CEED is a Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development. CEED Macedonia is part of the international networking of CEED entrepreneurship centers, founded by USAID and investment fund SEAF with main purpose to encourage growth and development of SMEs in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. CEED Macedonia was launched in September 2007 as the fifth center in the network of CEED centers that already operate in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia,Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, Moldova, Bangladesh, Tunis, Tanzania. Basic goal of CEED Macedonia is to provide entrepreneurs and their executive teams the know-how and networks they need to accelerate the growth of their businesses and to promote an entrepreneurial culture in the broader society.