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Purpose: To promote the wellbeing of children affected by HIV and AIDS in the southern region of Zimbabwe. This will be done through resource mobilisation, training, networking, advocacy, and effective monitoring, as well as through raising awareness about preventing HIV.
Purpose: To support women and girls in Rushinga to cope with environmental and climate change-induced shocks by promoting food security. In addition, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development works to increase the capacity of local women and girls to earn incomes, access education, and access relevant markets and other support institutions to create socio-economic opportunities.
Purpose: To provide support to ChildLine Zimbabwe, which works to prevent drug and substance abuse interventions in Harare Central District. Childline Zimbabwe works in partnership with the Government to stop child abuse and provide a safe environment for all children.
Purpose: To provide support to partners working with communities in different regions of Zimbabwe to promote food security. Foundations for Farming specialises in training small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe to adopt soil conservation practices that result in high yields.
Purpose: To teach 28,000 children to read in 40 deprived schools in the remote areas near the Mozambique border in Mt Darwin and Rushinga districts in north-eastern Zimbabwe. The Halo Trust has been working in the region to clear mines over the past 10 years, and this work will complement the organisation?s mine-clearing efforts in the area.
Purpose: To ensure the availability, accessibility, and affordability of chemotherapy drugs, diagnostics, bus fares, psychosocial support, home services, and nutritional support to children in Zimbabwe. Kidzscan seeks to serve children and families affected by cancer throughout Zimbabwe.
Purpose: To support the Sir Humphrey Gibbs Training Center in its work of caring for people living with disability. The centre offers skills training, shelter, warmth, and food, and helps pay medical bills for people living with disability.
Purpose: To scale up the work of J.F. Kapnek Trust, which provides cost-effective, sustainable, and quality early childhood care and education for marginalised children. The JF Kapnek Trust works to improve family health, reduce child mortality, provide a protective environment, and create educational opportunities for the children of Zimbabwe through the implementation of scalable, sustainable programmes.
Purpose: To scale up Mavambo Orphan Care's efforts to create a healthy, self-sustaining community for children, where they are empowered to become responsible citizens who are fully aware and enjoy their rights and able to defend them. Mavambo Orphan Care provides child protection and safeguarding, education, health and economic strengthening to orphans and vulnerable children and their families, and improve capacity for re-granted partner, Dance Trust of Zimbabwe.
Purpose: To provide support to Family Support Trust (FST), a not-for-profit organisation that provides medical and psychosocial support to children who have been sexually abused.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC). The vision of GSCC is a world with a safe and stable climate for current and future generations. GSCC works to fostering fact-based public discourse and works to build broad support for just, inclusive, and equitable solutions to the climate crisis.
Purpose: To provide core support to the UK-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation for its global work to set the world on an irreversible path towards a circular economy for plastics by 2025. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works to prevent climate change by curbing emissions and supporting global leadership on climate solutions.
Purpose: To provide support to the Plastic Solutions Fund (PSF), an international funders collaborative working to turn the tide on plastic pollution. PSF has a vision of a world where only truly necessary and non-toxic plastic products and packaging are produced, and even those are reused, repaired, and recycled. PSF promotes innovative collaboration among individuals and institutions, supports results-oriented grant-making, and provides a trusted platform for new philanthropic investment in pursuit of this vision.
Purpose: To support global efforts to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels while accelerating the transition to a cleaner, fairer, and safer future for us all. OCI is a research, communications, and advocacy organisation focused on facilitating the ongoing transition to clean energy.
Purpose: To support the Urban Movement Innovation Fund (UMIF) to resource and strengthen the youth climate movements. UMIF supports climate movements and strengthens the movement infrastructure for maximum movement impact.
Purpose: To provide core support to Union of Justice, a European, independent organisation led by people of colour dedicated to racial and climate justice. This grant will support the organisation during its start-up phase, including for planning, administrative, fundraising, and communications teams, to ensure its future sustainability and expansion.
Purpose: To promote transition finance mechanisms and tools to achieve clean and equitable energy transformation.Give2Asia is an international not-for-profit organization that connects corporates, foundations, and individuals with charitable projects and social enterprises across Asia.
Purpose: To improve the livelihoods of people in rural low-income households in China, and enhance energy security through innovative and climate-sound renewable solutions. The Energy Foundation in China aims to achieve prosperity and a safe climate through sustainable energy.
Purpose: To foster system-wide change in China through strengthened public and corporate accountability. Give2Asia is an international not-for-profit organisation that connects corporations, foundations, and individuals with charitable projects and social enterprises across Asia.
Purpose: To support the development of a robust ecosystem of electric mobility in India. ISEF works towards building a resilient and sustainable global energy future by supporting design and implementation of policies across sectors.
Purpose: To provide core support to Engajamundo, a youth-led organisation in Brazil which promotes youth participation across socio-environmental issues. Engajamundo was created by young people who believe they are a key part of the solution to face the greatest social and environmental challenges of Brazil and the world.
Purpose: To help strengthen community-led conservation efforts in Latin America. This will be achieved in part by helping increase the use of locally managed marine areas in the region in efforts to ensure food security and climate adaptation among coastal communities and fisherfolk. AIDA uses the law and science to protect the environment and communities suffering from environmental harm, primarily in Latin America.
Purpose: To support ocean protection, environmental justice, and capacity building for environmental defenders in the Global South. Environmental Justice Foundation campaigns for fisheries transparency and greater protection for marine biodiversity and coastal communities. It does this by combining investigations, grassroots partnerships, and high-level advocacy.
Purpose: To support and grow a community of biodiversity grant-makers that have complementary and collaborative goals. Biodiversity Funders Group envisions a just, healthy, and sustainable future for all life on Earth supported by an effective philanthropic sector.
Purpose: To support Greenpeace to investigate unsustainable fishing in Asia and the US, and address human rights abuses being carried out by distant water fishing fleets. This will be achieved by helping strengthen workers prone to human rights violations in the industry, and through research, investigation, litigation, and joint-public campaign work. Greenpeace works to ensure the earth nurtures life in all its diversity.
Purpose: To provide support to the Energy Transition Fund to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to clean power investments worldwide.
Purpose: To provide support to Mozambique Wildlife Association, a local organisation that works to manage and protect wildlife in Mozambique.
Purpose: To support the partnership of AFEF and the India Climate Collaborative to help achieve India’s net-zero emissions target in a way that is inclusive, equitable, and just for all. AFEF is a not-for-profit organisation that invests in programmes that provide solutions to deep-rooted social inequalities, and builds the capacities of grassroots organisations in India that work towards that goal.
Purpose: To support the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Southern Africa to ensure that natural ecosystems across Southern African are managed well and sustained. The Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust provides epidemiology and forensics lab work in support of the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area. This is an area nearly twice as large as the United Kingdom that has a great diversity of ecosystems and landscapes, that lies in the Kavango and Zambezi river basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Wildlife Justice Commission, which will continue its efforts to investigate wildlife trafficking syndicates globally and improve conservation efforts. The Wildlife Justice Commission is an international foundation set up in 2015, and with headquarters in the Hague, the Netherlands.
Purpose: To support China's policy changes to reduce plastic and implement circular economy models. This will be achieved through support to Give2Asia’s sub-grantees in China, which will work on separate, yet mutually reinforcing, components of the Plastics Free China strategy.
Purpose: To support global greenhouse gas reductions and China’s climate mitigation ambition through the application of climate finance tools. New Energy Nexus’ mission is to accelerate clean energy development by providing technical expertise and social innovation.
Purpose: To encourage supermarkets and food companies to actively commit to and promote fair working conditions and women’s rights in their global seafood supply chains. This will be achieved by helping to build more transparency and accountability in labour practices in Southeast Asia. The entire supply chain, from migrant workers on fishing vessels to the women involved in handling the fish once they’ve been caught will be supported. Oxfam's goal is to bring about a kind of change that will allow people to participate and enjoy the rightful benefits of Asia’s economic growth sustainably.
Purpose: To support Oceans 5 to secure practical and affordable solutions from governments to stop overfishing, establish protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development. Oceans 5 is an international funders’ regranting platform that supports measurable, policy-oriented projects from coalitions of organisations, of which many are in regions underserved by marine philanthropy.
Purpose: To help transform global tuna supply chains so they contribute more to sustainable development. IPNLF promotes the sustainable and equitable management of the world’s tuna fisheries while also recognising the importance of safeguarding the livelihoods they support.
Purpose: To provide support to Oceans North Kalaallit Nunaat – the first conservation organisation created and developed by native Greenlandic people in Greenland. The organisation seeks to: promote and actively work towards sustainable fisheries; advance the final protection of Pikialasorsuaq – an Inuit-led conservation area; and build Greenlandic capacity for ocean conservation and sustainable development.
Purpose: To provide core support to Eating Better, which works to encourage the consumption of more plants and ‘less and better’ quality meat in the UK. Eating Better UK aims to halve meat and dairy consumption in the UK by 2030, and to create a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable food system, which is better for us, for nature, and for the planet.
Purpose: To provide core support to AEEE. AEEE contributes to meeting India’s goals on energy security, clean energy, and climate change.
Purpose: To support Réseau Action Climat in its work to scale up activities of its network to foster the transition towards healthy and sustainable food systems. The Climate Action Network France brings together associations involved in the fight against climate change and for an ecological, united and fair transition.
Purpose: To respond to youth homelessness in the United States, with a particular focus on Black youth and the LGBTQI community. This will be done by placing power in the hands of youth through direct cash transfers. Point Source Youth is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to ending youth homelessness in 50 cities and towns across the United States in 10 years.
Purpose: To provide support to volunteer attorneys giving legal representation to low-income people in Philadelphia, the US. Philadelphia VIP leverages community resources to provide quality, volunteer legal services, and ensure access to justice for low-income Philadelphians.
Purpose: To help ensure that homeless families and single people in the UK spend as little time in temporary accommodation as possible. This will be achieved by empowering those with lived experience to drive the agenda, produce research evidence, and pilot innovative solutions to advocate for systemic change. Justlife works to reduce and improve the use of temporary accommodation, working in partnership with those they support.
Purpose: To support Legacy West Midlands to develop housing for people experiencing homelessness. Legacy West Midlands is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) at the heart of the Handsworth & Lozells community in Birmingham, UK. It offers a range of services in response to need and aspiration.
Purpose: To support Just for Kids Law, in London, the UK, to build on the strengths of young people to advocate for improved housing and homelessness services. Young people will be supported to prevent homelessness, and together with legal representation, to challenge public organisations to provide services. In addition, a regranting initiative will target grassroots organisations to support the project. Just for Kids Law provides holistic support to young people, amplifies their voices within a rights framework, and prevents homelessness.
Purpose: To strengthen the support, connections, and influence of Londoners living in temporary accommodation with the goal of ensuring stays in temporary accommodation are as short, safe, and healthy as possible. Such accommodation is often overcrowded and in a poor state of repair, and the people living there can be isolated. The project will build the capacity of not-for-profit organisations and strengthen advocacy initiatives with people who have lived experience. Trust for London is a charitable grant-making foundation that aims to reduce poverty and inequality in London.
Purpose: To provide core support to the NFHA to carry out advocacy, grassroots organising, and public education to create equitable housing policies in the United States. This will be achieved by eliminating the technology bias, closing racial, wealth, and homeownership gaps, and countering existing racist policies that perpetuate housing instability. NFHA works to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for all people through leadership, education, outreach, membership services, public policy initiatives, community development, advocacy, and enforcement.
Purpose: To increase the supply of high-quality, climate friendly, social housing in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the areas of greatest need by developing under-utilised public land. It is hoped that this can be replicated across the region. PPR supports marginalised people to assert their rights in practical ways, and make real social and economic change in their communities.
Purpose: To support African Communities Together to build on its successful efforts to organise African immigrant tenants in Northern Virginia. This grant will also support tenant organising in New York and Philadelphia. African Communities Together will advance safe housing, and work to challenge displacement through organising and leadership development, policy advocacy, and research.
