The Fund particularly supports grassroots organizations that work face-to-face with the victims and the survivors, and with organizations on the frontlines that are often led by survivors themselves. 

The work that News Decoder does has never been more important...it is transformational for students!

For humanity, for our shared home, for future generations.

Supporting the right to Free Speech! Victory to the Uhuru 3 in September! 

Dan Froomkin stays focused on what needs our attention. 

Promoting and protecting human rights for all

At UN Human Rights, we’re dedicated to making human rights a reality for everyone. Our mission is to empower individuals to claim their rights and support those responsible for upholding them.

Your support is crucial in making a real difference. Here’s how your donation will help:

1. **Promoting Universal Values**: Your gift helps us promote the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ensuring everyone knows their rights and can stand up for them.
2. **Uplifting Voices**: You empower human rights defenders worldwide, giving them the platform and support they need to fight for justice and equality.
3. **Increasing Accountability**: By spotlighting social movements, your support helps hold those in power accountable and brings about justice for communities in need.
4. **Driving Change**: With your help, we rally partners globally to achieve transformative changes that benefit both people and the planet.
5. **Shaping Policy**: Your contribution enables us to work closely with states, embedding human rights into policies and real-world achievements.

Together, we are building a world where everyone can live with dignity, freedom, and hope.

Join us in making a meaningful impact today!

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News Decoder help youth cut through the noise & make sense of the world. We turn information overload into informed citizenship. 


**Celebrate a Decade. Empower a Generation.**

Today’s world is more interconnected and complex than ever, yet it’s also more divided and polarized. Extremist views, culture wars, political populism and attacks on democracy are growing and ideological divides are making it harder to tackle global challenges like the climate crisis.

When News Decoder began in 2015, our founding belief was that young people could transcend the role of passive information consumers to become powerful knowledge producers and agents of change ready to meet these challenges. 

Over the past decade, we have demonstrated not only that this vision is possible but how it can be achieved. Our combination of journalism skills training and cross-border virtual exchange empowers young people to be informed, engaged citizens capable of reporting on their local communities and sharing their perspectives on a global stage.

Now, News Decoder is [celebrating its 10th birthday](https://news-decoder.com/heres-to-10-years-and-many-more/) in 2025. 

**Give €10/month to mark 10 years of impact**.

Your gift powers programs and publishing that inform, connect and empower the next generation of global citizens, in all corners of the world.

Thank you.

**ABOUT US**

News Decoder is a nonprofit registered in France. Our vision is a world where every young person participates in shaping a better tomorrow for themselves, their community and the wider world. Through past and present partnerships with nearly 50 schools in 20 countries on five continents, we teach and model the tools and techniques of journalism that help young people better understand complex international issues, hone their voices and viewpoints and turn their ideas in to meaningful social action.

News Decoder

Hands Off Uhuru defends the right of African and oppressed peoples to advocate and organize for liberation. 

Fundraising for "Hands Off Uhuru" campaign, in support of the right of African people to organize for liberation. Building support for legal defense and organizing work.

Hands Off Uhuru

Realizing the promise of the Bill of Rights for all - the ACLU dares to create a more perfect union.

The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

ACLU Foundation

Devoted to encouraging political journalists to live up to the highest standards of their profession.

At this point, no one can possibly argue that political journalism has fulfilled its essential missions of creating an informed electorate and holding the powerful accountable.

But our top newsroom leaders have seen no need for a course change. In particular, they have failed to respond to the growing asymmetry between the political parties, even as one became overtly counter-majoritarian, anti-democratic, and unmoored to reality.

Press Watch agitates for change. It encourages reporters to fight disinformation more enthusiastically and effectively, especially when our democracy and people’s lives are at stake. It identifies best practices that others can emulate. It urges the reality-based parts of the industry to  explicitly condemn Fox News and other far-right propaganda outlets as disinformation operations.

