DescriptionTo support UndocuBlack's work to advocate for legislation and executive actions to protect and provide permanent immigration status relief to Black undocumented immigrants facing the dual threat of xenophobia and racism.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity: Bridge
DescriptionTo support Unite US, which designs, builds, and delivers the best-in-class collaboration and coordination software to streamline the delivery of health and human services.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo provide funding to Unite US, an outcome-focused technology company that builds coordinated care networks of health and social service providers.
DescriptionTo support Verified, an initiative launched by the United Nations to combat the growing scourge of COVID-19 misinformation by increasing the volume and reach of trusted, accurate information. This grant was funded by The Omidyar Group and is managed by Luminate.
DescriptionTo support United We Dream, which empowers undocumented young people to develop their leadership, their organising skills, and to develop their own campaigns to push for justice and dignity for U.S. immigrants and all people.
DescriptionTo support UWD Network's movement building work to ensure that undocumented immigrant youth are centered in immigrant rights advocacy efforts.
DescriptionTo create a resilient network of women in Argentina, fostering collaboration and facilitating their advancement in political, economic, academic, and social leadership roles.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support University of Johannesburg's Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP) to carry out advocacy and further investigative reporting of instances of state-surveillance in Southern Africa.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)266,450
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionA grant to a research coalition based in the University of Massachusetts Amherst that aims to support original research, develop policy advocacy, and provide capacity-building on technology accountability in/from the global South.
DescriptionThis research grant renewal will extend the partnership between Luminate and UMass Amherst digital politics researchers to develop high-impact action research that supports global civil society to address information disorders across diverse national contexts.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network, a community of practice based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa that aims to advance research, learning, and application in the field of civic tech in southern Africa.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
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.
DescriptionTo educate Spanish-speaking audiences on how to identify misinformation and disinformation related to the 2020 census and election, and will also help identify and debunk disinformation aimed at reducing Latino-participation in these events.
DescriptionThis grant will help Uplift launch a major public enquiry in Ireland on the role of Big Tech in Irish society and its failure in holding these companies to account in protecting all Europeans' data and digital rights.
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.
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted core support for Upturn's work to promote equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeFund
DescriptionTo provide funding to Urban Innovation Fund, a venture fund focused on identifying early-stage innovators disrupting entrenched industries, and providing them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued and impactful companies.
DescriptionLuminate 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.
DescriptionTo support SwiftRiver, a free and open source platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. It offers organisations an easy way to combine natural language/artificial intelligence process, data-mining for SMS and Twitter, and verification algorithms for different sources of information.
DescriptionTo support Ushahidi, a social enterprise that provides software and services to numerous sectors and civil society to help improve the bottom up flow of information.
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