Organization

Fund

Access Now

​Digital Security Helpline - Access Now​

The Social Science Research Council

​Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences​

Internet Society Foundation

​Emergency Response Grant Programme: COVID-19​

FOSS Responders

​COVID-19 Emergency Funds​

Digital Defenders Partnership

​Emergency Grants​

United Nations (OCHA)

​Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)​

Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l'Homme (AEDH)

​Emergency Fund​

University of York Centre for Applied Human Rights

​Protective Fellowship Scheme​

International Media Support

​Safety Fund​

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

​Grants for HRDs at Risk​

Freedom House

​Emergency Assistance to Frontline Activists​

​

​Embattled CSOs (Emergency)​

​

​Embattled CSOs (Advocacy)​

​

​LGBTI Assistance Program​

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

​Rapid Response Grant​

​

​RR - Africa​

Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF)

​Urgent Grants​

Justice and Peace Netherlands

​Shelter City​

Frontline Defenders

​Protection Grants​

ProtectDefenders.eu

​Emergency Support​

World Organisation Against Torture

​Emergency HRD Support​

Joopea Foundation

​JAssist​

Security Without Borders

​Security Assistance ​

Renewable Freedom Foundation

​Digital Rights Fund​

Defend Defenders

​East and Horn of Africa​

The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC)

​Human Rights Defenders Fund​

Organization

Fund

Free Press Unlimited

​Reporters Respond​

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)

​IFJ Safety Fund​

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)

​Journalists in Distress Fund​

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)

​IWMF Emergency Fund​

La Maison Des Journalistes

​Assistance​

Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

​Individual Support​

​

​Berlin Scholarship Program​

Rory Peck Trust

​Assistance Grants​

Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI)

​Legal Assistance​

Scholars at Risk Network

​Support for Scholars Under Threat​

Cara

​Support for Academics Under Threat​

International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN)

​Writers/Artists at Risk​

Institute of International Education

​Fellowships for Threatened Scholars Around the World​

Organization

Fund

eQualit.ie

​Deflect​

Google

​Project Shield​

CloudFlare

​Project Galileo​

Amazon

​AWS Imagine Grant Program​

Google

​Impact and Community Grants​

Twilio

​Twilio.org​

Organization

Fund

Department of State

​Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)​

ISC Project

​Information security and Internet freedom grants ​

National Science Foundation (NSF)

​Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)​

​

​Computer Systems Research (CSR)​

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

​Cyber Security Solicitations​

Organization

Fund

Mozilla Foundation

​Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS)​

​

​MOSS - Foundational Technology​

​

​MOSS - Mission Partners​

​

​MOSS - Secure Open Source ​

NLNet Foundation

​Open Call - Network and Internet Technology​

​

​Internet Hardening Fund​

​

​Standards in Real-Time Communication​

​

​DNSSEC Fund​

Prototype Fund

​Open Source Project Support (Germany)​

Facebook

​Secure the Internet Grants​

Facebook

​Research Awards​

Cisco

​Research & Open Innovation​

Next Generation Internet (NGI)

​NGI Open Calls​

Core Infrastructure Initiative

​Grants​

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF)

​Grants​

AirVPN

​Project Support​

Library Freedom Project

​Library Freedom Institute​

Organization

Fund

Reset

​reset.tech​

Mozilla

​Grants​

Digital Defenders Partnership

​Sustainable Protection Funding​

​

​Regional Partnership Funding​

Freedom House

​Various Programs​

Access Now

​Grants​

Sigrid Rausing Trust

​Grants​

Hivos

​Freedom and Accountability ​

Ford Foundation

​Internet Freedom​

Media Democracy Fund

​Grants​

Democracy Council

​About​

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

​Digital Extension Grants​

Renewable Freedom Foundation

​Funding Sources List​

Organization

Fund

International Development Research Center (IDRC)

​Funding​

Microsoft

​Grants​

​

​Airband Initiative​

Association for Progressive Communications (APC)

​Access​

Comcast

​Innovation Fund​

Internet Society

​Grants & Awards​

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

​Partnership Opportunities​

​

​Development Innovation Ventures (DIV)​

OpenCellular

​OpenCellular Grants​

Catholic Relief Services

​ICT4D​

CRDF Global

​Grants​

Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT)

​ICT​

USAID Development Innovations

​Grants​

Peace Corps Small Grants Program

​Grants​

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

​Global Grand Challenges​

Google

​Impact Challenge​

Inveneo

​Advice​

Mercy Corps

​Grants​

SPIDER

​Grants​

International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)

