Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis grant will provide support for IDEAS to conduct discussions with youth leaders, including from political parties, and further existing research regarding good governance and policies. It will also allow IDEAS to continue its work in advocating for access to information and facilitating public participation and engagement in policymaking processes.
DescriptionThis 7-month rapid-response grant aims to reduce the prevalence of misinformation and disinformation on social media in Argentina ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
DescriptionInstituto Marielle Franco is a Brazilian non-profit organization, created by Marielle's family as a response to the brutal assassination that attempted to silence her. The Institute's mission is to inspire, connect, and empower Black women, LGBTQIAP+ individuals, and those from marginalized communities to continue shaking the foundations of society. Its vision is of a world where people like Marielle can access and thrive in various decision-making spaces of society without being interrupted. Its pillars of action consist of fighting for justice, upholding memory, amplifying the legacy, and nurturing the seeds of Marielle, those who came before, and those who will come after.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusGlobal
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)200,000
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionResearch-based Online Violence Early Warning System (EWS) by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the University of Sheffield designed to detect, predict, and ultimately help prevent the escalation of online abuse, harassment, and attacks against women journalists - online and offline.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionInternetLab is a Brazilian civil society organization whose mission is to produce sophisticated, evidence-based and impact-oriented social and legal research and analyses to identify and clarify critical issues, thereby helping to build the intellectual and evidential foundation for public awareness, action and policy-making.
DescriptionThis Project Agreement will support Intervozes' general mission of promoting a free and diverse informational ecosystem in Brazil, specifically by supporting their ability to a) carry out research projects; b) implement public engagement campaigns and advocacy strategies on both national and international levels; c) conduct training courses aimed at grassroots activists and organizations.
DescriptionA two-year project agreement to support Minority Africa to streamline their internal operations and to develop their editorial, fellowship, and external networks.
DescriptionThis is a project agreement to support the work of Kamara, an organization that works to advance the safety of the global ecosystem of civil society organizations and movements, and to provide tailored protection tactics for its partners. The focus of this opportunity is Kamara's Strategic Initiatives Centre (SIC), an experimental initiative to support civil society in the Global Majority by providing investigation-based insights to inform both their protection and advancement of missions.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is an unrestricted grant to support Katiba Institute's work to entrench a culture and practice of constitutionalism in Kenya which creates a society in which human rights are protected, government is accountable and transparent, and everyone is able to participate in decision-making.
DescriptionThis is a three-year grant contribution to the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a $5 million fund created by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fund provides targeted capacity building, youth ecosystem building and financial support to burgeoning youth-led movements in Nigeria, in order to sustain their work locally and facilitate opportunities for learning.
DescriptionTo support advocacy and education activities around human rights and data protection during the passage of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
DescriptionA 2-year grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalized communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.
DescriptionThis 2-year project grant will support Just Treatment to deliver their project on youth mental health and platform accountability as part of their wider patient-led campaigning on health justice. The project will focus on building an ecosystem across digital and non-digital groups and supporting young people harmed by social media platforms to become the leaders of a broad coalition to win systemic reform.
DescriptionDigital Action is building a global coalition of tech justice organisations, aiming to hold Big Tech corporations to account for the way they amplify hate speech and disinformation, endangering already vulnerable minorities further. Digital Action is aiming to bring this pressure to bear particularly in 2024, when more than 60 countries go to the polls across the world.
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.
DescriptionThe funding will be applied in institutional development (administrative, HR, and commercial capacity), community building, and technology enhancement and artificial intelligence.
DescriptionThis is a project agreement to support the work of Open Briefing, an organization that works to provide holistic security support and resources to protect people and communities challenging power. The focus of this opportunity is Open Briefing's strategies to 1) Disrupt attacks and reprisals against the people and communities challenging power and; 2) Strengthen the global support ecosystem for the people and communities targeted for challenging power. We will also be supporting their process of becoming a globally decentralized organization.
DescriptionTo support the organisation's work in using Data Protection Acts to reducing monetisation of the disinformation content and accounts on platforms in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Taiwan.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)410,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a two year grant to Paradigm Initiative to support its core operations and programs around digital rights and digital inclusion in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
DescriptionPeri is a Brazil-born studio focused on creating films, docs and series that strategically push new mental models into the audience's imagination by tapping into well-known narrative archetypes.
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