Grants and Funding for our projects

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Friends !

Let us collect all grants, funding and fellowships for projects here.
Diverse projects in the Fediverse help everybody and “some of us love illusions” [N. Muntz] and some unfortunately might need filthy lucre because of still surveillance capitalism …

For an initial list I tried to identify grants which make sense for ActivityPub or Fediverse projects.

Please post all grants and funding here but before you apply and depending on your situation:
Research the grants “backgrounds” critically, think carefully if everything really “fits” for you.
Move slowly and don’t break the web.

All information is supplied without guarantee !

Small money, informal grants

1000€

2200€ to “support social scientists to develop new computational skills or enable social scientists who do not have programming skills to analyze data at scale” :

6000€
Community Prototype Fund
Supporting the rapid development of innovative Internet freedom technology prototypes that serve the immediate needs of the human rights and Internet freedom communities

1000€
[de] SUMA stipend
“Impact for Search Technologies”

5000€
edri Digital Rights Fund

6000€ – January 2020


Money for your project

Grants sorted by closing date:

2021

Open Source Collective is partnering with GitCoin to launch FundOSS, a pilot matching campaign based on a democratic funding model.
https://fundoss.org

NLnet announcement :
NGI Assure wants security and privacy guarantees

NGI Zero next rounds
See the video at 36c3
Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies
Next Generation Search and Discovery

Please note:

For NGI grants you need a “minimum viable” state


opening September 1

Internet Freedom Fund
OTF flagship : The Internet Freedom Fund (IFF) is OTF’s primary way to support projects advancing Internet freedom for users in repressive environments.

Shuttleworth Fellowship
The Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Program funding consists of two components for each Fellow – the fellowship grant and the co-investment project funding.

see also Application Form

Comcast Innovation Fund
https://innovationfund.comcast.com/how-to-apply
[ Disclaimer : Don’t know “comcast” company. But maybe ‘not so good’ :
Comcast is America's Most-Hated Company ]

UN Democracy Fund
“Media and freedom of information”

The window for applicants to submit project proposals to UNDEF will open mid-November 2019, and will close mid-December 2019 at 11:59pm NY time

For Civil Society Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations engaged in promoting democracy, we would need a US 501c3 public charity or more simple something like a german “Bürgerstiftung” or “Stiftung in Gründung” …

Not a primary domain but See “In addition, we’re always interested in projects …”
Mozilla Research Grants
Researchers: See the current Annoncement RQ7
Futures for open voice ecosystems.
“Each time a new technology is enabled and a new ecosystem is created a range of social, cultural and political ripple effects typically unfold over time. The introduction of mobile devices in diverse socio-economic contexts has for instance enabled the creation of entire peer-to-peer lending industries and economies. In a less positive way, the introduction of social media in everyday life has arguably enabled a wide range of socio-cultural as well as socio-political effects, such as “echo-chambers” and rigged elections, for instance.
Given that, what type of social, cultural or political impacts can we imagine occurring in the future as a consequence of us introducing an open voice ecosystem? Is there any unwanted future state that we should be mindful of and prepared for? What positive effects do we wish to unfold or trigger through such an ecosystem?”

Open Society Foundations Grants
The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, are the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.


GRANT FOR THE WEB
is a $100M fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in web monetization.


EU H2020 – Next Generation Media
H2020 is a huge EU programm. See also the other grants.
But you need a “consortium”.
CCC got us covered with a video:
Hacking EU funding for a decentralizing FOSS project
Understanding and adapting EU legal guidelines from a FOSS perspective

See also
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/grants/applying-for-funding/submit-proposals_en.htm

The Democracy and Media Foundation (DMF) Grant
We invest in independent, critical media and a strong, just democratic state.

If your tool is ready but needs testing, translation, documentation etc. :

dial grants
Together, we fill projects’ funding gaps where traditional sources lack: refactoring, dependency upgrades, test coverage, and packaging, just to name a few.

https://foundation.travis-ci.org/grants

Sloan Fellowships

MIT Solve


Do you belong to an underrepresented group?

General Assembly
“also include LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, people with disabilities, returning workers, single parents, new Americans, and refugees”

Are you visually impaired?
An ebook library that makes reading easier

amandla.mobi 2019 Campaigner Fellowship: a four-months full-time, paid fellowship. The fellowship is open to Black womxn* and gender non-conforming people and will be based near Johannesburg.

The Other Foundation Grant: The Other Foundation is inviting applications for grants from individuals or organisations in thirteen eligible southern African countries to support work that advances or defends the freedom, equality, and social inclusion of homosexual and bisexual women and men, and transgender and intersex people.

Culture of Solidarity Fund: We invite you to submit your expression of interest to apply to a thematic Culture of Solidarity call to strengthen a European public space. We are looking for projects that contribute to inclusive and democratic European media platforms, networks and infrastructure during the Corona infodemic.


and some european regional grants

.NL only - 21 October
https://www.sidnfonds.nl

.AT

.DK
https://innovationsfonden.dk/da

.DE

.SE

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See also

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Heads up: Tomorrow 18 March (9.30 – 11.30 CET) launches the European Innovation Council (EIC), part the Horizon Europe program, and it kicks off with a livestream in their YT channel.

Background info: Horizon Europe | European Commission

On 19 March is Applicants Day for which you should register: EUSurvey - Survey


One other thing… I created the delightful project (alternative for Awesome project on Github, curated lists only for FOSS, Open Science and Open Data resources), and one list I maintain is:

(Currently I have a huge backlog of candidates to process, and it’d be wonderful if you added your own, if they are not on the list)

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