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Marshall Joins NED Board of Directors
09.14.2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Progressive Policy Institute President Will Marshall has joined the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Marshall was elected to a three-year term on September 11, 2009.
Former U.S. Representative Martin Frost (D-TX), Ambassador Princeton Lyman, and Ambassador Stephen Sestanovich also joined Marshall on the NED Board.
“The Endowment is privileged to welcome these four exceptional members to its Board,” said NED Chairman Richard Gephardt. “Their regional expertise and extensive knowledge of democratic practices will greatly benefit the work of NED and its hundreds of grantees around the world.”
Will Marshall is president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), established in 1989 as a center for political innovation in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he has been one of the chief intellectual architects of the movement to modernize progressive politics for the global age. PPI’s policy analysis and proposals were the source for many of the “New Democrat” innovations that figured prominently in national politics over the past two decades. The Institute also has been integral to the spread of “Third Way” thinking to center-left parties in Europe and elsewhere.
NED was created in 1983 as a private, nonprofit, grant-making foundation with a mission to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. With an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress, the NED Board, which is independent and bipartisan, makes more than a thousand grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in nearly 90 countries. The Endowment supports projects that promote political and economic freedom and participation, human rights, a strong civil society, independent media and the rule of law. More information about NED can be found on its Web site www.ned.org.
The Progressive Policy Institute is an independent research institution that seeks to define and promote a new progressive politics in the 21st Century. Through research, policy analysis and dialogue, PPI challenges the status quo and advocates for radical policy solutions.
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