DescriptionA 3-year unrestricted grant to support Superrr Lab?s work to develop visions and projects to create more equitable futures by researching technologies, building networks, and shaping new narratives. LSI is particularly interested in their work 1) opening up the tech debate to those most affected by digital technologies, including forming new networks and alliances beyond tech and, 2) replacing innovation narratives with sustainability, equity and inclusion, including providing a forum to build consensus between civil society organisations, establish points of action and present shared narratives.
DescriptionAn 18-month project grant to support research mapping on how technology causes harm to marginalised communities in Europe. The grant will support Systemic Justice to 1) develop bespoke non-extractive methodological approaches to research / investigate the harms experienced by marginalised communities across Europe and 2) publish the main mapping report and develop additional related outputs.
DescriptionThis grant to Accionar.io contributes to the collaborative design of communication and mobilization strategies aimed at raising awareness and promoting the agendas of underrepresented groups, specifically women, youth, the LGBT+ community, and Indigenous peoples.
DescriptionTo support the London Story's work to fight the impunity of the state and big tech in the info-sphere through the tracking of disinformation and hate speech online that lead to violations of human rights in particular in India and Europe.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionThis is a project grant to help TNH advance their mission to create a model of decolonised journalism, a key component of their five-year strategy (2022-2026), then to provide practical insights and thought leadership to the wider sector of international journalism on the subject. More specifically, TNH's efforts will focus on creating content that is more inclusive and guided by the communities they serve, in order to better represent the issues that matter to them. In addition to nuturing talent from the Global South, TNH will also seek to create guidance based on their own and others' experience and by providing fora and a platform for awareness-raising and discussion.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusGlobal
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)100,000
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant is to support survivors and victims of disinformation campaigns in Syria to directly advocate to policymakers and tech companies about the harm caused by disinformation attacks and the need for Tech regulation.
DescriptionThis is a renewal project agreement to the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education. The scope of this project is supporting Tshisimani in building transnational solidarity across the African continent through the African Solidarity Programme, and Education for Movement Building. This work is also part of a continued long-term investment to support Tshisimani in becoming a global reference for activist education.
DescriptionTo create a resilient network of women in Argentina, fostering collaboration and facilitating their advancement in political, economic, academic, and social leadership roles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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