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.
Today, ECNL is an independent and established European leader on civil society law and policy working across 21 countries and 4 regions, and contributing to standard setting on global and European level. Whilst our primary focus remains in Europe, we increasingly work globally, and have supported partners across regions such as Africa, Latin America and Asia. ECNL is the only regional organisation in Europe focused entirely on the policy and legal environment for CSOs and ensuring that organisations, activists and movements have the legal and practical knowledge, skills and capacity to defend their spaces and freedoms.