To support activists, storytellers and lawyers who are working to bring about social and economic justice for all.
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.
Bertha Film Fund supported documentary is preparing to head to the Oscars having already won 43 awards across 70 festivals since its World Premier. Directed remotely by Mehrdad Oskouei and co-directed by Iranian teenager from Afghan descent, Soraya Akhlaghi who filmed her own life on a smartphone, is opening with 6 screenings at Bertha Dochouse soon. The documentary also bagged the prestigious "Unforgettables" nomination in the Cinema Eye Honors category.
Cynthia spent her Bertha Challenge year producing The Seed Syndicate, a two part documentary film that follows her investigating the interconnectedness between corporate interests and political power in farming in Kenya. Cynthia has won four awards throughout 2026 for her work; the Covering Climate Now Award 2026, first runner up in AMWIK Women in Media Award 2026, the Annual Media Excellence Award 2026 and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Media Africa Award for Local Journalism.
Giacomo Zandonini has published an investigation into the negotiations between the EU and Israel on data sharing that potentially breaches international law and could further endanger Palestinian lives in Israel, Palestine and the EU.
Meet the Dragonas de Lavapiés, a group of migrant mothers in Madrid who came together to form a football team as a way of "holding onto life." Bertha Artivist Ofelia de Pablo has been creating a participatory and collective art project with the team to challenge stereotypes, racism and discrimination.
Fellowships for Activists, Investigative Journalists, Filmmakers and Lawyers to spend a year working on one pressing social justice challenge.
Find out moreGlobal funding for arts activism that mobilizes communities for social change.
Find out moreA residency program for people in social justice to take the time and space to advance their work alongside a global community of co-conspirators.
Find out moreFind out about our Bertha Challenge Alumni over the years and their projects.
Find out moreA rural retreat and convening space designed, from plan to finished product, for collaboration, community and revolution.
Find out moreCape Town’s go-to gathering place for civil society, locals and creatives to learn their politics, fight unjust systems and grow their power.
Find out moreA 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.
Find out moreFind out more about our past Artivists and and their projects.
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