Our Approach

The Fund for Global Human Rights mobilizes donors and allies to provide human rights activists with the funding, strategic support, and solidarity they need to push for change.

We Mobilize Resources

We collaborate with donors who share our deep commitment to rights and justice.
We partner with activists, organizations, and movements working to protect and promote human rights.
We organize donors and philanthropists at all levels to increase the quality and quantity of funding available for grassroots-led activism globally.

We Deliver Critical Support

We forge long-term, trusted relationships with local groups in the complex and rapidly evolving contexts where they work.
When human rights groups face political, legal, or operational restrictions, we find agile, creative routes to ensure resources reach frontline communities.
We go beyond grantmaking by providing hands-on strategic support and training.
We assist activists imperiled for their work, facilitating security assistance, rapid response, and relocation when necessary.

We Connect  and Collaborate

As activists take on progressively interconnected abuses—from authoritarianism and LGBTQ+ discrimination to gender inequality and environmental destruction—we invest in activism that joins up movements across issues, geographies, and generations.
We act as a bridge between the philanthropic community and frontline human rights movements, linking donors to activists, movements to allies, and the grassroots to the global.
We facilitate learning exchanges, convenings, and spaces for strategic collaboration.

We Catalyze  Change

We ensure that activists, organizations, and movements can organize and build power to counter rights abuses.
We hold the line when forward motion is thwarted, ensuring that human rights conditions don’t worsen.
We enable long-term movement building so that activists can push for transformational solutions when opportunities for change emerge.

Investing in Hope:
Our Strategic Outlook, 2025–2030

Over the past decade, civic space for human rights activism has become contested or closed across much of the world. In this challenging context, our work resourcing frontline human rights movements is more critical than ever. Our 2025–2030 Strategic Outlook consolidates what we have learned over more than 20 years of work, and sets out our five-year strategic focus and priorities for the road ahead.

Read our Strategic Outlook

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Learning & Assessment

Continual learning & assessment (L&A) are at the heart of our support for human rights activism. Our global L&A team draws on decades of experience and close engagement with grantee partners, peers, and other stakeholders to ensure we are providing the most effective support and solidarity we can. We strive to constantly be learning, adapting, and sharing our knowledge with peers and allies in the human rights space.

Learn more about our learning and assessment

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Advocacy & Leadership

We want to increase the quality and quantity of funding for grassroots human rights activists globally. But we can’t do that alone. Working with our peers and allies, we aim to motivate other grantmakers to shift more resources, power, and agency to frontline human rights movements. We are committed to critically unpacking our own role and practices as a human rights funder, amplifying the voices of grantee partners, and producing analysis based on our learning and experience.

Read our latest commentary and analysis