Our society is strongest when we stand against bias and inequity
That’s why Google.org is supporting organizations that use data science and innovative new approaches to advance inclusion and justice for all.
A closer look
The challenge
While considerable progress has been made in protecting human and civil rights worldwide, too many people continue to be excluded or discriminated against based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or citizenship status. Around the world, refugees are facing large barriers to inclusion. People with disabilities continue to be socially marginalized and disproportionately impacted by poverty. And systemic racial bias still pervades the systems designed to protect us; in the US, current incarceration trends indicate that 1 in 3 black men in America can expect to be imprisoned in their lifetime.
Our focus
In our efforts to advance equity and inclusion, our grant funding is currently focused on supporting organizations that are addressing racial bias and inequity in the United States, particularly in the criminal justice system.
Our work
Advancing racial justice
Over the next year, we will invest in organizations that are using data science and innovative new approaches to identify and analyze bias in the criminal justice system, and support movement leaders who are changing the national narrative on race.
Using data to change the narrative on race in America
View Equal Justice Initiative
Using statistics to track and improve public safety and racial equity
View Center for Policing Equity
Digitizing and analyzing the performance of the U.S. criminal justice system
View Measures for JusticeMore inclusion grantees
Center for Policing Equity
Empower law enforcement agencies with useful data and tools to continuously improve and strengthen relationships with the communities they serve, including further development of the National Justice Database that tracks national statistics on police behavior such as stops and use of force
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $5,000,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Center for Youth Wellness
Expansion of the work on adverse childhood experiences ("ACEs") with Harlem Children’s Zone
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $1,000,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Code for America
Reduce incarceration among a local parolee population, help residents who have completed their sentences clear charges on their records, and help the chronically unemployed access necessary job training through the publicly funded workforce development system
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $500,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Geena Davis
Use technology-driven approaches to research gender portrayals and representation in media.
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $250,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Impact Justice
Work with 10 jurisdictions to build restorative justice diversion programs that will keep 1,900 youth, primarily youth of color, out of the juvenile justice system
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $1,000,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
ITS - Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade
Online platform to debate and create public policy proposals and collect certified digital signatures
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $466,143
- Focus
- Inclusion
JustLeadership USA
Transform the field of criminal justice reform by training a growing national network of formerly incarcerated leaders from across the country to lead reform efforts at the local, state, and national level. Provide fellows with devices to encourage connection and post-curriculum learning.
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $650,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Measures for Justice
With a few clicks of a mouse, anyone in California will be able to get a snapshot of how well or poorly their local justice system is working, where, and in what specific ways
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $1,500,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Become a founding donor to the museum and support the creation of a 3D artifact wall to showcase artifacts not currently on display in the museum
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $1,300,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Silicon Valley De-bug
Support the growth of participatory defense as a national practice by equipping 24 participatory defense hubs with devices to enable them to advance their work
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $500,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Southern Poverty Law
Funding a total redesign of the Teaching Tolerance website to ensure teachers can more easily access and integrate the content into their lessons. The funds will also support scaling of successful pilot curriculum aimed at teaching anti-bias, as well as high-quality teaching about slavery in the United States
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $250,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
The Dream Corps #Cut50
Use VR for the first time ever to create empathy on a massive scale for the millions of Americans behind bars
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $250,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Transparência Brasil
Citizen-driven tracking + monitoring of publicly funded projects (initial focus on schools)
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $466,143
- Focus
- Inclusion
W. Haywood Burns Institute
Improve the quality, accessibility and utility of justice system data in each of California’s 58 counties so that criminal justice reform organizations may make data-informed decisions that can advance a more effective and equitable justice system
- Funding began in
- 2016
- Total funding
- $500,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Association My Human Kit (MHK)
3D printed prosthetics R&D and a physical fablab dedicated to disabilities
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $543,650
- Region of Impact
- France
- Focus
- Inclusion
Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional Children of Rio Negrinho
Develop SpecialSMS, a program that incorporates curriculum on topics such as cognitive stimulation, confidence building, and inclusion training into a short message service platform that aims to reduce social stigma and marginalization and encourage independence of the Users
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $150,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Bayview Hunters Point Community Legal
