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The Global Encryption Day Events funding supports community-led activities that celebrate and defend strong end-to-end encryption, helping communities understand its importance for privacy, security, and trust while amplifying the global call to protect and strengthen encryption.

The Common Good Cyber Fund (CGCF), launched in 2025 in close collaboration with the Common Good Cyber Ecosystem Committee and a Strategic Advisory Committee, aims to sustain nonprofit organizations whose work strengthens the public-interest cybersecurity ecosystem. 

The Community-Centered Connectivity Grant Program, a core part of the Internet Society’s work to help communities bridge the digital divide, aims to support organizations in developing and expanding Internet access and increasing adoption in digitally excluded communities.

The Resiliency Program provides support for communities to be prepared for and reconnect to the Internet quickly after climate-related disasters strike.

The Sustainable Technical Communities funding program supports the organization of technical events, in order to enable strong and sustainable technical communities.

Through the Strengthening Communities/Improving Lives and Livelihoods (SCILLS) Grant Program Area, the Internet Society Foundation (Foundation) expands economic growth, improves health outcomes and increases educational opportunities by supporting individuals and communities to more knowledgeably and skillfully use the Internet.

The Building Opportunities/Leveraging Technologies (BOLT) Grant Program supports technical and social innovations that promote Internet connectivity.

The Internet Society Foundation’s Research Programme supports global research collaborations that advance understanding of the Internet and its value for all.

Our Emergency Response Program provides funding to organizations working on projects that utilize the Internet to improve lives during or in response to an emergency situation.