Grantee Profile

Crisis Action

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Grants to Crisis Action

  • $750,000Active Strategy

    2011 (Duration 4 years)

    LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Crisis Action is an international campaign-based organization that coordinates collective and strategic advocacy among civil society groups around the globe to influence government policy to prevent and end armed conflict and convince the world's most powerful policymakers to act to protect civilians from gross human rights abuses. The institutional grant will support the organization's strategic planning for its next phase of growth and increase its cash reserve.

  • $150,000Active Strategy

    2009 (Inactive Grant)

    LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — To support the Justice for Darfur campaign to promote cooperation by inter-governmental organizations and member states to enforce the International Criminal Court's Darfur arrest warrants.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Crisis Action $900,000 between 2009 and 2012.