Through our grant-making, we support others to make the world a safer, fairer, and more sustainable place to live.
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One year since the signing of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
California passed a milestone online privacy and safety bill—championed by our partners 5Rights Foundation, Fairplay, and ParentsTogether Action—that puts children first. Click below to learn more about the bill and our partners.
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New life chances for children facing life sentences
10 years ago, only three US states had banned juvenile life imprisonment without parole. Today, 28 states have done so thanks in part to the hard work of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. Click below to read more about its efforts to fre
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Uniting for equal rights in Moldova
Thanks to the work of the National Coalition for a Life without Violence, there are more services, better standards and stronger support for women and their children facing domestic violence across Moldova. Click below to find out more.
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The Army of Survivors: Scoring a perfect 10 for children in sports
Our partner The Army of Survivors has been doing incredible work to protect children in sports. Click the story below to find out about some of its recent achievements.
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The Lesley Institute: Teaching educators to create trauma-sensitive schools
Did you know trauma affects self-regulation, social skills, and a child’s health and sense of wellbeing? Learn about how The Lesley Institute for Trauma Sensitivity (LIFTS) has helped more than 8,000 educators across the US since 2010 become trauma
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Building a rainbow for children’s cancer recovery
With a fun spiral design and bold colours, the Rainbow Children’s Village is providing a recovery home for children fighting cancer in Zimbabwe. Families now have a home-away-from-home, where their children can recuperate between treatments. Click
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Project Arachnid: Getting child sexual abuse material off the internet
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has been at the forefront of the fight to get child sexual abuse material off the internet using state-of-the-art tools – on the open internet and the dark web. Click below to find out more.
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“The ship has reached the shore”: New treaty to protect ocean life in the High Seas
Thanks to the efforts of Oceans 5 and the High Seas Alliance, in March 2023, UN member states agreed to the High Seas Treaty, which aims to safeguard life in oceans beyond countries’ national waters. Click below to find out more.
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From tomatoes to Hollywood: Improving workers’ rights in the fields and beyond
Add a Florida-grown tomato to your salad, and the chances are it’s picked by a worker with some of the highest human rights protections in US agriculture. This is because at least 90% of tomato production in Florida is now part of the Fair Food Pro
Discover our programmes
Oak Foundation has seven global and four country programmes. Through these programmes, we support others to make the world a safer, fairer, and more sustainable place to live. Visit the programme pages to learn about our grant-making strategies.
Our 2022 annual report is here!

You can either download the PDF version of the report or you can go to our online version.
Our grant-making in 2022
413
Number of
programme
grants
35
Number of
countries
482
Total
grant-making in
USD millions
Our latest stories
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One year since the signing of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
California passed a milestone online privacy and safety bill—championed by our partners 5Rights Foundation, Fairplay, and ParentsTogether Action—that puts children first. Click below to learn more…
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New life chances for children facing life sentences
10 years ago, only three US states had banned juvenile life imprisonment without parole. Today, 28 states have done so thanks in part to the hard work of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth….
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Uniting for equal rights in Moldova
Thanks to the work of the National Coalition for a Life without Violence, there are more services, better standards and stronger support for women and their children facing domestic violence across Mo…
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The Army of Survivors: Scoring a perfect 10 for children in sports
Our partner The Army of Survivors has been doing incredible work to protect children in sports. Click the story below to find out about some of its recent achievements….
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The Lesley Institute: Teaching educators to create trauma-sensitive schools
Did you know trauma affects self-regulation, social skills, and a child’s health and sense of wellbeing? Learn about how The Lesley Institute for Trauma Sensitivity (LIFTS) has helped more than 8,00…
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Building a rainbow for children’s cancer recovery
With a fun spiral design and bold colours, the Rainbow Children’s Village is providing a recovery home for children fighting cancer in Zimbabwe. Families now have a home-away-from-home, where their…
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Founded in 2010 by Argentine conservationists, Rewilding Argentina seeks to reverse the extinction of local species, to recover the functioning of ecosystems and to promote the wellbeing of local communities. Working with veterinarians, park rangers, governments and residents, “rewilding” is one of its most important tools.
No Means No Worldwide (NMNW) is an international not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to end sexual and gender-based violence against women and children globally. The No Means No programme was set up in 2021 in Mukaraba, a small community in Kikuube District, 20 kilometres from Hoima District in Western Uganda.
La Asociacion de Propietarios Forestales Valle del Arrago (the Association of Forest Owners of Valle del Arrago), based in the Cáceres province of western Spain, aims to plant more than 130,000 trees over 216 hectares of forest land to help stop forest fires in the region.
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