Our supporters

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The development of openDemocracy has been funded by the generosity of almost 100 trusts, foundations and individuals since 2001. In addition, openDemocracy also raises revenue from editorial partnerships; in 2015 this accounted for £42,000 of our income.

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Finances

In this chart we show the proportion of funding openDemocracy Main Site received from different sources during 2015:

Our Supporters

We are extremely grateful for the generous support of foundations, editorial partners and individuals for both the Main Site and the Sections. See below for a list of our supporters and editorial partners covering the period 2012-2015.

Grant funding

£1,000 - £10,000

Jas Fund (Network For Social Change) (Arab Awakening)

Lipman-Miliband Trust (oD-UK)

Lush (oD-UK)

Marmot Trust (oD-UK)

Johnson Trust (Main Site Core Costs)

Robert Bosch Foundation (CanEuropeMakeIt?)

£10,000 - £15,000

Andrew Wainwright Trust (ourNHS)

The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust (oD-UK)

Betterworld (ourNHS)

£15,000 - £20,000

Compton Foundation (Transformation)

Flora Family Foundation (Main Site Core Costs)

Fritt Ord (Arab Awakening)

Network for Social Change (Arab Awakening)

£20,000 - £25,000

Barrow Cadbury Trust (50.50)

Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (Climate Unspun Project)

Mulberry Trust (Arab Awakening)

NOREF (openSecurity)

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (Main Site Core Costs)

£25,000 - £30,000

Eric Abraham Fund (oD-UK)

Hauser Raspe Foundation (Main Site Core Costs)

£30,000 - £40,000

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (Main Site Core Costs)

Foundation to Promote Open Society (Democracia Abierta)

Kallopeia Foundation (Transformation)

National Endowment for Democracy (Arab Awakening)

£40,000 - £60,000

Hidden Leaf Foundation (Transformation)

Tinsley Foundation (Main Site Core Costs, oD-UK)

NoVo Foundation (Transformation) 

£60,000 - £80,000

Bertha Foundation (Main Site Core Costs, Shine A Light)

David and Elaine Potter Foundation (Main Site Core Costs, oD-UK)

Ford Foundation (openGlobalRights)

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (openSecurity, 50.50, Main Site Core Costs)

Roddick Foundation (Shine A Light)

Tedworth Charitable Trust (Main Site Core Costs, Exile Nation)

£80,000 - £100,000

HIVOS (50.50, Transformation)

Mott Foundation (oDR)

Oak Foundation (50.50)

£100,000+

Norwegian MFA (openSecurity)

Open Society Foundation (oDR)

Open Society Initiative for Europe (Main Site Core Costs)

Editorial partnerships

Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Argentina (The human cost of global drug policy)

Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (Participation Now, Creating Publics), Open University.

October 2012 - May 2015

Goldsmiths College (Liberalism in neoliberal times)

July 2014 - July 2015

International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (CivilResistance)

May 2011 - February 2016

Kings College London (Beyond Trafficking and Slavery)

April 2014 - ongoing

National Coalition for Independent Action (Localisms)

New Field Foundation (Our Africa)

The Open University (Oecumene - citizenship after orientalism)

October 2012 - March 2014

United Nations University-GCM  (Immigration, women and the city of Barcelona/Mediterranean journey of hope)

June 2015 - ongoing

University College, London (Brexit Divisions)

January - May 2016

University of Bristol (Beyond Trafficking and Slavery)

2014 - ongoing

University of Cambridge (Imagining Conspiracies: Suspect Science)

September - November 2015

University of Minnesota (openGlobalRights)

June 2013 - ongoing

University of Nottingham (Beyond Trafficking and Slavery)

2014 - ongoing

University of Sheffield (Beyond Trafficking and Slavery)

2014 - ongoing

University of Warwick, Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament programme (Political Aesthetics)

October 2012 - October 2013

University of West England, Social Science in the City (Europe the very idea)

Individual Donors 

Anne Lapping; Alex Graham; Carl Djerassi; Charles Ann Cotton; Charles Chadwyck-Healey; Clare Enders; Clive and Sue Hollick; Costas Carras; David Elstein; David and Elaine Potter; Dennis Stevenson; Diego Hidalgo; Ed Ross; Greg Dyke; Heidi Bergemann; Hermann Hauser; Jeremy Fox; Jeremy Hardie; Jo Stanislaw; John Jackson; John Mills; Judith Herrin; Kate Gavron; Mark Oliver; Nelly Munthe; Pamela Raspe; Reinhard Hesse; Tore Engebretsen