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Year

Amount committed (US$)

New Venture Fund

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description Digital Action is building a global coalition of tech justice organisations, aiming to hold Big Tech corporations to account for the way they amplify hate speech and disinformation, endangering already vulnerable minorities further. Digital Action is aiming to bring this pressure to bear particularly in 2024, when more than 60 countries go to the polls across the world.

Open Briefing

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support the work of Open Briefing, an organization that works to provide holistic security support and resources to protect people and communities challenging power. The focus of this opportunity is Open Briefing's strategies to 1) Disrupt attacks and reprisals against the people and communities challenging power and; 2) Strengthen the global support ecosystem for the people and communities targeted for challenging power. We will also be supporting their process of becoming a globally decentralized organization.

SAFEnet

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a general support grant for SAFEnet to support their programmatic work on digital rights and freedom of expression, and to strengthen their organization.

Temblores

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2025

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Temblores ONG, a non-profit founded in 2017, fights social inequality in Colombia through strategic litigation and civic participation. They mobilise community-led transformation to challenge exclusion and systemic rights denial.

Yar'Adua

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description This is a renewal of Luminate's contribution to the donor collaborative fund to protect human rights defenders such as journalists, media houses, and civil society partners in Nigeria who are victims of the shrinking civic space in Nigeria.

Intervozes

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2023

290,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 290,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This Project Agreement will support Intervozes' general mission of promoting a free and diverse informational ecosystem in Brazil, specifically by supporting their ability to a) carry out research projects; b) implement public engagement campaigns and advocacy strategies on both national and international levels; c) conduct training courses aimed at grassroots activists and organizations.

Open Rights Group

Participation & Dissent

Europe

2024

290,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 290,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Open Rights Group will facilitate initiatives that protect digital rights in the UK, including the regulation of Big Tech and improved enforcement of data protection.

DigitalReach

Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Asia

2023

277,419

Area of work Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 277,419

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description Supporting the research on social media, elections, and digital authoritarianism in Southeast Asia.

International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

270,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 270,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support the work of INCLO, a global coalition of human rights and civil liberties organizations. Its purpose is strengthening its members' regional agendas, and coordinating joint action on global policy and advocacy processes, including themes of civic space, surveillance, and gender equality.

Open Net

Information Ecosystems

Asia

2023

270,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 270,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support the organisation's work in using Data Protection Acts to reducing monetisation of the disinformation content and accounts on platforms in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Taiwan.

Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

268,800

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 268,800

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description A 2-year project grant to continue work to decolonise the digital rights field in Europe. This grant will support Weaving Liberation to grow and support an anti-colonial tech community through convening research and imagining spaces, establishing new roles to bridge digital and non-digital communities, and an anti-colonial Digital Summer Retreat on digital justice and resistance. This grant supports Weaving Liberation in growing a strategic infrastructure that can shape the digital rights field in the long term.

Accountability Lab Nigeria

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

260,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 260,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A 2-year grant to Accountability Lab Nigeria to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to shift civic engagement and support the advancement of fundamental freedoms of individuals and communities, particularly those historically marginalized.

Extituto - Política Abierta

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2024

260,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 260,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant to Extituto aims to build upon its previous efforts in Colombia by continuing to train and support emerging leaders through the Occupy Politics program and encouraging the implementation of transparency, collaboration, and citizen involvement strategies via the Inhabiting Politics program, ultimately strengthening public institutions.

TechHer

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

260,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 260,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a two-year core grant to TechHer, in support of their work to address Online Gender Based Violence (OGBV) and building a Community of Practice for the protection of women's digital rights.

Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN)

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2024

260,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 260,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a two-year project agreement to support Women in Leadership Advancement Network's work in using technology to inspire a shift to gender-balanced leadership across all levels of political, economic, and public life.

AI Forensics

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

253,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 253,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Luminate supports AI Forensics so that it can hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

DeGoedeZaak

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

250,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 2-year project grant will support DeGoedeZaak to map out the ecosystem of change-makers, civil society, and grassroots actors affected by platform harms and build a resilient ecosystem to tackle this in the Netherlands. The project will lean heavily on collaboration with key stakeholders Stem op een Vrouw and Bits of Freedom and start by convening diverse groups to build collective visions and strategies to tackle platform harms.

East Africa Documentary Film Fund (DOCUBOX)

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2023

250,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description The grant to Docubox will be used for training and mentoring documentary filmmakers to produce films that enhance civic participation & engagement among Kenyan women, youth, and the minorities.

Global Press Institute

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

250,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant will provide continued support to Global Press so it can meet its core mission of training and supporting local women journalists around the world to become storytellers of record for audiences of local and international changemakers.

Instituto Incube

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2024

250,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Other

Description This is a seed 24-month grant aiming to support More in Common's plan to establish operations in Brazil, hire the top executive team and fully register a legal entity, enabling the development of its first audience mapping in the country as well as the dissemination and establishment of partnerships for its use.

Namati

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

250,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A final grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalised communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.

Uplift

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

250,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This 2-year project grant will support the Hope and Courage Collective to grow an emergent ecosystem across civil society in Ireland at the intersections of tackling threats to democracy, the exponential rise of the far-right and the role of social media platforms in amplifying hate, discrimination, mis- and disinformation and thus exacerbating harms and negatively impacting democracy. This grant will help them to support an ecosystem so that it is better connected, more aligned, and better able to work together.

Accountability Counsel

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

243,479

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 243,479

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Final funding grant to the Accountability Counsel, an organisation that is dedicated to supporting and protecting communities harmed by internationally financed projects.

Siasa Place

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

240,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 240,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A 2-year grant to Siasa Place to support core operations and program work. This grant's broad aim will be to promote youth participation in democratic processes through research, training, civic education, networking, and strategic partnerships.

Centro de Mujeres Afrocostarricenses

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2024

225,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 225,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 24-month project aims to support Centro de Mujeres Afrocostarricenses by 1) creating training and exchange programs for Black women leaders in Latin America, 2) conducting research on the political participation of Black women in the region, 3) developing and launching communication campaigns to promote the rights agendas of Afro-descendant women, and 4) contributing to the institutional strengthening of the organization.

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