The Fund for Global Human Rights works to ensure strong, effective human rights communities worldwide. The Fund aims to provide funding for human rights organizations over the longer term. To that end, they maintain a long-term focus on specific countries and regions where the strategic grant-making can make a difference in advancing human rights protections over time.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Fund makes grants to local, national, and regional non-profit, human rights organizations based in the countries where it has grant programs. The programmes are currently in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Thailand, the Philippines, and Burma.
- The Fund encourages applications from organizations that:
- Demonstrate leadership, innovative approaches, and significant long-term potential to have an impact on policy at the local or national level.
- Demonstrate organizational commitment to human rights.
- Whose activities involve and/or are led by the beneficiaries.
- Are interested in building relationships with other human rights organizations.
- In all countries, women-led human rights organizations are strongly encouraged to apply.
- The Fund do not supports stand-alone conferences, individuals, businesses, scholarships, fundraising events, university-based research, government agencies, micro-credit programs, construction of roads, bridges, buildings, wells or medical facilities, or activities.
- The Fund generally does not support literacy training, vocational training, or social/psychological/medical services, unless these activities are part of an integrated strategy to provide the recipients of these services with human rights education and with tools to defend and demand their rights.
- Emergency grants are given to organizations who did not recieved funds from the foundation previously or to those based in countries where do not have a grants program.
How to Apply
The Foundation do not accept unsolicited proposals, however applicants can apply for its emergency grants anytime. Applicants seeking an emergency grant can contact the foundation via email.
For more information, please visit Global Human Rights.
