Tag: Philanthropy

Internet Society Foundation Emergency Response Grant Programme: COVID-19

Jonathan DonnerDigital Livelihoods
Emergency Response Grant Programme: COVID-19
“Our Emergency Response Programme will provide funding to organizations working on projects that utilize the Internet to improve lives during or in response to an emergency situation. In 2020, the Foundation’s focus will be on projects that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, both during the immediate period of the crisis but also looking ahead at responses to the inevitable “second wave” later this year/into 2021. ”

There are areas of focus within this call for proposals which include an eye on the Post-COVID-19 digital landscape, including “Platforms that establish new pathways to alternative livelihoods”

Change model: philanthropic support for nonprofit programs.

Open Society Foundations’ response takes the long view

Jonathan DonnerDigital Livelihoods, Digital Political Economy, Identity and Privacy, Public Sphere
Going Big against COVID-19
“In this perilous moment, Open Society is committing more than $130 million to provide relief for communities who will suffer the greatest impact.”

“For many of us, the pandemic has underlined the challenges to our globalized world, and to the old ways of running our economies, posed by the existential threat of climate change. The current catastrophe also presents an opportunity—an opportunity to push for fundamental changes needed to build societies that are stronger and more resilient in addressing the challenges to come. I assure you that the Open Society Foundations will be an active participant in this search for a better world to emerge from the trauma of our present horror.”

Patrick Gaspard – Open Society Foundations