To support education, enterprise, and community empowerment in some of the Middle East and North Africa's most impoverished areas.

For 95 years, the Near East Foundation (NEF) has helped the most vulnerable communities in the Middle East and Africa improve their conditions in the face of chronic poverty, conflict, migration and environmental hazards. As the United States' oldest nonsectarian international development NGO, NEF played a crucial role in establishing the American philanthropic tradition, and pioneered many of the strategies employed by the world’s leading development organizations today.

Education
Enterprise development
Community empowerment