​Grants​

Wehubit

​Grants​

Comic Relief

​Tech For Good​

GSM Association

​Connected Society Innovation Fund for Rural Connectivity​

Motorola

​Motorola Solutions Foundation​

NetHope

​Devices for Impact​

Digital Frontiers

​Grants​

European Commission

​Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid​

Microsoft

​AI for Humanitarian Action​

Microsoft

​AI for Accessibility​

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)

​Research Grants​

Newton Fund

​Grants​

World Wide Web Foundation

​Web We Want​

Nonprofit Technology Network

​Digital Inclusion Fellowship​

Internet Society

​Beyond the Net Funding​

TechSoup

​TechSoup Global Network​

UNICEF

​Innovation Fund​

Organization

Fund

Garage 48

​About​

Mach37

​About​

iHub

​Support for Africa-based tech startups​

Hackers/Founders

​Accelerator and Founders’ Cooperative​

United For Iran

​IranCubator​

3fs

​About​

National Science Foundation (NSF)

​America’s Seed Fund (Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program)​

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

​Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)​

Global Innovation Fund

​About​

Google

​Google for Startups​

PeaceTech Accelerator

​About​

MIT

​Innovation & Entrepreneurship Bootcamp​

DevLabs

​About​

Coinbase

​Coinbase Ventures​

Snap, Inc.

​Yellow​

The Thiel Foundation

​The Thiel Fellowship​

Samsung

​Samsung Next​

Comcast NBCUniversal

​LIFT Labs​

Organization

Fund

The Social Science Research Council

​Social Data Research and Dissertation Fellowships​

National Science Foundation (NSF)

​Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW)​

​

​Graduate Research Fellowship Program​

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy

​Grants for current PhD candidates​

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

​Sloan Research Fellowships​

Tinker Foundation Incorporated

​Field Research Grants​

Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)

​Internet and Society Fellowship​

Harvard Library Innovation Lab

​Summer Fellowship​

Berkman Klein Center & MIT Media Lab

​Assembly​

Stanford PACS Digital Civil Society Lab

​Non-Resident Fellowship​

Venture for America (VFA)

​VFA Fellowship​

Azavea

​Summer of Maps​

Organization

Fund

Ford Foundation/Mozilla

​Open Web Fellowship​

Open Society Foundations

​Open Society Fellowship​

CIPE/NDI/CIMA

​Open Internet for Democracy Leaders Program​

Shuttleworth Foundation

​Fellowship​

Human Rights Watch

​Fellowships (pdf)​

Google

​Public Policy Fellowship​

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

​Fellowships​

Echoing Green

​Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship and Leadership Development Programs​

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

​Fellowship Program​

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

​Science & Technology Policy Fellowships​

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School

​Technology and Democracy Fellowship​

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP)

​Legal Fellowships​

Eisenhower Fellowships

​Global Programs​

Data & Society

​Fellows Program​

Internet Law & Policy Foundry

​Fellowships​

Voqal

​Fellowships​

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

​EPIC Law Fellowship​

International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

​Westin Fellows​

Free Press

​C. Edwin Baker Media Policy Fellowship​

Mozilla

​Fellowships​

TechCongress

​Congressional Innovation Fellowship​

Kairos Fellowship

​Fellowship​

Organization

Fund

Python Software Foundation (PSF)

​PSF Grants Program​

Google

​Faculty Research Awards​

Mozilla

​Research Grants​

SAGE

​Concept Grants​

Protocol Labs

​Research Grants​

Outreachy

​Mentorships and internships​

Rails Girls

​Summer of Code​

Google

​Summer of Code​

General Assembly

​Social Impact​

Coding it Forward

​Civic Digital Fellowship​

Cybersecurity Tech Accord/UN Office of Disarmament Affairs

​Apps 4 Digital Peace​

Organization

Fund

Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF)

​Grants​

Omidyar Network

​About​

Knight Foundation

​Technology Innovation​

​

​Governance, Norms and Values - Research on the Future Internet​

The Reva & David Logan Foundation

​Social Justice, Scholarship, the Arts and Investigative Journalism​

Siegel Family Endowment

​About​

Bond

​Funding Opportunities​

Ariadne: European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights

​About​

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

​Grants​

Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)

​Research Calls and Grants​

European Commission

​Digital Single Market Funding​

Open Society Foundations

​Information Program​

​

​Grants​

Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs

​INGO Support​

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

​Grants​

Enabel (Belgian Development Agency)

