilities of a unique historical railway to revitalize its economically depressed location.

Women’s Cooperation and Development Network, Daugavpils $24,898
For core support, and for the promotion of entrepreneurial activities and cooperation among primarily non-Latvian rural women.

NGO Center: Popularization of Philanthropy, Riga $32,000
For core support, and for a conference attracting public, media and government attention to tax and regulatory laws negatively affecting the third sector; also for promoting local philanthropic initiatives and for cultivating relationships between NGOs and the business sector.

Latvian SME Association: Popularization of Philanthropy, Riga $21,823
For core support, and for the promotion of philanthropic activity in the private sector and in enterprise organizations through activities including conferences on tax laws and benefits affecting donors, publication of best practices and successful examples of corporate philanthropy, and discussions and seminars with business representatives.

Community Foundation Researchers, Riga $ 15,900
To a community foundation research team with expertise in international community foundation development, fundraising and tax laws, finance, regional development and local government activities to carry out preliminary research on developing community foundations in Latvia.