Stop Child Soldiers
Fund for Global Human Rights
1666 Connecticut Avenue NW
OverviewThe Fund for Global Human Rights is founded on the belief that securing basic freedoms worldwide requires effective, frontline organizations challenging abuse wherever it occurs. Thus the Fund for Global Human Rights works to ensure a strong, effective human rights community worldwide. Since 2002, the Fund has delivered over $13 million in new resources to human rights groups in sixteen countries. MissionThe Fund finds and funds local human rights heroes who often work at great personal risk to strengthen and bring global attention to their struggles. ProgramsThe Fund’s purpose is to support local, national, and regional human rights groups and networks abroad in becoming stronger, more effective, and better funded. To accomplish this, the Fund for Global Human Rights focuses in five regions and has identified specific regional strategies designed to make the most impact with limited funds and resources. Grants are awarded through a competitive and transparent grants process. ImpactOur grants support campaigns that otherwise might falter for lack of resources, bring financial stability to groups, and help organizations take their work to the next level. For example, the Fund’s support has brought education, social assistance, health care and human rights training to former child soldiers in both Sierra Leone and Liberia. And, with support from the Fund, a group of Liberian human rights and environmental lawyers brought to light gross abuses by several corporations mining for timber and diamonds. In response to the outcry, these corporations have all but ceased operations in the affected areas. FinancialChanging The Present will soon provide financial information on nonprofit organizations. |
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