National Endowment for Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization or according to others a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) in the United States founded in 1983 with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide and countering communist influence abroad by promoting political and economic institutions, such as political groups, business groups, trade unions, and free markets. The NED was created as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation, but acts as a grant-making foundation.

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