DescriptionABONG is a Brazilian association established in 1991 with the aim of strengthening Brazilian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in the defense and promotion of common rights and goods. They collaborate with social movements and engage in dialogue with governments for an environmentally just world, with equal rights and free from all forms of discrimination
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism - Abraji, a non-profit institution composed of and run by journalists, dedicated to improving Brazilian journalism and defending freedom of expression.
DescriptionTo support a collaborative effort between Access Now and Observacom, addressing content moderation practices and aiming to guarantee user's freedom of expression online in Argentina.
DescriptionAll Out is a global organization advancing the rights and political agency of the LGBT+ community. They describe themselves as "a global movement fighting for a world where no one has to sacrifice their family, freedom, safety, or dignity because of who they are or who they love".
DescriptionTo support The Territory, a film that tells the story of an Indigenous community - the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people - in the Brazilian Amazon and their struggle to keep their land.
DescriptionThis Project Agreement seeks to help The Territory impact campaign transition to a long-lasting initiative with permanent impact - an institute that helps traditional communities in the Amazon Region become storytellers and shape the public debate from their perspective.
DescriptionTo support Article 19's Digital Rights Program to enable a more favorable digital environment for exercising human rights, especially freedom of expression and access to information in Mexico
DescriptionThe Atlantic Council?s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center (AALAC) broadens understanding of regional transformations while demonstrating why Latin America and the Caribbean matter for the world. This grant specifically supports their work on Colombia.
DescriptionTo support a hackathon competition in Mexico that pits teams of programmers against each other to develop mobile applications for government agencies.
DescriptionTo support Avina Americas in establishing a three-year collaborative regranting mechanism called Initiativa por los Derechos Digital en Latinoamerica - Indela to strengthen and further develop the digital rights ecosystem in Latin America.
DescriptionTo support ALTEC, a fund that invests in early-stage organisations focused on the use of technology to increase civic engagement and government effectiveness.
DescriptionTo support the ALTEC project, providing the resources necessary for the project to fund civic empowerment organisations, social movements, and rapid-response campaigns which are striving to protect civic space and democratic governance.
DescriptionLuminate's investment in AzMina will support its main tech projects and its institutional strengthening to enhance policy processes, strategies, governance and management, providing greater sustainability to the organization's activities over the long term.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support CLIP, a non-profit association composed of a Latin American team, which conducts and coordinates collaborative cross-border journalistic investigations and puts its technological innovations at the service of journalism in the region. Through its investigations, always carried out with Latin America's media and journalists, CLIP seeks to serve as a secure platform for exchange and hard-hitting journalism.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Chequeado in advancing its fact-checking efforts in Latin America through automation, content distribution, and data literacy programs.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Chequeado in advancing fact checking efforts in Latin America through the development of products from their Innovation Lab, as well as through the region-wide dissemination of those innovations as the hosts of a regional gathering on fact checking, "Latam Chequea".
DescriptionTo support Cidade Democratica, a revenue-generating non-profit that provides an open innovation platform designed for Brazilian users and municipal governments.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support CISCSA in promoting the political participation of young women in local communities in Córdoba, Argentina, through a participatory diagnosis and research process, political training programs grounded in feminist popular education, and the creation of networks and alliances to amplify the voices of young women and ensure their inclusion in decision-making processes at the local level.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Convertible (Seed)
DescriptionThis convertible seeks to support Colab, a Brazilian civic tech company, which provides a platform for citizens to engage with local governments and utility companies.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis 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.
DescriptionTo support the organization's work in Colombia, focusing on the following three areas: a) strengthen and bolster its security capacities, b) help improve its investigative journalism and creative publishing, and c) supporting the diversification of income sources to promote the organization's financial sustainability.
DescriptionData Privacy Brasil Research Association - DPBR is a non-profit civil society organization that promotes data protection and other fundamental rights in the face of the emergence of new technologies, social inequalities and power asymmetries. With a multidisciplinary team from different Brazilian regions, DPBR develops public interest research on emerging issues, conducts advocacy and provides training for decision-making agents and society in general.
DescriptionTo support Directorio Legislativo through a process to more fully apply civic technology and open data into their parliamentary openness work.
DescriptionTo support Directorio Legislativo's work in Argentina and Latin America, with a focus on strengthening Directorio Legislativo's in-house communications expertise; stabilizing impact in the anti-corruption and transparency field and opening two legislatures at the subnational level in Argentina; leveraging the Open Government Partnership leadership opportunity.
DescriptionTo support La Pulla's 2022 election project, which has two main goals: encouraging voters to head to the polls and educating young people from different regions of the country on electoral matters.
DescriptionTo support the initiative "COVID-19 Index and Digital Rights" (Index), an alliance of NGOs working together to monitor and address the digital rights implications of regulatory, technical, and public policy measures in response to COVID-19 in Colombia.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support ELA in their efforts to enhance women's political participation in Argentina, addressing specific challenges that hinder their full and safe representation.
DescriptionThis grant aims to strengthen RENFA/Escola Livre in its efforts as part of the Brazilian Black Coalition for Rights, building collective positions on key policy issues.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support FGV Department of Public Policy Analysis (FGV DAPP)'s project focused on near real-time monitoring of disinformation and fake news in Brazil's 2018 elections, with the goals of positively influencing public debates and informing electoral authorities and policymakers on how to deal with related challenges.
