2017 Conference: Key Takeaways
From July 10-13, 2017, over 250 funders from 29 countries gathered in New York to map challenges, share concrete tactics to resist, and chart a new course for support. This report offers highlights of our 2017 convening and links to videos of selected sessions.
What Surprises Me about Human Rights Grantmaking
Melinda Fine of TCC Group reflects on IHRFG and Foundation Center’s latest key findings report, Advancing Human Rights: Update on Global Foundation Grantmaking, and its implications for the field of human rights philanthropy.
New York Convening 2016: Key Takeaways
From July 11-14, over 200 funders from 26 countries gathered in New York for HRFN’s convening, “Seizing Opportunities: Sustaining the Human Rights Movement,” to strategize how human rights funders can shake up conventional ways and means of supporting the movement, and bolster its health and well-being.
New York Conference 2015: Key Takeaways
At IHRFG’s New York 2015 conference, we put the rights-based approach on trial and encouraged members to critically explore the utility and efficacy of funding with a rights lens. Grantmakers exchanged with and learned from their peers, affirming and challenging their own assumptions.
Fighting West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak: What Lessons Can Human Rights Funders Learn from the Response?
John M Kabia at the Fund for Global Human Rights shares lessons for human rights funders following the experiences of local civil society and human rights organizations during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
How “Advancing Human Rights” Can – and Can’t – Support Academic Research
Merrill Sovner of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, discusses the divide between philanthropy practice and scholarship in light of IHRFG and Foundation Center’s latest Advancing Human Rights research.
