Funds

OTF provides several different funding mechanisms to address specific internet freedom challenges. Check-out our Applicant Guidebook to help you with the application process.

Emergency support to journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society organizations facing digital threats and attacks

Supports the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them.

Supports user costs for open-source VPN and circumvention solutions serving users in highly restrictive censorship environments

Supports innovative internet freedom projects, including technology development, research, digital security projects, and convenings

Supports research efforts to analyze novel online censorship and surveillance techniques and to explore solutions