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Area of work

Geographic focus

Year

Amount committed (US$)

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2011

150,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2011

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2011

300,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2011

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2013

1,085,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2013

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,085,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Samosa Festival Ltd

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2022

30,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2022

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 30,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description A one-year project grant to support work on promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture through digitization and dissemination of visual representations of history and hosting sessions to engage the youth on themes arising.

School of Politics, Policy and Governance

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2022

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2022

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a core operating grant support to the School of Politics, Policy, and Governance, a school that seeks to build a base and pipeline of a new value-based and disruptive thinking political class with the requisite knowledge and skills to solve complex problems of development.

SEATTI

Civic Empowerment

Asia

2012

2,140,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2012

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 2,140,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To support SEATTI (the Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Fund), a partnership between Omidyar Network and Hivos supporting technology-driven civil society organisations working on media and government transparency in Southeast Asia.

SEATTI

Civic Empowerment

Asia

2014

70,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2014

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 70,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To support the Openness Marketplace Conference, which seeks to spark and inspire new ideas relating to the Open Government Partnership.

Seedstars World

Other

Multi-Country

2017

340,000

Area of work Other

Geographic focus Multi-Country

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 340,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support Seedstars World in running national and regional competitions and workshops and in growing the civic tech ecosystems in Myanmar, Zimbabwe, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Siasa Place

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

240,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 240,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A 2-year grant to Siasa Place to support core operations and program work. This grant's broad aim will be to promote youth participation in democratic processes through research, training, civic education, networking, and strategic partnerships.

Skylight Pictures

Civic Empowerment

Global

2013

175,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Global

Year 2013

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 175,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support a new endeavor called the Toolbox, the purpose of which is to create a platform where citizen activists and other stakeholders, such as app developers and large non-profits, can actively engage on a range of social issues.

Social Impact Fund

Civic Empowerment

United States

2018

100,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus United States

Year 2018

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support A Day of Unreasonable Conversation, bringing together leading television writers, producers, and executives across the broadcast, streaming, and cable networks to connect with world leaders, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and activists to discuss the greatest challenges and opportunities facing the world in 2019.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a core grant to SERAP in support of their strategic litigation work to protect dissent and to expand the space for civic participation in Nigeria.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2019

500,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support SERAP, a non-profit which promotes transparency and accountability in Nigeria primarily by advocating for improved implementation of the Freedom of Information Act to enable the public and civil society to know, understand, and act on what government is doing.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2017

240,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2017

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 240,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support SERAP in building awareness around the Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria, to support citizens and civil society to make use of it, and to conduct strategic litigation to build jurisprudence around the right of the public to access information.

Spaces for Change

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

50,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

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 This is a grant to Spaces for Change to support the tracking and documentation of civic space issues arising from the 2023 general elections, the Nigerian judiciary's contributions to these, and provide recommendations on appropriate responses.

Spotlight on Corruption

Financial Transparency

Global

2021

115,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Global

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 115,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide unrestricted support to Spotlight on Corruption.

Spotlight on Corruption

Financial Transparency

Global

2020

15,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Global

Year 2020

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 15,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support Spotlight on Corruption to highlight and seek to remedy the accountability gap in which the large accounting firms operate.

Stanford University

Data & Digital Rights

United States

2021

400,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus United States

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support Stanford's Cyber Policy Center in their research, project, and writing/editing work

Stears

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2022

150,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2022

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a grant to support Stears in building an election situation room which is designed to engage internet enabled Nigerians who want to follow the elections, an estimated audience of 33 million people.

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)

Data & Digital Rights

Europe

2017

1,425,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2017

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,425,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in research and policy development on technology issues including data governance, fake news, and surveillance.

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)

Data & Digital Rights

Europe

2020

1,000,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2020

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,000,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide general support to Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV), a non-profit think tank based in Berlin working on bringing tech companies, government, and civil society together on policy proposals on the intersection of technology and public policy such as the impact of AI, intelligence oversight on surveillance, and disinformation in political campaigns.

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)

Other

Global

2015

475,000

Area of work Other

Geographic focus Global

Year 2015

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 475,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support SNV in bringing together privacy advocates engaged in the surveillance debate with the open government community to establish a privacy policy framework with democratic legitimacy for any public institutions use of big and open data.

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)

Data & Digital Rights

Europe

2019

80,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 80,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in comparing the US and the EU on their capabilities to address social, economic, and political challenges associated with AI.

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.

Sundance Institute

Independent Media

Global

2018

900,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Global

Year 2018

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To create the Sundance Institute | Luminate Fund, which provides non-recoupable grants to independent artists working across documentary, narrative, episodic, and emerging media projects that address the areas in which Luminate strives to have impact.

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