The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL) is a non-governmental organization based in the Hague, Netherlands working on empowering civil society through creating enabling legal and policy frameworks.

ECNL is recognized as Public Benefit Organization, Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling (ANBI status). ECNL also holds the Equivalency Determination Certification. 

Mission and Vision

They aim to create legal and policy environments that enable individuals, movements, and organisations to exercise and protect their civic freedoms and to put into action transformational ideas that address national and global challenges.

They envision a space in which everyone can exercise their rights freely, work in solidarity, and shape their societies. 

Objectives:

• - protect human rights, including the freedoms of association, assembly, expression, and privacy;
• - support the development of civil society and public participation at the local, national, and international levels;
• - promote the democratic legal order;
• - support the development of appropriate policies and laws affecting civil society, philanthropy, impact investing, social enterprise, international development cooperation, and the impact of new technologies on human rights and civil society;
• - provide support to other organisations and to undertake research and educational initiatives to advance the foregoing objects.