Global Encryption Day Events
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.
Common Good Cyber Fund Grant Program
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.
Community-Centered Connectivity Grant Program
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.
Sustainable Peering Infrastructure Grant Program
The program aims to support building sustainable, community-led IXPs in places where they are needed; enhance existing IXPs to realize their full potential; and further develop organizations and communities that support peering and interconnection.
Beyond the Net Grant Program
The program offers funding to support Internet Society chapters to implement innovative projects that make a local impact by providing meaningful access to an open, trusted, and globally connected Internet.
Resiliency Grant Program
The Resiliency Program provides support for communities to be prepared for and reconnect to the Internet quickly after climate-related disasters strike.
Chapter Admin Funding
The Chapter Admin Funding program offers annual funding to support Internet Society chapters to manage their day-to-day activities and to maximize their effectiveness.
Sustainable Technical Communities Funding Program
The Sustainable Technical Communities funding program supports the organization of technical events, in order to enable strong and sustainable technical communities.
SCILLS Grant Program
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.
BOLT Grant Program
The Building Opportunities/Leveraging Technologies (BOLT) Grant Program supports technical and social innovations that promote Internet connectivity.