About Us
Channel: (noun) That through which information, news, trade, or the like passes; a medium of transmission, conveyance, or communication; means agency.
(Oxford English Dictionary)
Our Mission
Our Vision
Front Line Defenders Award Winners
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Values
Universal human rights and the fundamental dignity and equality of all human beings are core to the ideals that guide and inspire the Channel Foundation. So, too, feminism and its belief in and advocacy for social, political and economic equality.
As part of a larger funding ecosystem, we’ve seen the ways that empowering grassroots groups, supporting systemic change, and partnership funding models are extraordinarily effective pathways to achieving lasting social change.
We are also inspired by the Human Rights Grantmaking Principles and the 5 Rs of Indigenous Philanthropy.
“We have known for decades that the best way for … the world to thrive is to ensure that its women have the freedom, power, and knowledge to make decisions affecting their own lives and those of their families and communities.”