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Information Ecosystems

Global

2023

3,500,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 3,500,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This funding is to support the overall activities of the organisation in addressing digital threats to democracy.

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Information Ecosystems

Global

2023

3,000,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 3,000,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This funding is to support the overall activities of the organisation in addressing digital threats to democracy.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Information Ecosystems

Global

2024

2,000,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 2,000,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description A two year grant renewal to support IFPIM's scale up and sustain its operations and activities including research, policy and strategy on emerging technologies.

Policy Innovation Centre

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2024

1,965,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,965,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a three-year grant to Policy Innovation Centre in support of its work to provide policy analysis and ecosystem convening on the technology, development and democracy landscape in Nigeria. PIC will also provide coordination and managerial oversight for Nigeria's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collective, including acting as a fiscal agent to the three organisations that make up the consortium.

Privacy International (PI)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

1,500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,500,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support Privacy International in building a transregional and cross-sectoral coalition to challenge the spread of the next generation of repressive tech and its misuse by governments. PI will bring together and coordinate civil society organisations, academics, and investigative journalists that have been working on components of digital authoritarianism (e.g. digital rights, defence sector, weapons control) to start building collective capacity to better understand and interrogate the convergence between civilian and military technology.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

1,250,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,250,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description This is a core general operating grant to the Black Feminist Fund, an organisation that works to meaningfully resource black feminist movements globally. We aim to support their grantmaking activities, centred on Black feminist movements, especially in Africa and Latin America. We also wish to substantially advance their work to support movements in challenging the use of technology by authoritarian and corporate actors, as well as those creating technologies that build visions of a future that are more affirming of Black lives. Additionally, this flexible support from Luminate should enable the BFF to move towards their goal of becoming independent from its fiscal sponsor. This is a collaboration between the Global Programmes, Latin America and Africa teams.

ARTICLE 19 (UK)

Information Ecosystems

Global

2024

1,156,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,156,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 27-month project will enhance ARTICLE 19’s Digital Markets Watch initiative by building a global community for training, information exchange, and dialogue to advocate for open and fair digital markets, promote accountability for Big Tech companies by governments and regulators, and foster international discussions on digital market regulations, business models, and competition practices, while amplifying voices from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Network of European Foundations

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

1,000,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,000,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description The European AI and Society Fund will provide support to CSOs across Europe to work together on building accountable governance mechanisms on AI.

Conectas

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2023

980,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 980,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant will support Conectas in establishing a new and innovative work stream dedicated to combating misinformation and hate speech in Brazil, as well as ensuring that Latin America perspectives are taken into consideration in the global debates around digital platforms' regulations.

Peri

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2023

944,500

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 944,500

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description Peri is a Brazil-born studio focused on creating films, docs and series that strategically push new mental models into the audience's imagination by tapping into well-known narrative archetypes.

Katiba Institute

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

906,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 906,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is an unrestricted grant to support Katiba Institute's work to entrench a culture and practice of constitutionalism in Kenya which creates a society in which human rights are protected, government is accountable and transparent, and everyone is able to participate in decision-making.

East West Management Institute

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2025

900,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant is to continue support to the East West Management Institute Freedom of Expression (FOE) Cluster.

LEAP Africa

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

900,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a three-year grant contribution to the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a $5 million fund created by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fund provides targeted capacity building, youth ecosystem building and financial support to burgeoning youth-led movements in Nigeria, in order to sustain their work locally and facilitate opportunities for learning.

Meliore Foundation

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

900,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This funding will support The Better Information Project(TBIP) at Meliore Foundation that seeks to create fact-based media, content, and digital infrastructure that can overwhelm oppositional narratives and provide information context that can be used by decision makers - with the support of policy expertise - to drive radical decision making on tech regulation and policy.

Quid

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2023

890,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 890,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This grant will help Quid consolidate its operations for a longer time, offering support to the field in its work to mitigate for antidemocratic extremism that prevents underrepresented groups to participate in political decisions. It will be dedicated to expanding research capacity, amplifying campaign actions, and deepening partnerships within and outside of Brazil.

Ekō

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

800,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 800,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support this global movement of more than 22 million people that are committed to curbing corporate power.

Privacy International (PI)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

800,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 800,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a core renewal grant to Privacy International, whose mission is to protect people's privacy, dignity and freedoms from abuses of companies and governments. PI's strategy has the following pillars: i) Challenging Corporate Data Exploitation, ii) Contesting Government Data, iii) Defending Democracy and Dissent and iv) Safeguarding Peoples' Dignity.

Agência Pública

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2024

750,550

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 750,550

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This 36-month General Operating grant seeks to support Agência Pública's institutional development in different fronts (strategic, fundraising, and branding) as well as support transnational investigations from a Global Majority perspective, a seed editorial project to enable a more Global footprint for the organisation.

InternetLab

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2023

655,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 655,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description InternetLab is a Brazilian civil society organization whose mission is to produce sophisticated, evidence-based and impact-oriented social and legal research and analyses to identify and clarify critical issues, thereby helping to build the intellectual and evidential foundation for public awareness, action and policy-making.

Instituto Update

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2024

650,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 650,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description Supporting Instituto Update in bolstering the political engagement of marginalized communities in Latin America, with a particular focus on women, Afro-descendants, indigenous communities, and the LGBTIQ+ community.

Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)

Information Ecosystems

Global

2024

650,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 650,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This 33-month core grant aims to advance R3D's mission of protecting digital rights and preserving civic space in the face of escalating challenges posed by surveillance and cybercrime legislation, content moderation practices, and the rapid advancement of AI at a national, regional, and global level.

Fundacion para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP)

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2023

600,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This core grant to FLIP will support their work in Colombia, focusing on the following three programs: a) improving the protection of journalists from a preventive approach, b) reactivating independent local journalism networks, and c) strengthening the organization's financial sustainability, governance and well-being.

Global Philanthropy Project

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

600,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support the work of the Global Philanthropy Project, a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic efforts to advance LGBTQI+ rights in the majority world. The focus of this opportunity is GPP'S Donor Government and Field Influencing Strategy, as well as the Pathways Project, an initiative to map the needs and priorities of LGBTQI+ movements globally.

Global Press Institute

Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Global

2023

600,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This grant will provide continued support to Global Press so it can meet its core mission.

Global Witness

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

600,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description A multi-year grant to Global Witness to further their work on tackling digital threats to democracy through campaigns and advocacy

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