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Area of work

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Year

Amount committed (US$)

Inter-American Foundation

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2024

500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To establish a collaborative fund for civil society organizations in Argentina to 1) strengthen the country's civic space, 2) promote the civic participation of underrepresented groups and combatting gender-based violence online and hate speech against them, and 3) create opportunities to enhance community development in peripheral areas.

International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

270,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 270,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 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.

Kamara

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 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.

Katiba Institute

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

906,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 906,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is an unrestricted grant to support Katiba Institute's work to entrench a culture and practice of constitutionalism in Kenya which creates a society in which human rights are protected, government is accountable and transparent, and everyone is able to participate in decision-making.

LEAP Africa

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

900,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a three-year grant contribution to the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a $5 million fund created by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fund provides targeted capacity building, youth ecosystem building and financial support to burgeoning youth-led movements in Nigeria, in order to sustain their work locally and facilitate opportunities for learning.

Legal Aid Center for the Press (LBH Pers)

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To carry out strategic litigation for online freedom of expression cases and strengthen the capacity of legal aid lawyers in handling public cases.

Mathare Social Justice Centre

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

150,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a 2 year grant to support MSJC to continue their work on building community agency to advocate for their rights and hold power to account.

Nacif Films

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2023

140,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 140,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support Filmadora in the production of a documentary about Vivir Quintana and her exploration of gender-based violence in Mexico.

Namati

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description A 2-year grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalized communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.

Namati

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

250,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A final grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalised communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.

Neo Philanthropy

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 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.

Network of European Foundations

Participation & Dissent

Europe

2024

550,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 550,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Luminate will contribute to the Civitates pooled fund to support the 2024-2028 strategy, which will focus on the enforcement of tech regulation at national level across 27 EU member states.

New Venture Fund

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description Core contribution to the Spyware Accountability Initiative, a pooled fund set up by the Ford Foundation to support coordination and capacity building efforts through open, accessible grants to organizations working on spyware accountability anywhere in the world. The fund aims for a sustainable and coordinated global field of activists that is able to curtail the use of surveillance technologies that facilitate authoritarianism, political repression, and the closing of civic space.

New Venture Fund

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description Digital Action is building a global coalition of tech justice organisations, aiming to hold Big Tech corporations to account for the way they amplify hate speech and disinformation, endangering already vulnerable minorities further. Digital Action is aiming to bring this pressure to bear particularly in 2024, when more than 60 countries go to the polls across the world.

Next Narrative Africa

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

321,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 321,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support the development process of Contest, a Nigerian political drama focused on Tony, a rising star in the Nigerian Afrobeats scene who decides to run for political office following a violent altercation with the police. The show will explore themes of young people and their relationship with democracy, civic participation, and politics, and the ways in which technology impacts these spaces.

Open Briefing

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support the work of Open Briefing, an organization that works to provide holistic security support and resources to protect people and communities challenging power. The focus of this opportunity is Open Briefing's strategies to 1) Disrupt attacks and reprisals against the people and communities challenging power and; 2) Strengthen the global support ecosystem for the people and communities targeted for challenging power. We will also be supporting their process of becoming a globally decentralized organization.

Open Institute International

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a renewal grant to Open Institute for two years. This grant seeks to continue support for ongoing work led by Open Institute in Kilifi County and beyond.

Open Rights Group

Participation & Dissent

Europe

2024

290,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 290,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Open Rights Group will facilitate initiatives that protect digital rights in the UK, including the regulation of Big Tech and improved enforcement of data protection.

Peri

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2023

944,500

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 944,500

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description Peri is a Brazil-born studio focused on creating films, docs and series that strategically push new mental models into the audience's imagination by tapping into well-known narrative archetypes.

Privacy International (PI)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

800,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 800,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a core renewal grant to Privacy International, whose mission is to protect people's privacy, dignity and freedoms from abuses of companies and governments. PI's strategy has the following pillars: i) Challenging Corporate Data Exploitation, ii) Contesting Government Data, iii) Defending Democracy and Dissent and iv) Safeguarding Peoples' Dignity.

Privacy International (PI)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

1,500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,500,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support Privacy International in building a transregional and cross-sectoral coalition to challenge the spread of the next generation of repressive tech and its misuse by governments. PI will bring together and coordinate civil society organisations, academics, and investigative journalists that have been working on components of digital authoritarianism (e.g. digital rights, defence sector, weapons control) to start building collective capacity to better understand and interrogate the convergence between civilian and military technology.

Purple Code Collective

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2023

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This project funding will support Purple Code carrying out legal assistance, tech and psycho-social assistance to victims of online gender-based violence.

Radio Workshop

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description By combining their skills in production, training, research and audience growth this grant is structured as a two year grant to support Radio Workshop in partnership with Africapodfest continue in its mission to train and mentor budding African podcasters to tell nuanced and impactful stories about Africa with the hopes of widening and deepening the conversations on issues that matter.

Red de Innovación Local (RIL)

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2024

600,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 36-month project agreement aims to support RIL's initiatives in amplifying the influence of women in politics at the local level by offering training and guidance in crafting public policies with a gender perspective, creating platforms for peer learning and accompaniment, and boosting the visibility of local women's leadership in Argentina.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description This is an 18-month grant to prototype an 18-month experiment in resourcing, documenting and potentially scaling methods to tackle harmful narratives as they relate to authoritarianism and securitization, which also considering how they intersect with AI and Big Tech.

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