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Since its inception, World Learning STAR Network has worked closely with bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations, private foundations and individual donors to secure sustainable financial support for STAR Network operations and partner groups in the region.

With USAID core funds and additional support from the i2 Foundation, STAR supported a regional exchange of twenty business women from Kosovo and Macedonia who were trained by the Vojvodina's Initiative on Women's Self-Employment, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Ohrid, Macedonia, June, 2000.
With USAID core funds and additional support from the i2 Foundation, STAR Netwrok supported a regional exchange of twenty businesswomen from Kosovo and Macedonia who were trained by the Vojvodina's Initiative on Women's Self-Employment, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Ohrid, Macedonia, June, 2000.  

Diversified funding sources have been essential for funding activity excluded by government programs and wartime sanctions; for pilot initiatives; and for crisis response. Over a six-year period, STAR Network has given grants totalling over $1.5 million in public and private funds to local and regional initiatives that advance women's civil society, economic and political leadership. STAR Network has also actively leveraged donor funds to support local initiatives.

Summer school for young women leaders funded by an important private grant from Working Assets/Tides Foundation while Serbia was still under sanctions.
  Summer school for young women leaders funded by an important private grant from Working Assets/Tides Foundation while Serbia was still under sanctions.
World Learning STAR Network receives primary funding from Zonta International Foundation and The United States Agency for International Development.

Supplemental support for specific projects has been received from the World Bank; United Nations High Commission on Refugees for the Micro Enterprise and Education Team initiative in Bosnia, 1996-1998; Open Society Institute, and Freedom House.

Gifts from school children, churches, synagogues, and concerned individuals matched funds from foundations including:
 

 
 

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