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New Guide Helps Human Rights Funders Balance Tension Between Risk & Transparency

This post was co-written by Julie Broome and Tom Walker, and is cross-posted from Glasspockets (original can be found here). Julie Broome is the Director...

Talking About Responsible Data: A Conversation Guide For Human Rights Funders

This post was co-written by Fieke Jansen and Tom Walker, and is cross-posted from The Engine Room's website (original can be found here). This year, we’ve been gathering...

Can foundations contribute to social cohesion in Europe?

The following is a speech made by Dr Rien van Gendt during the Humanity in Action International Conference, which took place in Strasbourg from 5-8...

Climate justice is possible when…we listen to the grandmothers

In this personal essay, Thousand Currents Executive Director Rajasvini Bhansali discusses about a "toxic tour" in South Africa that inspired her to organise philanthropists in the U.S....

Grant reporting is broken. Can we fix it?

In this blog, Gina Crane, Communications and Learning Manager at Esmee Fairbairn Foundation discusses the changes funders need to make to improve grant reporting. The...

Why safeguarding child rights protections is crucial post Brexit

As the EU (Withdrawal) Bill continues Report in the House of Lords, Louise King, Director of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, sets out why...

PeaceNexus: supporting organisational change

Catriona Gourlay, Executive Director of the PeaceNexus Foundation offers some insights into why and how the foundation is supporting organisational change and peace building. The...

Chic and free no more? A visit uncovering shrinking space for civil society and limits to fundamental freedoms in France

In this blog, Peter Matjašič, Senior Programme Officer at the Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE) reflects on the site trip to VoxPublic, a visit...

2018 Ariadne Forecast For European Social Change and Human Rights Funders

The Ariadne Forecast is a community created resource that draws on Ariadne’s network of more than 546 funders in 23 countries. Ariadne participants and other friends of the network...

Sharing data responsibly – How and why do human rights funders share data?

In this blog, Tom Walker and Fieke Jansen of The Engine Room, with input from Rachel Rank of 360 Giving and Lorena Klos of Ariadne,...

Overview on the shrinking space in France

Here is a blog by Inga Wachsmann, Programme Officer at Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer on the shrinking space for civil society in France. Shrinking Space...

The Missing Piece of the Puzzle – Using Data to Improve Funding Practice

In this blog, Lorena Klos, Ariadne's Communications and Events Manager, examines key trends from the 2011-2015 data analysis on foundation funding for human rights and connects...

New Mama Cash and Urgent Action Fund Report: Standing Firm: Women- and Trans-Led Organisations Respond to Closing Space for Civil Society

Happy Mwende Kinyili, Director of Programmes at Mama Cash, Shalini Eddens, Director of Programmes at the Urgent Action Fund and Susan Jessop, Senior Officer for Content...

Guerrilla Foundation’s origin story and strategic thinking on grassroots movements and social change

Ivan Juric, Advisor to the Guerrilla Foundation offers some insights into the origin story of the foundation, its strategic thinking regarding activism, grassroots movements and systems...

Reflections from WHRDs: what donors can do better in the face of the closing space

Julie Broome, the Ariadne Director, has recently attended a meeting of women human rights defenders in Kenya organised by the Urgent Action Fund. Here are...