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The Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund is a new US$4.5 million fund created by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2020, to provide grants to external organizations that support knowledge equity by addressing the racial inequities preventing access and participation in free knowledge.
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Grantify
LondonWe help your organisation to successfully apply for the best government funding opportunities
Community Solutions Network
Montreal, QC, CanadaOur experienced and diverse team of advisors supports municipalities and organizations of all sizes across Canada on a range of data and tech issues. We work alongside our partners’ teams to assess their needs, define problems, mobilize research and knowledge, design solutions and support their implementation. Contact Us
Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed
Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood
150 Court St Brooklyn, NY 11201Blue Ridge Labs is a place where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers. We provide space, funding, and resources to help launch and grow tech platforms that address economic inequality in NYC.
"Acumen is a nonprofit impact investment fund focused on investing in social enterprises that serve low-income individuals in United States." - Wikipedia
Google Sheet with over 200 impact investors listed
We invest into 20-24 new teams a year through our two programmes in the spring and autumn.
An Airtable of over 172 impact investors
ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens. The Medium publication covers disinfo trends, provides micro-grant funding to research fellows, and publishes investigations, as well as tools and resources for fighting disinformation.
Urbanpinion
Eastern EuropeUrbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.
PIT-UN Network Challenge
United States of America (the)The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.
Grassroots Premier
Washington, DCDatabase of more than 20 million left-leaning donors
Grassroots Analytics Venture Fund
Washington, DCGrassroots Analytics Venture Fund is on the lookout for ideas that monetize or add value to GA's industry-leading progressive consumer database. This is a $500,000 fund for internal or external ventures.
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.
Efecto Cocuyo Chequea
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.
Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements
Netherlands (the)This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
Fact Crescendo
Crescendo Transcription Pvt Ltd, STPI, # 23, 24, 25 & 26, 2nd Floor, Naregaon Main Rd, MIDC Industrial Area, Chilkalthana, Aurangabad, Maharashtra 431201 IndiaFact Crescendo is an independent, unbiased fact-checking website that is committed to bringing the fact behind every news, debunking mis-interpreted & hoax news on a daily basis on false, mis-informed, social media as well as mainstream media.
Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.
Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.
A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work. Hopefully, projects and contributors will find this helpful in figuring out the best options for them.
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
We're looking for tech workers, researchers, journalists and content creators who want to tell the stories of collective action in tech in the Global South.
The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date. After uncovering the 50 most innovative urban solutions in the wake of COVID-19, the Challenge will award 15 grand prize winners $1 million each—to help cities implement their breakthrough ideas and, ultimately, to spread those ideas to other cities on a global scale.
The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C. that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. We believe that the best ideas for solving some of the world's most critical problems can come from anyone, anywhere. Through our grants and risk capital, we help breakthrough solutions to global development challenges from for-profit firms, non-profit organisations, researchers, and government agencies to maximise their impact and affect meaningful change.
Facebook Bulletin
Palo AltoFacebook's now-defunct newsletter product
In this report, we dive into the history of public investment in technologies at the foundation of Big Tech, and the imbalances between these investments and the returns to the public sector.
Urban Reviewer
New York, NYUrban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.
Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.
A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible. The reward for donating is spammy emails and phone calls. Few unbiased sources of information exist. We’re fixing that; check out the donor guide and other resources.
Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information
Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?
In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.
NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.
Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.
Housed at TED, The Audacious Project is a funding initiative that encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger.
Agora for Good
Bay Area, California, USABuild your virtual foundation. Support the causes you care about.
We fund research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics
100 Resilient Cities
The Rockefeller Foundation, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USAWe help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.
1776 Challenge Cup
Washington, DC1776, and partner host Revolution, will be hosting the annual Challenge Cup competition, click here to learn more!
ActBlue
ActBlue, Summer Street, Somerville, MA, USAWe're a nonprofit fundraising platform for campaigns and organizations and the small-dollar donors who support them
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
I Take Actions
Abuja, NigeriaA web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about
Stanford Start-Up Impact Labs
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAEach will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support
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