Universal access to comprehensive legal representation for Bayview/Hunters Point communities
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $217,440
- Region of Impact
- Bay Area
- Focus
- Inclusion
Beit Issie Shapiro: TOM
Develop "Makeathon-in-a-Box" and an Open Making Marketplace, in collaboration with Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM)
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $700,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Beit Issie Shaprio
Support distribution of Sesame Solution, a kit that enables a mobile phone to be fully operated with just user hand motions and voice control using a dongle which controls the phone
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,000,000
- Region of Impact
- Israel
- Focus
- Inclusion
DAISY Consortium
Make content accessible to the visually-impaired by designing an Accessibility Baseline standard, updating content, and updating consumer-facing tools
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $900,000
- Region of Impact
- Global
- Focus
- Inclusion
Dan Marino Foundation
Add functionality to VITA, its avatar-based job training aid, to better allow autism service providers to coach Users on job interview and preparedness skills
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $820,464
- Region of Impact
- US
- Focus
- Inclusion
Ella Baker Center
Funding a restorative justice hub for Oakland young adults with Community Works West, a tech-forward, grassroots solution to end police violence against people of color, launch the Restore Oakland Center as a multi-use space for restorative justice and restorative economics
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,100,000
- Region of Impact
- Bay Area
- Focus
- Inclusion
Equal Justice Initiative (Bryan Stevenson)
Counter the presumption of guilt and dangerousness in communities of color through education programs that help Americans reframe their relationship to the history of racial oppression, including placing markers at thousands of lynching sites, building the nation’s first lynching memorial, and engaging the public and policymakers around this legacy
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,000,000
- Region of Impact
- US
- Focus
- Inclusion
Ezer Mzion Inc.
Contract Click2Speak LLC to develop improvements to its on-screen keyboard with appropriate patients, gather user feedback and feature requests, and improve the core technology, which has the potential for improving the speed and accuracy with which ‘locked-in’ individuals can communicate efficiently, which is critical for maintaining personal relationships and professional productivity
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $400,000
- Region of Impact
- Global
- Focus
- Inclusion
Fab Foundation: Enable Community Foundation
To support the Enable Community Foundation to build on existing work delivering low-cost 3D printed hands to children and others via the community with which it works (e-NABLE Community); imrpove designs, delivery efficency, and partnerships
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $600,000
- Region of Impact
- Global
- Focus
- Inclusion
Inclusion Without Borders Corp
Develop the first-ever smart augmentative and alternative communication software capable of adapting to multiple signals in the user’s environment
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $550,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Miraclefeet
Design an integrated software platform for individuals with Clubfoot that enhances Patient care and accelerates rate of treatment in new geographies
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,000,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Mission ARM Japan
Low-cost 3D printed prosthetic limbs for people with disabilities
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $205,000
- Region of Impact
- Japan
- Focus
- Inclusion
Neil Squire Society
Develop a mobile-friendly, mouth-controlled input controller that can be locally produced and to test a new, cost-effective model to get assistive technology out to those who need it, resulting in more than 1,500 LipSync devices produced and 50 institutions engaged in local manufacturing of LipSync
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $800,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Nia Technologies
Expand 3D PrintAbility beyond its initial pilot at the CoRSU Rehabilitation Hospital in Uganda, by serving more people and training more prostheticians in use of their SocketMixer software and hardware solution
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $400,000
- Region of Impact
- Africa
- Focus
- Inclusion
Patients Association for Distal Myopathies (PADM)
Crowdsourced accessibility map for Japan
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $410,000
- Region of Impact
- Japan
- Focus
- Inclusion
Perkins School for the Blind
To develop "crowdsourcer" and "navigator" components for its micronavigation platform, incluidng user research and testing
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $750,000
- Region of Impact
- MA
- Focus
- Inclusion
ProPortion Foundation
Improve delivery of lower limb prosthetic sockets in Colombia through ongoing development and distribution of a new product (“Majicast”) that enables both more efficient socket creation and a better fit
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,000,000
- Region of Impact
- Colombia
- Focus
- Inclusion
Rainbow Colored Diversity
Digital outreach campaign to build tolerance for sexual minorities
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $205,000
- Region of Impact
- Japan
- Focus
- Inclusion
Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust
Improve delivery of lower limb prosthetic sockets in remote and underserved parts of India through development and distribution of a new product (“Product”) that enables both more efficient socket creation and a better fit
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $350,000
- Region of Impact
- India
- Focus
- Inclusion
Royal London Society for Blind People
To expand becaon-based Wayfindr app by developing three key components
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,000,000
- Region of Impact
- UK
- Focus
- Inclusion
Silicon Valley De-Bug
Significantly scale Participatory Defense -- a new organizing methodology that empowers people facing charges, their families, and their communities to impact the outcome of cases and change the landscape of power in the criminal justice system
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $600,000
- Region of Impact
- Bay Area
- Focus
- Inclusion
Sozialhelden e.V.
