We empower refugee moms with cooperations between migrant organizations and educational institutions.

We support an organization that enables out-of-school children in Africa and the Middle East to start school and learn successfully.

In this project, the Digital Freedom Fund is looking at fundamental processes that lead to discrimination mechanisms and structural problems online...

A desire for empowerment, diversity, emancipation and leadership: With this project we want to strengthen migrant organisations in the development of their work.

Through participatory research and dialogue formats, we bring together local, national and international actors to develop practical ideas and...

We promote integration hubs as local places for exchange and collaboration between newcomers and people who are already resident. The space is used for encounters, advice and the development of new ideas for the...

With the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), we address the situation of migration workers with a precarious...

Supporting systems change, participation and learning in philanthropy.

Shifting European philanthropy from a climate change to a climate justice agenda.  

This project will provide practical support to a number of countries in the Global South as their food, eco and land use systems face serious challenges in the context of climate change. Through joint learning, innovation, and...

Intersectional Movement-building and Global Advocacy

The Foundation works with renowned inequality experts from different contexts and geographies to further develop its approach and strategy. 

Factor D is a broad network of actors and organisations in German-speaking countries. It brings together democratic forces in Germany, Austria and...

The worldlab project brings together young people in preparatory and regular classes of vocational and general education schools to discuss shared values.

The “Leadership in Migration Initiative” aims to identify and cultivate leaders who approach migration with empathy, strategic vision, and a...

The Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM) is a global partnership pushed forward by a group of champion countries and enabled by the United...

Migrant self-organizations are already committed to welfare, offering a broad range of services. By partnering with other external actors in the...

A series of events on the implementation of power sharing in the culture, media and welfare sectors.

This project aims to reduce racism and inequality at the European level in various policy areas and from an intersectional perspective.

The initiative is working to develop a fresh agenda for integration policy in Europe by bringing together senior integration policymakers and...

Co-designing economic policies to address multiple interlinked crises.

Resourcing intersectional movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central and North Asia.

We promote new alliances to protect democracy in the digital age. BC4D provides services that teach people in a professional context to recognize...

We support the “Leave No One Behind” partnership, founded in 2017, which has developed a data-based approach to reducing inequalities at the...

We support vocational teachers in dealing with right wing extremism among their pupils. Through the teachers, the pupils are emboldened to reflect...

With this funding program, we support organizations that work to tackle structural economic injustices. Our goal is to drive long-term, systemic...

Germany has an active civil society, with some 23 million people involved in work for the public good. To do so, they require structures, resources and contact points on a local level. This is where our network program comes in.

The Migration media service in Germany identifies and fills knowledge gaps to bring greater objectivity to social debates.

With Common Ground, we promote the cross-border participation of the population in shaping and developing their border region. In the long-term,...

The Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies is an independent think-tank that seeks to foster change through knowledge production with a focus on...

Tackling the crises of climate and inequality: Movement support for the just transition 

We support innovative and viable approaches to the integration and participation of newcomers to rural regions.

The aim of the project is to better understand factors that impede social mobility. Therefore, we promote exchange between the OECD and civil...

We support our partner denkhausbremen in developing guidelines for an environmentally sustainable and socially just future from the...

The Fight Inequality Alliance is a collective response to growing imbalance of power and wealth across the world. It unites movements across...

The growing care movement in Germany, Austria and Switzerland is campaigning for a care-based reorientation of the economy. 

Within a new, remote cross-border newsroom, we support underrepresented journalists whose stories are missing from the international news. Including a more diverse range of voices allows the media to report in a more nuanced...

We are training staff of Palestinian and Israeli peacebuilding organizations, providing both trauma support for them and lessons on how to integrate a trauma-informed approach into all programming. We foster collaboration and...

We support refugee-led organisations and initiatives that work towards more inclusive governance at the global level.

Europe Prykhystok supports children-victims of the war in Ukraine by facilitating innovative partnerships between local actors from Ukraine and Europe.  

We explore emerging innovations in democratic participation around the world through research, with a view to proposing recommendations for...

The annual report highlights key topical issues of mixed migration movements. Featuring a selection of data from approximately 10,000 interviews a year conducted with refugees and migrants around the world, the report...

Young adults, teachers and youth exchange specialists can find relevant offers here on language support, professional training and educational or...

The organization works towards a world where marginalized communities have the power to use court rooms to foster social change and secure racial,...

