The Chinggis Khan Foundation (CKF) partners with various organizations to promote and preserve Mongolian traditional culture. Among the projects are:

Mongolian Medicine Project of Sas Carey in Vermont to explore ways to combine traditional and western health methods for rural Mongolian doctors and to assess the health of Mongolia’s reindeer herders (tsaatan).

The Museum of Victims of Political Repression in Ulaanbaatar, which details the purges of the communist era (1921-1990) and sponsors seminars and other programs to educate Mongols on long-suppressed historical facts. CKF has subsidized the translation and publication of a biography of Prime Minister P. Genden, murdered on Stalin’s order in the 1930s.

The Mongolian College of Music and Dance of Ulaanbaatar in Ulaanbaatar, which trains high school and college young artists in all the traditional and modern performing arts. CKF sponsors concerts, provides funding through a Talent Fund for student travel to overseas competitions, and builds up the library of musical instruments, recordings, sheet music and instructional materials.

Mongolia Festival at the Smithsonian

2006 is the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Mongolian state by Chinghis Khan, and during the past few months the Mongolian Embassy has met several times with Smithsonian staff and officials to discuss if and how the Institution might take part in events Mongolia has helped plan in the United States. Among these is an exhibition of large dolls in ethnic and medieval-style costumes to be mounted in the National Geographic gallery and programs in various other US cities. The Smithsonian has offered to help organize and host a program at the Smithsonian, given it's growing research activities in Mongolia and the fact that the SI has signed cooperation agreements with the President of Mongolia for collaboration in research and educational activities, and with the Academy of Sciences and National museums for research and training. The Smithsonian proposed to collaborate with The Smithsonian Associates to plan a series of activities including (1) lecture series, (2) a one- or two-day scholarly symposium; (3) two evening event with music and entertainment and a reception; (4) a film festival; (5) performances of dancers, acrobats, singers, story-telling, and folk-tales; (6) a small set of exhibits or panels describing the current Mongolian research programs (Bronze Age deer stone and ritual landscape research and mapping, documentation of deer stones by high-tech laser scanners, and studies of monument preservation and conservation). If possible, the SI would hope to organize a small exhibition of art, archaeological, and cultural objects from the Smithsonian collections, including a full-scale cast of the Ushkin Uver deer stone the museum cast in 2004 and hopefully a ger that hopefully Mongolia can donate to the Smithsonian. SI would also arrange for media (radio, TV, web) presentations at the time of the events.For calender of events click here. For a preliminary program of the Festival, which will be organized in November, 2006 click here