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Area of work

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Year

Amount committed (US$)

Studio Citizen

Information Ecosystems

Global

2023

600,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Luminate supports the early stage development of Studio Citizen, a new Studio that integrates journalism into impact-driven nonfiction storytelling.

Superrr Lab

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

400,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding purpose Other

Description A 3-year unrestricted grant to support Superrr Lab?s work to develop visions and projects to create more equitable futures by researching technologies, building networks, and shaping new narratives. LSI is particularly interested in their work 1) opening up the tech debate to those most affected by digital technologies, including forming new networks and alliances beyond tech and, 2) replacing innovation narratives with sustainability, equity and inclusion, including providing a forum to build consensus between civil society organisations, establish points of action and present shared narratives.

Systemic Justice

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

150,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description An 18-month project grant to support research mapping on how technology causes harm to marginalised communities in Europe. The grant will support Systemic Justice to 1) develop bespoke non-extractive methodological approaches to research / investigate the harms experienced by marginalised communities across Europe and 2) publish the main mapping report and develop additional related outputs.

TechHer

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

260,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 260,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a two-year core grant to TechHer, in support of their work to address Online Gender Based Violence (OGBV) and building a Community of Practice for the protection of women's digital rights.

TechSocietal

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

350,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 350,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A two-year project agreement with TechSocietal to support work aimed at reducing digital inequalities and empower vulnerable groups, particularly women and children, by advocating for platform accountability, promoting digital safety and rights, and enabling access to and benefit from the digital economy through policy engagement, capacity building, digital skills development, and research from a Feminist Tech Lens.

Tecnología Sin Fines de Lucro

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2023

60,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 60,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This grant to Accionar.io contributes to the collaborative design of communication and mobilization strategies aimed at raising awareness and promoting the agendas of underrepresented groups, specifically women, youth, the LGBT+ community, and Indigenous peoples.

Temblores

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2025

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Temblores ONG, a non-profit founded in 2017, fights social inequality in Colombia through strategic litigation and civic participation. They mobilise community-led transformation to challenge exclusion and systemic rights denial.

The Citizens

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

450,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 450,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description The purpose of this grant is to support the Real Facebook Oversight Board project of The Citizens to challenge the legitimacy of Facebook's Oversight Board and expose the harms of Facebook creatively.

The London Story

Participation & Dissent

Europe

2023

150,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support the London Story's work to fight the impunity of the state and big tech in the info-sphere through the tracking of disinformation and hate speech online that lead to violations of human rights in particular in India and Europe.

The New Humanitarian

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

175,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 175,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description This is a project grant to help TNH advance their mission to create a model of decolonised journalism, a key component of their five-year strategy (2022-2026), then to provide practical insights and thought leadership to the wider sector of international journalism on the subject. More specifically, TNH's efforts will focus on creating content that is more inclusive and guided by the communities they serve, in order to better represent the issues that matter to them. In addition to nuturing talent from the Global South, TNH will also seek to create guidance based on their own and others' experience and by providing fora and a platform for awareness-raising and discussion.

The New Humanitarian

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

175,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 175,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Core support for TNH to advance their mission to create a model of decolonised journalism.

The Syria Campaign UK

Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Global

2023

100,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description This grant is to support survivors and victims of disinformation campaigns in Syria to directly advocate to policymakers and tech companies about the harm caused by disinformation attacks and the need for Tech regulation.

The Voices Project

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

60,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 60,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This funding is to support the Disinformation project, whose goal is to reduce hate speech and online harassment and protect space for civil society to express solidarity with causes and campaigns for the protection of human rights, civilian protection and refugee rights.

Transnational Institute at Amsterdam

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This grant will support Noor as the organisation coordinates a transregional network, seeking to build the power of gender justice and progressive movements to obstruct far right agendas, and advance the movement's transformative visions.

Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a renewal project agreement to the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education. The scope of this project is supporting Tshisimani in building transnational solidarity across the African continent through the African Solidarity Programme, and Education for Movement Building. This work is also part of a continued long-term investment to support Tshisimani in becoming a global reference for activist education.

UKM Pakarunding

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2024

100,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This project involves the mapping of group-based empowerment programmes in Malaysia.

Universidad de Palermo

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2024

510,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 510,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This project agreement supports CELE in promoting human-rights-based internet governance from the Global South by conducting research to influence global standards, strengthening tech regulation in Latin America, and advocating for these principles regionally and internationally.

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2023

160,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 160,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To create a resilient network of women in Argentina, fostering collaboration and facilitating their advancement in political, economic, academic, and social leadership roles.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Information Ecosystems

Asia

2023

198,811

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 198,811

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description This 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.

Uplift

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

120,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 120,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This 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.

Uplift

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

250,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This 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.

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Norman Lear Center

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

103,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 103,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Luminate is providing funding for the Norman Lear Research Center of the Univeristy of California to undertake a content analysis of the portrayal of social media and its industry in news and entertainment.

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Norman Lear Center

Information Ecosystems

United States

2024

50,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus United States

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To provide funding for the Norman Lear Research Center of the University of California to undertake a content analysis of the portrayal of social media and its industry in news and entertainment.

Victory Institute

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2023

589,254

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 589,254

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description The 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.

Viewfinder

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2023

50,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description Through narrative journalism, documentary Ô¨Ålmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, ViewÔ¨Ånder seeks to make complex Ô¨Åndings 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.

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