Democracy & Human Rights

Focus areas
The Funders Initiative for Civil Society (FICS) brings funders together to tackle the problem of shrinking civic space — the physical, digital, and legal conditions through which progressive movements and their allies organise, participate, and create change.
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The Open Society Foundations works to support democracy and human rights around the world. It funds narrative change work on a range of issues.
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An Indigenous women-led global nonprofit that advocates for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultural preservation, and political resilience.
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Memria

December 22, 2025
Works with truth community libraries, oral history projects, nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, and others committed to listening to each other. Collect, manage, analyze, and share stories, testimonials and first-person autobiographical experiences at large scale.
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Experts in DigitalResearch. Linterna Verde analyse how public opinion is built in social media and digital spaces.
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Over 30 years of advocacy, activism and movement building to advance women’s human rights and Development Justice. APWLD runs a media fellowship with the aim of supporting journalism that shifts the narrative from women as victims to women as resistors, people with agency to fight for their rights, without discrediting the historical oppression women are...
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The Ford Foundation funds on a range of issues aimed at challenging inequality. Its mission seeks to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
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Educational center at the UC-Berkeley that advances work on the “othering”—exclusion, marginalization, and structural inequality. Works with narratives and narrative change to bring about “belonging”—a world based on fairness, justice and care for the earth. The institute advances multidisciplinary research, builds relationships, advances communications and cultural work.
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Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work. Hope-based communications acts on the principle that we should be focused on building the world we want, setting the agenda with our values, our goals, our mission. When it is so tempting to reacting to...
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IFIT is an international nongovernmental organization whose aim is to help fragile and conflict-affected states achieve more inclusive negotiations and sustainable transitions out of war, crisis or authoritarianism.
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