By investing in innovative new solutions driving change across the key pillars of digital inclusion, WiDEF is transforming the lives of women and girls both online and offline.

• women
• Gender Equality

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The Breakout Program is a $250,000 seed funding initiative launched by eQualitie to support innovations in digital communication that can withstand network shutdowns and censorship of global connectivity.

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• Connectivity

The Fund is a shared space for philanthropists to leverage one another’s expertise, incubate investment strategies to advance visionary concepts, and catalyze big ideas that can transform the use of technology to serve the public interest.

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• Foundation initiatives

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice.

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Tech for Democracy is a Danish-led initiative that brings together representatives from governments, multilateral organisations, tech industry and civil society to make technology work for democracy and human rights, not against them.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Funders & donors
• Partner networks and coalitions

Helping European workers benefit from AI’s potential

• Artificial Intelligence
• Funders & donors

The FRIDA Program site is the platform that collects the types of funds to which you can apply and the projects financed since 2004.

• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

To support fact-checking on WhatsApp, the International Fact-Checking Network is offering a new round of its Spread the Facts grant program in partnership with Meta to combat AI-generated misinformation.

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• Factchecking

Support for FOSS events in India

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The Catalyst Fund was launched in October 2023 to support the burgeoning ecosystem of actors working on the intersection of digital rights and climate justice to build cross-territorial strategies and weave thematic threads across movements.

• Climate action

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• Digital rights

Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)

• Fight disinformation
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The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them.

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Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

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A family of interrelated justice-seeking organizations that both independently and collectively work to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.

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• Foundational layers

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

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• Digital rights

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

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Established by MacKenzie Scott to share a financial fortune created through the effort of countless people, Yield is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control.

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We fund startups across nearly all technology areas and markets like artificial intelligence, energy, medical devices, robotics, semiconductors, and many more.

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• Investors

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

Mit ihren Projekten, Studien und Veranstaltungen regt die Bertelsmann Stiftung Debatten an und gibt Impulse für gesellschaftliche Veränderungen. Gemeinnützige Arbeit und nachhaltige Wirkung sind die Grundlagen ihres Handelns. Die Initiativen der Stiftung zeigen nicht nur Lösungen auf, sondern schaffen empirisch gestützte Orientierung in einer breiten Öffentlichkeit.

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The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust.

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech
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Eurasia Foundation envisions a world where all people have the opportunity to realize their potential and transform their societies.

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We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

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$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Artificial Intelligence
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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
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Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

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• Digital security and privacy

We are the first donor fund dedicated to community organising. We will provided targeted long-term funding in key geographies across the UK.

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• The craft of organizing

The Risk and Response Fund is a $10 million pool of unrestricted resources that can be deployed with speed when a crisis strikes

• Media
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• Journalism

The Center for International Media Assistance's donor profiles on major public and private funders of global media development work

• Media
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• Journalism

IMS is the largest media development organisation in the Nordic region. We work in more than 30 countries across four continents promoting press freedom, good journalism and safety for journalists.

• free speech

• Media
• Journalism
• Funders & donors

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

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• Foundation initiatives

We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Artistic interventions

The EMIF is entrusted with an objective of public interest to support fact-checking and media literacy initiatives, as well as fundamental research projects, with a view to addressing the phenomenon of online disinformation in Europe and promoting a more resilient and fact-based digital information ecosystem.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
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Philea (Philanthropy Europe Association) is the leading organisation for foundations, philanthropic organisations and networks working for the common good in Europe. It aims to create connections and knowledge sharing between its members.

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We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

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• Foundation initiatives

We identify political changemakers in Europe and provide them with financial resources, strategic advice, practical support and a community of practice to advance their mission of reimagining politics.

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We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society

• Adjacent Fields
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We invest in digital solutions to climate change.

• Climate action

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• Investors

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

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US Federal government grants portal and related resources

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• Fundraising tools

In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all.

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The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

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Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

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• Build something
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The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

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• Blockchain

US-based Government & Nonprofit Portfolio

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• Investors

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

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• Open source networks

Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

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At ex/ante, we’ve created an experimental sandbox for inventive teams to build solutions that advance free societies and counter authoritarianism

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The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.

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The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.

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