Press Watch

Providing NYC Public Schools with Training and Resources to Start and Sustain Student Journalism Programs and Publications

Press Pass NYC equips under-resourced NYC public schools with free faculty training, student resources and program support to launch or revive a student news publication – and keep it running. Our goal is to level the playing field in a city where a 2022 Baruch College study found 93 of the 100 highest poverty high schools had no student newspaper. Working on a news team gives teens the opportunity to develop their curiosity and passion by writing about topics that interest them, developing critical thinking, teamwork and leadership along with media literacy.

Since 2021, we’ve helped 30 NYC public schools start or revive a student news publication, online or in print, with 14 more coming in the 2025-26 school year. Every donation goes toward supporting these budding news teams through fellowships for teachers and students.

For example:

- $250 funds a stipend for a Student Journalism Leader
- $500 funds an hands-on journalism workshop for students
- $1000 funds a Journalism Adviser Fellow's first year stipend 
- $2000 funds one year of journalism supplies and resources for a student news team                                              
- $25,000 fully funds three-years of program support for a school news team to ensure sustainability.

Press Pass NYC

Pro News Coaches: Supporting local newsrooms, one story at a time.

Pro News Coaches, a nonprofit founded by Wall Street Journal alumni, provides pro bono coaching, mentoring and related services to local newsrooms nationwide. As independent news organizations disappear at an alarming rate, more communities are losing access to trusted regional news. We work with reporters and editors to develop research and investigative skills, expand public service coverage, and strengthen the communities they serve.

If you would like to donate via check, please reach out to contact@pronewscoaches.com.

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The Kyiv Independent is an award-winning English-language media outlet covering Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

The Kyiv Independent is **Ukraine’s fastest-growing English-language media outlet**, established in November 2021, just three months before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent was born out of a **fight for freedom of speech**. It was co-founded by a group of journalists who were fired from the Kyiv Post, then a prominent newspaper, as the owner attempted to take the newsroom under control and end its critical coverage of Ukrainian authorities.

Just three months after the Kyiv Independent was launched, Russia invaded Ukraine. **Our team stayed in Ukraine and kept on reporting on what was now a war against their country.**

The team’s resilience and **uncompromising reporting quickly made the Kyiv Independent a key source of news** from Ukraine for millions of people around the world.

**We vowed to serve the principles of honest journalism even during an ongoing war**. We have published investigations, including into misconduct within the Ukrainian military. It has solidified our readers’ trust in us as an independent news source. The Kyiv Independent has won multiple awards for its work.

We had to grow fast. Today, **the Kyiv Independent is a dynamic organization** producing stories, video reports, newsletters, documentaries, and more. In March 2023, we formed a separate unit within the team to investigate Russian war crimes. The team has **published nine documentaries so far, uncovered multiple war crimes, and seven international awards** for its work. 

**Unlike many news organizations, the Kyiv Independent has no single owner** or external source of financing. Instead, the majority of our funding comes directly from our readers — most of whom give just $5 a month. In 2024, 70% of our revenue was from membership and donations. 

Thanks to the support of our readers, the Kyiv Independent doesn’t need to depend on a wealthy owner — and doesn’t have a paywall. Our journalism is free and accessible to everyone, regardless of ability to pay, because we believe that everyone should have access to accurate and reliable information. 

**Our Mission**

**Serve as the bridge between Ukraine and the world**, delivering reliable news, context, and on-the-ground reporting.

**Our Values**

The Kyiv Independent **serves its readers and community**, and nobody else.

The Kyiv Independent **won’t be dependent on a rich owner or an oligarch.** Support from our readers, donors, and commercial activities fund the publication.

The newsroom **decides and executes the publication’s editorial policy in the community’s best interests.** Attempts to influence it from outside will not be tolerated.

The Kyiv Independent **will always be at least partly owned by its journalists**.

