“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms:
freedom of speech and expression
freedom of worship
freedom from want
freedom from fear."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace.
And it isn’t enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

The International Four Freedoms Forum (IFFF) recognizes that small grassroots organizations engaged in defending human rights in what are often the most difficult and dangerous of circumstances also wage another battle: to achieve self-sustainability and to be able not only to survive as organizations, but to build internal capacity to make their work in the field enduringly effective.

The IFFF therefore sustains and supports those who devote their lives to defending human rights and to transforming our world into a just and equal society. To this end, the IFFF offers:

  • A networking forum that connects these small non-profits with larger human rights NGOs, experts, and funding resources thus providing an interactive work community
  • A web-based education forum that provides small organizations with the tools that can dramatically improve their effectiveness and thus help them institute change more powerfully.