The Medusa Project
Fostering Connective Infrastructure for Cross-Movement Organizing
FROM RESILIENCE TO RENEWAL
Rights and justice activists around the world do not just want to weather the rapidly changing context confronting them but are looking for ways to renew and reimagine what is possible. The Medusa Project is working to co-create the connective infrastructure that builds from the margins and intersections to help them do just that.
PROJECT GOALS AND PLANS
The Medusa Project is working to foster generative thinking, experimentation, and connections that allow movements to function, collaborate, and transform, acting as a bridge during this moment of systemic change. We are engaging in four priority areas:
Connecting Across Difference
Spaces where activists from all parts of the human rights ecosystem can build the trust and relationships that sustain organizing beyond individual projects, organizations, or campaigns.
Creating Conditions for Exploration
Room to test new ideas, share what's working across spaces and generations, and take risks without being locked into rigid outcomes.
Sustaining People and Knowledge
Networks and mentorship that keep people engaged and knowledge alive, especially through transition.
Pooling Resources for Renewal
Shared funding models, new forms of fiscal sponsorship, and collective back-office support that make it easier for diverse kinds of organizing to get resourced.
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PROJECT HOST
Rights CoLab, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., is a collaborative organization by design and has innovation embedded in its programming. Rights CoLab’s mission is to strengthen civil society and leverage markets to fortify human rights. The organization is a small, dynamic team with a network extending across the Americas, Europe, West and Southern Africa, and East Asia. Rights CoLab partners with civil society organizations to test innovative approaches to human rights in the face of deepening authoritarianism and inequality. In the area of civil society innovation, our incubated projects explore new opportunities including social entrepreneurship, local philanthropy, and impact investment.