Since April 2006, the US Human Rights Fund has made more than $5 million in grants to over 40 organizations. Grants range from $25,000 to $75,000 per year, with some limited multi year support.

June 2008 Docket

For its June 2008 docket, the Fund awarded $1.6 million in grants to to fifteen domestic social justice organizations for their work to promote human rights in the United States. The docket introduced a deeper investment in strategic thinking and advocacy campaigns, including the launch of two advocacy sub-funds on immigrant rights and the elimination of juvenile life without parole sentencing. Additional grants seek to reaffirm the Fund's support for regional and national human rights networks, and to deepen the expertise of core human rights educators.

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June 2007 Docket

For its June 2007 docket, the Fund awarded $650,000 in grants to ten domestic social justice organizations for their work to promote human rights in the United States. Grants focused on providing grantamaking support in the areas of human rights education and training and strategic thought and advocacy. These grants build on the Fund's initial two dockets, providing support for human rights training and education programs within specific issue areas that enable individual organizations to carry out related human rights advocacy campaigns.

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November 2006 Docket

For its November 2006 docket, the Fund awarded $735,000 to eight domestic social justice organizations. Grants focused specifically on providing grantmaking support for communications and messaging work, as well as capacity building within US human rights law and advocacy. Communications grants seek to support organizations working on promoting and providing US human rights messaging, while Human Rights Legal and Advocacy Capacity grants aim to increase the use of human rights in those related sectors.

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April 2006 Docket

In April 2006 the Fund awarded $1.7 million in grants to seventeen domestic social justice organizations. The docket focused specifically on the areas of human rights capacity building and networking. Capacity building grants seek to increase the quality and effectiveness of human rights work through the development of coordinated trainings on human rights mechanisms, standards, and organizing, and related organizational partnerships both across and within particular issue areas, while networking grants aim to encourage group collaboration and skill transfer in an effort to increase the cohesion of the US human rights movement.

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