Lifeline Fund Provides Emergency Assistance to Embattled NGOs
Trip Page | Photos![Secretary Clinton during meeting of Lifeline Donor Steering Committee, Vilnius, July 1, 2011. [AP]](http://blogs.state.gov/images/Dipnote/behind_the_scenes/2011_0701_clinton_lifeline_m.jpg)
Last July at the Community of Democracies meeting in Krakow, Secretary Clinton announced that the United States would create an international fund to support embattled Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and invited like-minded governments to join in this global effort. One year later, the Department of State, together with twelve other democratic nations spanning the globe, launched the Lifeline: Embattled NGOs Assistance Fund in a meeting in Vilnius with the international consortium of organizations who will be implementing the Fund’s activities.
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