Join funders from around the world
to ignite the future of human rights philanthropy.
In a moment of unprecedented transformation around the world, we are being called upon to chart a different path for human rights funding. One that addresses the most pressing challenges and builds toward a more just future. Join us.
About HRFN’s Funding Futures Festival
Gathering for HRFN conferences has been a hallmark of our network since its founding. Together, members and partners dive into the most pressing issues in human rights funding. Our most recent gathering, in 2024, featured 390 participants representing 180 organizations and 72 countries.
HRFN conferences generate action and change through strategy sessions, presentations, exhibitions, site visits, and partner-led gatherings. We have seen small groups turn into pooled funds, session partners become funding partners, and strategy sessions generate long-lasting infinity groups around the leading issues facing human rights movements today.
HRFN’s Funding Futures Festivals are deeply rooted in place, connecting local movements to the global landscape of human rights funding. We are grateful to our host committees, local partners, and sponsors, past and present, for grounding the Festival in the rich history of organizing and human rights in the region.
Tbilisi, Georgia
2024
Read more about our 2024 gathering, which took place amid local movements protesting regressive legislation; a microcosm of movements around the world challenging war and genocides, colonialism, authoritarianism, displacement, and the climate crisis.
Oaxaca, Mexico
2022
Read more about our 2022 gathering, which centered on resourcing a transformed system of global human rights philanthropy while celebrating the region’s Indigenous and ethnic communities and their work defending their land, natural resources, and the environment at-large.