Accountability Lab

With funding spaces shrinking, and a large number of civil society organizations (CSOs) struggling to survive, microgrants or innovative grants are becoming critical to sustain the civic space, especially at the local level. They support organizations to fund staffing, maintain operations, and keep their footprint alive in the communities in which they work. But they can supp...

This piece was first published as part of the Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice’s volume Plural Futures for Democracy: Reflections from the Plural Futures for Democracy Workshop, Washin...

Since 2022, Gen Z movements have been at the forefront of protests across the world. Young people have taken their grievances with corruption and elite privilege, public service failure, economic insecurity, and repression to the streets, and in a short four years, five heads of state were toppled, and the definition of what constitutes civic action has expanded. And they’re ...

This conversation is drawn from the AccountabiliTea Podcast, hosted by Accountability Lab Co-CEO Cheri-Leigh Erasmus who spoke with Carolyn Dallmann of Humanity United and Lior Ipp, CEO of Proximate Futures Fund, about participatory grantmaking, proximate leadership, and what it truly means to shift power in philanthropy.

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During UNGA this year, the Ban Ki-Moon Foundation, Accountability Lab, Civic Strength Partners, and <...