DescriptionThis 2-year project grant will support the Hope and Courage Collective to grow an emergent ecosystem across civil society in Ireland at the intersections of tackling threats to democracy, the exponential rise of the far-right and the role of social media platforms in amplifying hate, discrimination, mis- and disinformation and thus exacerbating harms and negatively impacting democracy. This grant will help them to support an ecosystem so that it is better connected, more aligned, and better able to work together.
DescriptionThe proposed project grant will support the Victory Institute in strengthening the network and skills of LGBTQI+ leaders across Latin America; producing a two-volume research on the regional situation of the political participation of LGBTQI+ persons; and developing institutional capacity and resilience of the LGBTQI+ movement in Brazil.
DescriptionThrough narrative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, Viewfinder seeks to make complex findings accessible to audiences across the spectrum of South African news media consumers. This is a tie-off grant to Viewfinder to enable them to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity.
DescriptionA 2-year project grant to support VoxPublic to convene, facilitate, and coordinate a network of digital and non-digital civil society organisations in France to increase pressure on social media companies by questioning their business model and toxic practices regarding discrimination, spread of hate speech, and disinformation. VoxPublic will convene stakeholders to build knowledge and analysis, centre people who experience harm by social media platforms and other injustices, and campaign.
DescriptionThis grant will go towards supporting two of WILAN's activities, namely the Leading Woman Show and Women Running Circle, an aftercare programme for women politicians. It will also strengthen their MsRepresented project which is an online campaign for women misrepresented and underrepresented.
DescriptionGrant 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.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionThis is a renewal of Luminate's contribution to the donor collaborative fund to protect human rights defenders such as journalists, media houses, and civil society partners in Nigeria who are victims of the shrinking civic space in Nigeria.
DescriptionThis project funding will support Yayasan Hivos organise training of trainers, organization accompaniment, and mentorship on holistic safety and security.
DescriptionYayasan Malaysiakini is a foundation formed under the auspices of Malaysiakini, Malaysia's oldest online news portal. Its main project Sokong, is a digital fundraising platform that aims to connect donors and nonprofits in Malaysia, in an effort to provide increased, consistent and long-term funding for these organisations.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusEurope
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)350,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant is to support hiring the necessary staff to scale up it works to fight against online hate, disinformation, and harassment and encourages online citizenship.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)70,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionA project grant to Africa Uncensored (working in collaboration with Open Cities Lab and OdipoDev) to run an initiative called MyCandidate to help inform voters who they are able to vote for in their area with the aim of increasing informed participation.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)100,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionThis is a grant to build capacity of young women journalists, improve the visibility and accessibility of young women in politics, and design a media toolkit for reporting on young women in politics.
DescriptionAll Out is a global organization advancing the rights and political agency of the LGBT+ community. They describe themselves as "a global movement fighting for a world where no one has to sacrifice their family, freedom, safety, or dignity because of who they are or who they love".
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted support to Asylum Access, aiming in particular to strengthen its Global Systems Change work, which seeks to transform the refugee system into one that is led and influenced by refugees and host
communities, and that prioritises efforts that defend refugee rights and secure access to services.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA two-year unrestricted sunset grant to the Black Stripe Foundation to support the production of the Big Debate - a popular TV show that brings together civil society, state actors and the general public to discuss issues of national interest to South Africans.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a core grant to support Connected Development's programmatic work around participation in civic and political life, and operations in support of these programmes.
DescriptionThe funding will support CEO's work to expose Big Tech interference in EU decision-making, thereby strengthening the resolve of decision-makers to stand firm against such lobbying pressure.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusEurope
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)1,365,455
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThe grant will enable DFF to provide increased funding to support strategic litigation to advance digital rights and Europe, centred around platform accountability and Big Tech. It will also enable DFF to facilitate and coordinate community strengthening and support activities relating to platform accountability and collective redress within Europe.
DescriptionEast-West Management Institute (EWMI)'s mentoring and capacity-building programme supports a cluster of organisations working to advance freedom of expression in Malaysia. The programme aims to strengthen the capacity of each organisation and develop their collective ability to coordinate and collaborate more effectively.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusEurope
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)950,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant will support Sum of Us in growing and mobilising their European movements to demand their rights be enforced under data protection regulations in Europe. This work will focus on ending the destructive behaviour of digital platforms.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)203,430
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionA project grant focused on building the capacity of Indonesian civil society in defending digital rights through workshops and trainings, fostering and sustaining networks through advocacy and communication, building better understanding of the role of open technology to support civic actors, and enhancing civil society knowledge and communications.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusEurope
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)52,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant is to support EU Disinfo Lab in convening an annual conference that brings together experts and thinkers on the challenges of disinformation.
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