What We Fund

We support people, organizations, and communities at the intersection of technology and society.

We support smart people and bold ideas at the intersection of technology and society.

The internet, and especially artificial intelligence (AI), are at an inflection point. The technology is unlocking major benefits, from scientific discovery to new modes of creativity. But its harms have never been more pressing: AI can be used to deceive and harass, perpetuate bias, and deepen surveillance.

We urgently need structural changes that unlock the technology’s benefits and confront its harms. But Mozilla cannot do that alone — no one can.

Through our Fellowships and Awards, Mozilla supports smart people and bold ideas making AI more trustworthy and our digital world healthier.

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Current Funding Opportunities

We are not currently accepting any applications for funding.

Our Approach

We provide funding, mentorship, and community to leaders and organizations, fueling a movement that can shift the internet and AI in a better direction. Our funding mechanisms are nimble — from small grants to full-time fellowships to donor collaboratives — to suit the movement’s needs. And our funding learnings are open-source, so like-minded thinkers can build on them.

We take an ecosystem approach to building the movement at the intersection of technology and society that is grounded in these values -

Movement Complexities and Geographic Issues

We recognize that the global majority are disproportionately impacted by disparities in technological developments and power. We seek to align with existing movements using a geography-focused commitment to contextualize our grantmaking in a relevant, intersectional and impactful way.

Open Source Movement

Grounded in our open source values, we seek to more equitably redistribute power by supporting open technologies and investing in people who are mitigating ‘closed’ technologies’ harms. As a movement and methodology, the practices of openness, transparency and community stewardship guide our work and that of our awardees and fellows.

Human Rights

Human rights provides a powerful approach to all of our grant making: it provides a framework to guide our interactions, underscores the assertion that technology plays a vital role in exercising rights for everyone, and intersects with other justice movements.

Reframed Community Justice

Our work is framed through a commitment to community justice, which includes where and how inequality manifests globally and how different issues intersect in specific communities. This encompasses, but is not limited to, racial justice, decolonization, indigenous justice, economic justice, anti-caste movements and gender justice and recognizes the complex history of migrations, colonialism, economic colonization and systems of power.

Intersectionality

Intersectionality as a lens and method that is dynamic, evolving, internal and external facing, that recognizes different identities and realities, acknowledges the way those are interconnected, and the ways in which power impacts those interactions, or power relates to those interconnections.

Long Term Alignment

Our long term commitment to a healthy, open internet informs our philanthropic investments: we support both nascent and emerging issues while centering sustainability, opportunity, and movement building. We recognize change can be iterative and dynamic for all the movements with whom we partner. We want to show up as a responsible funder. We hold true to a clear, shared North Star: that the internet must remain a global, public good -- open and accessible to all.

Our Community

Mozilla Fellows and Awardees have briefed legislatures, shaped public policy, pushed the largest tech companies to improve their products, and more. Mozilla Fellows and Awardees are policymakers in Kenya, journalists in Brazil, engineers in Germany, activists in the United States, researchers in Namibia, and data scientists in the Netherlands. They are reimagining new norms, policies, infrastructure, and technologies — every single day.

Abeba Birhane
Mozilla Senior Fellow, Trustworthy AI (2022-2023)

Birhane is a cognitive scientist researching human behavior, social systems, and responsible and ethical AI. Her research examines the challenges and pitfalls of computational models from a conceptual, empirical, and critical perspective.

Amaury Lesplingart
2023 Mozilla Technology Fund awardee

Amaury is a co-founder of CheckFirst, a pioneering enterprise in combating misinformation. He is a technologist, developing open-source research and investigative instruments to address the challenges posed by the dissemination of false information.

Kathleen Siminyu
2021 Mozilla Kiswahili Machine Learning Fellow

Kathleen is an AI Researcher who has focused on Natural Language Processing for African Languages. As a Fellow, she supported the development of a Kiswahili Common Voice dataset and speech recognition models in the agricultural and financial domains.


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Opportunities

Mozilla Fellowships provide resources, community, and amplification to internet health leaders building a more ​humane​ ​digital​ ​world.

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How We Fund

Rooted in our experience as an AI grantmaker, Mozilla's AI Funding Principles explores how foundations can support more trustworthy artificial intelligence and guide our approach to grantmaking.

Learn more about how we fund →

Auditing project
Open Source Auditing (OAT) Project

A new project focused specifically on audit outcomes and the tooling, methodologies and resources required to support those engaging in this kind of work.

Learn more about the project

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Have questions about funding opportunities at Mozilla?

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We support smart people and bold ideas at the intersection of technology and society.

