about us

our funders

The majority of our funding comes through grants from trusts and foundations, development organisations and governments. We rely on voluntary income to meet the costs of our activities and have only limited opportunities to generate earned income.

We do not accept funding from any source that has disregarded the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the course of their activities, carried out environmentally harmful practices or that is involved in the extractives, timber or arms industries.

We are extremely grateful for the generous support of the following funders:

Trusts and foundations

The Blue Moon Fund
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
The DOEN Foundation
The Fledgling Fund
The Ford Foundation
The Jocarno Fund
The Joffe Charitable Trust
Open Society Institute
David and Elaine Potter Foundation
The RH Southern Trust
The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
The Roddick Foundation
The Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation
The Sigrid Rausing Trust
The Staples Trust
The Wallace Global Fund

Development organisations

Concern Worldwide
Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries (Hivos)
Oxfam Novib
Trocaire

Governments

Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Irish Aid – Irish Department of Foreign Affairs
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sida)

We would like to express our thanks those donors whom, for reasons of practicality or anonymity, are not listed here.