Changemakers
We create connections to reimagine politics
Whether you’re an activist, innovator, entrepreneur, or funder, it takes support to take bold action and challenge power. Multitudes Foundation exists to provide the financial, relational and emotional resources necessary to commit to the long term project of reimagining politics across Europe. We work to ensure that political changemakers are equipped with confidence, capability and community.
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Grantees
The School of Public Life
Mission
The School of Public Life is a grassroots civic education center founded in Hungary in 2014. They help citizens, especially members of marginalized communities and those working on their behalf, to organize themselves and stand up for their rights and interests effectively.
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Démocratiser la politique
Mission
Démocratiser la Politique documents the underrepresentation of the working-class in politics and support their mobilisation towards their representation in electoral and political spaces.
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Wir für Demokratie
Mission
Wir für Demokratie eV is committed to ensuring that everyone can participate in democracy at a low level in Germany. Together with Brand New Bundestag, an independent and non-partisan grassroots organization that supports people who bring a breath of fresh air to Parliament, the association operates its own platform to promote democracy.
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Fantapolitica
Mission
Fantapolitica support and educate a national network of young local councillors and potential candidates so that they are the bearers of innovative methods and radical change in their communities
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Maryan Abdulkarim
Mission
Maryan wants to address the lack of representation and political power among political minority groups in Finland. She will start by identifying the existing obstacles and then create a first set of tools to remove them.
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Omotade Omotosho
Mission
Omotade is laying the foundations of a platform and infrastructure to support people of African descent in Poland to be politically aware and participate in political processes.
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Fatima Soualhi
Mission
Fatima is addressing deep-seated societal and political issues that have marginalised women of colour in Italian politics for far too long. Her project aims to challenge the status quo by equipping young women with the tools they need to overcome existing barriers.
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Jana Degrott & Victoria Hasson
Mission
Jana and Victoria are testing a constellation of political wellbeing support with young women politicians. This includes hosting one-on-one political wellbeing sessions and designing the outline of a political wellbeing course targeting the pain points of being a young female politician
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Mohammed Afridi
Mission
Mohammed is going to identify new ways to foster collaboration across the UK democracy space and to develop mechanisms for existing democracy institutions to engage with communities that they have historically failed to engage or represent meaningfully.
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Beatrice Bucht
Mission
Beatrice is starting “Icebreakers”, a political leadership incubator for young people aged 18-25 from the European Arctic in Sweden.
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Kiza Magendane
Mission
Kiza is creating a training program aimed at assisting youth political organizations in the Netherlands in recruiting and retaining more members of African descent.
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Rudi Osman & Dounya Hallaq
Mission
Rudi and Dounya are using their ideation grant to set into motion “The Parliament of Exiles”, a project designed to give a voice to exiles so that they can represent themselves and enter into dialogue with the state and all the players in society, and to create new generations of leaders among this community.
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SEEK Feminist Network
Mission
This migrant women-led organisation is working on the project “Rise and Shine”, which aims to support feminist leadership among migrant and refugee communities in the cities of Amsterdam and The Hague.
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Greek Forum of Refugees
Mission
This organisation started as a grassroots movement in 2001. Their plan is to explore mechanisms to increase awareness among migrant and refugee communities regarding their political rights, focusing on empowering and facilitating connections for individuals who are already enthusiastic about participating in political campaigns.
Funders collective
Multitudes provides a bridge between funders who wish to get involved in fostering democratic renewal in Europe, and this new, burgeoning ecosystem of changemakers.
We bring together a community of like-minded funders operating at a local, national or regional level, who are ready to start experimenting with innovative and collaborative funding mechanisms. The overall objective is to increase the scale of support available for this work. Whether you are looking for co-funding opportunities, organisations to support, or you want to join us as an initial partner, we would love for you to join our funders collective.