Purpose: To support migrant women in the UK who are at risk of homelessness or in unsafe accommodation to gain access to and maintain suitable housing. Hibiscus Initiatives provides services in the community (e.g., at women's prisons and Immigration Removal Centres) in the UK.
Purpose: To produce a documentary film about the solutions to homelessness, followed by a social impact campaign across US. The Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to ending homelessness in Massachusetts.
Purpose: To develop a collaborative network that will organise, advocate for, and provide legal expertise to people facing housing inequality in Greater Manchester and across the UK. The Greater Manchester Law Centre is working to develop and build structures that strengthen the power and connectivity of communities most affected by housing inequality. This will enable communities to use collective and legal action to demand their housing rights and influence housing policy through campaigning, based on their own lived experience.
Purpose: To support low-income tenants in securing safe, healthy, and affordable housing in the neighbourhoods of their choice in the United States. The Public Interest Law Center will use litigation, organising, advocacy, and community education to support people.
Purpose: To build the capacity of tenant organising efforts across the US and to allow HouseUS to grow its campaign work to support policy change that favours tenants at the federal level. The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of HouseUS. Its mission is to redefine philanthropy by empowering activism, harnessing generosity, and leveraging technology.
Purpose: To provide core support to Advice for Renters, which gives housing prevention advice and supports people to gain better access to health services and welfare benefits. Advice for Renters is a small not-for-profit organisation that supports people in housing difficulty and campaigns for better housing conditions.
Purpose: To help prevent homelessness among LGBTQI youth in the UK. Funding will enable akt to continue providing support while developing programmes to meet new strategic priorities over the next five years. Programmes focus on providing more pathways into safe housing for young LGBTQI people, with a focus on reaching the most marginalised and influencing societal change.
Purpose: To support WCRP to win more resources and better policies for affordable housing, and build the leadership and power of women in Philadelphia. WCRP develops affordable housing, provides supportive services, and advocates for policy change in Philadelphia, the US.
Purpose: To support New York City public housing residents as they navigate and advocate for their housing rights and long-term viability of public housing in New York City. This support is particularly needed as the New York City Housing Authority is actively proposing moving away from its ownership structure and traditional public housing funding streams. TakeRoot Justice provides legal, participatory research, and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in New York City.
Purpose: To house 700 families, including 1,000 students, in the next five years in Boston, the US. This will be done through a homelessness prevention project building on a current partnership with Boston public schools, three non-profit partners and two other city agencies, initially expanded to 20 schools and more schools in the later years. Higher Ground engages communities, organisations, and individuals to promote life-long community empowerment, leading to measurable results.
Purpose: To provide core support to CAAAV, which works to build grassroots community power across diverse poor and working-class Asian immigrant communities in New York City. CAAAV works to develop the leadership of working-class Asian immigrants to make a significant intervention in the gentrification of NYC, by building the power of communities in Chinatown and Astoria.
Purpose: To provide tenancy rights services for people living in the private rented sector in the UK. This will be achieved by: publishing national evidence to expose the extent of illegal evictions and landlord criminality; and campaigning for renter protection and improvements to regulatory enforcement. Cambridge House is social justice organisation that was founded in 1889.
Purpose: To build a growing movement for comprehensive immigration reform in the UK so that migrants' rights are protected and respected, including the right to access safe housing. This will be achieved by scaling up JCWI's nationwide and regional advocacy and campaigning efforts.
Purpose: To provide core support to increase fundraising efforts, strengthen strategic partnerships, and improve internal systems, policies, and efficiency. Lewisham Refugee and Migrants Network exists to empower people and families who are homeless, destitute, or have No Recourse to Public Funds in the United Kingdom.
Purpose: To secure justice in the New York City's housing courts, protect affordable housing, and prevent displacement. The Right to Counsel NYC Coalition is a broad-based coalition made up of tenants, organisers, advocates, legal services organisations, and more.
Purpose: To support diverse communities in the Greater Govan area in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as refugees and people seeking asylum throughout the city. Govan Community Project is a community-based organisation working in south-west Glasgow. Its mission is to achieve social justice by working in solidarity with people seeking asylum and refugees, to build community and support people to flourish.
Purpose: To support the Ethnic Minorities and Youth Support Team in Wales to develop housing-focused initiatives to address race inequality. This will be through case-work support to communities impacted by racial injustice, focusing on homelessness prevention and housing rights, and linking this to housing advocacy and influencing work. The Ethnic Minorities and Youth Support Team supports and empowers people and families of all ages, including refugees and asylum-seekers, to improve community cohesion.
Purpose: To support Roma migrants at risk of or experiencing homelessness in the UK to access and maintain sustainable housing. The Roma Support Group also works to influence public policy, strategies, and practice in response to Roma housing needs. Roma Support Group, the first Roma-led charity in the UK, was established in 1998 by Roma asylum seekers and they aim to empower the Roma community to realise their rights.
Purpose: To support NACCOM's policy, campaigns, and community research programme, which is led by volunteers with lived experience of asylum, immigration control, and destitution. NACCOM will help improve representation and support for members and people with lived experience of homelessness in both policy and practice. NACCOM is a UK membership organisation that exists to prevent or relieve poverty and homelessness among refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants with no recourse to public funds and to advance the education of the public in general on the subject of asylum.
Purpose: To provide core support to Positive Action in Housing to strengthen its capacity to support children, women, and men from refugee and migrant communities in Scotland. Positive Action in Housing is an independent, anti-racist, homelessness and human rights charity that believes in a society where everyone has the right to live safe and dignified lives, free from poverty, homelessness, or inequality.
Purpose: To bring about individual, community, and systemic change by developing Union Chapel's homelessness, community, and social justice programmes in London, the UK. The Union Chapel project was founded in 1991. It functions as a pioneering arts venue and supports the local community in championing social justice issues.
Purpose: To help advance housing policy and advocacy work in Philadelphia, to identify and address barriers to success for small BIPOC Community Development Corporations, and diversify income sources. The Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations provides advocacy, policy development, and technical assistance to foster strong communities by enhancing people’s skills and advocating for resources and policies to create a just and inclusive Philadelphia.
Purpose: To provide support to MHAction which has built multi-racial, predominantly women-led leadership teams in mobile home parks in rural areas and small cities across the United States. MHAction is a membership organisation of seniors and families that engages local, state and national elected officials to enact policies that protect and strengthen the affordability of manufactured home communities.
Purpose: To provide support to the Frontline Network, which enables workers that have direct contact with homeless people access training and support to enhance their effectiveness and wellbeing. The network also focuses on advocacy throughout the UK, to reduce homelessness and develop innovative new projects. The project is coordinated by the Vicar’s Relief Fund, which provides small grants to organisations that support people to access or secure their housing.
Purpose: To provide core funding to Advocacy Institute, which works to strengthen New York’s social justice ecosystem by supporting advocates to win transformative legislative reforms. AI works with underrepresented groups throughout New York City & State, such as communities of colour, immigrants, low-income people and members of the LGBTQI community, and provides them with tools to fight for policy change more effectively. AI also supports social justice organisations to build the advocacy skills, knowledge, and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable New York.
Purpose: To improve the refuge experience and increase the long term housing pathways for Black and minoritised women. The grant is to the OYA Consortium is a UK membership organisation comprised of groups ‘by and for’ Black and minoritised women working to end violence against women and girls. The grant is held on their behalf by IMKAAN.
Purpose: To support the Housing and Homelessness Programme’s UK-based grantee partners to build organisation-wide strategies based on frameworks that consider people’s lived experiences of homelessness to bring about social change. The Sheila McKechnie Foundation collaborates with the community to explore change, deepen understanding, generate insights, and create tools to help others.
Purpose: To work collaboratively with partners in Massachusetts to advocate for more racially and economically just housing policies. This grant will also increase the capacity of Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget) to provide housing-specific research and analysis of the state budget. MassBudget produces non-partisan research to improve the lives of those on lower incomes and strengthen Massachusetts’s economy. It focuses on government transparency and ensuring engagement with historically disenfranchised communities.
Purpose: To support Citizens Housing and Planning Association to encourage legislation and funding that increases affordable housing opportunities across Massachusetts. The grant will also provide support for fundraising activities. The Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association is a membership organisation, which advocates for affordable housing and community development facilities across the state of Massachusetts.
Purpose: To support the Prague Civil Society Centre's flexible grant-making and capacity building programmes. The Centre will build a vibrant and strong network of civic groups working on a broad range of issues. The Centre offers flexible funding to civil society groups and independent media to help them innovate, reach out to new communities, and boost their sustainability.
Purpose: To conduct a capacity-building programme to strengthen the international human rights movement worldwide. The programme will work with up to 50 partners annually to address issues of: sustainability; internal management; governance; solidarity; and innovative activism. The Fund for Global Human Rights identifies and invests in the world's most innovative and effective human rights activists, organisations, and movements.
Purpose: To hold perpetrators of serious human rights abuses to account through conventional or innovative legal means with the aim of deterring future abuse. This will be done by providing justice and redress to those affected, and developing the international legal framework against impunity. Based in Berlin, the ECCHR works with partners around the world on international crimes and accountability and business and human rights, as well as on human rights violations at the European external borders, and runs a training programme for young lawyers.
Purpose: To improve respect for human rights in Bulgaria. The BHC was established in 1992 as an independent not-for-profit organisation for the protection of human rights.
Purpose: To provide legal advice, information, and representation to people held in immigration detention in the UK. BID is an independent charity that provides a free bail service to detainees, including representation, legal advice, advocacy, and policy work.
Purpose: To encourage positive attitudes towards human rights through strategic communications in Brazil. This will be done by producing narratives that people can relate to and helping to increase mobilisation in defence of fundamental rights in Brazil. The Brazil Fund for Human Rights works to promote respect for human rights in Brazil by building innovative and sustainable mechanisms to channel resources to strengthen civil society organisations.
Purpose: To support the UK migration and refugee sector on communications. The IMiX communications hub works to build sustainable capacity in the sector to improve the quality and volume of media coverage. It does this with the aim of reframing the debate on migration in the UK to enable a more welcoming environment for people who make the country their home.
Purpose: To provide core support to the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), which works to address protection gaps for stateless migrants in Europe, including to prevent arbitrary detention. ENS works to strengthen the often unheard voices of stateless persons, and to advocate for their human rights. It conducts and support legal and policy development, awareness raising and capacity building.
Purpose: To expose human rights violations in migration contexts in Europe. Lighthouse Reports is a not-for-profit based in Europe that leads complex transnational investigations blending traditional journalistic methods such as freedom of information requests with emerging techniques including opensource intelligence and specialisms such as data science.
Purpose: To seek equal justice for all in India by ensuring the full respect for constitutional due process guarantees in the design and operation of the criminal justice system. Project 39A, based at the National Law University, undertakes rigorous empirical research on critical aspects of the criminal justice system, through which it engages with stakeholders on instituting reforms.
Purpose: To enable the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) to support and strengthen civil society organisations active on migration and integration issues at the European level. Through grant-making, capacity-building, and convening, EPIM seeks to: uphold European commitments to human rights and social justice, ensuring the dignity of all people in the EU; promote principled, pragmatic approaches to EU-level and national policies, including in relation to the use of immigration detention; and influence EU policies and their national implementation.
Purpose: To advocate for diplomatic and financial efforts by the US to stand against inequalities and discrimination impacting LGBTQI communities abroad. Community Initiatives is a US-based not-for-profit organisation. Community Initiatives acts as a thought-partner and provides professional services to not-for-profit start-ups, established initiatives, networks, and collaborations. We sponsor projects for the benefit of communities in service to social change.
Purpose: To increase the number of funders and the amount of funding available across sectors to support LGBTQI issues globally. This grant will also support building the knowledge, skills and capacity of LGBTQI funders, and enhance their effectiveness as grant-makers. Global Philanthropy Project is a fiscally sponsored program of Community Initiatives, a dedicated fiscal sponsor that provides infrastructure for not-for-profit leaders.
