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.
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.
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.
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!
In January 2026 13 Fellows started their Challenge year. They will spend the next 12 months answering the question:
How is the collusion between governments and corporations driving the assault on the rule of law, civil rights and a free press? How do we push back to protect democratic accountability?
Click below to learn more about their Bertha Challenge work!
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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