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Through our grant-making, we contribute to a safer, fairer, and more sustainable world. 

Find out more about our partners and their work here.

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    Environment Programme / Partner story

    From dirt to dividend: a story of agroecological transformation in the Dande Valley

    Our partner the Agricultural Partnerships Trust works to help rural communities in Zimbabwe, in particular of smallholder agriculture. 

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    Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme / Partner story

    Keeping children safe online

    Our partner Safe Online is working to ensure that the digital world offers spaces where all children can safely explore, learn, and thrive. 

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    Housing and Homelessness Programme / Partner story

    Housing Rights Initiative: making homes affordable for New Yorkers 

    Housing Rights Initiative is a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to ensure that people pay a fair rent. 

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    Article

    Philanthropy in action: Oak Foundation President on the Do One Better Podcast 

    In this episode, Doug Griffiths shares insights on how philanthropy can advance issues that help people and communities thrive. 

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    Issues Affecting Women Programme / Partner story

    Stronger together: how Trag united a women’s rights movement in the Balkans

    Trag was founded 20 years ago to support small community organisations and individual citizens in the Balkans. 

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    Issues Affecting Women Programme / Partner story

    The new media moguls: community journalists

    Media Matters for Women uses the power of its award-winning radio show to reach people across rural Sierra Leone. 


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 2024 annual report is here!

You can download the PDF version of the report by clicking on the button below.


Our grant-making in 2024

411

Number of
programme
grants

40

Number of
countries

466

Total
grant-making
in USD millions



Our latest stories

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    Environment Programme / Partner story

    From dirt to dividend: a story of agroecological transformation in the Dande Valley

    Our partner the Agricultural Partnerships Trust works to help rural communities in Zimbabwe, in particular of smallholder agriculture….

  •  
     
    Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme / Partner story

    Keeping children safe online

    Our partner Safe Online is working to ensure that the digital world offers spaces where all children can safely explore, learn, and thrive….

  •  
     
    Housing and Homelessness Programme / Partner story

    Housing Rights Initiative: making homes affordable for New Yorkers 

    Housing Rights Initiative is a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to ensure that people pay a fair rent….

  •  
     
    Article

    Philanthropy in action: Oak Foundation President on the Do One Better Podcast 

    In this episode, Doug Griffiths shares insights on how philanthropy can advance issues that help people and communities thrive….

  •  
     
    Issues Affecting Women Programme / Partner story

    Stronger together: how Trag united a women’s rights movement in the Balkans

    Trag was founded 20 years ago to support small community organisations and individual citizens in the Balkans….

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    Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme / Partner story

    Scoring goals for healthy futures: the power of soccer for change

    Grassroot Soccer leverages the universal appeal of soccer to reach adolescents, helping them build healthy relationships and make choices that will set them on a path to thrive….

Would you like to read more stories like this? Please visit our “Stories” page.


Watch our latest videos

Oak Foundation’s grantees work to find solutions for economic abuse in the US and the UK, by building an ecosystem of support to ensure that survivors have the resources to get safe, heal, and prevent future harm; and by seeking to raise awareness of, and transform responses to economic abuse.

The Zimbabwe Women’s Bureau is a not-for-profit organisation based in Harare, Zimbabwe, that provides training to rural women farmers in conservation agricultural practices, business entrepreneurship, and livelihood support. It also provides women with financial and material support.

’A Vision to Zero’ brings together a new global community dedicated to ending child sexual violence, and it offers a roadmap for protecting children everywhere. This collective power brings a shared vision and hope.

Would you like to see more videos? Please visit our YouTube channel.