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