Cross-Border Initiatives seeks to encourage public, private, and nonprofit policy elites to develop programs that promote regional cooperation and stability through funding initiatives aimed at:

• Arranging cross-border dialogues among governmental entities, civic organizations, and policy institutes
  
  
• Facilitating an exchange of best practices in key economic and governmental policy areas, as well as among citizens and nonprofit groups
  
  
• Exploring ways to lower the physical and legal barriers between countries in the Black Sea region
  
  
• Devising and promoting solutions to the region’s frozen conflicts
  
  
• Promoting regional-wide efforts to build political, cultural, and economic networks