Your contribution helps to provide a $1,000 Global Youth Action Award to a young person (or group) who started a project that has created a positive and measurable improvement in their community. On top of the actual $1,000 Award, receipients are promoted through media outlets in an effort to create greater visibility for their work, and are provided with on-going forms of other support. These...

Your gift will help encourage innovative thinking and support creative solutions to some of the critical issues facing community organizations and civil rights groups around the world today. This will be done through schemes like the CIVICUS Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Innovation Awards . These awards are presented annually to recognise organizations or groups of individuals that have developed innovative ways to promote social justice...

Your gift will help provide one day of advocacy tools and online support to one organization. While this might sound unglamorous, please remember that the efficacy and safety of human rights activists is directly related to how well they are able to get their information out.

Equal Access trainings build the capacity of rural community leaders to create a local discussion group around the radio shows, encouraging listeners to share how their lives relate to the drama and how the ideas they hear could be applied to their lives. Sending someone to a one day training helps them empower their entire community to improve their lives.

Supporting an hour of consultation with a lawyer or other technical expert will help secure justice and could save lives. Expertise will be used to investigate and support cases where civil society activists are charged and imprisoned, to advise on human rights legislation, or to develop technical materials for use by local organizations in their fight for civil liberties. In the context of the global...