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Electronic Frontier Foundation

San Francisco, California

Grants

2021 (3 years)
$450,000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) defends civil liberties in the digital world by championing privacy, free expression, and innovation. It works to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as technology use grows. The organization accomplishes its work using a three-pronged approach: impact litigation, advocacy, and the delivery of technology and technology investigations. The award provides general operating support to EFF.

2020 ( 3 months)
$26,000

The award supports a workshop that will serve two purposes. First, to examine the use of artificial intelligence related decision-making systems by government agencies administering public benefits, ranging from housing to disability coverage to income support. Second, the workshop will support the development of potential strategies in California to use litigation to advance transparency and public input into the purchase and deployment of artificial intelligence related systems by public agencies.

2016 (3 years)
$900,000

The award supports the general operations of the Electronic Frontier Foundation as it works to defend civil liberties in the digital environment. The organization’s staff attorneys, policy analysts, technologists, and advocates engage in impact litigation, the filing of amicus curiae briefs, campaigns, and software development in order to help advance essential freedoms.

2013 (3 years)
$600,000

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a pioneering membership-based organization that is dedicated to advancing freedom of expression and privacy in the digital world. It combines legal, policy, advocacy, and computer science expertise to help advance an open Internet and protect human rights defenders and journalists under digital threat. The grant will support EFF’s general operations.

2010 (3 years)
$750,000

In support of general operations (over three years).

2007 (3 years)
$600,000

In support of a domestic intellectual property program (over three years).

2003 (3 years)
$600,000

For work to represent the public interest in international industry standards-setting meetings on digital rights management and intellectual property (over three years).