Reebok Human Rights Foundation

Reebok Human Rights Foundation

Their mission "is to support human rights organizations, defending and extending human rights around the world, such as Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and The Carter Center. The Foundation also sponsors innovative programs targeted to address specific human rights issues. Two such programs include Witness, an organization that provides activists with technology tools to document human rights abuses, and the Indonesian Worker Health Initiative, a program to improve the health of urban factory workers.

"On the national level, the Foundation supports a short list of major, national organizations devoted to furthering the achievement of social and economic equality. National grant recipients have included the National Council of La Raza, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the National Urban League, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the Ms. Foundation for Women...

"The Foundation also provides $50,000 grants to recipients of the Reebok Human Rights Award. This award recognizes activists under the age of 30, who have made significant contributions to the field of human rights strictly through nonviolent means. Since the awards were established in 1988, more than 60 recipients from over 35 countries have received the award."

History
"In 1988, Amnesty International invited Reebok to be the sponsor of its Human Rights Now! World Tour. That tour, which featured artists Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Tracy Chapman, and Youssou N'Dour, carried messages of freedom and justice to millions of people in 23 cities on four continents. That experience inspired us to place human rights at the center of our corporate culture. That same year, we established the Reebok Human Rights Award program."

2004 Grants ($10,000 and above)

 * African Services Committee - New York, NY, $10,000
 * BELL Foundation - Cambridge, MA, $50,000
 * Business for Social Responsibility - San Francisco, CA, $10,000
 * Center for Victims of Torture - Minneapolis, MN, $30,000
 * Congolese Initiative for Justice and Peace - Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, $25,000
 * Cultural Survival - Cambridge, MA, $10,000
 * Dui Hua Foundation - San Francisco, MA, $10,000
 * Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation - Brookline, MA, $10,000
 * Forefront - New York, NY, $20,000
 * Forefront - New York, NY, $50,000
 * Global AIDS Alliance - Washington, DC, $25,000
 * Global Fund for Women - San Francisco, CA, $40,000
 * Global Rights - Washington, DC, $40,000
 * Human Rights Watch - New York, NY, $16,500
 * Indigenous Council of Roraima - Roraima, Brazil, $25,000
 * International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Cambridge, MA, $25,000
 * Robert F. Kennedy Memorial - Washington, DC, $10,000
 * Landmine Survivors Network - Washington, DC, $50,000
 * Make the Road by Walking - Brooklyn, NY, $25,000
 * National Conference for Community and Justice - San Diego, CA, $25,000
 * National Democratic Institute - Washington, DC, $25,000
 * National Democratic Institute - Washington, DC, $15,000
 * Pathfinder International - Watertown, MA, $26,250
 * Peace Games - Los Angeles, CA, $25,000
 * Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer AC/Semillas - Mexico City, Mexico, $15,000
 * South Africa Partners - Boston, MA, $15,000
 * Tides Foundation - San Francisco, CA, $100,000
 * 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement - Selma, AL, $25,000
 * Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children - New York, NY, $20,000

Various 2005 Grantees
 * Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy (Liberia)
 * Human Rights Education Associates
 * Physicians for Human Rights
 * CARE USA
 * Feminist Majority Foundation
 * Social Accountability International
 * Synergos
 * U.S. Committee for Refugees

Contact

 * Web: http://www.reebok.com/Static/global/initiatives/rights/text-only/foundation/

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Reebok Human Rights Program
 * Doug Cahn