Events

Human Rights Funders Network offers a variety of ways for members to explore a broad range of topics, share their learning and strategize together.

Webinars enable funders to explore timely human rights concerns and present grantmaking strategies.
In-person gatherings, such as conferences, institutes and strategy meetings, enable funders to strengthen their grantmaking practice, deepen their knowledge of emerging issues, and meet with others in the field.
Learning visits bring funders to global destinations for experiential learning and to connect them with local civil society.
External events at conferences or peer funder network meetings offer members the chance to share knowledge and spark new collaborations.

We invite all our members to propose topics for webinars and in-person gatherings. This is your network!

Looking for more conferences and meetings? Check out our regularly-updated list of Community Events for funder gatherings.

Upcoming Events (6)

Oct15to18

In-Person Gatherings

HRFN Global Conference in Mexico City

May02

Webinars12:30-1:30pm EST

[Webinar Series] Stronger Together: New Frontiers in Funders Supporting Social Movements

May22

In-Person Gatherings12:30-3:00pm EST

Reclaiming Civic Space: Resistance, Resilience and Resources

The 26th edition of the Sur International Journal on Human Rights, published by Conectas Human Rights in collaboration with The Fund for Global Human Rights, seeks to address the imbalance in material currently available on the global crackdown on civil society, the majority of which focuses on the diagnostics, rather than the responses by activists…. Read more

May17

In-Person Gatherings12:15-2:15pm EST (includes lunch)

RightsCon 2018 Funder Meetup on Closing Civil Society Space

Co-hosted by Access Now, Funders’ Initiative for Civil Society, Human Rights Funders Network, Media Democracy Fund, and Open Technology Fund. Will you be at RightsCon 2018? If so, join us for a funder-only discussion on how closing civic space is impacting “online” and “offline” activism and the strategies human rights, internet freedom, and digital rights… Read more

Apr26

Webinars1:00-2:00pm EST

Community-Led Human Rights-Based Solutions to Climate Forced Displacement: A Guide for Funders

Community-Led, Human Rights-Based Solutions to Climate-forced Displacement—A Guide for Funders outlines key issues related to climate-forced displacement, human rights, and funding, and calls upon funders to support community-led, human rights-based solutions. During this webinar, the panelists will provide background on the issue of climate-forced displacement as it relates to climate justice and human rights, discuss some of… Read more

Apr26

In-Person Gatherings9:30-11:30am EST

Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security: Young People’s Roles in an Unstable World

Co-sponsored by Elevate Children Funders Group (ECFG), Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN), and Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG), in partnership with the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Youth and Peacebuilding Location: UNDP, 304 East 45th Street, New York, NY – 10th Floor Amartya Sen Conference Room; Remote Participation Available via Conference Line (which will… Read more

PAST EVENTS

Mar29

Webinars1:00-2:00pm EST

Survivor Leadership in the Anti-Trafficking Movement

The modern civil society movement to end trafficking in persons in the United States began in the 1990’s, led by activists and attorneys who helped establish the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. However, the voices of those directly affected by human trafficking were not included in the early dialogue about solutions, and survivors of human trafficking… Read more

Feb27

Webinars11:00am-12:00pm EST

Mapping Human Rights Funding for Children and Youth

Join HRFN and Elevate Children Funders Group’s Children and Youth Rights Working Group to see what HRFN’s Advancing Human Rights research and tools say about funding for children & youth rights. This webinar will include a funder-only tutorial on Foundation Maps: Human Rights, our interactive map of human rights grantmaking, providing members with an opportunity… Read more

Feb14

In-Person Gatherings9:30am-6:00pm PST

Mapping the Money: A Changing Landscape of Human Rights Funding

The Human Rights Funders Network and Foundation Center recently launched the first-ever five-year trends analysis in our Advancing Human Rights: Knowledge Tools for Funders Initiative, which maps the landscape of global human rights grantmaking. Join us on February 14, 2018 in San Francisco, as we celebrate the launch of this multi-year undertaking and reflect on where the field has been and… Read more

Feb12to13