DescriptionEast-West Management Institute (EWMI)'s mentoring and capacity-building programme supports a cluster of organisations working to advance freedom of expression in Malaysia. The programme aims to strengthen the capacity of each organisation and develop their collective ability to coordinate and collaborate more effectively.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusEurope
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)950,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant will support Sum of Us in growing and mobilising their European movements to demand their rights be enforced under data protection regulations in Europe. This work will focus on ending the destructive behaviour of digital platforms.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)203,430
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionA project grant focused on building the capacity of Indonesian civil society in defending digital rights through workshops and trainings, fostering and sustaining networks through advocacy and communication, building better understanding of the role of open technology to support civic actors, and enhancing civil society knowledge and communications.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusEurope
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)52,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant is to support EU Disinfo Lab in convening an annual conference that brings together experts and thinkers on the challenges of disinformation.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionForbidden Stories is a journalist network and cross-border newsroom that aims to secure the data and information of threatened journalists and, when journalists are arrested or killed, to continue and publish their investigative reporting.
DescriptionTo contribute to the Fund for Global Human Rights in supporting grassroots organisations working across the globe to enable activists to remain agile in the face of crackdowns on their work.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusEurope
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)240,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThe grant will support Global Action Plan in engaging existing civil society coalitions and mass mobilisation groups in the European environment/development sectors to join the campaign to fix Big Tech. Through new research and analysis, GAP will engage the full breadth of the climate movement and expand its understanding of how Big Tech's business model is a fundamental obstacle to climate action.
DescriptionThis is a restricted grant to the Global Fund for Women to kick off their initiative on movement-led grantmaking and support for gender justice movements worldwide, the Gender Justice Data Hub project.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Haki Yetu's work in civic empowerment to help underrepresented people to fully participate in governance and leadership in Kilifi, Kwale, and Mombasa counties.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Alumni Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)171,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionSupporting ICT Watch to extend and expand the capacity building workshops on the importance of privacy and digital literacy to national and local organisations in Indonesia.
DescriptionThe grant is to support InfluenceMap in developing an Ad Tracker to track, store and analyse advertising on the Facebook UK platform, to create awareness for disinformation/misinformation and green-washing propagated by fossil fuel corporations and other vested interests in relation to climate news.
DescriptionTo support the work of IFIT's Inclusive Narratives Practice Group, which is the world's first dedicated advisory platform on the need to construct and promote inclusive social and political narratives as part of any negotiation, dialogue, or transition process taking place in a fragile and conflict-affected society.
DescriptionThis project agreement will seek to strengthen Desinformante as a platform and specific connected initiatives that have a complementary role in monitoring and holding social media platforms accountable in Brazil's 2022 elections and the initial months of the new government.
DescriptionThis Project Funding seeks to advance Update's work on campaigning (especially the implementation and expansion of its tech tools), storytelling, and research to improve the presence of women and other underrepresented groups in institutional politics. It will also seek to strengthen Update's institutional development.
DescriptionA project grant to Macondo Book Society to support putting together the Macondo Festival as well as side events with the aim of creating avenues for youth to engage with information regarding the country's‚Äö (and continent's) history and current affairs and using this to inform debates on political issues with the aim of promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted funding to support Media Defense in advancing their strategic objectives around providing legal defense to journalists under threat.
DescriptionTo support NIMD in increasing the representation of underrepresented groups in policymaking through civic participation methodologies and building capacities of congresspeople to carry out citizen-focused legislation.
DescriptionUnrestricted grant to Nebula Fund, a new multi-year initiative that aims to‚ strengthen the narrative power of progressive movements advancing gender justice to promote an inclusive, just and hopeful vision‚ of the future.
DescriptionThis funding is part of Luminate's participation in the NetGain Partnership, a philanthrophic collaboration seeking to advance the public interest in the digital age. NetGain's current work is focused on addressing the harms wrought by Big Tech and exploring and advancing meaningful reform.
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