DescriptionThis 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.
DescriptionTo support the Internews Rapid Response Fund, which is providing funding to small, local news organisations worldwide in the face of COVID-19.
DescriptionThis is a project agreement to support the work of Kamara, an organization that works to advance the safety of the global ecosystem of civil society organizations and movements, and to provide tailored protection tactics for its partners. The focus of this opportunity is Kamara's Strategic Initiatives Centre (SIC), an experimental initiative to support civil society in the Global Majority by providing investigation-based insights to inform both their protection and advancement of missions.
DescriptionTo support Lateral Economics's research intended to quantify the economic value of open data, for the purpose of supporting policy recommendations in G20 meetings.
DescriptionTo support the Leadership Academy for Development, a programme at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, which is designed to train government officials and business leaders from developing countries to promote private sector development through public policy.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo provide support for a new fund providing financial and human capital support to grow the nascent technology for transparency and accountability sector, globally.
DescriptionTo fund the Omidyar Network-MIT Collaboration for Impact Assessment, a project to test theories of change for organisations in the government transparency sector.
DescriptionTo help MDIF launch the second round of the Membership Puzzle Project’s Membership in News Fund, to support newsrooms across the world with revenue experiments.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Other
DescriptionTo support MDIF, a non-profit mission-driven investment fund that supports primarily for-profit independent news outlets in countries with a history of media oppression.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted funding to support Media Defense in advancing their strategic objectives around providing legal defense to journalists under threat.
DescriptionTo support Mid East Youth, a group of websites that serves as an interactive and educational platform for its users throughout the Arab world, offering what the region's mainstream media overlooks: uncensored information, human rights abuses, personal anecdotes from underrepresented minorities, and articles on culture.
DescriptionTo support Mozilla Foundation's project to build, test, and distribute the underlying technology required to quantify the harms of surveillance capitalism.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide general operating support to mySociety, a UK-based organisation that provides technology, research, and data to help people globally to be active citizens.
DescriptionTo support a convening of Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations to discuss advocacy strategies to set global norms for legislative transparency. The convening is organised by the National Democratic Institutes.
DescriptionTo provide general operating support to the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving countries' governance over their natural resources to promote sustainable and inclusive development.
DescriptionTo provide core support to the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving countries' governance over their natural resources to promote sustainable and inclusive development.
DescriptionTo support the Revenue Watch Institute to further development of international open data standards for extractives, through a combination of advocacy, technical efforts, and piloting open data approaches in Ghana.
DescriptionThis is a project agreement to Migration Tech Monitor's fellowship initiative, which incubates projects that 1) document the impact of technology and surveillance on mobile communities, 2) challenge the use and development of repressive border tools, or 3) build alternative security tech infrastructure and narratives designed by people with lived experience of migration. With this project, Luminate aims to explore how technologies used in border controls and border externalisation inform the use of repressive tech in society at large.
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