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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 on Shrinking...

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...

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...

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...

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...