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New Year’s attacks on women in Germany

On 22 January 2016, Jo Andrews, Ariadne Director spoke to Karin Heisecke, Senior Adviser at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation’s Expert Centre on Gender and Right Wing...

Vacancy: Director of Ariadne

After seven and half very happy years, the Ariadne Director, Jo Andrews is moving on, so the network is looking for a new director. See...

Tales from Hungary – A Roma view point

A few weeks ago, Julie Broome, Ariadne member and Director of Programmes at the Sigrid Rausing Trust visited a village in Hungary where a number...

A Mirror Relationship: NGOs and Donors?

Robert Boogaard, Co-Founder of Jazi Foundation and an Ariadne member, has just finished carrying out an extensive donor survey that looked at the expectations that...

Paris Terrorist Attacks: A Message

Ariadne expresses its condolences and profound solidarity to the families and relatives of victims of the attacks in Paris on the night of November 13...

How should UK funders respond to the Refugee Crisis?

The next Ariadne tele-briefing to discuss the refugee crisis in and around Europe will take place on Tuesday, November 3rd at 16:00 CET, 15:00 GMT,...

Refugee Crisis, Update from The Netherlands

The next Ariadne and IHRFG tele-briefing on the Refugee Crisis - Addressing the Refugee Crisis & Supporting Civilians in Syria - will take place on...

Europe’s refugee crisis: the thinking philanthropist’s response?

The second Ariadne tele-briefing on the Refugee Crisis - The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Update from Hungary and Croatia, a view from the EU and...

Understanding how people think about human rights, not just what they think, is critical to effective communication

Ariadne and Global Dialogue is organising a day long master-class and workshop on framing and why it matters. This is taking place on October 7th...

Making use of the Knowledge Tools for funders and civil society

Ariadne and the International Human Rights Funders Group have been collecting grants data from all their members to create a suite of knowledge tools to assist...

Why should funders be interested in “the Digital Dividend”?

Loren Treisman is the Executive of Indigo Trust, a UK foundation that supports organisations to use mobile and web-based technologies to stimulate social change in...

Communicating Effectively: Getting your message across and changing the terms of the debate

Sarah Pugh of Global Dialogue writes about framing and communications, including a one day workshop and master-class in October which is open to funders and...

Strengthening Civil Society’s Resilience in Closing Space through Sustainable, Flexible Funding

Samar Haidar is Executive Director at the Arab Human Rights Fund. Space for civil society has been closing around the globe, with a noticeable rise...

The Funders’ Workshop on Shrinking Space for Civil Society: My impressions

Moritz Bartl is Executive Director at Renewable Freedom Foundation, a German foundation that primarly works with international digital rights and technology groups. The Funders' Workshop...

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...