Purpose: To protect and promote human rights in the Americas through the effective use of the Inter-American Human Rights System. The Center for Justice and International Law was established in 1991 by a group of prominent Latin American human rights defenders seeking to improve the regional human rights situation through the use of international law.
Purpose: To achieve positive, sustainable change for LGBT+ communities around the world. This will be achieved through online campaigns, grassroots giving programmes, member-generated petitions, peer-to-peer fundraising, and training opportunities for frontline activists.
Purpose: To mobilise citizens in Brazil into civic action and develop methodologies and technologies for large-scale solidarity and social impact. Our Cities (Nossas in Brazilian) is an activist network that safeguards democratic values and institutions by engaging communities around common goals.
Purpose: To ensure that survivors of terror receive adequate mental health and material support. In addition, Survivors Against Terror works to tackle media intrusion into the lives of survivors and to influence public discourse on terrorism through the inclusion of survivor testimony.
Purpose: To support the Indian constitutional mandate of equality, non-discrimination, dignity, and a life free of violence in the public and private sphere. Jagori which means ‘awaken, women’ works to build a just and inclusive society, and is based in Delhi, India.
Purpose: To provide core support to WITNESS Inc, which works to support vulnerable communities to use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. This grant will also support WITNESS to promote systems change in the technology sector by incorporating human rights imperatives with respect to mis and disinformation, media manipulation, and security concerns for vulnerable groups. It will also support the modernising of WITNESS’ organisational infrastructure to support an increasingly distributed team and global network of activists.
Purpose: To help reduce immigration detention in the US through support for Detention Watch Network’s collective advocacy, grassroots organising, and strategic communications. This will be done by: calling for the reform or closure of specific detention centres; exposing human rights abuses and lack of government accountability; promoting an end to mandatory detention and the elimination of national and local detention quotas; and encouraging non-punitive alternatives. DWN comprises a coalition of over 100 member organisations in 33 states.
Purpose: To manage a LGBTQI fund in Brazil to support civil society organisations working to build a more inclusive and just society. Based in São Paulo, Fundo Positivo is a re-granting organisation that funds and supports frontline not-for-profit organisations working on public health and diversity across Brazil.
Purpose: To support AIC in its efforts to create a more fair and just immigration system in the US that opens its doors to those in need of protection, and enables the energy and skills that immigrants bring. AIC’s network of volunteer lawyers, interpreters, advocates, and other supporters are working to defend immigrants in the US. AIC will also work towards efforts that reduce immigration detention and increase the use of alternatives to detention at the federal level.
Purpose: To support the internationalisation of Rights and Security International’s operations, enabling it to deliver on its new global strategy. RSI works to counteract limits on freedom of speech, assembly, association, and access to information among other things. RSI is a London-based not-for-profit organisation that works to promote a rights-based approach to national security.
Purpose: To support the early identification of victims of trafficking in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, and ensure support and protection of victims of trafficking in the Canton of Ticino is strengthened. This will be achieved through the development of a comprehensive and right-based framework. Antenna MayDay was founded in 1996 in order to provide migrants with precarious residence status or sans-papiers in Ticino with better access to medical care and to advise them on questions of social law.
Purpose: To provide core funding to Disability Rights Fund to expand its grant-making to women-led disability rights organisations. DRF is a grant-making collaborative between donors and the global disability rights community that supports organisations of persons with disabilities to advocate for equal rights and full participation in society.
Purpose: To provide core funding to enhance the grant-making capacity of ELAS+ in Brazil. This grant will also support ELAS+ as an intermediary to channel resources to six women's rights partners. ELAS+ works to promote and empower the leading role of women in Brazilian society by mobilising and investing financial resources in their initiatives.
Purpose: To advocate for gender equality and equal rights between women and men with emphasis on supporting refugee and migrant women who are victims of gender-based violence in Switzerland. Brava is a Swiss women's rights organisation based in Bern, which was founded in 2003. It supports migrant and asylum-seeking women in Switzerland who experience gender-based violence, with a specific focus on domestic violence.
Purpose: To provide core support to FreeFrom to create pathways to financial security and long-term safety for survivors of economic abuse in the US. Based in Los Angeles, FreeFrom uses innovative technology, social enterprise, advocacy, and capacity building to end economic abuse. Its work supports survivor agency in generating resources to build their wealth.
Purpose: To provide core and capacity-building support to the UK-based IMI to create inclusive, safer places for marginalised Muslims and their families. IMI is committed to a rights-based Islam that challenges all forms of oppression, demonstrating that a mosque is made up of a community, not bound by a building.
Purpose: To support the Movement Support Fund to provide funding that can be mobilised quickly and be responsive to time-bound, unanticipated, or non-traditional opportunities. Tides Foundation is a philanthropic partner and not-for-profit organisation dedicated to building a world of shared prosperity and social justice. Based in San Francisco, it makes grants to charitable organisations.
Purpose: To enable Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA), based in the UK, to raise awareness of economic abuse and build the capacity of those who come into contact with victims and survivors to respond. SEA's vision is a world in which women and girls achieve economic equality and are able to live their lives free of abuse and exploitation.
Purpose: To invest in and expand women’s funds and grassroots organisations globally. This grant will enable Women Win to become the intermediary of nine women’s funds partners globally and enable the scaling up and continued championing of innovative funding strategies that channel resources to local women’s rights activists, organisations, and movements. Women Win supports a global network of organisations through three main initiatives focused on girls’ rights: sport, women’s economic resilience, and the democratisation of philanthropy.
Purpose: To support garment factory workers in Central America to improve their rights, including to: receive proper wages; ensure their health and safety; exercise their associational rights; and experience a life free from violence, discrimination, gender-based violence, and harassment. WRC is an independent labour rights monitoring organisation that investigates working conditions in factories around the globe.
Purpose: To provide core support to FIZ’s anti-trafficking programme. This grant aims to: support victims of trafficking with legal and psychological counselling and shelter; train law enforcement and social services staff; advocate to improve the legal framework; ensure publicly financed support services; and build coalitions with other Swiss, European, and International anti-trafficking organisations.
Purpose: To support HIP to administer the IAWP’s portfolio of grants working on migration, exploitation, trafficking, and violence against women in Mexico. In addition to managing due diligence and reporting on these grants, HIP will provide capacity building and networking support. HIP's mission is to strengthen Latinx leadership, influence, and equity by leveraging philanthropic resources with an unwavering vision for social justice and shared prosperity across the Americas.
Purpose: To provide core support to MADRE to enable it to continue to support community-based women’s groups worldwide facing war, disaster, and injustice. MADRE will meet urgent needs in communities and build lasting solutions to the crises women face. MADRE works to meet urgent needs in communities, enhance women's leadership, and build strong local institutions.
Purpose: To provide capacity-building support to the Issues Affecting Women Programme’s partners in Switzerland. This will help improve the effectiveness and impact of women’s rights organisations working to end violence against women and girls and strengthen cross-learnings and connections among partners. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation will facilitate grant-making and consultancy contracts so that women-led groups can strengthen their organisational capacities, especially in the areas of fundraising and communication.
Purpose: To provide core support to FCAM to enable it to strengthen feminist and women’s movements in Central America through grant-making and accompaniment. As IAWP’s intermediary partner, FCAM will also support the organisations, groups, and networks that are part of the IAWP portfolio in Guatemala through re-granting, capacity building, networking, and accompaniment. FCAM is the first and only feminist fund in Central America.
Purpose: To support the Thompson Policy Institute on Disability at Chapman University in California to improve and expand leadership development for current and future principals focused on equity, access, and inclusion for students with disabilities. Thompson Policy Institute is an independent centre within the University whose mission is to engage in technical assistance and research to improve the lives of people with disabilities and, in doing so, improve life for everyone.
Purpose: To support the Blue Engine in learning and research to demonstrate the impact of high-quality co-teaching on outcomes for students with learning differences. Based in New York, Blue Engine partners with school systems to maximise the potential inherent in every classroom, teacher, and student, so that every learner thrives, no matter their race, income level, or learning style.
Purpose: To support the Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED) in its partnerships with elementary school educator preparation programmes that are working to integrate evidence-based reading instruction. BranchED is a US-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to strengthening, growing, and amplifying the impact of educator preparation at minority serving institutions.
Purpose: To provide core support to Fana, which works to provide training to educators and clinical services to children with learning differences such as dyslexia, in Ethiopia. Fana is based in the capital Addis Ababa and provides services throughout the country.
Purpose: To provide support to City Year, which is working in partnership with Compass Academy and Johns Hopkins University on school designs that help students with learning differences who are furthest from opportunity. City Year aims to collaborate with local communities and students to accelerate engagement, relationships, support, learning, and development, while removing barriers and increasing access to resources and supports.
Purpose: To support Education Week, a national print and online publication for K-12 public education in the US, to continue its coverage of students with learning differences, with special attention to intersections with race, social-emotional health, and learning recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Purpose: To fill critical gaps in knowledge about the intersection of mental health and learning differences in the US by advancing the evaluation and treatment of children affected by learning differences, and making engaging, evidence-based resources more accessible for children, young adults, parents, and teachers. Based in New York, the Child Mind Institute is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders, by giving them the help they need to thrive.
Purpose: To support participatory research conducted alongside researchers at Georgia State University focused on the efficacy of a combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and educational intervention for young adults with persistent dyslexia who have not responded well to educational treatment alone. Early pilot studies suggest TMS may be effective at improving reading fluency and phonological decoding.
Purpose: To support the Friday Institute in developing and implementing tools or resources for US educators to meet the needs of students who learn differently. Based at NC State University, the Friday Institute addresses significant issues in K-12 education, focusing on systemic, evidence-based approaches. The Friday Institute works to build school and district capacity through research, planning, professional learning, and continuous improvement, to create personalised, flexible, technology-enhanced education systems.
Purpose: To support InnovateEDU and the Educating All Learners Alliance to build knowledge and understanding of what works best for diverse learners. Based in New York, InnovateEDU is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to eliminate the opportunity gap. It achieves this by accelerating innovation in learning models and tools that serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning.
Purpose: To design and implement a US-based, youth-led participatory grant-making programme. This programme will support not-for-profit organisations focused on the intersection of learning differences and student leadership. It will convene stakeholders to build knowledge and understanding of what works best for diverse learners, and influence systems to embrace and adopt enabling conditions. IYF focuses on youth agency, economic opportunity, and systems change to equip and support young people everywhere to transform their lives and create the future they want.
Purpose: To support the Kingmakers of Oakland, a US- based not-for-profit organisation that works to improve the educational and life outcomes for Black and brown boys through programmes, research, training, and community mobilisation. This grant will support the development of a documentary series and aligned curriculum exploring and elevating the stories of young Black and brown students with learning differences.
Purpose: To support the National College Attainment Network, a US-based organisation that works to build, strengthen, and empower communities to close equity gaps for all students, particularly students historically underrepresented in higher education, including students of colour and students from low-income backgrounds. NCAN will work with organisations and colleges to better support students with learning differences as they transition from high school to post-secondary environments.
Purpose: To support New Leaders to update its leadership framework and related programming to deepen and elevate a focus on successfully serving students with learning differences in the US. Based in New York, New Leaders is a national not-for-profit organisation that works to develop equity-minded school leaders who ensure high academic achievement for all children.
Purpose: To support the Communities for Just Schools Fund, a project of New Venture Fund, which provides resources to community-led organisations working to transform schools. A donor collaborative, Communities for Just Schools Fund supports efforts primarily in the US to ensure positive and supportive school climates that affirm and foster the success of all students, including those with learning differences.
Purpose: To provide core support to increase and expand access to inclusive education globally. Teach For All is helping a network of partners shape a generation of locally rooted, globally informed leaders to drive innovative, broad-scale, systemic change to ensure that all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.