The internet, and especially artificial intelligence (AI), are at an inflection point. The technology is unlocking major benefits, from scientific discovery to new modes of creativity. But its harms have never been more pressing: AI can be used to deceive and harass, perpetuate bias, and deepen surveillance.

We urgently need structural changes that unlock the technology’s benefits and confront its harms. But Mozilla cannot do that alone — no one can.

Through our Fellowships and Awards, Mozilla supports smart people and bold ideas making AI more trustworthy and our digital world healthier.

Text saying more than $33mill award funds since 2015, 200 Fellows, 78 countries
Map of all the places in the world where people Mozilla has funded have come from
globe in heart icon

Current Funding Opportunities

We are not currently accepting any applications for funding.

Our Approach

We provide funding, mentorship, and community to leaders and organizations, fueling a movement that can shift the internet and AI in a better direction. Our funding mechanisms are nimble — from small grants to full-time fellowships to donor collaboratives — to suit the movement’s needs. And our funding learnings are open-source, so like-minded thinkers can build on them.

We take an ecosystem approach to building the movement at the intersection of technology and society that is grounded in these values -

Movement Complexities and Geographic Issues

We recognize that the global majority are disproportionately impacted by disparities in technological developments and power. We seek to align with existing movements using a geography-focused commitment to contextualize our grantmaking in a relevant, intersectional and impactful way.

Open Source Movement

Grounded in our open source values, we seek to more equitably redistribute power by supporting open technologies and investing in people who are mitigating ‘closed’ technologies’ harms. As a movement and methodology, the practices of openness, transparency and community stewardship guide our work and that of our awardees and fellows.

Human Rights

Human rights provides a powerful approach to all of our grant making: it provides a framework to guide our interactions, underscores the assertion that technology plays a vital role in exercising rights for everyone, and intersects with other justice movements.

Reframed Community Justice

Our work is framed through a commitment to community justice, which includes where and how inequality manifests globally and how different issues intersect in specific communities. This encompasses, but is not limited to, racial justice, decolonization, indigenous justice, economic justice, anti-caste movements and gender justice and recognizes the complex history of migrations, colonialism, economic colonization and systems of power.

Intersectionality

Intersectionality as a lens and method that is dynamic, evolving, internal and external facing, that recognizes different identities and realities, acknowledges the way those are interconnected, and the ways in which power impacts those interactions, or power relates to those interconnections.

Long Term Alignment

Our long term commitment to a healthy, open internet informs our philanthropic investments: we support both nascent and emerging issues while centering sustainability, opportunity, and movement building. We recognize change can be iterative and dynamic for all the movements with whom we partner. We want to show up as a responsible funder. We hold true to a clear, shared North Star: that the internet must remain a global, public good -- open and accessible to all.

Our Community

Mozilla Fellows and Awardees have briefed legislatures, shaped public policy, pushed the largest tech companies to improve their products, and more. Mozilla Fellows and Awardees are policymakers in Kenya, journalists in Brazil, engineers in Germany, activists in the United States, researchers in Namibia, and data scientists in the Netherlands. They are reimagining new norms, policies, infrastructure, and technologies — every single day.

Abeba Birhane
Mozilla Senior Fellow, Trustworthy AI (2022-2023)

Birhane is a cognitive scientist researching human behavior, social systems, and responsible and ethical AI. Her research examines the challenges and pitfalls of computational models from a conceptual, empirical, and critical perspective.

Amaury Lesplingart
2023 Mozilla Technology Fund awardee

Amaury is a co-founder of CheckFirst, a pioneering enterprise in combating misinformation. He is a technologist, developing open-source research and investigative instruments to address the challenges posed by the dissemination of false information.

Kathleen Siminyu
2021 Mozilla Kiswahili Machine Learning Fellow

Kathleen is an AI Researcher who has focused on Natural Language Processing for African Languages. As a Fellow, she supported the development of a Kiswahili Common Voice dataset and speech recognition models in the agricultural and financial domains.


Learn More

Opportunities

Mozilla Fellowships provide resources, community, and amplification to internet health leaders building a more ​humane​ ​digital​ ​world.

Find more opportunities

How we fund icon
How We Fund

Rooted in our experience as an AI grantmaker, Mozilla's AI Funding Principles explores how foundations can support more trustworthy artificial intelligence and guide our approach to grantmaking.

Learn more about how we fund →

Auditing project
Open Source Auditing (OAT) Project

A new project focused specifically on audit outcomes and the tooling, methodologies and resources required to support those engaging in this kind of work.

Learn more about the project

question mark icon

Have questions about funding opportunities at Mozilla?

Please check out our FAQs or contact us.