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Year

Amount committed (US$)

Equality Labs

Civic Empowerment

United States

2017

50,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To support Equality Labs, a South Asian American human rights arts organisation working at the intersection of storytelling, design, technology, and digital security to end caste apartheid, Islamophobia, and religious intolerance.

Fast Forward

Civic Empowerment

United States

2018

345,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2018

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 345,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support civic tech startup Raheem.ai, a project of Fast Forward, in collecting and publishing data about interactions with police in the U.S. that local organisations, lawmakers, and police departments can use to better support their communities.

Fractured Atlas

Civic Empowerment

United States

2017

50,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

FrontlineSMS

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2010

350,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2010

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 350,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Frontline SMS, which is professional messaging platform.

FrontlineSMS

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2011

350,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2011

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 350,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support Frontline SMS in its business development activities.

Fundacion Ciudadanía Inteligente (FCI)

Civic Empowerment

Latin America

2011

500,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2011

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente, a non-profit in Chile that seeks to promote government transparency and accountability, using web and mobile technology to encourage active citizen participation and engagement in the political process.

Fundacion Ciudadanía Inteligente (FCI)

Civic Empowerment

Latin America

2016

495,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2016

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 495,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente in amplifying its regional positioning, strengthening its operational team, and increasing citizens' engagement through the development of civic tech tools and platforms.

Fundacion Ciudadanía Inteligente (FCI)

Civic Empowerment

Latin America

2015

250,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2015

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Global Integrity

Civic Empowerment

United States

2017

60,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 60,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To support a project by the Sunlight Foundation and Open Gov Hub called Global Lessons for US Democracy.

Grassroot

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2017

180,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 180,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To 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.

Herdict

Civic Empowerment

Global

2010

300,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Global

Year 2010

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support Herdict, the Berkman Center's crowdsourcing platform for providing insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of website accessibility.

Infonet

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2010

99,942

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2010

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 99,942

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To 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.

Instituto Betty & Jacob Lafer

Civic Empowerment

Latin America

2021

40,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2021

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 40,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support Instituto Betty & Jacob Lafer, a Brazilian philanthropic organization that focuses its grant-making and activities in empowering Brazilian organizations and offering support to agendas such as the defense of democracy, public security, data & digital rights, and human rights more broadly.

Laboratorio para la Ciudad

Civic Empowerment

Latin America

2013

100,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2013

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To 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.

Livity Africa

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2013

186,048

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2013

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 186,048

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To 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.

Livity Africa

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2015

534,616

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2015

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 534,616

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide general operating support for Livity Africa to help increase the participation of youth in South Africa's democracy.

Magamba Network

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2017

280,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 280,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support the development and use of new media tools to educate citizens and promote new forms of civic engagement in Zimbabwe.

Magamba Network

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2019

315,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 315,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To 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.

Making All Voices Count

Civic Empowerment

Global

2012

5,000,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Global

Year 2012

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 5,000,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To provide support for a new fund providing financial and human capital support to grow the nascent technology for transparency and accountability sector, globally.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Civic Empowerment

Global

2014

401,033

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Global

Year 2014

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 401,033

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To fund the Omidyar Network-MIT Collaboration for Impact Assessment, a project to test theories of change for organisations in the government transparency sector.

MediaJustice

Civic Empowerment

United States

2017

50,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To support the Center for Media Justice, in partnership with Wellstone and United We Dream, in conducting three day-long local events that deliver grassroots digital security workshops to activists and organisers and engage them in related advocacy or educational events.

MediaJustice

Civic Empowerment

United States

2020

750,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2020

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 750,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support MediaJustice's work to build a movement at the intersection of data and digital rights and racial justice, organising around the unique challenges of sustaining grassroots organisations in creating concerted, amplified change. MediaJustice centers the rights and voices of people of color, lower-income communities, and all those who face historic discrimination and disadvantage.

Memria

Civic Empowerment

Latin America

2019

100,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2019

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support Memria in capturing and curating stories of victims from the Colombian armed conflict.

Mideast Youth

Civic Empowerment

Global

2011

600,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Global

Year 2011

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To 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.

Migratory Notes

Civic Empowerment

United States

2017

75,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 75,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support Migratory Notes, a weekly guide to rapidly developing immigration issues for journalists, policymakers, lawyers, academics, advocates, and immigrants themselves.

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