Purpose: To support the Luminos Fund, an international not-for-profit organisation, which provides transformative education programmes to children for whom mainstream education does not work. Its programme helps children catch up to grade level, reintegrate into local schools, and prepare for lifelong learning. This project will help establish a school-based programme in Ghana, with a focus on conducting research on learning differences in the Ghanaian context.
Purpose: To support the Trevor Noah Foundation, a South African-based not-for-profit organisation that develops and runs programming to provide underserved youth with access to quality educational experiences. This project will support the integration of learning differences content into their three flagship programmes for students, educators, and communities.
Purpose: To provide core support to Ed Trust to integrate a focus on students with learning differences across its work. Ed Trust will also highlight the connection between learning differences and equity within its research. Ed Trust is a US-based not-for-profit organisation that advocates for the high academic achievement of all students – particularly those of colour or from low-income backgrounds.
Purpose: To support the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii in developing resources to support the success of students with learning differences in higher education. The Center on Disability Studies will design, test, and disseminate innovative professional development for faculty and staff focused on improving the attitude, knowledge, and skills needed to effectively engage and support students with learning differences. These resources will be available in Hawaii, across the US, and internationally.
Purpose: To support the SWIFT Education Center to update and validate tools for schools, districts, and states across the US to evaluate how they consider and include students of colour with learning differences in their policies and practices. Based at the University of Kansas, SWIFT is a research and technical assistance centre that partners with education leaders to develop both the will and capacity to support excellent, inclusive education.
Purpose: To support the development and launch of Learning Ally's Whole Child Literacy™ Approach, an online platform, educator learning community, and family engagement resource to support children´s reading success. Based in New Jersey, Learning Ally provides audiobooks and resources for families and professional learning for educators across the US to enable struggling readers to become independent, engaged learners.
Purpose: To provide unrestricted project support to the Modern Classrooms Project as it works to deepen and expand the impact of its model for students with learning differences through educator scholarships, leadership opportunities for special education teachers, and an evaluation of the model’s impact on students with learning differences. The Modern Classrooms Project is a national not-for-profit organisation in the US that works to empower educators to build classrooms that respond to all students’ needs.
Purpose: To support the NACA Inspired Schools Network, a US-based organisation focused on transforming learning experiences for Indigenous students. This project will focus on integrating social emotional learning with Indigenous approaches to education across their academic curricula, with the goal of increasing Indigenous students’ agency, encouraging positive reflections on their identity, and nurturing a sense of belonging in their school communities.
Purpose: To support LiberatED, a US-based organisation focused on centering healing and justice in education, fiscally sponsored by the National Equity Project. This project will allow LiberatED to build organisational capacity and design an inclusive environment for students in the Youth Leaders Program. This programme is a ten-month fellowship that provides youth activists an opportunity to partner with LiberatED educators and researchers who are committed to creating culturally affirming school programming and evaluation.
Purpose: To elevate students with learning differences in the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s work on early literacy in the US. This will be done by: researching gaps in teachers’ current knowledge; developing policy; implementing support; and introducing interactive web-based resources, such as policy solutions and case studies. Based in Florida, the Foundation for Excellence in Education is an education policy centre that supports US-state leaders to advance solutions that help students learn, get graduates ready for college and career, and increase educational opportunity.
Purpose: To provide core support to Hill Learning Center, a learning hub and half-day school for students with learning differences, based in Durham, North Carolina. Hill’s vision is that all students with learning differences and attention challenges receive the instruction and support they need – regardless of where they attend school or whether they have a formal diagnosis.
Purpose: To support the Thompson Policy Institute on Disability at Chapman University in California to improve and expand leadership development for current and future principals focused on equity, access, and inclusion for students with disabilities. Thompson Policy Institute is an independent centre within the University whose mission is to engage in technical assistance and research to improve the lives of people with disabilities and, in doing so, improve life for everyone.
Purpose: To provide core support to The Army of Survivors (TAOS), which works to bring awareness, accountability, and transparency to the issue of sexual violence against athletes in the US and beyond. This will be done by the development of resources, advocacy for inclusive and trauma-informed laws, and policies guided by survivors and, trauma-informed education to prevent abuse.
Purpose: To support schools in Mexico to be safe from sexual abuse and exploitation and to end impunity for crimes perpetrated against children. The project will also support institutional reform with the aim of preventing and protecting children from sexual abuse in Mexican schools. Oficina de Defensoria de los Derechos de la Infancia (ODI Mexico) is an organisation that protects child rights in Mexico.
Purpose: To ensure that children's rights are placed at the centre of digital policy processes in the European Union. In addition, this grant will support the scale-up of ECPAT's Project Beacon, which is working to eliminate the sexual exploitation of children worldwide. ECPAT International is working to coordinate research, advocacy, and action to end the sexual exploitation of children.
Purpose: To provide unrestricted programme support to the international work of the Sport and Child Rights team of the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK). The Sport team works to protect the rights of children playing sport, with a particular focus on child elite athletes, and children in and around mega-sporting events. UNICEF UK is one of 36 UNICEF national committees whose primary purpose is to raise funds for UNICEF's worldwide emergency and development work.
Purpose: To bring together governments, the private sector, civil society, and international organisations to develop policies and solutions that protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse online. WeProtect Global Alliance is a global movement of people and organisations that work together to transform the global response to child sexual exploitation and abuse online.
Purpose: To provide core support to Centre Dardedze as it works to prevent child sexual abuse in Latvia. Centre Dardedze works with children, caretakers, parents, and professionals. It provides psychosocial support to children and their families and carries out advocacy work at national and municipal levels.
Purpose: To support the Centre for Public Health in Greenland to conduct a study investigating how large and small communities in Greenland are working to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse. The Centre for Public Health in Greenland aims to strengthen mental health supports and services provided to youth in Greenland.
Purpose: To provide core support to No Means No Worldwide to implement and strengthen its programmes around the world through a network of local partners. NMNW is a global organisation, based in the United States, whose mission is to end sexual violence against women and children.
Purpose: To create a solutions hub, where advocates, activists, and frontline workers can access, debate, create, and use proven solutions to prevent child sexual abuse. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation will host a collaboration between Together for Girls, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, WeProtect Global Alliance, and the University of Edinburgh. Together, they will come together to create and launch a demand-driven solutions hub that moves knowledge into practice.
Purpose: To provide core support to All Survivors Project, which works to eradicate conflict-related sexual violence internationally. This is achieved through research, advocacy, and action to prevent violence, and increased access to justice. It also provides health services for men and boys, including those with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression.
Purpose: To lay the foundations for an ambitious push to end sexual violence against children within a generation. This will be achieved by: 1) supporting field leaders to create a vision on how to end sexual violence against children; 2) increasing catalytic funding for transformation; and 3) formulating a strategy that matches the journey ahead. Panorama Global is a US-based social impact organisation designed to maximise impact by partnering with visionary leaders to co-develop solutions with audacious thinking and bold action.
Purpose: To provide core and project support through a Fund hosted by the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation to better integrate LGBTQI youth into the society in Switzerland, and to protect them from discrimination, violence and social exclusion. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is Oak Foundation’s partner hosting foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Purpose: To provide funding for the Children First Fund, which makes small grants to initiatives preventing and combating child sexual abuse. Tides Foundation is a philanthropic partner and not-for-profit organisation dedicated to building a world of shared prosperity and social justice.
Purpose: To support the `Out of the Shadows´ project, managed and coordinated by Ignite Philanthropy, which holds governments to account for laws, policies, mechanisms, and procedures in place to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse. The Out of the Shadows Index was developed in partnership with the Economist Impact that is also responsible for the implementation of the research.
Purpose: To fund a small-grants fund at Swiss Philanthropy Foundation that will support initiatives to combat child sexual abuse. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is Oak Foundation’s partner hosting foundation and is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Children’s Policy and Funding Initiative, which works to make children a higher priority globally in US foreign assistance and diplomacy. This is with the aim of helping end child sexual abuse, improving their care, and enhancing their rights and wellbeing. The initiative works with and regrants to influential organisations to scale up the current work. The initiative is incubated within the Tides Center, a funder intermediary and fiscal sponsor.
Purpose: To develop, deliver, and evaluate an evidence-based prevention campaign that will reduce the number of new ‘self-generated’ child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet. The campaign design will be informed by primary research incorporating perspectives of children/young people, perpetrators, parents/caregivers, and educators. The knowledge created will be used to influence and inform policy and practice for future prevention efforts. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a technology-led, child protection organisation, that works to make the internet a safer place for children and adults across the world.
Purpose: To help advance national political priority for preventing and addressing child sexual violence across five countries by identifying political and other upstream factors that have shaped attention to the issue. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health works to keep millions around the world safe from illness, violence, and injury, by pioneering new research, deploying knowledge, and educating tomorrow’s public health leaders.
Purpose: To support the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania to conduct a trial that explores the uptake and efficacy of an intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Mwanza, North-western Tanzania. This National Institute will also provide learnings on the interventions’ sustainability, replicability, and transferability of this work. The National Institute for Medical Research Tanzania works to carry out, promote, monitor, control, coordinate, and evaluate health research in Tanzania.
Purpose: To create multimedia video content and digital campaigns designed to shift male caregivers´ attitudes toward play, model behaviour that breaks down stereotypical male and female roles, and foster positive parenting practices in South Africa. This is part of the “Takalani Sesame: Transforming Gender Norms and Advancing Child Wellbeing through Innovative Male Caregiver Engagement Initiative”. Sesame Workshop is the not-for-profit organisation behind Sesame Street that works to help children grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.
Purpose: To conduct research and strengthen community programmes worldwide that promote: men’s engagement in equitable distribution of care; and environments that support boys and young men to live diverse, equitable and healthy masculinities. Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice (formerly Promundo-US) was founded in 2011 with a focus on gender equality and the creation of a world free from violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women, girls, and people of all gender identities.
Purpose: To strengthen and collaborate with community-based organisations and institutions in South Africa to help involve fathers in their children’s lives. Heartlines aims to improve knowledge, awareness, skills, and norms with respect to men's presence in the lives of children in South Africa.
Purpose: To support the Ending Online Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children (OSEAC) Coalition’s efforts, led by ChildFund International, to influence the introduction and passage of US government policies and increased funding to prevent and respond to online sexual exploitation and abuse of children. This will be done by building political will, and putting youth and survivors' voices, at the centre of this advocacy work. ChildFund International focuses on child protection because violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect can reverse developmental gains in an instant.
Purpose: To provide core support to LAW for its work to strengthen access to justice for child victims of conflict-related sexual violence in conflict-affected and fragile regions in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. LAW builds the capacity of justice actors and institutions to respond to survivors’ needs.
Purpose: To provide unrestricted programme support to scale Defence for Children International Nederlands - ECPAT Nederland’s work against online child sexual abuse. Defence for Children International Nederland – ECPAT Nederland is an international not-for-profit organisation that stands up for children’s rights.
Purpose: To provide educators with tools that teach children healthy lifestyle habits while building their core content knowledge as they walk, listen, and learn. The Walking Classroom (TWC), a program of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, is a national program that strengthens the physical, mental and academic health of students. Kids take a brisk 20-minute walk while listening to podcasts that are pre-loaded onto audio devices. TWC will donate 3,600 audio devices over three years.
Purpose: To provide core support to Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation, in West Sussex, the UK. This will enable the Foundation to continue its work to improve personal, social, educational, and health outcomes for children and young people impacted by disadvantage, inequality, or disability who are living in areas of inner-city London and West Sussex.
Purpose: To support two donor collaboratives at Borealis Philanthropy that aim to build local community power in the US. The two collaboratives are: the Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF); and the Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF). CTPF supports local organising and policy advocacy focused on increasing transparency and accountability in the criminal justice system and shifting power and resources to impacted communities. BLMF strengthens the capacity of grassroots, intersectional, Black-led movement organisations so that they can better shape policy agendas, create viable alternatives to harmful institutions, and build local community power.
Purpose: To provide core support to CFSY for its efforts to ban life without parole and other extreme sentences for the children in the US. Through partnership with advocacy organisations, businesses, and other stakeholders, the CFSY supports survivors of youth violence, those incarcerated as children who are still serving or have been released, and their respective families and communities.
