The Gorbachev Foundation is a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 headquartered in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, founded by the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

 in December 1991 and began its work since January 1992. The foundation is active in researching the Perestroika

Perestroika

Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...

 era, current issues of Russian history and politics. It is financed by Mikhail Gorbachev and donations by people and companies.

Foundation projects

• The Global World of the XXI Century: Challenges and Responses
• The University of Calgary – the Gorbachev Foundation (1993–2003)
• Documentary History of Perestroika
• Mikhail Gorbachev After the Kremlin: a Record of Events and Socio-Political Activities
• Expertise Round Table
• The Gorbachev Readings
• The Raisa Maximovna Club (launched in 1997)
• The Public Affairs Center

Foundation structure

• President – Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
• Vice-President – Irina Mikhailovna Gorbacheva-Virganskaya
• The Archive's
• The Library
• Exhibit Mikhail Gorbachev: Life and Reforms