Latvijas Transatlantiska Organizacija

Latvijas Transatlantiska Organizacija (doing business as Lato) is a non-profit organization based in Latvia that has received multiple project grants from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Lato is focused on organizing high-level security forums and foreign policy conferences in the Baltic/Nordic region.

Over the past few years, Lato has received several project grants from the Department of State's Public Diplomacy Programs to support the implementation and organization of The Riga Conference, a leading high-level security forum in the Baltic/Nordic region. In 2021, Lato was awarded a $195,452 grant to deliver The Riga Conference, aligning with the Public Diplomacy Programs' aim of supporting U.S. foreign policy goals by informing and influencing foreign publics, expanding relationships between regional stakeholders, and enhancing national security dialogue. Similarly, in 2020, Lato received a $303,408.23 grant to organize the annual high-level security and foreign policy forum, The Riga Conference 2020. An earlier $9,800 grant in 2019 also partially supported Lato in organizing The Riga Conference that year. Through these project grants from the Department of State, Lato has consistently provided services related to organizing and implementing high-level security forums and foreign policy conferences in the Baltic/Nordic region, aligning with the Public Diplomacy Programs' objectives.