The Kyiv Independent **strives to maintain financial sustainability to preserve its independence.**

**Our Achievements**

1. **We reach almost 3 million monthly readers in 2025.**  Millions of people now read the Kyiv Independent every month. Our monthly website audience grew from 13,000 readers in January 2022 to close to 3 million monthly readers in 2025.
2. **Over 30,000 stories have been published** since launching the Kyiv Independent, including daily news updates, war coverage, business, culture, and opinions.
3. **We have published more than 150 field reports**, including dozens of stories from the front lines, bringing you on-the-ground coverage from places like Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, and Vovchansk.
4. **We have conducted 30 investigations**, including an award-winning investigation into alleged misconduct in Ukraine’s International Legion and leaked documents showing Russia’s plan to take over Belarus by 2030.
5. **The Kyiv Independent currently has seven active newsletters with over 230,000 subscribers**. They cover the latest events in Ukraine, front-line dispatches, business news, and much more.
6. **We built a vibrant, global community of more than 20,000 members**.  Since its launch, more than 50,000 people have financially supported the Kyiv Independent.
7. **We have won 20 awards** for our journalism and one award for our audience growth.
8. **We grew our team from 18 to 70+ people**.  A bigger team allows us to increase the impact and reach of our journalism.
9. **Our War Crimes Investigations Unit has produced nine investigative documentaries** about Russia’s systemic atrocities in Ukraine, including the deportation of children and torture of POWs.
10. **KI’s YouTube channel** features our video content, including reports from the front lines, a show about the latest news “Ukraine This Week,” exclusive interviews, and much more. **So far in 2025, we have reached over 14 million views and 270,000 subscribers**.

**We need your support to keep going.**

**Your support means that, as we face 2025 and the uncertainties it brings, we will be stronger, more resilient, and will be able to continue bringing you reliable journalism from Ukraine, whatever may come.**

Please consider donating to the Kyiv Independent.

Kyiv Independent

Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit advocacy organization and legal service provider. 

S.T.O.P. litigates and advocates for privacy, working to abolish local governments’ systems of mass surveillance. Our work highlights the discriminatory impact of surveillance on Muslim Americans, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, indigenous peoples, pregnant people, and communities of color, particularly the unique trauma of anti-Black policing.

Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) is a community organization dedicated to providing sanctuary to writers whose works are suppressed.

Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) is a community organization dedicated to providing sanctuary to writers whose works are suppressed, whose lives are threatened, whose cultures are vanishing, or whose languages are endangered. ICOA is a member of the International Cities of Refuge Network, one of only three member cities in the United States. Formed in 2001, ICOA has hosted writer, poet, and essayist Yi Ping; the late playwright and novelist Reza Daneshvar; poet and memoirist Sarah Mkhonza; poet and playwright Irakli Kakabadze; journalist Sonali Samarasinghe; journalist and memoirist Raza Rumi; political cartoonist Pedro Molina; poet, novelist, and satirist Dmitry Bykov; and filmmaker, writer and puppeteer Arthur Groys.

**The problem**

In many places in today’s world, writers face persecution for the statements they make in their art. Every writer who is silenced means one less voice to speak for thousands more against oppression.
 
**Our approach**

ICOA hosts one writer at a time (plus family members) for a two-year residence in partnership with a local institution of higher learning. Currently, our artist serves as a Visiting Affiliate Artist at Ithaca College. Cornell University has hosted past writers and currently provides substantial financial sponsorship. 

Our visiting writers teach, share their work through public events, and form alliances with local organizations. The resident benefits from a place to live, time to write, financial support, and community. Ithaca gains the perspective, friendship, and artistry of each visiting resident.
 
**Our team**

ICOA is a volunteer board of up to 20 members.
 
**Contact information** 

Jason Freitag, Advisory Board Chair
ithacacityofasylum@gmail.com
   

Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA)

Autism Empowerment is a neurodivergent-led nonprofit devoted to helping youth and adults  worldwide lead awesome meaningful lives!

