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People & Positions
| You can now access job listings in our website's Member Area!
American Jewish World Service seeks Country Consultant for Haiti
Bolder Giving seeks Program Director
Connect U.S. Fund seeks Program Director
CS Fund seeks Research Assistant
Open Society Foundations seeks Senior Program Officer
Skoll Foundation seeks Program Officer
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Funders' Soapbox
| Arcus Foundation has appointed Bryan Simmons as Vice President of Global Communications, Tom Kam as Vice President of Social Justice Programming, and Elisa P. Gerontianos, Antonio L. Maciel and Rebecca R. Rittgers as Senior Program Executives.
Atlantic Philanthropies has appointed Christopher Oechsli as President and Chief Executive Officer.
Funders for LGBTQ issues is asking LGBTQ grantmakers if they would be interested in an online resource allowing the exchange of information and ideas.
Mama Cash shares information about using meetings as a strategy for movement building.
The Media Democracy Fund shares news of the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference which will explore how the technology industry can better manage human rights implications of their technologies.
Paul VanDeCarr, a writer and researcher who has worked with a number of funder affinity groups, wants to speak to grantmakers about how they use or want to use storytelling for social change for: Storytelling and Social Change: Strategies for Grantmakers.
To submit a posting, contact Nadia Zaidi at nzaidi@ihrfg.org.
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Please contact Nadia Zaidi at nzaidi@ihrfg.org if you would like to include news, announcements, events, or resource listings in the next issue of Human Rights Funding News, the e-newsletter of the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG). Visit our website and join our social networks!
 
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Our Supporters
| IHRFG would like to thank the following members for their support through voluntary dues:
Adessium Foundation
Alan B. Slifka Foundation
American Jewish World
Service
Arab Human Rights Fund
The Arca Foundation
Arcus Foundation
Astraea Lesbian Foundation
for Justice
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Central American Women's
Fund
Channel Foundation
Cloverleaf Foundation
Compton Foundation
Darian and Rick Swig
Philanthropic Fund
Dietel Partners
Disability Rights Fund
Edna Wardlaw Trust
EMpower
Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation Israel
Fund
French American Charitable
Trust (FACT)
Front Line
Fund for Global Human
Rights
Fund for Nonviolence
General Service Foundation
Gertrude and William C.
Wardlaw Fund
Global Fund for Children
Global Fund for Women
Global Greengrants Fund
Grassroots International
Harry Frank Guggenheim
Foundation
Henry M. Jackson
Foundation
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein
Foundation
Jacob Blaustein Institute
for the Advancement of
Human Rights
John Merck Fund
Joshua Mailman Foundation King Baudouin Foundation
United States
Lambi Fund of Haiti
Lawson Valentine
Foundation
Levi Strauss Foundation
The Libra Foundation
Media Democracy Fund
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
The Moriah Fund
Morton K & Jane Blaustein
Foundation
New Field Foundation
Novo Foundation
The Overbrook Foundation
Peace Development Fund
Prospect Hill Foundation
Proteus Fund
Public Welfare Foundation
Rivendell Foundation
Samuel Rubin Foundation
The Schooner Foundation
The Sigrid Rausing Trust
Stewart R. Mott Foundation
Stop AIDS Now!
Tevah Fund of Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund
Tides Foundation
Trust Africa
Unbound Philanthropy
Unitarian Universalist
Holdeen India Fund
United Nations Foundation
Urgent Action Fund for
Women's Human Rights
US Human Rights Fund
Wallace Global Fund
The "Woods" Charitable
Foundation
We are greatly appreciative of the following members' contributions of core operating and substantial in-kind support to IHRFG:
Anonymous
The Atlantic Philanthropies
(USA) Inc.
Ford Foundation
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein
Foundation
John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Liquidnet
Oak Philanthropy Limited
Open Society Foundations
The Sigrid Rausing Trust
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| In Focus: Stop Torture in Health Care - A New Campaign Tackles Abuse in Medical Facilities | | Contributed by Lydia Guterman, Campaign Coordinator, Open Society Foundations
Health care settings should be places where human rights are realized. Yet, too often, they are places where human rights are severely abused, sometimes amounting to torture and ill-treatment. Patients from socially marginalized groups -- people living with HIV, people with life-limiting illnesses, sexual and gender minorities, people who use drugs, and people with intellectual disabilities or mental health problems - are at particular risk of experiencing severe mental or physical suffering instead of quality care. Their contact with health facilities is too often characterized by physical abuse, insults, invasion of privacy, forced medical procedures, or denial of treatment. Read more.
