Benetech
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Grants
8
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Total Awarded
$3,701,362
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Years
2003 - 2017
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Categories
Grants
2017 (1 year)
$150,000
Benetech empowers communities with software for social good. The award provides core support to the organization’s Human Rights Program (HRP) which enables, protects, and amplifies the efforts of human rights defenders with strategic technology interventions. It is a “multidirectional bridge” between Silicon Valley and human rights communities that connects defenders of human rights to leading technology companies and decision-makers, while also building open source software that has not been met by the commercial technology market and bringing it to the human rights organizations.
2014 (3 years)
$500,000
Silicon Valley-based Benetech develops innovative and effective technology applications for unmet social needs. The grant will provide support to the core activities of the organization’s Human Rights program, including strengthening and enhancing its product development and security audits, capacity building for product end-users, and the launch of a new Human Rights Documentation Help Desk.
2011 (3 years)
$650,000
To use science and technology to promote human rights (over three years).
2008 (3 years)
$880,000
To use science and technology to promote human rights (over three years).
2008 (1 year 11 months)
$59,000
To support the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria to implement its Martus software to gather and utilize human rights information.
2005 (3 years)
$800,000
In support of using science and technology to promote human rights (over three years).
2004 (1 year 7 months)
$412,362
To expand and deepen the core activities of the Science and Human Rights Program (over three years).
2003 (3 years 5 months)
$250,000
To create a secure reporting system for documenting human rights abuses in Colombia and other countries.