**Autism Empowerment** is a passionate nonprofit organization led by individuals with lived experience. We are devoted to enriching and empowering the lives of autistic and neurodivergent youth, adults, and their families. We promote a culture of Autism Acceptance and believe every one of us has gifts and strengths to share with the world.

Through our enriching and empowering service-oriented programs like [Spectrum Life Magazine](https://www.spectrumlife.org), Autism Serves: Helping Hands, Autism Empowerment Cares and AWEtism We Embrace, we promote Autism Acceptance, Inclusion, and Advocacy for today's world and the future.

Come join us as an Ambassador for Acceptance of All Abilities! Be a meaningful part of helping create a world where people of all abilities are embraced! Your donations directly support programs that inspire and uplift our community members.

Thank you for your generosity and for being a part of positively changing our world!

Autism Empowerment

We help people who see something at work that doesn't seem right. 
Help us to help more concerned people hold power to account.

The Psst... mission is to make it much easier and safer to hold power to account from within by pairing mechanisms for safe reporting with the power and safety of the collective.

The concept of whistleblowing is sacrosanct in democratic societies. But today the act of whistleblowing is both less effective as a means of checking power and more precarious for the individual who comes forward. We as a society must re-think and re-engineer whistleblowing to keep up with a world where society's power brokers in Silicon Valley and Washington, DC face little to no oversight and wield dangerous weapons against individual whistleblowers and journalists.

Psst… addresses the threat to whistleblowing by shifting it from an individual pursuit to ***collective action***. Collective action diffuses the risks associated with whistleblowing while also increasing the impact of disclosures.

The mechanism for doing so is the Psst Safe, a secure repository where insiders can record their concerns, whether big or small, in a repository while protecting their identities. Individual deposits in the repository are vetted for authenticity and analyzed to uncover patterns among deposits. Patterns are used to create complete stories and/or legal cases; depositors are given the option to be part of the collective, always with legal and safety measures in place.

The Psst Safe is backed up by Psst Legal and Psst Story, which are run by veterans in storytelling and legal rights of whistleblowers.

Psst.org 

The Battleground counters false narratives eroding trust in politics and media.

**The Battleground - Europe and Beyond**

The Battleground is a Brussels-based nonprofit, independent media organisation that provides big-picture analysis and reflection on the stories of our time.

Our tagline, 'Focusing on democracy, diversity, and culture in Europe and beyond,' attests to the international nature of our publications. The Battleground’s content highlights geopolitical context and perspective, bridging continents and cultures. It mixes political analysis with social commentary on current affairs.

Established by independent press professionals to break new ground, The Battleground is an innovative media platform that promotes quality, ethical journalism with a personal touch. The ambition is to set a new standard for what journalism ought to do in Europe, if not worldwide.

**Our Mission**

- Fight false narratives
- Defend democracy
- Combat racism
- Expose extremism
- Promote diversity
- Champion ethical journalism

We conceived of The Battleground on Armistice Day 2018, one hundred years after the end of the First World War. We named it The Battleground to reflect the battle for human rights, the rule of law, and fundamental freedoms.

This ambition did not emerge in a vacuum. Since the 2008 financial crisis, Europe has been repeatedly destabilised by conflicts on its eastern periphery, terrorism, refugees, and the far right. Most of the media we’d worked for failed to cover this. The Battleground was our answer.

Our decision has proved correct given the events of the six years since our founding. The Battleground is the only progressive English-language media in the European Union that tackles such topics, and we have a growing global audience to show for it. By December 2025, our readership will reach 700,000, with almost half located in North America.

Given the far-right political drift in Europe and beyond, staying the course and remaining a voice of reason and tolerance has inspired us like no other project we’ve worked on. Our growth has inspired us to take chances and exceed our expectations.

**Our Work**

The Battleground has published over a thousand feature articles and twelve hundred original photos, six eBooks, and six full-length field recording albums for our  [Battleground Books](https://thebattleground.eu/book/) and  [Battleground Sounds](https://thebattleground.eu/sound/) imprints.

