Investment descriptionTo support a new endeavor called the Toolbox, the purpose of which is to create a platform where citizen activists and other stakeholders, such as app developers and large non-profits, can actively engage on a range of social issues.
Investment descriptionTo support A Day of Unreasonable Conversation, bringing together leading television writers, producers, and executives across the broadcast, streaming, and cable networks to connect with world leaders, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and activists to discuss the greatest challenges and opportunities facing the world in 2019.
Investment descriptionTo support the Sunlight Foundation in funding a multi-party effort to explore the merit and feasibility of an Open Data Charter, an initiative that would examine and develop policies and resources that countries could use to build meaningful new open data reforms.
Investment descriptionTo support an annual event organised by the Sunlight Foundation at which various communities of activists, government, NGOs, technologists, and others share their knowledge, challenges, and engagements in open government, transparency, and accountability efforts.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
Investment descriptionTo support eTekkatho, which builds free, self-contained digital libraries of high quality educational resources for Myanmar universities and community centres.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
Investment descriptionTo support the 'Public Square' project, a partnership between the Democratic Society and mySociety to develop and build consensus around the case for common social and technological infrastructure to support citizen participation in the democratic process at local and regional level in the UK.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
Investment descriptionTo support the Co-op Foundation's project at The Federation (Federation House in Manchester), an open community and hub run by the Co-op Group. It provides co-working space and venture support to digital social enterprises and an events programme.
Investment descriptionTo support a project by The Governance Lab, Reboot, and the New York City Mayor's Office called Powering New Yorkers via NYC Open Data.
Investment descriptionTo support Tumml, an organisation in San Francisco that operates as an accelerator, supporting early stage companies developing innovative consumer products and services that improve urban living.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity: Bridge
Investment descriptionTo support Unite US, which designs, builds, and delivers the best-in-class collaboration and coordination software to streamline the delivery of health and human services.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
Investment descriptionTo provide funding to Unite US, an outcome-focused technology company that builds coordinated care networks of health and social service providers.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
Investment descriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CTIN is a community of practice and a learning network of civic tech practitioners in South Africa, currently hosted as a programme of the Journalism and Media Department.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeFund
Investment descriptionTo provide funding to Urban Innovation Fund, a venture fund focused on identifying early-stage innovators disrupting entrenched industries, and providing them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued and impactful companies.
Investment descriptionTo support SwiftRiver, a free and open source platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. It offers organisations an easy way to combine natural language/artificial intelligence process, data-mining for SMS and Twitter, and verification algorithms for different sources of information.
Investment descriptionTo support Ushahidi, a social enterprise that provides software and services to numerous sectors and civil society to help improve the bottom up flow of information.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Convertible (Seed)
Investment descriptionTo support Versa, a for-profit civic startup developing digital products to deliver engaging, factual information to citizens through partnerships with online publishers, with the aim to increase transparency and foster citizen participation on local issues.
Investment descriptionTo support VoteRunLead, a nonpartisan organisation focused on increasing women's political representation at the local and state level in the U.S.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeS.A.F.E: Simple Agreement for Future Equity
Investment descriptionTo support Where Is My Transport, an integrated mass transit solution for emerging markets, focused on providing public transport data and technologies that enrich services, empower people, and enable innovation.
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