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Briefing Launch: When Movements Win – Lessons from Spain’s Regularisation Movement for Human Rights Funders

Ariadne, Calala Fondo de Mujeres, Migration Exchange and Safe Passage Fund are pleased to announce the launch of our joint briefing: When Movements Win -...

Ariadne’s 2026 Forecast for European Social Change and Human Rights Funders

Ariadne's 2026 Forecast Brief for European Social Change and Human Rights Funders marks an evolution in Ariadne’s approach to forecasting and strategic reflection. In response...

Ariadne is searching for a Programmes Administration Consultant 

Ariadne is looking for a Programmes Administration Consultant to help organise meetings for UK funders and provide support to the Ariadne team. Ariadne is a European peer-to-peer network of 115 organisations and philanthropists across +20 countries who support...

What the Ariadne Susan Treadwell Change Lab gave me

By Ugo Ikokwu, Grants Manager at Trust for London and participant in the first Susan Treadwell Change Lab cohort. Last year I found myself in two...

Books Launch: “Fictions and Frictions”and “Ficciones y Fricciones” by the Kuirme Collective

Text written by Rubén Solís Mecalco & Camila Nobrega of Kuirme Collective, editors of the books. The Kuirme Collective is supported by the Green Screen...

Five tips for funders: What we learned from visiting 26 grantee partners in 2 years

This article was originally published on September 18, 2025 on the website of the Alliance for Gender Equality in Europe*. Over the past two years,...

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...