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Following the Queen’s Speech, don’t be lulled into a false sense of security

Neil Crowther is Director of the UK-based Thomas Paine Initiative. The Initiative represents a pooled group of funders who are seeking to change public attitudes...

Poor weather for funders?

Ton Groeneweg is a Dutch member of Ariadne. Here is his analysis of the 2015 Ariadne Forecast. Ton participated in the Barcelona (2014) and Budapest...

2015 Ariadne Forecast

Ariadne is issuing the first ever Forecast for Social Change and Human Rights Funders. The aim is to help grant-makers and civil society as a whole see...

Ariadne Policy Briefing: My Impressions

Ekaterine Gejadze is Programme Coordinator for Women’s Fund in Georgia. She came to the Ariadne Policy Briefing in Budapest earlier this month. It was the...

Funders tackling Modern Slavery

More than 30 million people are thought to be ‘modern slaves’, Nick Grono of the Freedom Fund writes, with this crime taking place in every...

Charlie Hebdo: a wake-up call for funders

Pavel Fischer is the former political director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and was their Ambassador to France from 2003...

Escale à Annecy parmi les fondations françaises

A l’occasion de la réunion annuelle des fondations françaises du 10 au 12 décembre à Annecy, Ariadne était invitée à présenter son réseau et lancer...

Ariadne Forecast 2015: What’s next for social change and human rights funders?

It's nearly time to turn the lights out on 2014 and to welcome in 2015. If your life has been anything like mine, I feel...

Human rights funding in transitions

Events often seem like ice flows, with circumstances stuck for years, conflicts spluttering on, countries divided, or struggling under authoritarian and frightening regimes, and just...