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Our philanthropy is political.

Our hospitality is radical.

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Our Mission

To support activists, storytellers and lawyers who are working to bring about social and economic justice for all.

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Bertha Foundation runs programs and provides funding to support individuals and organizations working to address some of the most pressing social justice issues of our time.

We exist to create space, opportunities and connections for social justice work that is often seen as too radical.

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Happenings

The Oklahoma Communities Gutted by ICE

This powerful photoessay published by Greg Constantine, a 2026 Bertha Challenge Fellow, reveals the complex and elusive ways ICE’s abductions and immigration detentions are impacting local communities, especially in rural, pro-Trump states.

"Twelve British universities paid a private firm to β€œspy” on student protesters and academics."

Aaron Walawalkar, 2026 Bertha Challenge Fellow, has published his first investigation and launched a website mapping the monitoring and repression of campus activists and exploring the influence of weapons and oil and gas companies at British universities.

PRESS RELEASE

Palestinian lives will be grieved. Gabrielle Goliath presents an independent exhibition of Elegy during La Biennale di Venezia, following the shocking cancellation of the South African Pavilion.

Bertha Foundation is proud to be supporting the Venice presentation of Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy.  

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Meet our 2026 Bertha Artivists

This year we have seven Bertha Artivists across the world working on projects ranging from theatre, photography, musical performance and guerilla screenings. Click the button below to learn more about their amazing projects!  

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Bertha Website Cheat Sheet

The Bertha Challenge

Fellowships for Activists, Investigative Journalists, Filmmakers and Lawyers to spend a year working on one pressing social justice challenge.

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The Bertha Artivism Awards

Global funding for arts activism that mobilizes communities for social change.

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The Bertha Accelerator

A residency program for people in social justice to take the time and space to advance their work alongside a global community of co-conspirators.

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The Challenge Past  Projects Archives

Find out about our Bertha Challenge Alumni over the years and their projects.

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The Bertha Retreat

A rural retreat and convening space designed, from plan to finished product, for collaboration, community and revolution.

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Bertha  House

Cape Town’s go-to gathering place for civil society, locals and creatives to learn their politics, fight unjust systems and grow their power.

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Bertha Stories

A limited collection of stories that unpack Bertha’s ways of working, what we mean by holding and creating space and what the outcomes of these methods look like.

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The Artivism Past Projects Archives

Find out more about our past Artivists and and their projects.

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