International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Our earliest supporter, IDRC, provided the funds needed to launch APC Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) activities around the world during the lead-up to the 1995 UN World Conference on Women (UNWCW). IDRC has continued to support initiatives of the APC WNSP, as well as the development of our 'Mission-Driven Business Planning Toolkit' . IDRC also provided start-up support to our Internet Rights work through the Global ICT Policy Monitor project , with a focus on activities in Latin America and Africa. In addition, APC's Betinho Communications Prize to recognise socially meaningful uses of the Internet was funded by IDRC for the first two years. IDRC also provided partial support for the APC Africa Hafkin Prize (to be awarded in 2001) and, in 1995, for the APC Council Meeting in Brazil.

http://www.idrc.ca

The Ford Foundation

With trends in donor funding shifting overwhelmingly towards project support and away from institutional support, APC is particularly appreciative of the programme support that the Ford Foundation provided from 1997 to 2002. The Ford Foundation also supported the APC Council Meeting in South Africa in 1997.

http://www.fordfound.org/

Open Society Institute (OSI)/Soros Foundation

OSI's initial support for APC's work was focused in Central and Eastern Europe with an emphasis on strengthening the capacity of APC members and partners in the region. OSI provided substantial support to the APC Toolkit project, which has produced the APC ActionApps . In 2000-1 OSI provided support for APC's Internet Rights work in Europe. Throughout our relationship, OSI has played a key networking role by linking APC to related initiatives, and providing us with valuable critical input.

http://www.soros.org/

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

CIDA supported APC's work since the early days through a diversity of partnership projects with Web Networks, APC member in Canada - including cost-recovery systems for e-mail management for emerging African networks; support of APC WNSP's preparatory work for the 1995 UNWCW; and facilitation of NGO participation in the 1997 Global Knowledge conference in Toronto, Canada. In 2000-1 CIDA supported the development of community radio exchange tools using APC's ActionApps and Beijing+5 Section J activities to advocate for support of women's use of ICTs.

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca

The MacArthur Foundation

Like CIDA, the MacArthur Foundation supported APC's early network development through a grant to IGC Networks in the United States, which enabled the set-up of grass-roots non-profit email providers throughout the Americas, the former Soviet Union, and Asia. MacArthur also made a substantial contribution to the development of APC's ActionApps.

http://www.macfdn.org/