Investment descriptionTo help Fuse Corps continue to grow its executive-level Fellowship program, which places experienced leaders within local governments to work on year-long projects tackling strategic issues like economic and workforce development, healthcare, public safety, climate change, and education.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
Investment descriptionTo support Grassroot, a non-profit organisation whose mobile tools enable ordinary people in communities across South Africa to organise groups, meetings, and events - using any mobile phone - which eliminate the transaction costs of collective action. This is a core grant to support the expansion of their work.
Investment descriptionTo support Herdict, the Berkman Center's crowdsourcing platform for providing insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of website accessibility.
Investment descriptionTo support InfoNet, which develops open source technologies that give individuals the ability to share public information, therefore improving government transparency and enabling communities to build social capital for democratic social action.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
Investment 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.
Investment descriptionTo support Livity Africa, which seeks to transform the lives of young people in South Africa by using youth-created media platforms and campaigns that engage, empower, and cause young people to act, including through political and democratic processes.
Investment descriptionTo support Magamba Network in increasing youth participation in national civic processes and consolidating citizen engagement through digital media and the use of civic tech in Zimbabwe.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
Investment descriptionTo provide support for a new fund providing financial and human capital support to grow the nascent technology for transparency and accountability sector, globally.
Investment descriptionTo fund the Omidyar Network-MIT Collaboration for Impact Assessment, a project to test theories of change for organisations in the government transparency sector.
Investment 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.
Investment descriptionTo support Migratory Notes, a weekly guide to rapidly developing immigration issues for journalists, policymakers, lawyers, academics, advocates, and immigrants themselves.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
Investment 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.
Investment descriptionTo support the continuing efforts of mySociety, including further innovation on its core platforms and products and growth in its international work.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity: Bridge
Investment descriptionTo provide support for NationBuilder, a software platform enabling leaders and communities to organise, rally supporters, and take action on causes and issues that matter to them.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
Investment descriptionTo provide support for NationBuilder, a software platform enabling leaders and communities to organise, rally supporters, and take action on causes and issues that matter to them.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity: Bridge
Investment descriptionTo provide support for NationBuilder, a software platform enabling leaders and communities to organise, rally supporters, and take action on causes and issues that matter to them.
Investment descriptionTo provide project support to New America Foundation to "rethink the think tank". NAF will pilot a model of building a national network of public problem-solvers, offering a new model for public engagement and civic discourse that bridges local, state, and federal policy levels.
Investment descriptionNew Media Ventures (NMV) is a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV in financing early-stage, for-profit and nonprofit startups with seed funding ($50-250K).
Investment descriptionTo support New Media Ventures, a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV Innovation Fund in financing early-stage, for-profit and non-profit startups with seed funding.
This database was last updated on 22 November 2019
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