Purpose: To support the Billion Oyster Project to restore one billion oysters to New York Harbour and connect one million New Yorkers to its efforts by 2035. Because oysters are filter feeders, they naturally filter water, with a number of beneficial effects for the ecosystem. The Billion Oyster Project is a New York City-based not-for-profit organisation that works in collaboration with New York City communities.
Purpose: To provide support to the Omega Resilience Awards project, which will invest in people and institutions working to respond to environmental, social, technological, and economic/financial threats to our planet. Commonweal is a not-for-profit institute dedicated to protecting the earth.
Purpose: To support the Agroecology Fund to setup a regional agroecology fund in East Africa. Agroecology is an intersectional solution to food security, climate change, human rights, and biodiversity. The Global Greengrants Fund is a charitable foundation that makes small grants to grassroots environmental causes around the world.
Purpose: To provide support to First Descents, based in the US, which provides life-changing outdoor adventures to young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health conditions. With this grant, First Descents will expand equitable access to psychosocial support to young adult patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers.
Purpose: To support pioneering research at the Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland to develop a new immunotherapy to cure people with solid tumors, such as breast cancer. The Lausanne University Hospital is one of the five Swiss university hospitals in Switzerland.
Purpose: To provide core support to Helpforce, which partners with healthcare organisations in the UK to transform how they deliver their volunteer services. Helpforce partners with health and care organisations to transform how they deliver volunteer services.
Purpose: To empower women to pursue living-wage jobs in the construction trades in North Carolina in the United States, and provide repairs and renovations that enable older adults to stay in their homes as they age. Hope Renovations seeks to close the gender gap in the construction industry, helping to relieve the skilled workforce shortage, while helping older adults age in place.
Purpose: To provide a daily school meal to more than 26,530 children in Goromonzi district, Zimbabwe for five years. Mary's Meals aims to provide chronically hungry children with one meal every school day, encouraging education that can lift them out of poverty in later life.
Purpose: To help combat the detention, separation, and violation of the rights of immigrant children and families in the US. Four Freedoms Fund will support a cohort of organisations that are committed to working together to end child detention and family separation. It will also work to change the narrative around migration and the US border. Four Freedoms Fund is a national funder collaborative that was launched by NEO Philanthropy in 2003. FFF strengthens the capacity of the immigrant justice movement to ensure all immigrants, regardless of immigration status, have dignity, power to shape change, and agency to determine the quality of their life, community, and future. Based in NYC, NEO Philanthropy is a funder intermediary with 30 years of experience helping not-for-profit organisations build movements for justice, equity, and dignity.
Purpose: To provide core support to PoetsIN to strengthen its organisational capacity and financial sustainability, and expand the delivery of its programmes. PoetsIN supports people struggling with mental health problems by providing them with the tools to reduce and manage the symptoms of mental illness. Their programmes use creative writing and mentoring to strengthen mental wellbeing, and reduce anxiety, depression, and self-harm.
Purpose: To support Uplift Foundation to establish a home visitation programme, using the community-based rehabilitation approach, for children with disabilities and their families in Kyrgyzstan. Uplift works to prevent child abandonment by developing and implementing specific early intervention and parental support programmes for vulnerable families, dramatically reducing the number of social orphans in Kyrgyzstan.
Purpose: To provide core support to Pennies as it continues to grow and expand its social impact across the charity sector in the UK. This grant also hopes to help Pennies achieve financial self-sustainability by the end of the grant period in 2026. Pennies leads the micro-donation movement in the UK.
Purpose: To provide core support to Rangelands Regeneration in the Beitbridge District of Zimbabwe to develop a land use model that regenerates land and preserves biodiversity, secures wildlife habitat, and addresses rural poverty. Rangelands Regeneration works to restore ecosystems and partner with people who depend on them to improve their livelihoods. It works to contribute to strong, healthy communities by building resilient ecosystems, creating sustainable economic opportunities and re-establishing wildlife migration corridors.
Purpose: To support the establishment of Watershed, an independent investigative journalism unit examining issues affecting water in the UK. The investigation will cover issues affecting water in five thematic areas: climate change, pollution, resource, policy, and wildlife. Watershed will use investigative journalism techniques, data analysis, water sampling and relationships with affected communities to create robust, in-depth, and compelling reports.
Purpose: To provide core support to British contemporary dance company, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance (SJD). SJD brings the unique contemporary dance works of Shobana Jeyasingh to audiences nationally and internationally. In addition, SJD's learning programme works to deepen engagement among people with contemporary dance and, in doing so, to promote social change. Many of the company's projects focus on young people who are economically disadvantaged and who do not have good access to the arts.
Purpose: To enable The Five Foundation to scale its global advocacy work to end female genital mutilation (FGM) worldwide. The Five Foundation is the strongest global partnership working to end FGM, with nearly 100 partners, mostly frontline groups.
Purpose: To provide core support to The City Report, Inc, to help it continue to expand its capacity to produce free-to-read, robust reporting on issues of importance to New Yorkers. The City Report, Inc. is a not-for-profit digital news platform whose mission is to produce free to read, local reporting that serves the people of New York City.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Women Veterans Network (WoVeN), a unique social network of women Veterans, to foster connections and build relationships in local communities and across the US. In addition to providing community, WoVeN strives to empower women Veterans with information, education, and resources to improve their quality of life, reduce isolation, and foster wellbeing.
Purpose: To support research and clinical work at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, to improve diagnoses and treatments for multiple sclerosis and other neuroinflammatory diseases. The University of Oxford is one of the top-ranked institutions in the world for research and teaching.
Purpose: To provide core support to The Trussell Trust, based in the UK, which works to change how society responds to and views poverty. The Trussell Trust works to change how local and national policies are structured, and how people receive support. This is with the aim of: ensuring that people do not need to live on handouts; helping those unable to afford the essentials; and ultimately ending the need for food banks.
Purpose: To help break the cycle of homelessness in Winchester, the UK, by enabling people to rebuild their lives through independent living. The Winchester Beacon provides emergency and transitional accommodation, along with counselling and other support.
Purpose: To support American Prairie’s work to purchase, assemble and collaboratively manage 3.2 million acres for wildlife and public access to restore a functioning shortgrass prairie ecosystem. American Prairie is conserving the disappearing shortgrass prairie ecosystem by piecing together 3.2 million acres of Montana's Northern Plains.
Purpose: To provide core support to Association Savoir Patient (ASAP), based in Switzerland, to improve care and quality of life for cancer patients. This will be done by providing direct support to patients and by promoting and integrating patients’ experience and knowledge into healthcare, research, and education. ASAP was founded in 2003 to improve care for breast cancer patients, and it has recently expanded support to people suffering from all types of cancer.
Purpose: To provide core support to Partners for a New Economy (P4NE), an international donors’ collaborative fund. P4NE works to generate and employ new partnerships and systems-level interventions to transform how our environment and economy are valued. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is Oak Foundation’s partner hosting foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Purpose: To strengthen the capacity of grassroots organisations in the US to implement programmes that advance access to healthy, local food, and engagement in local food systems. The Conservation Fund’s resourceful communities programme seeks to increase food security and sovereignty for community members who wish to access, grow, and distribute safe, affordable, and locally-grown healthy food.
Purpose: To deliver programmes and services in New York City for women and families who have histories of homelessness or justice-involvement and to provide capital funding to expand the Women’s Justice programme. Providence House seeks to end the cycle of homelessness, abuse, and return to incarceration, by creating long-lasting change in the lives of women and families.
Purpose: To create a collaborative fund that promotes the involvement of communities in grant-making and project implementation in French-speaking Switzerland. A group of young people will be trained on the grant-making process and will award public benefit grants for projects to support young people in the region. By giving young people access to the grant-making process, this fund will ensure that their voices are taken into consideration and that the most vulnerable young people in the region will get the support they need. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is Oak Foundation´s partner hosting foundation and is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Purpose: To provide core support to KAVI to strengthen the organisation’s capacity to provide programmes for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth and young adults residing in lower income, underserved communities in Brooklyn, New York. KAVI works to prevent and eliminate interpersonal violence from the lives of young people through education, advocacy, leadership, community mobilisation, racial equity, and social justice.
Purpose: To defend the rights of migrant children in the US federal immigration custody and improve the immigration system. The National Center for Youth Law advocates for children’s rights at the local, state, and national levels, working at the intersections of all youth-serving systems, including immigration, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and health.
Purpose: To provide support to Nest, a US-based nonprofit that is working to build a new handworker economy to increase global workforce inclusivity, improve women’s wellbeing beyond factories, and preserve important cultural traditions around the world. This grant will support Nest to launch its ‘Inclusive Work Initiative & Coalition’, which aims to dramatically expand support for female creative entrepreneurs worldwide.
Purpose: To reduce the racial wealth gap in Orange County and Durham County in North Carolina, the US, by helping members secure affordable housing. This will be done by: deepening and expanding the Community Empowerment Fund’s innovative housing access tools; and ensuring that decisions are made by those with lived experience. The Community Empowerment Fund provides services to individuals experiencing financial insecurity or homelessness in North Carolina.
Purpose: To pilot a comprehensive Economic Mobility initiative in Central Harlem, New York, and scale in up to 10 cities across the US through cradle-to-career partnerships in its first three years. Harlem Children´s Zone strives to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by working to build community, strengthen families, and ensure children succeed from birth through college to career.
Purpose: To provide core support to Beaver Trust to recover Britain’s waterways and landscapes through the rapid and widespread re-establishment of beaver wetlands across river catchments. Beavers offer a practical, low-cost solution for long-term restoration and create naturally wild areas of habitat where wildlife thrives, and freshwater quality is improved. Beaver Trust works to educate and inform people about the benefits of wetlands created by beavers.
Purpose: To provide core support to Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA), supporting its investment in research activities to find treatments and a cure for Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare inherited disease. FARA is a not-for-profit advocacy organisation based in the United States that works globally to promote clinical research into Friedreich’s ataxia, conduct seminars and conferences for the research community, and collaborate with other key stakeholders.
Purpose: To support refugees and other disadvantaged youth by offering them scholarships to attend Ecolint in Switzerland, where they will be given a high quality, multi-faceted education. The scholarships will have a direct and sustainable impact on the lives of the refugees themselves and also their families, their fellow students, the wider community, and society as a whole.
Purpose: To support British Asian Trust's work to reduce vulnerabilities among children, young people, and their families in the tea-growing districts of North Bengal, and enable access to better educational, skilling, and life chances. This is achieved by improving their economic conditions, encouraging responsive public services, and reducing gender and social inequities. The British Asian Trust works to tackle widespread poverty in South Asia and enable access to better opportunities.
Purpose: To strengthen livelihoods and enhance the economic and social wellbeing of 2,500 households in closed and sick tea gardens in West Bengal. KABIL works to strengthen the collective livelihoods of women, and establish new livelihoods, with an emphasis on linking women to markets, with access to formal credit. KABIL collaborates with government agencies, corporate entities, not-for-profit organisations, and community-based organisations with knowledge on how to promote rural prosperity.
Purpose: To support islandic communities in Sundarbans to access preventative, protective, and promotive health care facilitated by a trained cadre of community health workers. Liver Foundation West Bengal is a not-for-profit organisation based in Kolkata that works to train and mentor the workforce, and help them gain access to the formal public health service delivery.
Purpose: To provide skill development education for the youth of the tea garden areas in West Bengal. This will enable them to access formal gainful employment pathways through employment/ entrepreneurship. Pratham Education Foundation provides training and mentorship to youth. It is an innovative learning organisation created to improve the quality of education in India.
Purpose: To support communities to participate in local self-governments in four tribal districts of Jharkhand, India. Samvad works towards a society where relations between communities and nature are balanced in a way that preserves Indigenous social values and creates sustainable livelihoods for people.
