Empowering Civil Society
ISD is proud to work with partners in government, business and charities to deliver funding to community organisations at the front line of combating extremism, hate, polarisation and disinformation.
We believe that only through creating partnerships between the private sector and civil society organisations can we effectively challenge rising hate, extremism, polarisation and disinformation in society.
After a decade of engaging with grassroots initiatives, we know that civil society organisations have the power to build hyper-local solutions. Our collaboration with Google.org has allowed us to strengthen civil society across the UK and now in Europe.
Shared Endeavour Fund: The Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Network connects businesses, the public sector and civil society actors with cultural, sport and grassroots organisations in order to jointly stand up to hate, intolerance and extremism across the capital.
Google.org Impact Challenge on Safety: In 2019-2020, we launched a €10million European fund to support NGOs and expert groups across Europe working on internet safety topics. The NGOs that applied came from a range of backgrounds and either focused on tackling hate and extremism in their communities or helping young people stay safe online.
Google Innovation Fund: From 2017-2019, ISD ran the Google Innovation Fund, a £1m fund open to UK organisations tackling hate and extremism in their local communities. Read the impact report to find out more and read the inspiring stories from our grantees!
Google Africa Online Safety Fund: Since May 2020, ISD has been supporting Google.org and Impact Amplifier to deliver $700,000 of funding to projects that seek to address online safety issues across Africa, focusing especially on South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Cote D’Ivoire.
Campaign Toolkit: Since early 2019, ISD has worked with Microsoft, Google, Twitter and Facebook, the founding members of the Global Internet Forum to Counter-Terrorism (GIFCT), to coordinate the redesign and relaunch of the ‘Counter-Narratives Toolkit’, which is a collection of free resources intended to support non-profit organisations in the development, launch and delivery of counter-hate and extremism campaigns.
ISD’s Civil Society team
Zahed Amanullah
Resident Senior Fellow, Networks & Outreach
Kelsey Bjornsgaard
Director of Practice, Strong Cities Network
Jennie King
Director of Climate Disinformation Research and Policy
Charlotte Moeyens
Senior Manager, Networks & Civic Action
Charlotte Moeyens
Senior Manager, Networks & Civic Action