Global

WRN’s Legacy Endures

Honoring a Legacy of Peace and Advocacy: The Women’s Regional Network Sunsets, but Its Flame Endures  The Women’s Regional Network (WRN) has been a trusted grantee and partner of the Channel Foundation since 2011, together championing the rights and voices of marginalized women in South Asia’s most conflict-affected regions. Over…...

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Indigenous Powerhouse Joan Carling Honored

Channel Foundation is thrilled to celebrate the incredible achievement of Joan Carling, a powerful advocate for Indigenous rights, who in October 2024, was honored with the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, often regarded as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” in Stockholm, Sweden....

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Introducing the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders +25

On June 19, 2024, a new “Declaration on Human Rights Defenders +25,” was launched to mark a quarter-century since the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders was adopted. This Declaration is the result of collaborative and consultative efforts of at least 18 organizations including Channel grantee partner Front Line Defenders.…...

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Underfunded Yet Unstoppable

Channel Foundation is pleased to share research from Global Greengrants Fund-a former grantee partner, Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds, and the Human Rights Funders Network-where we are a member, reveals both the critical role and severe underfunding of women-led climate and environmental initiatives. The report “Seeds for Harvest: Funding…...

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Better Playbook for Global Crisis

Channel Foundation, as a member of the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and in collaboration with 20 philanthropic organizations is proud to announce a pioneering resource – The Crisis Coordination Playbook for the philanthropic community....

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New Podcast On Equality Fund’s Bold Vision

Channel Foundation is excited to announce the launch of a thought-provoking three part podcast on September 17th, 2024 – Moonshot: Making the Equality Fund, that highlights the groundbreaking work of the Equality Fund....

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Amplifying Young Women’s Crisis Response

Channel Foundation shares key insights from a report, We Need to Know the Humanitarian Sector Stands With Us, co-written by grantee partners Global Fund for Women, MADRE, and Purposeful, researched by the Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC). The report, published June 13, 2024, reveals the critical contributions of…...

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First Grantees of New Feminist Tech Fund

In Spring 2024 Numun Fund, a Channel grantee partner and the first feminist tech fund working at several intersections including LGBTQI+ and women’s rights, made public some of the recipients of its first round of grants.  Its “Seed, Grow and Sustain” grant program is the first of its kind....

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Pride Month 2024

With the start of Pride Month 2024, several Channel grantee partners launched campaigns and reports commemorating and highlighting Pride. These initiatives uphold and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, activists, and communities around the world....

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Feminist Care & Protection

On May 15, 2023, the Urgent Action Sister Funds, a global consortium of feminist funds, released a new report titled “How Can We Ground Ourselves in Care and Dance Our Revolution?” The report emerges out of an accumulation of UAF’s decade-long research on global feminist movements....

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