Purpose: To support the Centre for People’s Forestry to enable Indigenous communities from forest villages in two districts of West Bengal, India, to practice agro-ecology, and access state entitlements. The Centre for People's Forestry will build the capacity of community-based institutions to access services and entitlements.
Purpose: To support Sign of Hope’s efforts to enable Indigenous communities in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve to build innovative community-led solutions to address their needs. Headquartered in Constance, Germany, Sign of Hope supports human rights, humanitarian aid, and developmental actions in 11 countries.
Purpose: To support FXB International to protect children and young adults from trafficking and sexual abuse in the Santhal Parganas region of Jharkhand. This will be done by enabling communities, service providers, and elected and traditional leaders to prioritise actions that prevent and respond to risks. FXB International is a not-for-profit organisation that works to break the cycle of poverty.
Purpose: To provide core support to Movimento dos Pimpadores to improve the livelihood of waste collectors in Brazil and structure a national network of ambassadors for waste pickers across the country. Movimento de Pimpadores is a civil society organisation that uses art, technology, and innovation to support waste pickers, improving their work conditions, income, and visibility.
Purpose: To conduct communications campaigns focused on gun control measures and public security reform in Brazilian cities with high violence rates. Instituto Fogo Cruzado is an open-source data lab that tracks and publicises data on gun violence in key Brazilian cities.
Purpose: To defend free, independent journalism in Brazil, advocate for a safer environment for the press, and protect journalists at risk. Founded in 2015, Reporters Without Borders Latin America has the mission to protect and train journalists, advocate for press freedom, and denounce its violations.
Purpose: To support democracy in Brazil. Quid is a communication and mobilisation organisation working for social causes. It contributes to the promotion of ethics, peace, citizenship, human rights, democracy and other universal values.
Purpose: To strengthen the capacities of policymakers and civil society organisations to counter digital manipulation. The Communications School at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro works to raise awareness around the role of communications in improving social justice in Brazil.
Purpose: To foster independent, reliable, and investigative information on the social, economic, environmental, and political impacts of the agribusiness model in Brazil. De Olho nos Ruralistas is an organisation that works as both an independent news outlet and an observatory focused on land conflict and socio-environmental degradation in the country.
Purpose: To support the right to land and water of traditional peoples (quilombolas and comunidades de fundo e fecho de pasto) and youth and rural women in the midwest of Bahia, in the northeast of the country. Comissão Pastoral da Terra is a national organisation dedicated to supporting rural communities and grassroots movements to develop sustainable forms of agricultural production.
Purpose: To ensure the safety of all children by creating a supportive, stimulating, and conducive environment that allows for holistic development. The project will continue to build the capacity of community structures to safeguard children by strengthening child protection committees in villages, in collaboration with the Department of Social Development. MASO is one of the main service organisations in Zimbabwe involved in HIV/AIDS programme activities.
Purpose: To improve the quality of life for orphaned children in households affected by HIV/AIDS and from farming communities in Mashonaland Central and Mashonaland West provinces of Zimbabwe. FOST started in 1997 as a response to the increase in orphaned children on farms in Zimbabwe largely due to the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS. It is a registered not-for-profit organisation that facilitates support for orphans and vulnerable children in farm communities in Zimbabwe.
Purpose: To strengthen the capacity of community home-based carers, health professionals, and religious leaders to deliver palliative care services in Bulawayo, Chitungwiza, Marondera, and Mutare in Zimbabwe. Island Hospice will also continue strengthening life skills and community-based psychosocial support for young carers in Marondera, a city in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare.
Purpose: To improve the quality of life for adolescents and young people and promote child safeguarding for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in the high-density suburbs of Harare. Mashambanzou Care Trust holds a vision of an HIV-free generation and provides information on HIV to the communities to help prevent the spread of HIV and sexually-transmitted infections.
Purpose: To distribute medical equipment to charities, hospitals, and people in Zimbabwe. Established in 2000, Harare Dawn Rotary Club is driven by progressive ideas, bold actions, and a strong foundation of support.
Purpose: To protect and promote the rights of children in Zimbabwe so that they realise their full potential within families and communities. The Simukai Child Protection Program is a registered charity established in 2000 as a community response to help orphans and vulnerable children.
Purpose: To improve the wellbeing of children claiming asylum by providing them and their families with effective legal and psycho-social support.
Purpose: To provide core support to the NWI to enable it to strengthen and support women's rights organisations around the world. NWI uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Laureates to increase visibility of women’s organisations. NWI also builds the capacity of women and civil society organisations and connects them across movements to strengthen the power and impact of their advocacy.
Purpose: To contribute to an improved understanding of, and response to, human trafficking and women's labour migration from a rights-based perspective. GAATW is an alliance of more than 80 member organisations working worldwide.
Purpose: To address social and health challenges facing young women through education and service-based learning by connecting girls from different countries and backgrounds through international exchanges, soccer leagues, and events. Goals for Girls uses soccer as a tool to teach young women life skills and leadership and empowers them to be agents of change in their own lives and in their communities.
Purpose: To contribute to improving the quality of life of migrants in Geneva, Switzerland by providing information about the health and social services that they are entitled to access. L'EPER's project Permanences Volantes, which works to improve the lives of migrants living in precarious situations in Geneva, offers services that are complementary to those provided by institutions. It does this through discussions, information sessions, drop-in advice sessions and cultural and physical activities.
Purpose: To strengthen Face To Face’s housing stability initiative in Philadelphia, which aims to strengthen the legal service to assist low-income clients with safe and secure housing. Face to Face is a multi-service organisation that supports more than 2,500 low-income and homeless people each year.
Purpose: To support the Sage Fund’s efforts to strengthen human rights accountability for economic actors globally. Hosted by New Venture Fund, the Sage Fund works to address critical gaps in protection created by the global economy by spurring innovation, building knowledge, skills and capacity, and creating greater leverage with the human rights movement.
Purpose: To support the Queensland Ballet Company’s Jette Parker Young Artist Program, a year-long apprenticeship programme offering young talented dancers a career pathway and building the next generation of internationally sought-after dancers. Queensland Ballet Company is a dance company in Queensland, Australia, connecting people and dance through performance, training, education, and community engagement activities.
Purpose: To provide grant management and value-added services to the grantee partner exit portfolio of the former Joint India Programme through the re-granting organisation Child Rights and You – America (CRY AM).
Purpose: To support the International Detention Coalition to build movements that influence law, policy, and practices to end immigration detention and implement rights-based alternatives to detention. IDC advocates for the human rights of people impacted by and at risk of detention globally. It works towards a world where immigration detention no longer exists and those who migrate can live with rights and dignity.
Purpose: To foster stronger and more strategic communications practices across the European and Central Asian LGBTQI movement. Based in Belgium, ILGA Europe works to promote the interests of LGBTQI people at the European level.
Purpose: To end homelessness and destitution among people with no recourse to public funds in Scotland. Homeless Network Scotland leads Fair Way Scotland, which is a collective of not-for-profit and academic sector organisations working to end homelessness through the development of an integrated service response model and policy change.
Purpose: To support Ex Cathedra, a leading UK choir, to deliver Singing Medicine – a programme which aims to improve the wellbeing of children at Birmingham Children’s Hospital through positive and inclusive interactive songs and singing games.
Purpose: To provide core support to Pancreatic Cancer UK, supporting its investments in research and its work on data and intelligence to drive policy changes and improve treatment and care for patients with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic Cancer UK is a charity in the UK fighting against pancreatic cancer by investing in research, supporting patients and advocating for change.
Purpose: To provide core support to the RTTC which works across the US through its member organisations. Its efforts aim to: halt the displacement of low-income people, people of colour, and LGBTQI communities; and protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic, just, and sustainable cities.
Purpose: To improve the health outcomes for young women and adolescents in the districts of Jharkhand and West Bengal.
Purpose: To support Nazdeek in its efforts to improve access to justice for tea plantation worker communities in Assam and West Bengal.
Purpose: To improve knowledge of contemporary Africa through K-5 education in North Carolina. The African Studies Center (ASC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill believes that an effective way to reduce misinformation about Africa is through elementary education. ASC will support digital learning about contemporary Africa using technology in kindergarten to fifth grade. Educators and students will expand their knowledge of modern Africa and draw important global connections between North Carolina and African contexts.
Purpose: To provide core support to Foundation for Change. Foundation for Change tackles social exclusion and enables people from disadvantaged backgrounds who have experienced significant difficulties with drugs or alcohol to participate fully in society.
Purpose: To work to ensure and defend human rights, highlighting findings, and working in close collaboration to strengthen organisations and communities advocating for change. Fortify Rights seeks to achieve human rights-based solutions, influence decision-makers and support local responses to end abuses.
Purpose: To defend the rule of law, the right to asylum, and a fair criminal justice system in Hungary. Based in Budapest, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee uses legal assistance, litigation, advocacy, and outreach to reach its goals.
Purpose: To support UHAB to assess 268 co-ops in need of repair, which provide low-income residents with long-term, secure housing in New York City. UHAB will provide residents with skills, knowledge and options about what works best for them, and will prioritise resident engagement and buy-in. It will enable them to do repairs and maintenance, deal with debts, and improve building and resident management. UHAB is a not-for-profit organisation that was formed in 1973 in response to widespread building abandonment and urban disinvestment in New York City.
Purpose: To protect and uphold the rights of children working in domestic servitude in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by challenging abuses against child domestic workers and creating ethical living and working conditions for them. This will be achieved by: positively influencing and reshaping the attitudes and behaviours of key stakeholders such as employers and employers' children; and strengthening community, government, and law enforcement bodies’ capacities and systems.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) to help it eliminate abusive financial practices that disproportionately impact low- and moderate- income families and people of colour in the United States. Through research, public education, policy development and coalition-building, CRL enables low-income families to retain assets. This is vital to closing America’s widening wealth gap.
Purpose: To empower and equip first-generation college students in Durham Public Schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform the city. Student U is a community organisation that uses the power of education, advocacy, and leadership to build a just and equitable Durham. It works through three elements: a whole-families approach to college access and success programming; sharing best practices in education; and supporting student- and family-led advocacy in the city.
Purpose: To develop a hotline in Greenland that aims to help young people and adults process their grief. The hotline will extend the existing help already available to support children in the country. When children, adolescents, and adults are unable to process their grief, it can contribute to many mental and social problems. The hotline aims to break down taboos surrounding both grief and suicides in Greenland.
Purpose: To prevent destitution for homeless asylum seekers by expanding Hope Projects’ legal services to ensure all claimants have accurate information to proceed efficiently. Working with a network of partner charities across Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country, Hope Projects provides housing, financial support and legal advice and representation.
Purpose: To provide core support to Kalayaan to work with migrant domestic workers in the UK, especially victims of labour exploitation or trafficking. As well as providing direct support services, Kalayaan will be campaigning to improve the legal and policy framework. Kalayaan is based in London and is the only advice organisation in the UK that works specifically with migrant domestic workers, the majority of whom are female.
Purpose: To provide the PLP in the UK with an unrestricted core grant to support it to improve access to legal remedies for those whose access to justice is restricted by poverty or other forms of disadvantage. PLP advocates at a local and national level, alongside training not-for-profit organisations and other stakeholders, to increase their capacity to represent excluded individuals, groups, and communities.
Purpose: To eradicate laws that criminalise consensual same-sex sexual relations and effect related legal change to end the systemic persecution and marginalisation of LGBTQI people. Based in London, the Human Dignity Trust provides legal, communications, and security assistance to lawyers, activists and governments who are working to challenge or reform the criminalisation of LGBTQI people and enact protective laws.
Purpose: To help ensure safe workplaces that are free of sexual harassment for women workers from the unorganised sector in West Bengal and the tea gardens of North Bengal.
Purpose: To strengthen the capacity of grassroots Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller organisations to challenge poor practice in local development plan processes in the United Kingdom. This grant also aims to help stimulate the supply of affordable, socially provided sites. This will be achieved by supporting housing associations to develop new sites in partnership with Gypsies and Travellers. Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) is the only UK national traveller-led charity working on behalf of all Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers.
