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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 International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)
2) Advancing Indigenous Women's Rights and Leadership
3) Securing Reproductive Rights/Justice
4) Overcoming Legal Inequality (Including Inheritance and Resource Rights)
5) Ending Violence Against Women and Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders
6) Promoting Media Reform and Gender Equity
Diverse Grants
Women's Leadership Scholarship
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 International Planned Parenthood Federation Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH)
2) Conservation of Biodiversity, Protection of Indigenous Peoples Land Rights, Sustainable Economic Development Pacific Environment/Sakhalin Environment Watch
3) Indigenous People's Rights
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. Middle East Children's Alliance
5) Diverse Grants
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Grantee Partners
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. 
