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Meet the Moment: Fund Our Futures Campaign

By Matthew Hart, Executive Director, Global Philanthropy Project Hard-won protections for LGBTI people are being rolled back in Europe and across the globe. For the...

What do we do with our one precious drop? Dreilinden’s response to the funding crisis

This article was originally published on Apr 24, 2025 on Dreilinden's* website. “I don’t think we will be affected,” our cooperation partner said. The very...

Ariadne’s 2025 Forecast for European Social Change and Human Rights Funders is here!

Ariadne’s 2025 Forecast report marks a transition. While the report was drafted by Julie Broome, whose vision and dedication have shaped Ariadne and its community...

Racial justice: A review of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s approach

Following a listening exercise with organisations we fund who are led by communities experiencing racial inequity, we’re pleased to share a new report by Chrisann Jarrett reviewing...

What will happen if the defenders of Human Rights Disappear?

The U.S. is freezing its support— suddenly leaving local human rights defenders alone in the struggle to secure universal human rights and achieve the UN’s...

Keeping our heads above the water and in the clouds

These days I have the feeling that I am caught in a digital flood of information. Each week brings new doomsday predictions of ecological collapse...

We’re hiring! Director of Ariadne, UK or Europe (remote)

Ariadne seeks a new Director to lead this influential European philanthropy network at a critical time for social change and human rights in Europe, creating...

That underfunded “thing” called investigative journalism in Italy

By Cecilia Anesi (Co-Director, IRPI) and Claire M. Roney (Fundraiser, IRPI) Journalism does not exist in Italian donors’ minds, as it does not exist in...

Georgia’s foreign influence law targets human rights activists. Here’s how funders can take action

By Salome Chagelishvili, Kate Kroeger and Nino Ugrekhelidze* In June, the controversial Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, which severely restricts civil society in the...

The Green Screen Catalyst Fund: Announcing the new awardees tackling climate justice and digital rights

The Green Screen Catalyst Fund announced 15 grants totaling nearly $400,000 to groups advocating at the intersection of climate justice and digital rights. From supporting...

Ariadne’s 15th Anniversary Timeline

Ariadne’s 2024 Forecast, celebrating 10 years of forecasts for European Social Change and Human Rights Funders!

We are pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Ariadne Forecast for European Social Change and Human Rights Funders! 2024 is shaping up to...

The Other Foundation: Embodying the Human Rights Grantmaking Principles

The Human Rights Grantmaking Principles blog series is produced in collaboration with HRFN and Gender Funders CoLab. By Nairuti Shastry* — When Kutlwano Magashula, Executive Officer of Programmes...

Susan Treadwell Change Lab

Transformative justice, the work of addressing harm at the root, outside the mechanism of the state, so that we can grow into the right relationship...

Challenging the Obvious in Philanthropy: A fundraiser’s perspective on the Human Rights Grantmaking Principles

By Mathilde Rivoire*, Démocratie Ouverte I often refer to this quote from French feminist author Virginie Despentes when thinking about current transformations in our societies:...