Ford Foundation Funds Ushahidi Project

Juliana Rotich | Ushahidi | December 1, 2011

We’re excited to announce major funding for Ushahidi coming from the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is making a $500,000 grant to Ushahidi over 2 years. The funding enables us to increase our community engagement capacity, scale the Crowdmap platform and provides operational support in 2011 and 2012...

...What are these funds for? Ushahidi’s tools are used around the world in various activities, from Crowdmapping, Crisis Mapping, Citizen based reporting of elections like what is happening now in Egypt and DRC, and so many other uses that are too numerous to mention. Ford foundations support will help Ushahidi continue providing the tools and support to organizations using its technology worldwide...