US Federal government grants portal and related resources

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Fundraising tools

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

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

OpenGrants delivers a best-in-class database of grant funding and a marketplace of grant writers, consultants and technical assistance providers. Integrate the power of OpenGrants into your product using our API.

• APIs

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of grant experts

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Find a job or hire someone

2023 applications for digital equity grant opportunities from the City of Seattle are now open for organizations and community groups looking to help close the digital divide. This year, the City is offering $545,000 for qualifying projects with Technology Matching Fund (TMF) grants.

• Get funding
• Connectivity

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.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

In order to encourage more outstanding talents to invest in the new-type democratic experiment field and accelerate the incubation of more achievements, the g0v zero-hour government loosening group of Dasong is held on a regular basis.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

• human rights

• Digital security and privacy
• Funders & donors

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Twitter Data Grants, through which we’ll give a handful of research institutions access to our public and historical data.

• X (Twitter)

• The People
• Graveyard
• Data science for social good

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

The Incidental Emergency Grants respond to urgent needs such as a website or email being hacked, or the theft or loss of sensitive data and equipment.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

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

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

The Welcome Alliance is an alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies initiated by ProjectTogether. Our goal is humane, needs-oriented and sustainable integration and participation of all new immigrants in Germany.

• immigration
• housing
• Decent work and economic growth

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Governance of AI

The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Factchecking

eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Grant management

Introductory blog posts written by Grants.gov

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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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• Funders & donors

We Build Digital Tools for Immigrant Justice

• immigration

• Justice tech
• Legal tech

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

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

If you are a human rights defender at risk as a result of your work, ProtectDefenders.eu is to support you

• human rights

• Solidarity networks

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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.

• Get funding
• Diversity & Inclusion

The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use influence/information operations and disinformation and targeted propaganda to subvert African democracies. The initial research grants focus on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

Parent brand of EveryAction, NGPVAN, Network for Good, and more

• Advocacy tech
• Nonprofit tech

An initiative from Code for Africa and ICFJ for Journalists to Help Citizens Overcome Barriers to Religious Freedom

• religion

• Media

Code for Africa partnered with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Ayin Network to offer a combination of training, professional mentorship and story grants to journalists in Nigeria and Sudan, to enable them to produce digital storytelling around issues of religious freedom, so as to improve understanding of tolerance versus militancy and extremism.

• trainings

• Media

The Scribe reference API will list references based on usage and domain by language.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Open knowledge

a protocol for news publishers to open the history of changes of any Wordpress-based site. The intention was to give audiences the possibility of seeing stealth edits in the news.

• Wordpress
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

El Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.

• Latinx

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

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.

• No poverty

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

We were founded in the 1960s to deliver books between libraries. We still deliver books, and we also host digital collections, give out technology grants, house a digital media studio, and more. METRO is committed to supporting libraries, in whatever form that takes.

CITIES FOR ACTION is a coalition of over 100 mayors and municipal leaders fighting for federal immigration reform, and galvanizing the movement by launching inclusive policies and programs at the local level. Our leaders have joined forces to create stronger and safer cities by driving the national debate, embracing new immigrants, and engaging with stakeholders to win on immigration policies.

The Four Freedoms Fund is a donor collaborative of NEO Philanthropy. Founded in 2003, the Four Freedoms Fund™ (FFF) works toward full integration of immigrants as active participants in our democracy. Leveraging the resources and insights of its multiple donors, FFF provides an intelligent, nimble vehicle for donors to invest directly in the state and local immigrant rights and grassroots organizations that have become the driving force fuelling culture change and policy reform at all levels of government.

Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

• immigration

The California Immigrant Policy Center is managing a research project to gain a much deeper and broader understanding of how Americans think about immigrants.

The Pop Culture Collaborative is a hub for high impact partnerships and grants designed to help organisations and individuals leverage the reach and power of pop culture for social justice goals. By driving authentic, just narratives about people of color, immigrants, refugees, and Muslims in the media, they seek to help shift how mass audiences understand the past, grasp the present, and engage in building an inclusive future.

Since 1992, the European Journalism Centre has been building a sustainable, ethical and innovative future for journalism through grants, events, training and media development. It is an international non-profit, headquartered in The Netherlands, that connects journalists with new ideas, skills and people.

• Media
• Journalism

SindhupalCheck is an app for real-time citizen feedback on the effectiveness of constructing earthquake resilient homes in Nepal.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Advocacy tech

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech