Reflection: Sense-making of Research program Evaluation Results with Grantee partners at the Internet Society Foundation 

12 November 2024
Research Program Grantees meeting in Berkeley.

By Sophie Rodriguez, MEL Specialist  At the Internet Society Foundation, our Research Program has been fostering meaningful engagement with grantees from around the world through Learning Sessions. Launched in 2022, these sessions are guided by the core principles of social accountability, trust-building, and reflective learning practice. Our goal is to create an open, collaborative space…

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Five takeaways from the SCILLS in-person grantees kick-off

12 February 2024
Group of SCILLS grantees gatherned in Brazil in 2023

We are now three years into the SCILLS program (with 20 grantee partners in the 2023-2025 cohort) in six strategic focus countries. At the end of November 2023, we went to Sao Paulo to host the first in-person kick-off grantee gathering. Bringing together eight partner organizations from Colombia and Brazil,[1] the ISOC Brazil and Colombia…

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Four Lessons Learned about Grantmaking from our Research Grant Partners

26 October 2023
Picture of hands with a piece of hardwarre

By the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team (MEL), Internet Society Foundation From a blooming Linden tree, a radio frequency circuit, a magazine premiere issue, to a low- cost small plug computer (or Raspberry Pi), these were part of a larger collection of objects grant partners from the Research Program brought to this year’s first round…

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