What is the Venezuela Initiative?
The Venezuela Initiative is a Leadership Forum gathering the CDDA Fellows, successful members of the Venezuelan diaspora, foreign policy experts, opinion leaders and political communications advisors to mobilize resources from Venezuelans, the Venezuelan Diaspora, friends of Venezuela, multilateral organizations and foundations to finance its activities, focused on ideas to promote democratic changes and development in Venezuela.
The work of the initiative will be carried out in five areas:
- Public outreach on Venezuelan issues;
- Interchange with opinion leaders in the media, parliaments, the labor movement, NGO's, think tanks and in the business community;
- Grants for community development in Venezuela and cooperation with Venezuela NGOs and grassroots movements.
- Mobilizing and organizing the Venezuelan Diaspora and Fundraising.
Our Mission
The mission of the Venezuela Initiative is:
· To preserve democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela
· To fight for the furtherance of the economic prosperity of all Venezuelans
. To give Venezuelans living abroad a chance to contribute to the progress of their homeland
· To contribute to a change returning the Venezuela – US relations to its traditional democratic cooperation, prioritizing issues of economic development, hemispheric security and respect of Human Rights.
