Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity: Bridge
DescriptionTo support Unite US, which designs, builds, and delivers the best-in-class collaboration and coordination software to streamline the delivery of health and human services.
DescriptionTo support United We Dream, which empowers undocumented young people to develop their leadership, their organising skills, and to develop their own campaigns to push for justice and dignity for U.S. immigrants and all people.
DescriptionTo support UWD Network's movement building work to ensure that undocumented immigrant youth are centered in immigrant rights advocacy efforts.
DescriptionTo create a resilient network of women in Argentina, fostering collaboration and facilitating their advancement in political, economic, academic, and social leadership roles.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support University of Johannesburg's Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP) to carry out advocacy and further investigative reporting of instances of state-surveillance in Southern Africa.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)266,450
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionA grant to a research coalition based in the University of Massachusetts Amherst that aims to support original research, develop policy advocacy, and provide capacity-building on technology accountability in/from the global South.
DescriptionThis research grant renewal will extend the partnership between Luminate and UMass Amherst digital politics researchers to develop high-impact action research that supports global civil society to address information disorders across diverse national contexts.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
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.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network, a community of practice based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa that aims to advance research, learning, and application in the field of civic tech in southern Africa.
DescriptionThis 2-year project grant will support the Hope and Courage Collective to grow an emergent ecosystem across civil society in Ireland at the intersections of tackling threats to democracy, the exponential rise of the far-right and the role of social media platforms in amplifying hate, discrimination, mis- and disinformation and thus exacerbating harms and negatively impacting democracy. This grant will help them to support an ecosystem so that it is better connected, more aligned, and better able to work together.
DescriptionThis grant will help Uplift launch a major public enquiry in Ireland on the role of Big Tech in Irish society and its failure in holding these companies to account in protecting all Europeans' data and digital rights.
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted core support for Upturn's work to promote equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeFund
DescriptionTo provide funding to Urban Innovation Fund, a venture fund focused on identifying early-stage innovators disrupting entrenched industries, and providing them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued and impactful companies.
DescriptionThe proposed project grant will support the Victory Institute in strengthening the network and skills of LGBTQI+ leaders across Latin America; producing a two-volume research on the regional situation of the political participation of LGBTQI+ persons; and developing institutional capacity and resilience of the LGBTQI+ movement in Brazil.
DescriptionThrough narrative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, Viewfinder seeks to make complex findings accessible to audiences across the spectrum of South African news media consumers. This is a tie-off grant to Viewfinder to enable them to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity.
DescriptionTo provide a renewal grant to WOLA to support its work fostering civil society efforts in the region that seek to build democratic governance, attack systemic corruption, defend human rights, secure peace, and promote equity, especially in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeS.A.F.E: Simple Agreement for Future Equity
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.
DescriptionThis grant will go towards supporting two of WILAN's activities, namely the Leading Woman Show and Women Running Circle, an aftercare programme for women politicians. It will also strengthen their MsRepresented project which is an online campaign for women misrepresented and underrepresented.
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