Grantee Partners
The Channel Foundation is honored to work with a stellar group of grantee partners in supporting a host of grassroots initiatives.
Recent Grants
Since 2006, the Channel Foundation's grantmaking has been focused on supporting and promoting leadership in international women's human rights. Channel has been partnering with superb human rights organizations and women's funds to make grants in the following six interest areas.
Please click on the names of our grantee partners to read more specific information about our grants to them and about their groundbreaking work.
1) Ensuring Participation in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
CODEPINK
Fund for Global Human Rights
Global Rights
International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)
Urgent Action Fund
2) Advancing Indigenous Women's Rights and Leadership
Central American Women's Fund
Prometheus Radio Project
3) Securing Reproductive Rights/Justice
Central American Women's Fund
Ipas
PATH
Americans for UNFPA
4) Overcoming Legal Inequality (Including Inheritance and Resource Rights)
Fund for Global Human Rights
Global Fund for Women
Mongolian Women's Fund
Women's Learning Partnership
5) Ending Violence Against Women and Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders
CODEPINK
Urgent Action Fund
6) Promoting Media Reform and Gender Equity
OURMedia Network
Prometheus Radio Project
Women's Media Fund
Diverse Grants
Grantmakers Without Borders
Fundación Merced
Women's Leadership Scholarship
The Women's Leadership Scholarship (WLS) program (formerly the Native Leadership Scholarship) creates educational opportunities for women activists, grassroots leaders, and organizers from the Global South and/or from indigneous groups. WLS invests in women's leadership by supporting non-doctoral graduate education in human rights, sustainable development, and public health in many places around the world.
WLS has been granting scholarships since 2001. Please see our Women's Leadership Scholarship website for more information.
Grant History
Between 1998 and 2005, Channel's grantmaking endeavored to support the idea of grassroots leadership. In this period, Channel made grants in the interest areas described below.
Please click on the names of our grantee partners to read more specific information about our grants to them and about their groundbreaking work.
1) Population, Poverty and Gender Equity
Global Fund for Women
Grassroots International
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH)
Women Waging Peace
2) Conservation of Biodiversity, Protection of Indigenous Peoples Land Rights, Sustainable Economic Development
Ashoka
MOPAWI
Pacific Environment/Sakhalin Environment Watch
3) Indigenous People's Rights
Channel's grants in this area were intended the support the recognition of the sovereignty of indigenous nations in relation to their land, communal heritage and cultural preservation. They were also intended to support the recognition of the rights of women to self-determination and equal power within tribal community.
Center for Social Justice
Indian People's Action
The Potlatch Fund
4) Human Rights
Channel's grants in this area included social, economic and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights: in other words, the rights to health care, education, livelihood, water and nutrition, as well as freedom from exploitation, discrimination, and persecution.
Grassroots Global Justice
Middle East Children's Alliance
Ustawi
Veterans for Peace
5) Diverse Grants
Eqbal Ahmad Foundation