DescriptionTo support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente, a non-profit in Chile that seeks to promote government transparency and accountability, using web and mobile technology to encourage active citizen participation and engagement in the political process.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente in amplifying its regional positioning, strengthening its operational team, and increasing citizens' engagement through the development of civic tech tools and platforms.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente, a non-profit in Chile that seeks to promote government transparency and accountability, using web and mobile technology to encourage active citizen participation and engagement in the political process.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support Fundacion Mi Sangre by a) building civic and political capacities in youth to shape decision-making and b) strengthening the organization's financial sustainability.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support FLIP further consolidate its work on freedom of expression and journalists protection, and ramp-up efforts to fight misinformation in Colombia.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis 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.
DescriptionTo support The Citizen Initiative for the Control of the Intelligence System (ICCSI), an initiative dedicated to monitoring and promoting the effective operation of control mechanisms over the intelligence system of Argentina.
DescriptionTo support the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, one of the largest and most influential conferences on investigative journalism held in Rio de Janeiro.
DescriptionThis 7-month rapid-response grant aims to reduce the prevalence of misinformation and disinformation on social media in Argentina ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
DescriptionTo support Instituto Betty & Jacob Lafer, a Brazilian philanthropic organization that focuses its grant-making and activities in empowering Brazilian organizations and offering support to agendas such as the defense of democracy, public security, data & digital rights, and human rights more broadly.
DescriptionThis project agreement will seek to strengthen Desinformante as a platform and specific connected initiatives that have a complementary role in monitoring and holding social media platforms accountable in Brazil's 2022 elections and the initial months of the new government.
DescriptionTo support the Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS), a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change.
DescriptionTo support Igarapé Institute, a think and do tank committed to safety, security and justice with operations across Latin America and Africa.
DescriptionTo support the Igarapé Institute, a non-profit and independent think and do tank focused on delivering data-driven and evidence-based solutions for security, justice, climate, and development challenges.
DescriptionTo support Instituto Igarape, an independent think and do tank devoted to evidence-based policy and action on complex security, justice, and development challenges in Brazil, Latin America, and Africa.
DescriptionInstituto Marielle Franco is a Brazilian non-profit organization, created by Marielle's family as a response to the brutal assassination that attempted to silence her. The Institute's mission is to inspire, connect, and empower Black women, LGBTQIAP+ individuals, and those from marginalized communities to continue shaking the foundations of society. Its vision is of a world where people like Marielle can access and thrive in various decision-making spaces of society without being interrupted. Its pillars of action consist of fighting for justice, upholding memory, amplifying the legacy, and nurturing the seeds of Marielle, those who came before, and those who will come after.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), a non-profit and non-governmental organization that seeks to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples, working closely with the Indigenous movement in Brazil.
DescriptionTo support Update Institute, a Brazilian organisation that studies and fosters civic engagement and political innovation in Latin America, seeking increased representation in politics and higher trust in democracy across the region.
DescriptionThis Project Funding seeks to advance Update's work on campaigning (especially the implementation and expansion of its tech tools), storytelling, and research to improve the presence of women and other underrepresented groups in institutional politics. It will also seek to strengthen Update's institutional development.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support the Vladimir Herzog Institute (IVH), a Brazilian civil society organisation founded in 2010, which seeks to defend the values of Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom of Expression.
DescriptionTo support the establishment of Velocidad, a media accelerator that provides capacity building and financing to independent for-profit and non-profit media organisations in Latin America.Â
DescriptionTo support SembraMedia and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in providing capacity building and financing to independent for-profit and non-profit media organizations in Latin America.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionInternetLab 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.
DescriptionTo support Intervozes, a non-profit civil society organisation established in 2003 to guarantee and improve the human right to communication, including freedom of expression and seeking, receiving and impart information and ideas, privacy, and data protection.
DescriptionThis 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.
DescriptionTo support JustaPaz's 2022 Elections project in Colombia. This project will seek to increase the representation of historically marginalized groups in Congress both before and after elections.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Convertible (Seed)
DescriptionTo support La Silla Vacía, a Colombian independent digital media outlet, which offers quality, investigative reporting about Colombian politics.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support The Laboratorio para la Ciudad (LabPLC), an civic innovation office within the Mexico City government. The grant enables LabPLC to test and document its theory of change, to learn how to most effectively increase civic engagement & government responsiveness.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support IMCO's successful work to enhance government transparency and citizen engagement in Mexico through programs such as Mejora tu Escuela (Improve your School) and 3de3.
DescriptionTo support a convening organised by the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness to increase awareness of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) among Latin American transparency organisations.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness's transformation from policy think tank to civic platform administrator by broadening reach, with a special focus on educational transparency platform.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo provide a project grant to Mutante to support the organization's non-partisan 2022 Elections project in Colombia. This project aims to increase youth representation in 2022 Congress agendas, focusing on raising the voices of young people who mobilized and participated in the 2021 social protests.
DescriptionTo support NIMD in increasing the representation of underrepresented groups in policymaking through civic participation methodologies and building capacities of congresspeople to carry out citizen-focused legislation.
DescriptionTo support Nexo, a Brazilian award-winning, digital-only independent media start-up. They are driven by the goal of strengthening citizenship and democracy through high quality information and data, and champion the idea that respectful public debate is possible and important.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Convertible (Seed)
DescriptionTo support Nexo, a media organisation that produces analytic and data journalism, providing audiences with high-quality content while also testing different approaches to business development.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Nossas in the expansion of its model for people-powered political participation at the city-level, originally developed by Meu Rio.
DescriptionThe funding will be applied in institutional development (administrative, HR, and commercial capacity), community building, and technology enhancement and artificial intelligence.
DescriptionTo support a collaborative effort between Access Now and Observacom, addressing content moderation practices and aiming to guarantee user's freedom of expression online in Argentina.
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