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.
Area of workInformation Ecosystems, Participation & Dissent
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)300,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionThis is a 24-month grant to support Scrolla's ambitions to establish Scrolla.Africa as the pre-eminent popular mobile news platform in South Africa, with the aim to expand its work into the rest of southern Africa, and later to create regional hubs in Nigeria and Kenya.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)400,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA 2-year grant to Open Cities Lab to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to facilitate the provision of reliable information to citizens of various countries, especially Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, to enable participation in civic and political life.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Privacy International, which advocates for the right to privacy for everyone, everywhere. Privacy International works to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from institutions who breach public trust.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionA two year grant to support the Forum on Information and Democracy expand its influence into new geographies outside Europe and build institutional capacity.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionSeed funding to support the establishment and implementation of Civic Compass, an initiative focusing on the intersection of technology, the internet and representative democracy in Latin America.
DescriptionA 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.
DescriptionThis 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.
DescriptionThis 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.
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.
We recognise your right to privacy. Therefore, we limit the collection of personal data and strive to work only with organisations that do the same. We will never use your data for any other reason than the one you provided it for – and we will never pass it on without your permission.