Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Other
DescriptionIn 2018, Luminate invested $950,000 as a convertible loan in The Correspondent to finance its crowdfunding campaign that would enable it to launch its operations. This refinancing focused on helping The Correspondent meet its operating cash requirements. Ultimately The Correspondent was not able to sustain its operations and shut down in December 2020.
DescriptionTo support The Engine Room, which does work to ensure that social justice movements can use technology and date in safe, responsible and strategic ways, while actively mitigating the vulnerabilities created by digital systems.
DescriptionTo support The Gov Lab in its mission to strengthen the ability of institutions and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems.
DescriptionTo support GovLab's Data programme, especially its work on open data impact, open data demand, data stewards, data collaboratives, and its work to coordinate the International Open Data Conference's research symposium.
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted funding to The Markup, a non-profit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionThis is a project grant to help TNH advance their mission to create a model of decolonised journalism, a key component of their five-year strategy (2022-2026), then to provide practical insights and thought leadership to the wider sector of international journalism on the subject. More specifically, TNH's efforts will focus on creating content that is more inclusive and guided by the communities they serve, in order to better represent the issues that matter to them. In addition to nuturing talent from the Global South, TNH will also seek to create guidance based on their own and others' experience and by providing fora and a platform for awareness-raising and discussion.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusGlobal
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)100,000
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant is to support survivors and victims of disinformation campaigns in Syria to directly advocate to policymakers and tech companies about the harm caused by disinformation attacks and the need for Tech regulation.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the University of Oxford to support the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Programme. The programme investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation, and politics.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support a new research programme at the Oxford Internet Institute called the Governance of Emerging Technologies.
Transnational Institute at Amsterdam
Participation & Dissent
Global
2024
400,000
Area of workParticipation & Dissent
Geographic focusGlobal
Year 2024
Status
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)400,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionThis grant will support Noor as the organisation coordinates a transregional network, seeking to build the power of gender justice and progressive movements to obstruct far right agendas, and advance the movement's transformative visions.
DescriptionTo support the Transparency & Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative including Luminate, Open Society Foundations, Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and DFID.
DescriptionTo support the donor collaborative on transparency and accountability, the principal aim of which is to increase knowledge on the impact of transparency and accountability, promote the use of new transparency & accountability technologies, and agree on international transparency & accountability standards.
DescriptionTo support Transparency & Accountability Initiative (the TAI Project), a donor collaborative to support effective grantmaking by the participating donors.
DescriptionTo support the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI), a donor collaborative working toward a world where citizens are informed and empowered, governments are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good. Luminate is a founding member of TAI, and participates in this collaborative alongside many of the largest donors in the transparency, accountability, and participation field.
DescriptionTo support the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI), a donor collaborative that has been working with donors, governments, and the range of actors in the transparency, accountability and participation (TAP) field since 2009.
DescriptionTo support the donor collaborative on transparency and accountability, the principal aim of which is to increase knowledge on the impact of transparency and accountability, promote the use of new transparency & accountability technologies, and agree on international transparency & accountability standards.
DescriptionTo support the donor collaborative on transparency and accountability, the principal aim of which is to increase knowledge on the impact of transparency and accountability, promote the use of new transparency & accountability technologies, and agree on international transparency & accountability standards.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support Transparency International's project on global institutional advocacy and national-level advocacy around fiscal transparency, contracting, and open data.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support TI-UK in working with the UK Government to promote UK leadership globally on anti-corruption through domestic transparency and accountability measures and international agenda-setting.
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