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Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
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$20K-$120K
Bertha Foundation provides funding and program support for activists, storytellers, lawyers, and organizations working on social and economic justice issues. Support includes fellowships, global arts activism funding, and residency programs, with a typical ticket size of $20K-$120K where available in existing data. Opportunities include the year-long Bertha Challenge Fellowships and the Bertha Film Accelerator, an eight-day residency for justice-driven documentary filmmakers from the African continent.
Funding
Bertha Foundation runs programs and provides funding to support individuals and organizations working on pressing social justice issues.
Bertha Challenge Fellowships
Fellowships for activists, investigative journalists, filmmakers and lawyers to spend a year working on one pressing social justice challenge.
Bertha Artivism Awards
Global funding for arts activism that mobilizes communities for social change.
Bertha Accelerator
A residency program for people in social justice to take time and space to advance their work alongside a global community of co-conspirators.
Bertha Film Accelerator
A transformative eight-day residency designed to support bold, justice-driven documentary filmmakers from across Africa.
Social and economic justice
Support for work that brings about social and economic justice for all.
Social justice issues
Programs support people and organizations addressing pressing social justice issues of our time.
Arts activism
Funding for arts activism that mobilizes communities for social change.
Democratic accountability
The 2026 Bertha Challenge focuses on how collusion between governments and corporations drives assaults on the rule of law, civil rights and a free press, and how to push back to protect democratic accountability.
Social justice and media
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I couldn’t verify any alumni testimonials or applicant write-ups from independent sources with the available search results. Because of that, I can’t responsibly infer application advice from past recipients. A safe evidence-based tip is to look for external interviews with Bertha-affiliated fellows or grantees on LinkedIn, journalism sites, and university fellowship pages before applying, since those are the kinds of third-party sources most likely to reveal what selection committees value.
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