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| Name | U.S. Human Rights Fund |
| Web address | www.ushumanrightsfund.org |
| Address | 80 Broad Street, Suite 1600
New York, NY 10004
USA |
| Phone | (212) 764-1508 |
| Fax | (917) 438-4639 |
| Description | On July 4th 2005, a group of foundations and individual donors launched the U.S. Human Rights Fund, a collaborative fund dedicated to the realization of human rights in the United States. The U.S. Human Rights Fund provides strategic, field-building support to the U.S. human rights movement, with a primary emphasis on capacity building, networking, communications and applied legal and policy research. The Fund focuses in particular on domestic social justice groups actively engaged in U.S. human rights work and their links to the U.S. rights, legal and policy communities more generally. It also offers a range of services to donors interested in learning about and funding in this area. Initially, the Fund will be a 5 year effort with a minimum fundraising goal of $10 million. To date, more than $5 million has been raised.
The U.S. Human Rights Fund arose out of a shared sense that greater U.S. adherence to the principles of human rights and humanitarian law benefits not only the wider world but the United States as well. Current members of the U.S. Human Rights Fund are the Ford Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Otto Bremer Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, the Shaler Adams Foundation, the Starry Night Foundation, and an anonymous donor. The Steering Committee consists of representatives of each foundation. The Fund is housed at Public Interest Projects, a 501 (c)(3) public charity that operates grantmaking, technical assistance and strategic planning programs for institutional and individual donors interested in social justice and human rights issues. |
| Areas of Funding | human, social and cultural rights
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