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—develop and replicate new models Finally, the Foundation works within for community reinvestment; and the to gather resources for —establish strategic partnerships with grassroots development through strategic partnerships with the U.S. private sector, national and local governments, other American philanthropic organizations, donor agencies, and the local private and other U.S. Government agencies, sector, to support sustainable, grassroots and to expand U.S. funding for development. grassroots development activities.

For further information, contact the Communications Manager, African Development Foundation, 1400 I Street NW., 10th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Phone, 202–673–3916. , 202–673–3810. E-mail, [email protected]. , www.adf.gov.

BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS 330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20237 Phone, 202–203–4545. Internet, www.bbg.gov

Chairman KENNETH Y. TOMLINSON Members JOAQUIN F. BLAYA, BLANQUITA WALSH CULLUM, D. JEFFREY HIRSCHBERG, EDWARD E. KAUFMAN, NORMAN J. PATTIZ, STEVEN J. SIMMONS (Secretary of State, ex officio) CONDOLEEZZA RICE Executive Director BRIAN T. CONNIFF Legal Counsel CAROL M. BOOKER Chief Financial Officer JANET STORMES Congressional Coordinator SUSAN ANDROSS Communications Coordinator LARRY HART Strategic Planning Manager BRUCE SHERMAN Policy and Program Coordinator JOHN GIAMBALVO Special Projects Officer OANH TRAN Chief Information Officer RONALD LINZ, Acting General Counsel CAROL M. BOOKER, Acting Director, International Broadcasting Bureau (VACANCY) Chief of Staff JANICE BRAMBILLA Director, Office of Civil Rights DELIA L. JOHNSON Associate Director for Management STEPHEN S. SMITH Associate Director for Program Support GARY THATCHER Director, Office of Engineering and Technical GEORGE A. MOORE Services Director, DAVID S. JACKSON Chief of Staff MARIE LENNON Associate Director for Language KELU CHAO Programming Associate Director for Central Programming (VACANCY) Associate Director for Operations MARK L. PRAHL Director, Office of Cuba Broadcasting PEDRO V. ROIG President, Radio Free /Radio Liberty JEFFREY TRIMBLE, Acting President, LIBBY LIU President, Broadcasting Networks BERT KLEINMAN

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The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ mission is to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding by broadcasting accurate, objective, and balanced and information about the United States and the world to audiences abroad.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors Inc. (MBN) is a nonprofit corporation (BBG) became an independent agency that is financed by the U.S. Government on October 1, 1999, by authority of the through a grant from the Broadcasting Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Board of Governors. MBN operates the Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6501 note). -language The BBG serves as the governing body (www.radiosawa.com) and for all nonmilitary U.S. broadcasting and television networks (www.alhurra.com). provides programming in 56 languages —Alhurra Alhurra, Arabic for ‘‘The via radio, television, and the Internet. Free One,’’ is a commercial-free Arabic- The BBG broadcast services include: the language channel in Voice of America (VOA), the Office of the Middle East devoted primarily to Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), Radio Free news and information. In addition to Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio reporting on regional and international Free Asia (RFA), and the Middle East events, the channel broadcasts a diverse Broadcasting Networks (MBN). schedule of news, talk shows, debates, All BBG broadcast services adhere to documentaries, and entertaining the broadcasting standards and information programs on a wide variety principles of the International of subjects from sports to fashion to Broadcasting Act of 1994, which include technology, to millions of viewers every reliable, accurate, and comprehensive day. news; balanced and comprehensive —Radio Sawa Radio Sawa is the presentations of U.S. thought, popular that provides institutions, and policies, as well as news, information, and a mix of Western discussions about those policies; and Arabic popular music on its 24- information about developments hour, 7-day-a-week FM and medium- throughout the world; and a variety of wave radio stations throughout the opinions from nations around the world. Middle East. The Arabic-language network broadcasts objective, balanced, Activities up-to-the-minute news and news Voice of America The Voice of analysis along with interviews, opinion America (VOA) broadcasts on radio, pieces, sports, and features on a wide television, and the Internet variety of political and social issues. (www.VOAnews.com) in 44 languages. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Radio The VOA Charter requires that Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a broadcasts be accurate, objective, and nonprofit, international communications comprehensive; that they represent all organization broadcasting to Eastern and segments of American society and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the present a balanced and comprehensive Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, view of significant American thought and and Southwestern Asia. Listeners rely on institutions; and that they clearly present RFE/RL’s daily news, analysis, and the policies of the United States. VOA current affairs programming to provide a broadcasts more than 1,000 hours a coherent, objective account of events in week and includes U.S. and their region and the world. RFE/RL international news, features, call-in broadcasts in 27 languages with more shows, roundtable decisions, and other than 1,000 hours of radio programming programming that is delivered directly or a week from its operations center in through affiliated stations to audiences Prague, Czech Republic, and 23 bureaus around the world. in its broadcast region. Its corporate Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. headquarters are located in Washington, The Middle East Broadcasting Networks, DC. All RFE/RL broadcasts are also

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streamed live and on-demand over the at www.rfa.org, RFA broadcasts in Internet; audio, video, and text in English Mandarin, Cantonese, Uyghur, three and the broadcast languages are dialects of Tibetan, Burmese, available from its web site at Vietnamese, Korean, Lao, and Khmer. www.rferl.org. All broadcasts originate from RFA’s RFE/RL also broadcasts Radio Free Washington, DC, headquarters. and Radio Free . In a joint Office of Cuba Broadcasting The effort with the Voice of America, RFE/RL Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) broadcasts a Persian-language radio oversees the operations of Radio Marti service called , which means and TV Marti from its headquarters in ‘‘Radio Tomorrow.’’ Operated from Miami, Florida. In accordance with the Washington, DC, and Prague, Czech Broadcasting to Cuba Act of 1983, Radio Republic, Radio Farda produces current Marti follows Voice of America news and information at least twice an journalistic standards and guidelines for hour, with longer news programming in presenting a variety of news and the morning and the evening. Radio information in an accurate and objective Farda also broadcasts a combination of manner and is guided by the standards Persian and Western music. The station and principles of the U.S. International operates 24 hours a day on medium Broadcasting Act. wave (AM 1593 and AM 1539), digital audio satellite, and the Internet, as well Radio Marti broadcasts 7 days a week, as 21 hours a day on shortwave. Radio 24 hours a day. TV Marti produces 8 Farda complements the VOA’s Persian- hours of original programming daily, language radio and television broadcasts including a 30-minute newscast each in . day. Primary areas of coverage include Radio Free Asia Radio Free Asia (RFA) the Cuban economy, news relating to is a private, nonprofit news organization the independent human rights and providing daily broadcasts in nine dissident movement, U.S.-Cuban languages to listeners in Asia whose relations, and international stories such governments restrict freedom of as elections around the world. information and expression. RFA In addition to broadcasting via broadcasts accurate and timely news and shortwave, AM, aerostat, and airborne information, along with a range of voices transmissions, OCB broadcasts TV Marti and opinions from within Asia, with the on HispaSat, a direct-to-home satellite aim of demonstrating freedom of television service, and is working to expression over the airwaves and online. establish a permanent airborne platform RFA focuses primarily on news and for TV and Radio Marti. Radio and TV features of unique and specific relevance Marti programming can also be accessed to its target countries. Through on the Internet at shortwave transmission and the Internet www.martinoticias.com.

For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, Broadcasting Board of Governors, 330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20237. Phone, 202–401–7000. Fax, 202–619–1241. Internet, www.bbg.gov.

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