A Decolonial Approach: Working with the Migrant Women Community

Climate change and disasters are among the leading drivers of human mobility across Africa. Yet lawful pathways for those crossing borders in this...

The program is giving five German municipalities the chance to implement digitally and socially innovative integration projects. We provide them with trained people from business and civil society to work on solutions for local...

We support a needs-based training and further development program for enterprises in Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Hungary.

The program supports local authorities to work together with citizens, the (agricultural) economy, and civil society to design more sustainable...

A feasibility study is examining whether the topic of "justice and taxes" is suitable for a nationwide citizens' council.

VOTO is a digital voting aid used in local elections that helps increase young voter turnout. It playfully provides information about parties and...

How can international non-governmental organizations be reshaped and contribute to a changed role for global civil society?

Young people will have to deal with the consequences of climate change throughout their lives, yet they are underrepresented in key international...

The Mayors Migration Council empowers and enables cities to engage in migration diplomacy and policymaking at the international, regional and national level. The aim is to ensure that global responses to migrant and refugee...

With the Robert Bosch Junior Professorship we seek to contribute to a better standing of the emerging field of sustainability science in Germany.

In Bioregions all over Europe local stakeholder processes are facilitated in order to tackle the regions’ most burning issues, e.g. drought, water management, biodiversity loss.

DemoSlam relies on dialogue to foster understanding. It draws together people with contrasting opinions, equipping them with the space and tools to tolerate difference and relearn the ability to handle conflict.

We support indigenous peoples and local communities in Sub-Saharan Africa in achieving formal legal recognition of their land and forest rights....

In this project, we support tenants in Berlin through community organizing methods to build strong community initiatives.

We support the non-governmental organization Conducive Space for Peace to initiate changes in international peacebuilding.

Together with the Federal Association for Socioculture, we support ten tridems in developing and testing ideas for low-threshold democracy work.

By networking rural initiatives, we want to make the diversity of local solutions and their potential for a food transition more visible at...

The award-winning open-source platform for citizen participation “Consul” ensures open, transparent, and democratic governance.

CONCORD analyzes and influences EU international cooperation for more equal, just and inclusive societies, with a special emphasis on the influence...

We support the coalition, initiated by Philea - Philanthropy Europe Association. It aims to mobilize philanthropy across Europe and beyond to...

We support International IDEA in creating platforms to mobilize, connect and update global democracy supporters.  

Empowering progressive social forces in South Africa and beyond to create systemic change from above and below through research, policy, and...

The ‘United locally - for a strong togetherness’ programme promotes cohesion in smaller towns and villages in Germany. Committed individuals,...

Systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) are increasingly being experimented with and used on migrants, refugees and travelers. Our partner AlgorithmWatch explores how to enable...

Since 2020 the People’s Coalition for the Sahel works on strengthening civil society to influence policy change and hold stakeholders...

Our project with the Center for Global Development looks at the effects climate change is having on migration, and proposes policies to equitably...

In five municipalities, the project is testing how to reach people who are not usually involved in participation processes. Based on the experience...

As a member of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, together with other foundations, we support a change in food systems around the world in...

We support the development of an online platform that presents local approaches to promote the inclusion of refugees and people with a history of migration.

BetterPost, a project of the Neue deutsche Medienmacher:innen, promotes nuanced reporting on social media and fights hate in the comments section.

How can power and resources be shifted to local actors? We support the peacebuilding organization Peace Direct, which is dedicated to transforming the international peacebuilding system. 

Ukrainian NGO working on the postwar recovery of Ukrainian cities and territories. The approach is data-driven and brings global practices to solve local challenges.

We support the International Detention Coalition in its work to create rights-based and community-centered alternatives to the detention for...

A platform of African and European mayors working together to deliver innovative and practical solutions for human mobility in and between their...

We support local restoration actors in the drylands of the Greater Sahel region committed to learn from each other and to act together to increase...

Documenting Ukraine supports journalists, artists and intellectuals in Ukraine in capturing life in the war. This makes Ukrainian experiences tangible beyond the country's borders and for posterity.

The Data Tank advocates for the purposeful, responsible, and trusted collection, use, and reuse of data to benefit all segments of society.

People and their democracy in Germany, France, Britain, Poland, and the United States. This representative study puts attitudes toward democracy in the five countries under the microscope.

Building inclusive societies through innovative policies