Overview of Fellowships vs Awards (Source: Mozilla)
Fellowships | Awards | |
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Shared Goal | Advance understanding of the challenges facing the internet and support the development of solutions to these pressing threats to internet health | |
TL;DR | Funding to an individual to explore a specific issue, sometimes in close coordination with a host organization | Funding to a project team or individual to do specific work |
Focus of Funding | The PersonThe fellow is primary; the project is secondary. | The Project The project is primary; the project team is secondary. |
Impact of Funding | Leadership DevelopmentThe Fellow grows as an internet health leader and remains engaged with the movement over the long term. The host organization, where applicable, builds capacity through the fellow’s expertise, and the fellow advances their knowledge of and investment in the organization’s field. | Project DevelopmentThe project produced has a tangible impact on the issues we care about. |
Active Fellowship or Award Period | 10-12 months for Cohort Fellows12 - 24+ months for Non-Cohort Fellows | 6 - 18 months |
Funding Range | $30,000 - $150,000+ | $5,000 - $150,000+ |
Average Funding Amount | $117,000 Average stipend + supplements total for fellowships ending in 2019 | $63,000 Average award amount for 2019 awards |
Overview of F&A Objectives (Source: Mozilla)
Objective | Support Promising Approachesand Leaders | Develop New Thinking |
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Offering | Awards | Mozilla Fellows |
Value-Add to the Movement | Support leaders with promising approaches | Invest in future leaders of the movement |
List of Host Organizations
Organization | Headquarters | Track | Movements/issue areas |
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Access Now | Brussels, Belgium | Open Web | Human Rights |
Algorithm Watch | Berlin, Germany | Open Web | Digital Rights |
American Civil Liberties Union | New York, NY USA | Open Web | Human Rights |
Amnesty International | London, UK | Open Web | Human Rights |
Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY USA | Open Web | Religious Freedom |
Artigo 19 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Open Web | Human Rights |
Association for Progressive Communications | Johannesburg, South Africa | Open Web | Human Rights |
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice | New York, NY USA | Open Web | LGBTQIA+ |
Bits of Freedom | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Open Web | Digital Rights |
Brooklyn Public Library | Brooklyn, NY, USA | Open Web | Education |
Center for Intellectual Property and Information | Chicago, IL, USA | Open Web | Law |
Citizen Lab | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Open Web | Human Rights |
Code for Science and Society Inc | Portland, OR, USA | Open Web | Digital Rights |
Color of Change | Oakland, CA USA | Open Web | Racial Equity |
Consumer Reports | Yonkers, NY, USA | Open Web | Consumer Protection |
Consumers International | London, UK | Open Web | Consumer Protection |
Creative Commons | Mountain View, CA | Open Web | Arts |
Data Ethics | Copenhagen, Denmark | Open Web | Consumer Protection |
Data & Society Research Institute | New York, NY | Open Web | Press Freedom |
Derechos Digitales | Santiago, Chile | Open Web | Human Rights |
Digital Freedom Fund | Berlin, Germany | Open Web | Digital Rights |
European Digital Rights | Brussels, Belgium | Open Web | Freedom of Expression |
Free Press | Florence, MA, USA | Open Web | Press Freedom |
Freedom of the Press Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Open Web | Press Freedom |
Hollaback | New York, NY, USA | Open Web | LGBTQIA+ |
Human Rights Watch | New York, NY, USA | Open Web | Human Rights |
Majal | Bahrain | Open Web | Freedom of Expression |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Co Creation Studio | Cambridge, MA, USA | Open Web | Arts |
Open Technology Institute | Washington DC, USA | Open Web | Digital Rights |
Privacy International | London, UK | Open Web | Human Rights |
Public Knowledge | Washington DC, USA | Open Web | Law |
Research ICT Africa | Cape Town, South Africa | Open Web | Law |
Tor Project | Cambridge, MA, USA | Open Web | Human Rights |
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. | San Francisco, CA, USA | Open Web | Education |
WITNESS | New York, NY, USA | Open Web | Human Rights |
Network Startup Research Center (NSRC) | Eugene, OR USA | OIE | Education |
The Internet Society (ISOC) | Reston, VA USA | OIE | Education |
University of Dundee | Dundee, Scotland, UK | OpenDOTT | Education |
Panoptykon | Warsaw, Poland | Policy | Law |
Ação Educativa | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Tech and Society | Environment |
FASE | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Tech and Society | Human Rights |
Mahila SEWA Trust | Ahmedabad, India | Tech and Society | Gender Equity |
Poverty Eradication Network | Nairobi, Kenya | Tech and Society | Human Rights |
Katiba Institute | Nairobi, Kenya | Tech and Society | Human Rights |
Culture Resource | Beirut, Lebanon | Tech and Society | Human Rights |
International Media Support / Febrayer Network | Copenhagen, Denmark | Tech and Society | Press Freedom |
Legal Agenda | Beirut, Lebanon | Tech and Society | Press Freedom |
EQUIS | Mexico City, Mexico | Tech and Society | Gender Equity |
Centro Prodh | Mexico City, Mexico | Tech and Society | Human Rights |