Chronicles of Crises Foretold: How funders can prepare, respond, and build resilience in human rights crises
In the last year alone, we have witnessed a broad spectrum of emergencies that immediately and indelibly impact human rights. The current war in Ukraine. The takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan, following years of war. Coups in Myanmar and Haiti.
Funding for Ukraine: An Incomplete Response
A collaborative resource listing options for supporting communities in Ukraine. Put together by funder networks, including Gender Funders CoLab, EDGE Funders, and Ariadne.
From Local to Regional: An Assessment of Funding for Civil Society Through Non-Profit Funds
The assessment includes 42 funds, including funds in the global North and funds based in Latin America, all of which support social justice initiatives by civil society actors.
Overcoming Barriers to Resourcing Young Peacebuilders
In this paper, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation explores funds which are available to young peacebuilders. It maps their strategies to overcome the barriers faced by young people in accessing quality funding, and based upon this mapping, it presents recommendations and areas for collaboration and learning for funders.
Funding In Crisis: Join Efforts to Resource for Afghanistan, Haiti & Beyond
Join Efforts to Resource for Afghanistan, Haiti & Beyond
Reversing the trend: The time is now to fund disability rights
Funding disability rights: Key steps for philanthropic organizations to take towards disability inclusion. By the Disability Rights Fund (DRF) and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund (DRAF).
Just Scraping By: Underfunded Human Rights Organizations Struggle to Hold the Line in Latin America
As a former program officer for a foundation that supported human rights groups for over two decades in Mexico, I worked with civil society organizations that constantly struggled financially. Even though I knew firsthand that sources of support for human rights in Latin America were limited, I only began to understand the magnitude of the scarcity when I started researching to write this blog post. I wanted to see whether data on the funding landscape mirrored what I knew from experience: that streams of funding for human rights work in the region shift constantly and are scarce, that they tend to concentrate on thematic areas and thus funding is tied to specific projects and deliverables. Those of us working in philanthropy, especially the community of progressive donors, have an obligation to understand and address the inequities created by de-prioritizing Latin America.
The Importance of Evidence: How funders and advocates are leveraging our Advancing Human Rights research
Data matters. It adds scale to stories and weight to advocacy. At its best, data helps us understand how our individual realities fit within a shared experience.
The Dire State of Funding for Black Feminist Movements — and What Donors Can Do About It
Funding Black Feminist Movements: HRFN and the Black Feminist Fund uncover the gaps in funding data for Black Feminist movements globally.