Our editors publish regular reviews of books, film and music and politics features, and conduct candid conversations about ideas and events on our Left To Burn podcast. They’re an inspired bunch at the height of their journalistic careers.

**Our Reach**

The majority of our audience is between 18 and 44. We are heavily read by our peers, journalists, and other EU media, who increasingly follow our lead. We’re regarded as a publisher’s publisher in the Brussels media bubble.

The Battleground is a window onto Europe, the background instead of the foreground, the democratic instead of the populist. Reflecting shared values and diversity - in Europe and beyond.

We break the rules and make new ones. It’s a great place to be.

The Battleground

KRIK, founded in 2015, investigates high-level corruption and ties between organized crime and officials in Serbia and the Balkans

KRIK is an investigative media outlet founded by a group of investigative journalists from Serbia in mid-2015. The portal publishes investigative stories about high-level corruption in Serbia, focusing on suspicious and corrupt dealings involving individuals in key positions of power or those who wield significant influence, as well as the connections between organized crime and government officials. In addition, through its daily content, KRIK informs readers about events and issues of public interest and reports on the most important court proceedings in the country.

Over the years, KRIK has launched several specialized platforms: it initiated RasKRIKavanje, a site dedicated to exposing media manipulation and fake news; published a database of politicians’ assets, which includes information on the wealth and income of both ruling and opposition officials; and created “Judge Who Judges”, a database profiling judges involved in the country’s most significant cases. Amidst the raging gang wars in Serbia and the region, KRIK also released the “Black Book” – a record of mafia-style killings – and “Underworld Bosses”, profiling the leading figures of rival criminal clans.

As a member of the global investigative journalism network Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), KRIK has participated in numerous international investigations such as the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Suisse Secrets, Pandora Papers, OpenLux, and Crime Telegram (an investigation into the “Sky” company and encrypted phones). Besides OCCRP, KRIK is a member of several other media organizations, including the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), Association of Online Media (AOM), International Press Institute (IPI), International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN).

KRIK’s newsroom and its journalists have received numerous international and domestic journalism awards, such as the Data Journalism Award, Sigma Award, CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism, Anti-Corruption Champions Award, Global Shining Light Award, European Press Prize, and national honors for ethics and courage like the “Dušan Bogavac” and “Jug Grizelj” awards, as well as regional accolades such as “Srđan Aleksić” and “Duško Jovanović”. KRIK journalists have also repeatedly won the EU Award for the Best Investigative Stories from Serbia and the national “Dejan Anastasijević” Award.

KRIK

Hong Kong Watch defends human rights, freedoms and the rule of law in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Watch is a [UK registered charity](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1180013&subid=0) founded in 2017, consisting of Hong Kongers and friends of Hong Kong, working closely with Hong Kong community groups in the diaspora.

We inform and educate legislators, policy-makers and the media, and raise awareness among the wider public, about the violations of human rights, basic freedoms and the rule of law in Hong Kong, and advocate for actions to assist Hong Kongers. We do this through a combination of in-depth research reports, regular topical briefings, opinion editorials, media briefings and interviews, and advocacy campaigns.

We also help integrate, support, welcome and strengthen the capacity of the Hong Kong diaspora, through a programme of civic and political education and community engagement.



*Information about donation security and donor benefits is available [here](https://www.hongkongwatch.org/donate).*

Hong Kong Watch

Covering America’s criminal justice system.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.

The Marshall Project

Newsroom focused on investigative journalism in the public interest.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.  Investigative journalism is at risk. Many news organizations have increasingly come to see it as a luxury. Today’s investigative reporters lack resources: Time and budget constraints are curbing the ability of journalists not specifically designated “investigative” to do this kind of reporting in addition to their regular beats. New models are, therefore, necessary to carry forward some of the great work of journalism in the public interest that is such an integral part of self-government, and thus an important bulwark of our democracy.

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