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Area of work

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Year

Amount committed (US$)

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Policy Innovation Centre

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2024

1,965,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,965,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a three-year grant to Policy Innovation Centre in support of its work to provide policy analysis and ecosystem convening on the technology, development and democracy landscape in Nigeria. PIC will also provide coordination and managerial oversight for Nigeria's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collective, including acting as a fiscal agent to the three organisations that make up the consortium.

Privacy International (PI)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

1,500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,500,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a project agreement to support Privacy International in building a transregional and cross-sectoral coalition to challenge the spread of the next generation of repressive tech and its misuse by governments. PI will bring together and coordinate civil society organisations, academics, and investigative journalists that have been working on components of digital authoritarianism (e.g. digital rights, defence sector, weapons control) to start building collective capacity to better understand and interrogate the convergence between civilian and military technology.

Radio Workshop

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description By combining their skills in production, training, research and audience growth this grant is structured as a two year grant to support Radio Workshop in partnership with Africapodfest continue in its mission to train and mentor budding African podcasters to tell nuanced and impactful stories about Africa with the hopes of widening and deepening the conversations on issues that matter.

Red de Innovación Local (RIL)

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2024

600,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 36-month project agreement aims to support RIL's initiatives in amplifying the influence of women in politics at the local level by offering training and guidance in crafting public policies with a gender perspective, creating platforms for peer learning and accompaniment, and boosting the visibility of local women's leadership in Argentina.

Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)

Information Ecosystems

Global

2024

650,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 650,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This 33-month core grant aims to advance R3D's mission of protecting digital rights and preserving civic space in the face of escalating challenges posed by surveillance and cybercrime legislation, content moderation practices, and the rapid advancement of AI at a national, regional, and global level.

Reporters Without Borders

Information Ecosystems

Global

2024

200,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Other

Description An 18-month grant to support the Forum on Information and Democracy, to continue building its institutional capacity and expand its activities and partnerships in the Global South.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Information Ecosystems

Global

2024

2,000,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 2,000,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description A two year grant renewal to support IFPIM's scale up and sustain its operations and activities including research, policy and strategy on emerging technologies.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

200,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description This is an 18-month grant to prototype an 18-month experiment in resourcing, documenting and potentially scaling methods to tackle harmful narratives as they relate to authoritarianism and securitization, which also considering how they intersect with AI and Big Tech.

Stears

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2024

200,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description A two year project agreement to Stears to; Support the flagship product - African Elections Monitor, of the Data for Storytelling Program. Utilise cutting-edge technologies such as real-time satellite imagery and interactive data visualisation technologies to share knowledge with and train independent media organisations within Luminate's existing portfolio on data visualisation

TechHer

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2024

260,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 260,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a two-year core grant to TechHer, in support of their work to address Online Gender Based Violence (OGBV) and building a Community of Practice for the protection of women's digital rights.

The Citizens

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

450,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 450,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description The purpose of this grant is to support the Real Facebook Oversight Board project of The Citizens to challenge the legitimacy of Facebook's Oversight Board and expose the harms of Facebook creatively.

The Voices Project

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

60,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 60,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description This funding is to support the Disinformation project, whose goal is to reduce hate speech and online harassment and protect space for civil society to express solidarity with causes and campaigns for the protection of human rights, civilian protection and refugee rights.

Tifa Foundation

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2024

550,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2024

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 550,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a core support grant to TIFA to support their Data Policy and Governance Program, and to strengthen the organisation in transforming from a previously pure funding agency into a multi-donor, direct implementing organisation.

Transnational Institute at Amsterdam

Participation & Dissent

Global

2024

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This grant will support Noor as the organisation coordinates a transregional network, seeking to build the power of gender justice and progressive movements to obstruct far right agendas, and advance the movement's transformative visions.

UKM Pakarunding

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2024

100,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This project involves the mapping of group-based empowerment programmes in Malaysia.

Universidad de Palermo

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2024

510,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 510,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This project agreement supports CELE in promoting human-rights-based internet governance from the Global South by conducting research to influence global standards, strengthening tech regulation in Latin America, and advocating for these principles regionally and internationally.

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Norman Lear Center

Information Ecosystems

Europe

2024

103,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 103,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description Luminate is providing funding for the Norman Lear Research Center of the Univeristy of California to undertake a content analysis of the portrayal of social media and its industry in news and entertainment.

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Norman Lear Center

Information Ecosystems

United States

2024

50,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus United States

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To provide funding for the Norman Lear Research Center of the University of California to undertake a content analysis of the portrayal of social media and its industry in news and entertainment.

Washington Office on Latin America

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2024

600,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2024

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant to WOLA aims to support its work in fostering civil society efforts in the region that promote law and democracy. Additionally, it will expand their focus to include themes such as climate justice, gender and racial justice in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

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