Purpose: To provide support to women leaving prison in Pennsylvania, the US. Why Not Prosper is a grassroots not-for-profit organisation, founded by a formerly incarcerated woman for other formerly incarcerated women. Why Not Prosper is committed to providing programmes and services that support women in their re-entry efforts from prison to community.
Purpose: To strengthen 9,000 tea worker communities from five districts of Assam and West Bengal.
Purpose: To protect and promote women’s rights and gender equality in Plovdiv and more widely across Bulgaria, by providing rights-based services to women victims of violence. This support includes counselling, legal representation, and strategic litigation.
Purpose: To provide core support to WILPF to strengthen the capacity of frontline women’s organisations to mobilise for peace, equality, justice, and human security. In doing so, women’s organisations will influence laws and policies to better protect women and their communities from violent conflict. WILPF is an international not-for-profit anti-war organisation that brings women together to oppose conflict, violence, and global militarisation.
Purpose: To provide core support to NAEH, which is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation that uses research and data to find solutions for homelessness in the US. NAEH has links with most homelessness organisations in the US. It provides technical assistance and carries out research that is used across the sector.
Purpose: To provide core support to GSS, a youth and family development agency that operates over 90 programmes serving 30,500 children, youth, and family members in New York City. Advocates of social and racial justice, GSS partners with communities so that all children, youth, and families can succeed and thrive.
Purpose: To end family homelessness in Durham County by helping families. This will be done by: securing and maintaining housing; improving overall wellbeing so that people are self-sufficient; lessening the trauma homeless children and adults experience; and enhancing school readiness for young children. The Durham Collaborative to End Family Homelessness brings together four organisations to work more effectively to address the housing needs of families in crisis.
Purpose: To provide support for the supportive housing sector in New York and to ensure good quality implementation of state and city supportive housing commitments and to improve housing opportunities for people experiencing homelessness, while working to improve racial equity internally and sector wide. SHNNY is a membership organisation representing over 220 supportive housing providers across New York State, in the United States.
Purpose: To support Rural Development Institute to facilitate conditions in Jharkhand, India for women to earn and experience equal land rights.
Purpose: To strengthen independent journalism in the northeast of Brazil and its coverage of violence, human rights, and socio-environmental rights.
Purpose: To produce evidence-based research on targeted digital threats against civil society and other developments adversely impacting civic activism, and build local capacity to recognise and respond to these threats. Based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Citizen Lab focuses on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.
Purpose: To provide support to Sandwell African Caribbean Mental Health Foundation in the UK, which delivers a range of mental health services in particular to Black people recovering from severe and enduring mental ill health. The organisation provides a range of culturally responsive mental health services to Black people who are using mainstream psychiatric services.
Purpose: To deter torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other severe human rights abuses around the world through litigation, legal advocacy, and outreach in pursuit of truth, justice and redress for victims and survivors. The Center for Justice and Accountability is a leading anti-impunity organisation employing innovative survivor-centred legal strategies to support domestic accountability movements and to hold war crimes perpetrators accountable.
Purpose: To end sexual violence against children by 2030 by catalysing a global movement of survivors and allies to advocate for transformative change. The grant also includes core support to strengthen Together for Girls’ (TfG) leadership role in the field of sexual violence against children. TfG is a public-private partnership that works to break cycles of violence with special attention to sexual violence against girls.
Purpose: To protect fundamental guarantees with respect to social protest, privacy rights, religious freedom, and civic activism. The grant will also assist in strengthening members’ tech, litigation and fundraising capacity through a series of consultancies and peer-to-peer exchanges. INCLO is a network of 15 independent, national human rights organizations from different countries in the North and South that work together to promote fundamental rights and freedoms.
Purpose: To support three philanthropic initiatives – Ariadne, Migration Exchange, and the Funder's Initiative for Civic Space – hosted by Global Dialogue. This will: enable European social change and human rights funders to make better informed decisions about their grant-making; help funders collaborate more effectively; and strengthen and support change within the philanthropic sector. Global Dialogue is a platform for philanthropic partnership that enables independent funders to work together to realise ambitious goals and create lasting change.
Purpose: To support the music director position at the Yehudi Menuhin School for five years. This grant is a contribution to the school’s new fundraising programme, whereby donors can sponsor or permanently endow specific faculty positions. The Yehudi Menuhin School provides a specialist education to boys and girls aged 8 to 19 years with an exceptional talent for music. Selection for a place at the school is determined on a “needs-blind” basis, based solely on musical potential.
Purpose: To provide core support to GJC to use legal arguments and advocacy strategies to dismantle discriminatory legal and political structures that prevent equality and human rights for all. In particular, GJC will focus on protecting sexual and reproductive rights and demanding justice for sexual and gender-based violence.
Purpose: To provide core support to Medical Justice, based in London, which focuses on ending medical mistreatment of immigration detainees. In addition, Medical Justice facilitates their access to appropriate healthcare and deploys research, policy analysis, and litigation to campaign for an end to immigration detention.
Purpose: To strengthen OMCT's communications and network capacity, and increase the effectiveness, visibility, and reach of its advocacy in the fight against torture. OMCT is a Geneva-based international network that aims to uphold the prohibition of torture by mobilising national and international support for the prevention of torture and the protection of victims of torture.
Purpose: To provide core support for Detention Action’s efforts to reform immigration detention at an individual and policy level. DA works with individuals to enable them to defend their rights, providing support and casework to detained migrants. It campaigns, lobbies, and litigates for fundamental reform of the UK detention and asylum systems.
Purpose: To provide core support to Education NC for its ongoing reporting on students with learning differences in North Carolina. Education NC is a not-for-profit organisation that works to expand educational opportunities for all students in North Carolina by providing residents and policy-makers with non-partisan data, research, news, information, and analysis about major issues facing the state’s public schools.
Purpose: To increase the provision of decent, accessible, affordable homes for extremely low-income households in the US, including those experiencing homelessness. The NLIHC is a national membership organisation that educates, organises, and advocates for affordable housing for the lowest-income households and homeless people in America.
Purpose: To challenge the use of immigration detention and quasi-detention for vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees. Based in London, the Helen Bamber Foundation provides specialist integrated support to survivors of human rights abuses.
Purpose: To support Cambiar Education, a US-based education design and innovation studio dedicated to developing new ways that K-12 public schools and education entrepreneurs can expand education opportunities for students. This project will engage students with learning differences in developing their own ideas for serving other students with learning differences. Students will be awarded micro-grants to implement their innovative solutions.
Purpose: To provide core support to NSF to strengthen grassroots organising led by communities of colour in New York City and the Hudson Valley. NSF has been providing grants and support to new and small groups for over 40 years using a participatory grant-making model.
Purpose: To uncover the truth about grave violations of human rights in Turkey, strengthen collective memory of those violations, and support survivors and other actors in their pursuit of justice. Based in Istanbul, the Centre works to support civil society. This is done by developing and sharing methodologies, tools, and policy recommendations with the aim of achieving better documentation and securing accountability and public recognition of past and ongoing crimes.
Purpose: To support the work of Imkaan, a membership organisation of Black and minoritised women's services addressing violence against women and girls in the UK. The grant has two purposes. One will support Imkaan to meet its core strategic aims for this sector's sustainability and eventual growth. The other is to support the building of Project Tallawah as the first UK community-focused fund by and for Black and minoritised women.
Purpose: To provide support to Homes for Families, which works to amplify the voices of homeless families in Boston and highlight systemic barriers and gaps in services. The project will focus on specific issues, including the impact of Covid-19 on homeless families and children. Homes for Families is a coalition of families and shelter providers, working across Massachusetts to prevent family homelessness and improve family shelters.
Purpose: To ensure that that all students, including those who have faced adversity from traumatic events, including racism and marginalisation due to disabilities, succeed at their highest levels in school and in life. This will be achieved through support to Massachusetts Advocates for Children, by expanding its Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI).
Purpose: To prevent and end homelessness, and increase housing affordability and quality in Pennsylvania, US. The Housing Alliance is a state-wide coalition working to provide leadership and a common voice for policies, practices, and resources to ensure that all Pennsylvanians, especially those with low incomes, have access to safe, decent, and affordable homes.
Purpose: To support the Family Planning Association of India’s expansion into socially and geographically excluded communities in North and South West Bengal.
Purpose: To empower communities in Birmingham to fight homelessness in their city. Shelter exists to defend the right to a safe home. Each year, through advice and support services, it helps people struggling with bad housing or homelessness.
Purpose: To develop and implement opportunities for youth, adults, and veterans with physical disabilities to play individual, team, and recreational sports. Bridge II Sports develops a culture of empowerment that fosters respect for all abilities and has a life-changing impact on participants.
Purpose: To provide core support to Greater Boston Legal Services in its work providing legal aid to individuals and families in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to help them meet their basic needs. GBLS provides legal advocacy at a systemic level, as well as direct support to clients, enabling people to access emergency shelter and secure affordable housing, gain protection from domestic violence, and access welfare benefits, recover earned wages that have been withheld by employers, and more.
Purpose: To provide core support for Fair Havens Hospice in the UK to ensure people within Southend, Castle Point, and Rochford affected by a complex or incurable condition receives the hospice care they need. Fair Havens provides respite, symptom control and end-of-life care to adults with palliative care needs in both the hospice and the community. The charity also supports families through tailored wellbeing and bereavement care.
Purpose: To provide support to UpTogether’s ‘Trust and Invest Collaborative’, a partnership that will evaluate the impact of cash payments on people with low incomes in the United States. This will help influence poverty related advocacy in Massachusetts and across the US. The project will also fund a Black Community Leaders and Activists Fund, developed with grassroots organisations. UpTogether works to eliminate poverty across the US by investing in low-income families.
Purpose: To provide core support to Prospera International Network of Women's Funds to increase its capacity to strengthen the field of women’s funds to transform the lives and communities of women and girls across the world. In addition this grant will help the organisation support founders of women's funds to retire in a cohort where they can support each other and create different pipelines for support within the network.
Purpose: To provide core support to CPAG in its work to prevent child and family poverty in the UK. CPAG works to ensure the just provision of welfare benefits and to expand support for and capacity building of frontline organisations. The grant will also contribute to its fundraising and infrastructure. CPAG campaigns and advocates in support of families and children living on a low income.
Purpose: To help ensure people in Northern Ireland have a decent, safe, and affordable place to live. This will be done by: providing advice, advocacy, and court representation services, training and information on housing and homelessness issues; and seeking to positively influence the development of housing and homelessness policy. Housing Rights is a charity promoting the rights of people who are homeless or in housing need.
Purpose: To provide core support to Generation Rent to help ensure people in the UK have access to secure, good quality, and affordable homes in the private rented sector. Generation Rent works to empower tenants in the private rented sector to be aware of their rights, and have a stronger democratic voice. It also works to ensure landlords are aware of their responsibilities, and prevent homelessness and poverty for tenants.
Purpose: To increase positive outcomes for residents of a homeless shelter through the development of improved monitoring and evaluation systems. SFTS is a night shelter that was founded in 2007 and is open every night of the year. Over the last five years SFTS has cared for 1,281 individuals, provided 75,000 bed spaces, helped 761 people to find accommodation and supported 367 people to find employment or sustain work.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Refugee and Migrant Centre (RMC) to support asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees in the West Midlands, the United Kingdom. This grant will help RMC to support these people in need to overcome crisis and disadvantage and become equal citizens.
Purpose: To hold predatory landlords accountable for discriminatory practices in the US, and to fight poverty, challenge systems that perpetuate injustice, and change lives through advocacy and legal representation. Founded in 1966 by the Philadelphia Bar Association, CLS is a not-for-profit organisation that is governed by a board of lawyers and community representatives.
Purpose: To create a collaborative university/public school tutoring initiative to support the academic attainments of struggling students who attend the 12 elementary schools in Alamance County, North Carolina. Considering school disruptions due to Covid-19, academic struggles have deepened among all students, especially among students of colour and students from low-income households.
