Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
Investment descriptionTo support MMA, a non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.
Investment descriptionTo support the Mozilla Foundation in conducting public campaigns and coalition building in key EU member states and to partner with Global Progress to promote a policy agenda that defends democracy from digital threats.
Investment descriptionNew Media Ventures (NMV) is a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV in financing early-stage, for-profit and nonprofit startups with seed funding ($50-250K).
Investment descriptionFund run by NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute's Membership Puzzle Project to identify and incubate innovative early-stage membership models globally
Investment descriptionTo support Nexo, a Brazilian award-winning, digital-only independent media start-up. They are driven by the goal of strengthening citizenship and democracy through high quality information and data, and champion the idea that respectful public debate is possible and important.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
Investment descriptionTo support Open Secrets, a non-profit organisation which exposes and builds accountability for private sector economic crimes through investigative research, advocacy, and the law. This core grant supports Open Secrets to continue and expand their work to hold private sector companies accountable for economic crimes that result in human rights violations.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
Investment descriptionTo support Paris Peace Forum, an organisation combining an annual event with support through the year to demonstrate that international cooperation is key to tackling global challenges.
Investment descriptionTo support Partnership on AI, a multi-stakeholder organisation that brings together academics, researchers, civil society organizations, companies building and utilising AI technology, and other groups working to better understand AI's impacts.
Investment descriptionTo 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.
Investment descriptionTo 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.
Investment descriptionThis agreement funds specialized engineering and design services from Swish Labs, delivered to Robhat Labs, which is building a user-facing software that detects and labels automated and spam accounts on Twitter.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
Investment descriptionTo support the 'Public Square' project, a partnership between the Democratic Society and mySociety to develop and build consensus around the case for common social and technological infrastructure to support citizen participation in the democratic process at local and regional level in the UK.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
Investment descriptionTo support the University of Oxford to support the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Programme. The programme investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation, and politics.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
Investment descriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CTIN is a community of practice and a learning network of civic tech practitioners in South Africa, currently hosted as a programme of the Journalism and Media Department.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
Investment descriptionTo support Zenysis, a technology company dedicated to building the powerful, collaborative software that governments and international organisations need to confront the greatest challenges facing humanity.
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