​Grants​

Cisco

​Cisco Foundation​

​

​Global Impact Cash Grants​

Dropbox

​Dropbox Foundation​

Humanity United

​Grants​

Oak Foundation

​International Human Rights​

Open Society Foundations

​Human Rights Initiative​

Overbrook Foundation

​Human Rights Defenders​

Hewlett Foundation

​About​

Fund for Global Human Rights

​Grants​

Human Rights First

​Human Rights Defenders​

Oak Foundation

​Grants​

FIDH

​Support for Local HRDs ​

Protection International

​About​

Human Rights Foundation (HRF)

​About​

European Endowment for Democracy (EED)

​Grants​

UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)

​Grants​

Ashoka

​Changemakers​

Counterpart International

​Business Opportunities​

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

​Grants​

European Commission, Democracy and Human Rights

​Calls for Proposals​

MIT

​Solve​

Skoll Global Threats Fund

​About​

Human Rights Funders Network

​Resources for Grantseekers​

The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law

​Supporting Justice Innovation​

Organization

Fund

American Refugee Committee

​Gender-based Violence and Response​

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

​Grants​

Coalition of African Lesbians

​About​

Governments of Indonesia and Australia

​Komnas Perempuan (Indonesia's National Commission on Violence Against Women)​

Mediterranean Women's Fund

​Mediterranean Women’s Fund​

Third Wave Fund

​Mobilize Power Fund​

Women Living Under Muslim Laws

​About​

Women's Rehabilitation Center (Nepal)

​About​

Women Development Advocacy Center (Nepal)

​Digital Empowerment Fellowship​

Freedom House

​Dignity for All: LGBTI Assistance Program​

Womanity Foundation

​About​

Mama Cash

​Grants​

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)

​Emergency Fund​

​

​Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship​

​

​Fund For Women Journalists​

​

​Kim Wall Memorial Fund​

GiveOut

​The Suki Sandhu LGBTQI Asia Fund​

FRIDA

​The Young Feminist Fund​

Organization

Fund

MacArthur Foundation

​Grants​

Scripps Howard Foundation

​Grants​

Ethics & Excellence Journalism Foundation

​Grants​

Free Press Unlimited

​About​

Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)

​About​

Google

​Journalism Emergency Relief Fund​

Open Society Foundations

​Program on Independent Journalism​

Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

​About​

Rory Peck Trust

​Support for freelance journalists​

Social Science Research Council/Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership

​Abe Fellowship for Journalists​

University of Toronto

​Fellowship in Global Journalism​

Moment Magazine

​Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative (DPIJI)​

Mother Jones

​The Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program​

Open Society Foundation

​Moving Walls Fellowship​

University of Oxford

​Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism​

World Press Institute (WPI)

​WPI Fellowship​

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)

​Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellowship​

Dutch Journalism Fund

​About​

International Media Support

​About​

The Walkley Foundation

​Grants​

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (CFI)

​Media Development​

UNESCO

​International Programme for the Development of Communication​

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

​Grants​

Thomson Foundation

​Media Training and Development​

Poynter

​International Fact-Checking Network​

Stanford University

​John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships​

DW Akademie

​Media Development​

Journalists for Human Rights

​About​

BBC Media Action

​About​

Organization

Fund

Creative Commons

​Community Activities Fund​

​

​Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship​

Open Knowledge International

​About​

Internet Freedom Festival (IFF)

​IFF Community Development Fellows Program​

Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)

​Open Source Center Strategic Grants​

​

​Open Source Center Catalytic Grants​

Arcadia Fund

​Open Access Grants​

Linux Foundation

​CommunityBridge​

Software Freedom Conservancy

​Project Funding​

RIPE NCC

​Community Projects Fund​

Organization

Fund

Arab Human Rights Fund (AHRF)

​Grants​

Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF)

​Standard grants​

Department of State

​U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)​

Organization

Fund

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development

​Human Rights Defenders Programme​

Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD)

​About​

Information Society Innovation Fund Asia (ISIF Asia)

​About​

Organization

Fund

Indela (Initiative for digital rights in Latin America)

​About​

Open Society Foundation

​Latin America Program​

Fund for Internet Strengthening in Latin America and the Caribbean

​FRIDA Funds​

Organization

Fund

RAITH Foundation

​Funding ​

Fund for Internet Research and Development (FIRE Africa)

​Grants​