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With the support of Bertha Foundation, and in partnership with Indigenous organizations, Bruno researched the pressure of grain monocultures on Indigenous territories. In the 1970s, the military dictatorship promoted the expansion of grain crops over Indigenous territories as a policy of integration of these peoples into national society.
Bertha works to support storytellers and artists who challenge the dynamics of power and injustice. We provide bespoke funding opportunities for individuals and organizations who use storytelling to build pathways to action against injustice. We also fund organizations that provide training and resources for people to tell their own stories ...
Tommy used his Bertha Challenge Fellowship to investigate industrial scale sand dredging in Lough Neagh, one of biggest freshwater lake systems in north-western Europe. The lake is owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury, an English aristocrat, who has overseen decades of unregulated extraction whilst raking in massive profits.
The Bertha Justice Initiative facilitates a global network of public interest law centers that unites for protection and support of its lawyers. The network responded to security threats in Mexico against ProDESC's founder and initiated the Women's Working Group to address unique gender-based challenges faced by women human rights defenders.
Bertha Justice Partners are a global network of law centers who host, train and mentor early-career lawyers. Known as the Bertha Justice Fellows, these lawyers work to hold governments and corporations to account alongside impacted communities. The Initiative is driven by the collaborative actions of the Bertha Justice Partners, Bertha Justice ...
The Bertha Retreat, based at Boschendal Wine Farm in the Dwarsrivier Valley, South Africa, was created as a space where activists, lawyers, storytellers and community groups can work together to progress social and economic justice and equal rights for all. Bertha Retreat serves as a transformative space where people from different backgrounds ...
The Bertha Film Fund provides small grant funding of up to USD $25,000 for social justice filmmaking - including cinema, video and digital media. Funding can be awarded for short form or long form films and new media at development, production and post-production stages, with nonfiction and fiction accepted.