Lead the establishment of a shared data ecosystem for information about physical accessibility of points of interest around the world
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $911,378
- Focus
- Inclusion
Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TDI)
Bring software product that uses speech-to-text technology to automatically generate a live captions feed that can be corrected by designated event participants to Android and iOS
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $500,000
- Region of Impact
- Global
- Focus
- Inclusion
The Arc of the United States
Adapt Tech Toolbox into a search and data analytics platform to enable users to edntify technology aids and clinical interventions to help them reach their goals
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,400,000
- Region of Impact
- US
- Focus
- Inclusion
The Center for Discovery
Advance the development of its existing power wheelchair add on (“Easy Drive”) from a rough prototype to a beta product ready for a 1,000-unit production run (the “Product”), and establish a marketing and partnership strategy that will help bring the Product to scale
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $1,125,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
The Essie Justice Group
Advocacy and support network for women with incarcerated loved ones to transform public attitudes and policies around criminal justice
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $250,000
- Region of Impact
- Bay Area
- Focus
- Inclusion
The Leprosy Mission Trust
Create high-fidelity, customized, cost-competitive footwear for people with leprosy using 3D scanning and printing technology
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $350,000
- Region of Impact
- India
- Focus
- Inclusion
The Motivation Charitable Trust
Develop and test a model for using 3D printing to create customized postural support devices (“PSDs”) that enable wheelchair users to fit comfortably and appropriately into their chairs
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $765,207
- Region of Impact
- Global
- Focus
- Inclusion
The Reset Foundation
A 24/7 supportive campus as an alternative to prison for sentenced young men of color
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $250,000
- Region of Impact
- Bay Area
- Focus
- Inclusion
UCP Wheels for Humanity
Lead an effort to use data to improve the variety, volume, and quality of wheelchairs available to people with disabilities in low resource countries
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $999,995
- Region of Impact
- APAC
- Focus
- Inclusion
University of Washington Foundation
Lead a partnership between its Center for Technology and Disability Studies, the Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD), and the African Network for Evidence-to-Action on Disability (AfriNEAD) to improve people with disabilities’ access to information about the location and availability of assistive technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $717,728
- Region of Impact
- South Africa
- Focus
- Inclusion
World Wide Hearing
Designing an ipad based audiometer to more scalably conduct hearing screenings in the developing world
- Funding began in
- 2015
- Total funding
- $550,000
- Region of Impact
- Global
- Focus
- Inclusion
Center for Youth Wellness
Mitigate the negative effects of adverse childhood experiences (“ACEs”) on brain development during childhood and shift awareness and practices in pediatric care through the development of a nationally scalable clinical approach
- Funding began in
- 2014
- Total funding
- $3,000,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Defy Ventures
Provide devices to 350 Defy program participants to efficiently manage their job search, find affordable housing, research their business ideas, and participate in online training
- Funding began in
- 2014
- Total funding
- $1,250,000
- Region of Impact
- Bay Area
- Focus
- Inclusion
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights with Community Works West
Restorative justice hub for Oakland young adults with Community Works West
- Funding began in
- 2014
- Total funding
- $100,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Smart glasses to improve life for people with sight loss
- Funding began in
- 2014
- Total funding
- $850,300
- Focus
- Inclusion
Toolworks, Inc
Employment opportunities for people with disabilities
- Funding began in
- 2014
- Total funding
- $100,000
- Focus
- Inclusion
Amnesty International
mobile alert system for activists at risk of unlawful detainment, disappearance and torture
- Funding began in
- 2013
- Total funding
- $151,160
- Focus
- Inclusion
Geena Davis Institute
Development of new voice/image recognition software to analyze gender portrayals in film
- Funding began in
- 2013
- Total funding
- $1,200,000
- Region of Impact
- US
- Focus
- Inclusion