Dear colleagues,

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), with which I work on nonprofit legal and policy issues in China and Vietnam, has announced the availability of short-term research fellowships to enable colleagues from selected countries (including China) who are working intensively on the legal framework for civil society to spend some time at the ICNL offices in Washington or Budapest furthering their action-oriented work through additional research.

See further information below, including the web link to the full fellowship information page and form.  I\'d be pleased to discuss this further with any Chinese colleagues interested.  Potential applicants should already be working on projects that, in some way, advance the legal framework for social organizations, associations, foundations or other forms of nonprofits in China, either at national or local levels.

Best wishes.

Fellowships to Support an Enabling Legal Framework for Civil Society

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), with the generous funding support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), is pleased to announce the availability of

4 research fellowships. The fellowships will provide the opportunity to travel to ICNL\'s offices in Washington, DC, or Budapest, Hungary, for three to four weeks to conduct research on the legal framework for civil society. The fellowships are open to applicants from:

Albania, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Botswana, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia, Kosovo, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Panama, Rwanda, Sudan and Southern Sudan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

For more information please visit http://www.icnl.org/fellowship/.

ICNL is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes an enabling legal environment for civil society, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, and philanthropy around the world.