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Area of work

Geographic focus

Year

Amount committed (US$)

Katiba Institute

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

906,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 906,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is an unrestricted grant to support Katiba Institute's work to entrench a culture and practice of constitutionalism in Kenya which creates a society in which human rights are protected, government is accountable and transparent, and everyone is able to participate in decision-making.

LEAP Africa

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

900,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a three-year grant contribution to the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a $5 million fund created by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fund provides targeted capacity building, youth ecosystem building and financial support to burgeoning youth-led movements in Nigeria, in order to sustain their work locally and facilitate opportunities for learning.

Legal Aid Center for the Press (LBH Pers)

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To carry out strategic litigation for online freedom of expression cases and strengthen the capacity of legal aid lawyers in handling public cases.

Luchadoras

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2024

300,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description The 36-month core grant aims to support Luchadoras in monitoring gender-based violence online in Mexico and the region, as well as carrying out efforts regarding internet governance with platforms and key government stakeholders.

Mathare Social Justice Centre

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

150,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a 2 year grant to support MSJC to continue their work on building community agency to advocate for their rights and hold power to account.

medConfidential

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

20,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 20,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support advocacy and education activities around human rights and data protection during the passage of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Meliore Foundation

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

900,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This funding will support The Better Information Project(TBIP) at Meliore Foundation that seeks to create fact-based media, content, and digital infrastructure that can overwhelm oppositional narratives and provide information context that can be used by decision makers - with the support of policy expertise - to drive radical decision making on tech regulation and policy.

Nacif Films

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2023

140,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 140,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support Filmadora in the production of a documentary about Vivir Quintana and her exploration of gender-based violence in Mexico.

Namati

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description A 2-year grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalized communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.

Namati

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

250,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A final grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalised communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.

Neo Philanthropy

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to Migration Tech Monitor's fellowship initiative, which incubates projects that 1) document the impact of technology and surveillance on mobile communities, 2) challenge the use and development of repressive border tools, or 3) build alternative security tech infrastructure and narratives designed by people with lived experience of migration. With this project, Luminate aims to explore how technologies used in border controls and border externalisation inform the use of repressive tech in society at large.

Network of European Foundations

Participation & Dissent

Europe

2024

550,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 550,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Luminate will contribute to the Civitates pooled fund to support the 2024-2028 strategy, which will focus on the enforcement of tech regulation at national level across 27 EU member states.

Network of European Foundations

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

1,000,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,000,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description The European AI and Society Fund will provide support to CSOs across Europe to work together on building accountable governance mechanisms on AI.

New Economy Organisers Network (NEON)

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

149,925

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 149,925

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This 2-year project grant will support Just Treatment to deliver their project on youth mental health and platform accountability as part of their wider patient-led campaigning on health justice. The project will focus on building an ecosystem across digital and non-digital groups and supporting young people harmed by social media platforms to become the leaders of a broad coalition to win systemic reform.

New Venture Fund

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description Digital Action is building a global coalition of tech justice organisations, aiming to hold Big Tech corporations to account for the way they amplify hate speech and disinformation, endangering already vulnerable minorities further. Digital Action is aiming to bring this pressure to bear particularly in 2024, when more than 60 countries go to the polls across the world.

New Venture Fund

Information Ecosystems

Global

2023

84,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 84,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This 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.

New Venture Fund

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description Core contribution to the Spyware Accountability Initiative, a pooled fund set up by the Ford Foundation to support coordination and capacity building efforts through open, accessible grants to organizations working on spyware accountability anywhere in the world. The fund aims for a sustainable and coordinated global field of activists that is able to curtail the use of surveillance technologies that facilitate authoritarianism, political repression, and the closing of civic space.

Next Narrative Africa

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

321,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 321,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support the development process of Contest, a Nigerian political drama focused on Tony, a rising star in the Nigerian Afrobeats scene who decides to run for political office following a violent altercation with the police. The show will explore themes of young people and their relationship with democracy, civic participation, and politics, and the ways in which technology impacts these spaces.

Núcleo Jornalismo

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2023

190,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 190,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description The funding will be applied in institutional development (administrative, HR, and commercial capacity), community building, and technology enhancement and artificial intelligence.

Open Briefing

Participation & Dissent

Global

2023

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support the work of Open Briefing, an organization that works to provide holistic security support and resources to protect people and communities challenging power. The focus of this opportunity is Open Briefing's strategies to 1) Disrupt attacks and reprisals against the people and communities challenging power and; 2) Strengthen the global support ecosystem for the people and communities targeted for challenging power. We will also be supporting their process of becoming a globally decentralized organization.

Open Institute International

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a renewal grant to Open Institute for two years. This grant seeks to continue support for ongoing work led by Open Institute in Kilifi County and beyond.

Open Net

Information Ecosystems

Asia

2023

270,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 270,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support the organisation's work in using Data Protection Acts to reducing monetisation of the disinformation content and accounts on platforms in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Taiwan.

Open Rights Group

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2023

50,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2023

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Campaign initiatives to challenge the UK Government's ambition to weaken UK data protection standards.

Open Rights Group

Participation & Dissent

Europe

2024

290,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 290,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Open Rights Group will facilitate initiatives that protect digital rights in the UK, including the regulation of Big Tech and improved enforcement of data protection.

Paradigm Initiative

Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Africa

2023

410,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 410,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a two year grant to Paradigm Initiative to support its core operations and programs around digital rights and digital inclusion in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.

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