Accomplishments, Progress and Awards
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with the encouragement of Congressman Ted Kupferman, registered FSP in 1968 as a Private Voluntary Organization, also known as a Non-Governmental Organization. Following registration, FSP implemented and supported numerous programs in the South Pacific as government funding continued to grow.
During the 1970s, FSP obtained more grants, pulling in funding in order to expand the foundation's staff and to evolve field offices into indigenous, independent NGOs that were locally staffed. The first program to transition to a local NGO was FSP Fiji in 1981.
In 1991, President George Bush awarded FSP co-founder Betty Silverstein with the U.S. Presidential End Hunger Award for Individual Achievement. The administration recognized Betty for her decades-long work with FSP after the USAID nominated her for the award. Later, Betty received more recognition for her work when First Lady Hillary Clinton commended Betty at Counterpart's 500th humanitarian Airlift at Andrews Air Force Base in Virginia in early 1998.
Since 1993, Counterpart has delivered over half a billion dollars worth of aid to countries in former USSR, Central Asia Republics, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Counterpart's Armenia Office involved in announcement of Civil Society Fund 2009 Winners, which is also part of Counterpart International's Limited Intervention Program Statement (LIPS) grants.
In May 2009, Counterpart was granted a five-year Cooperative Agreement with USAID. Through this Leader with Associates (LWA) agreement, USAID has expressed its confidence in Counterpart to implement the "Global Civil Society Strengthening" (GCSS) program that simplifies designing and delivering civil society programs overseas. The LWA will serve USAID Missions, Regional Bureaus, and Offices in the implementation of civil society, media development, and program design and learning activities around the world.
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