Purpose: To provide core support to Tai Pawb in Wales, a social justice and equality-focused advocacy and capacity-building organisation. It will support the development of refugee-focused projects and deepen engagement with those directly impacted by homelessness and social exclusion, together with developing their fundraising capacity.
Purpose: To support small, women-led organisations that work with women and girls and trans/gender nonconforming individuals recently leaving jail with their housing needs in Philadelphia, the US. Gender Justice will also help advance the policy agenda of the Incarcerated Women’s Working Group, which was recently reformed to better support women and girls trans/gender nonconforming individuals leaving jail.
Purpose: To enable frontline organisations and public bodies to better identify and address migrants’ needs and support sustainable pathways out of destitution and homelessness. Praxis provides expert support to migrants and refugees in the UK. Every year it helps 2,000 people through immigration advice, housing and peer support groups.
Purpose: To support tenure security and territorial governance initiatives of Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon region, and to strengthen their organisational capacity to meet demand. The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility is the first and only international financial mechanism exclusively focused on partnering with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to secure their land and forest rights across the developing world.
Purpose: To create Sophia Point, Guyana’s first accessible wildlife and rainforest research centre. The centre will enable the study of vital rainforests and their biodiversity and will provide a site to train and educate Guyana’s next generation of leaders.
Purpose: To support City Life/Vida Urbana in Boston to support tenant organisers to create and preserve affordable housing for working-class residents of colour, through training and advocacy and building tenant and working class power. City Life/Vida Urbana is a bilingual Spanish/English community organisation that fights for racial, social, and economic justice and gender equality.
Purpose: To provide World Pulse with core support to increase its capacity to use the power of technology to grow women’s leadership across the globe. World Pulse is a safe digital place where women unite to courageously tell their stories, share resources, start businesses, run for office, and launch movements.
Purpose: To provide core support to undertake research examining the impact of the performative arts on health and wellbeing. The Centre aims to make a leading contribution to critical scholarship, research, and practice in the field of arts and health.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) at Goldsmiths, University of London. The CCA hosts world-class exhibitions by international artists and provides a space for established and emergent practices. The institution responds to a diverse range of audiences, through community engagement, educational projects, publications, and an online journal.
Purpose: To provide core support to Women’s Link Worldwide to advance its mission of using the power of law to promote social change that advances the human rights of women and girls. Women’s Link Worldwide takes the law beyond the courtroom by: strengthening the human rights infrastructure; shaping public debate; and contributing to social movements that transform society and guarantee women’s and girls’ rights. Women’s Link Worldwide uses legal, communications, and mobilisation strategies to work across three themes: sexual and reproductive rights; violence; and discrimination.
Purpose: To increase the voice of communities and tenants to fight for social housing at local levels in the UK. This will be done by developing advocacy strategies and providing small grant funding to support community organisations and housing activists. NEF is UK think-tank and advocacy organisation that promotes social, economic, and environmental justice.
Purpose: To provide core support to Win-Win Strategies (WWS), hosted by Women Win, to increase its capacity to build relationships between the corporate sector and women’s funds. WWS works to: foster cross-sector dialogue; develop the capacity of women’s funds to collaborate effectively with the corporate sector; and champion holistic, rights-based approaches to women’s economic empowerment.
Purpose: To support the newly established Kent and Medway Medical School in increasing the supply of doctors in Kent’s coastal areas, which faces a high demand for health support in the face of population growth.
Purpose: To provide core support to the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Spanish Speaking Caribbean, which works to ensure the wellbeing and security of women and gender non-conforming people's rights defenders. The project will be developed with the Urgent Action Sister Funds Consortium, in Africa, Asia and Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, the US, the Balkans, and the Caucasus.
Purpose: To provide support to Good Shepherd International Foundation and its partners in more than 35 countries to improve the lives of vulnerable children, girls, and women. This is achieved through a focus on poverty eradication through women economic empowerment, prevention of human trafficking, protection of the rights of migrants, elimination of child labour, protection of the rights of girls and women victims of violence and exploitation. Good Shepherd International Foundation does this through: capacity building; resource mobilisation; promotion of good practices in service provision; and organisational learning and strengthening.
Purpose: To provide core support to BSWN, based in Bristol, the United Kingdom, to advocate for initiatives relating to racial equity, specifically around housing and homelessness. BSWN empowers Black and Minoritised communities, businesses and organisations to flourish, while challenging systemic barriers and forging a true path for themselves.
Purpose: To encourage a greater yield and increased food security in Africa by scaling up myAgro’s innovative financial tool, which helps small-scale farmers save for major, up-front purchases like fertiliser and seeds. By expanding coverage in Mali and Senegal, and building the foundation in two additional West African countries, myAgro will reach one million farmers (of which 70 per cent are women).
Purpose: To support the operation of Good Shepherd Services’ homelessness reduction programme in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, UK. The grant will enable peer mentors and navigators to establish relationships and provide one-to-one consulting to those with a history of homelessness. The project will contribute to safer and more stable housing and provide new career prospects for the participants.
Purpose: To provide support to the Camden Community Law Centre to increase the capacity of the Public Interest Law Centre team in the United Kingdom to prevent homelessness, support migrants and asylum seekers, and improve access to public services in London and across the UK. In addition, this grant will support young Public Law solicitors and develop the team’s fundraising, governance, and communications capacity.
Purpose: To provide support to the Ubele Initiative, which works to help create inclusive community wealth building in the United Kingdom. The Ubele Initiative is a civil society organisation based in London, which works across the country and Europe, mostly with Black and Minority Ethnic communities. Ubele is a Swahili word meaning ‘The Future’. The Ubele Initiative is an African Diaspora-led intergenerational social enterprise founded in 2014. It works to build more sustainable communities across the UK through social action, community enterprise development, and leadership initiatives.
Purpose: To break cycles of violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras through community-based mental health support. Glasswing uses a collaborative approach that equips individuals and institutions with the knowledge to understand the impact of trauma on wellbeing and the skills to mitigate the consequences.
Purpose: To identify and nurture outstanding young professional singers, conductors, répétiteurs and directors, through the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, to ensure that the supply of talent in opera is maintained at the highest level.
Purpose: To provide Pine Street Inn, based in Boston, with a grant for an endowment fund, that will provide a permanent income stream towards the funding of their supported housing. Pine Street Inn also provides emergency shelter for adult men and women who are homeless, as well as street outreach services and work training support into employment, so that people can move on with their lives.
Purpose: To protect landscapes and wildlife in Southeast Asia by implementing direct wildlife and habitat protection strategies across 2,000,000 hectares of habitat. Wildlife Asia will work with local organisations, communities, and authorities to achieve its goals. Wildlife Asia works with local not-for-profit organisations and communities to support their vision for a sustainable future.
Purpose: To ensure the survival of elephants and their habitats, and to develop and scale conflict mitigation approaches between humans and elephants. Elephants Alive works to develop “living landscapes”, which are resilient rural networks of people able to resist exploitation, while safeguarding wild spaces and wildlife.
Purpose: To stabilise efforts in southern Africa to combat illegal wildlife trade, encourage increased coordination between key countries, and consolidate support for core activities that span the region. Wildlife Crime Prevention works to reduce the illegal wildlife trade throughout the region of southern Africa.
Purpose: To provide core support to Citizens UK, whose mission is to build the capacity of people from disadvantaged areas to participate in public life. Citizens UK has pioneered community organising in the UK and, by developing leaders, seeks to hold decision-makers to account on the issues that matter to them.
Purpose: To strengthen families and to avoid placement of children into small and large institutions in Bulgaria, and to shift public resources and action towards strengthening families who are in crisis so that they are able to stay together. Working within the context of broader care reform, this grant will re-energise advocates, amplify the voices of parents and young people leaving care to drive change, and demonstrate and scale what works.
Purpose: To provide core support to One25, which works with Bristol’s street sex workers through a person-centred approach. One25 reaches out to women trapped in, or vulnerable to, street sex work and supports them to break free and build new lives away from violence, poverty and addiction.
Purpose: To support the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) in its mission to reduce gender inequality among early adolescents and promote healthy transitions into adulthood, free from sexual violence. This grant will provide core support to the coordinating core at Johns Hopkins as well as support to develop and implement an advocacy strategy.
Purpose: To support ECF to continue its mission of protecting children from abuse and helping those who have experienced all forms of violence, including sexual abuse. This core support grant will also enable ECF to strengthen its organisational development.
Purpose: To provide core and project support to four early childhood development regional networks in Africa, Asia, and the Arab world to integrate a gender-transformative approach focused on positively engaging men in their children's lives. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is Oak Foundation’s partner hosting foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Purpose: To support the CDC in funding critical research gaps to strengthen the evidence base for preventing youth- or adult-perpetrated child sexual abuse. This grant will also increase the number and quality of evidence-based strategies available for use by federal, state, and local public health agencies, academic institutions, CDC grantees, youth-serving organisations and other CSA prevention providers. The CDC Foundation is an independent not-for-profit organisation created by US Congress to mobilise philanthropic and private-sector resources to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s critical health protection work.
Purpose: To identify and evaluate the most promising child sexual abuse perpetration prevention interventions. This will ensure maximum implementation impact through country level advocacy, communications, and scale. The Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins University was established in 2012 and works to create change through efforts in research, education, communication, advocacy, and policy.
Purpose: To support the Global Parenting Initiative to provide access to free, evidence-based parenting support, so that parents are equipped with knowledge and tools to protect their children from sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. The initiative, led by the University of Oxford in the UK with the University of Cape Town in South Africa, the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda, will evaluate the impact of three parenting interventions in Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa. It will also support the overall parenting initiative to innovate, accelerate uptake and scale, and advocate to institutionalise parenting programmes to prevent child sexual abuse.
Purpose: To protect children from online child sexual abuse by scaling up the development and use of technology tools globally. These tools help identify victims, equip platforms to protect vulnerable children and support frontline responders working to stop online child sexual abuse. Thorn builds technology to end child sex trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children.
Purpose: To support Oceano Azul to build momentum for the protection of oceans and elevate the issue on the global decision-making agenda. Oceano Azul Foundation is a Portuguese Foundation that works towards a healthy and productive ocean for the benefit of our planet.
Purpose: To strengthen a broad network of fishers, processors, and sellers in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. The Health of Mother Earth Foundation works with movements for the recovery of memory, dignity, and harmonious living with Mother Earth.
Purpose: To provide core support to Community Voices Heard (CVH), a member-led organisation of low-income people, predominantly women, in the US. CVH seeks to improve the lives of low-income families and communities in New York City and State through building the power of low-income people by developing an organisation that members control and lead.
Purpose: To provide core support to RHLS, which works to improve the economic capacity of low-income people in Philadelphia, the US. It does this by providing legal services and technical assistance to community-based organisations that develop affordable housing. RHLS was formed in response to slum conditions in a large workforce housing project in the Philadelphia suburbs in 1973.
Purpose: To establish a housing loan fund to enable charities to purchase residential property for their clients and facilitate asset ownership in the not-for-profit sector.
Purpose: To provide support to the Physicians for Human Rights, which works to prevent sexual violence in conflict zones and stop impunity for sexual abuse against children. PHR creates conditions where children and adults can: report sexual crimes; seek medical and psychological treatment; document evidence; and obtain access to justice and reparations without fear, stigma, shame, punishment, or retraumatisation.
Purpose: To support the Safe Online initiative of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children to build stronger systems, networks, and technology solutions to make the Internet safe for children. This will be done by supporting promising tech innovations to detect, prevent, and respond to online child sexual exploitation and abuse. In addition, generating data and insights will reveal emerging threats and what is working, and hopefully influence policies, regulations, budgets, and business practices.
Purpose: To support efforts to build a social movement that creates and maintains the conditions required to deliver and sustain a Green New Deal in the United Kingdom. Green New Deal UK calls for public policy to address climate change, and achieve other social aims, such as creating jobs and reducing economic inequality.