Funders

https://www.concourttrust.org.za/content/page/scholarshipshttps://www.concourttrust.org.za/content/page/artworkshttps://www.concourttrust.org.za/content/page/artworksAt inception the Trust received endowment funding in an amount of one million US dollars from the Norwegian government.  This was followed by several other donations which provided funding for its various projects.

Current funders of the Trust’s projects are:

• Bertha Foundation
  • Project: African Law Clerks Exchange Programme
• Ford Foundation
  • ​​Project: African Law Clerks Exchange Programme; Franklin Thomas Scholarship
• Foundation for Society, Law and Art in South Africa
  • Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Mellon Foundation
  • Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Open Society Foundation - South Africa
  • ​Project: African Law Clerks Exchange Programme
• South African Constitutional Court Trust UK
  • Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection

Previous funders include:

• ​Atlantic Philanthropies
  • Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection; Ismail Mahomed Scholarship
• Bertha Foundation
  • Project: Archive of the Constitution Making
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • ​​Project: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Claude Leon Foundation
  • ​Project: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Delegation of the Flemish Government
  • ​Project:  African Law Clerks Exchange Programme; Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Freedom House
  • ​Project: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• ​Mellon Foundation
  • Project: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Millennium Trust
  • ​Project:  Educational School Tours
• Mott Foundation
  • ​Project: Oral History of the Constitutional Court
• Open Society Fund
  • ​​Project:  Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
  • ​Project:  Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
  • ​Project:  Constitutional Court Law library
• The Rhodes Trust
  • ​Project: SAFLII; Constitutional Court Law library

To avoid conflict of interests, the Trust raises most of its funding from sources outside of South Africa.