If you would like to write for/contribute to the In Focus section of an upcoming issue of IHRFG's Human Rights Funding News, please contact Nadia Zaidi at nzaidi@ihrfg.org.
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IHRFG 2011 Program Calendar
and Announcements | IHRFG's San Francisco Conference: January 24-25, 2012
The conference will feature dynamic panel discussions and workshops organized by IHRFG members; meetings of IHRFG working groups; a dinner-dialogue event; networking sessions in formal and informal settings; and the open-mic Funders' Soapbox. The plenary theme of the conference will be announced shortly. Register now!
IHRFG's San Francisco Pre-Conference Institute: January 23, 2012
Cultural Competency in Human Rights Grantmaking: What's  Power Got To Do With It?
Have you ever wondered whether our human rights grantmaking -- which attempts to address the root causes of poverty, injustice, and inequity -- actually reinforces or addresses powerlessness and exclusion among our grantees? This Institute will examine how power and privilege are redistributed through the act of grantmaking and will explore successes and challenges of "cultural competency" in grantmaking. Organized by the International Development Exchange (IDEX). Register now!
IHRFG's Funders Learning Visit to Cairo, Egypt: May 8-10, 2012. IHRFG and Ariadne, the European Human Rights Funders Network, are jointly organizing this three-day learning visit for funders interested in emerging democracies and constitutional reform in the wake of and amidst political transformation in the Middle East and North Africa. Participants will expore: How can funders respond strategically to fast-changing political, economic and social transitions? How can philanthropy act most effectively in supporting popular movements and transitional justice in the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond? What are the opportunities for collaborating with local/Middle Eastern grantmakers? Registration will open in December 2011.
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| News from IHRFG Working Groups |
Human Rights Defenders Working Group - Funder Briefing: 2011 Annual Report of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: October 27, 2011 from 12:00-1:30pm in New York, NY, USA or via teleconference. This briefing will provide an overview of report findings and how it can serve as a reference for funders responding to threats faced by human rights defenders. Funders will also have an opportunity to hear the experiences of a human rights defender working on the front lines. Please Contact Catherine Townsend to RSVP and for dial-in information by Friday, October 21.
Asia and Pacific Funders Group - Funder Telebriefing: Funding in Repressive Environments:The working group held a call on October 20, 2011 which focused on the challenges of and strategies for funding in Burma and Pakistan. This call was open only to members of the Asia and Pacific Funders Group. To join this group or for more information, please contact Christen Dobson.
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| Announcements | Call for Nominations for The Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking - The Council on Foundations seeks nominations of grantmakers who, with a combination of vision, principle and personal commitment, are making a critical difference in a creative way. The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2011.
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Events
| Reducing Health Disparities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans - Funders for LGBTQ Issues
October 20, 2011 2:00-3:00pm ET via Telebriefing Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference - Ford Foundation, Media Democracy Fund, and Humanity United October 25-26, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, USA
Learning Call: Funding Local Food Initiatives in the Face of Land Grabbing - Grantmakers without Borders, Funders Network on Transforming the Global Economy, IDEX, The Christensen Fund and the New Field Foundation.
October 25, 2011 11:00am Pacific/2:00pm Eastern via
Telebriefing. RSVP to lola@fntg.org to receive call details and dialing instructions. Aging Power: Building on the Strengths of Individuals, Organizations, Communities - Grantmakers in Aging
October 26-28, 2011 in Washington, D.C., USA Joining Forces: Funder Collaboratives for International Projects - GrantCraft
October 27, 2011 via Webinar Convening on Using Human Rights Strategies to Achieve Racial Justice - The Overbrook Foundation, Just and Fair Schools Fund, and the U.S. Human Rights Fund
November 7-9, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA International Human Rights Colloquium: Connectas 10th Anniversary - Supported by the Embassy of Ireland in Brazil, Ford Foundation, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust and The Channel Foundation
November 5-13, 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil Global Grantmaking Institute - Council on Foundations December 1-2, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia, USA Annual Policy Briefing - Ariadne, The European Human Rights Funders Network
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Resources and Tools
| Civic Engagement Funding 2012 - This resource from the Funders' Committee for Civic Participation provides key recommendations for funders who want to support nonpartisan civic engagement efforts in the lead-up to the 2012 elections.
Inspiring Local Philanthropy - This guide from the British private bank, Coutts, in association with New Philanthropy Capital and Community Foundation Network, provides examples of how philanthropists can support local communities through grantmaking, social investment, co-funding or setting up a charity or social enterprise.
Gender-Responsive Strategies on Climate Change, Recent Progress and Ways Forward for Donors - This report from the Institute of Development Studies and Bridge focuses on the role of donors in improving the integration of gender in confronting climate change.
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