Chris Abbott
@chriswabbott.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, Open Briefing | Adviser, Funders Initiative for Civil Society | Director, Peace Brigades International | Charity Hall of Fame inductee | Defending those who speak out
The Goldman Environmental Prize, known as the 'green Nobel Prize', celebrates grassroots leaders who show us that ordinary people can have an extraordinary impact.
Open Briefing is proud to provide many of these prize winners with holistic security and wellbeing support each year. 🌎
Open Briefing is proud to provide many of these prize winners with holistic security and wellbeing support each year. 🌎
April 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Goldman Environmental Prize, known as the 'green Nobel Prize', celebrates grassroots leaders who show us that ordinary people can have an extraordinary impact.
Open Briefing is proud to provide many of these prize winners with holistic security and wellbeing support each year. 🌎
Open Briefing is proud to provide many of these prize winners with holistic security and wellbeing support each year. 🌎
After 3 rewarding years, I’m stepping down from the board of Peace Brigades International this summer. Open to a new trustee/advisory role in human rights, climate, or civic space.
Strong in leadership, risk, fundraising & organisation development. Any recs? Let’s connect!
#HumanRights #Nonprofit
Strong in leadership, risk, fundraising & organisation development. Any recs? Let’s connect!
#HumanRights #Nonprofit
March 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
After 3 rewarding years, I’m stepping down from the board of Peace Brigades International this summer. Open to a new trustee/advisory role in human rights, climate, or civic space.
Strong in leadership, risk, fundraising & organisation development. Any recs? Let’s connect!
#HumanRights #Nonprofit
Strong in leadership, risk, fundraising & organisation development. Any recs? Let’s connect!
#HumanRights #Nonprofit
I get knocked down, but I get up again...
❌Yesterday @openbriefings received news that NED grant payments are on hold. This follows an earlier stop-work order from USAID.
✅ But today we celebrate with our new impact report!
🚀 https://www.openbriefing.org/blog/our-impact-2024/
❌Yesterday @openbriefings received news that NED grant payments are on hold. This follows an earlier stop-work order from USAID.
✅ But today we celebrate with our new impact report!
🚀 https://www.openbriefing.org/blog/our-impact-2024/
March 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I get knocked down, but I get up again...
❌Yesterday @openbriefings received news that NED grant payments are on hold. This follows an earlier stop-work order from USAID.
✅ But today we celebrate with our new impact report!
🚀 https://www.openbriefing.org/blog/our-impact-2024/
❌Yesterday @openbriefings received news that NED grant payments are on hold. This follows an earlier stop-work order from USAID.
✅ But today we celebrate with our new impact report!
🚀 https://www.openbriefing.org/blog/our-impact-2024/
Family commitments kept me from travelling to our first all-staff retreat, but the amazing @openbriefings team brought the retreat to me! It was a joy to spend a few days together. And Cornwall was stunning as always. Grateful to the team and for this wonderful opportunity! 🌊🌿
March 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Family commitments kept me from travelling to our first all-staff retreat, but the amazing @openbriefings team brought the retreat to me! It was a joy to spend a few days together. And Cornwall was stunning as always. Grateful to the team and for this wonderful opportunity! 🌊🌿
💡 International relocation is not a magic bullet for activists at risk...
My new report for Open Briefing instead highlights solutions that prioritise managing risk, building resilience, and protecting communities. #RethinkRelocation
📖 Out on Human Rights Day next week!
My new report for Open Briefing instead highlights solutions that prioritise managing risk, building resilience, and protecting communities. #RethinkRelocation
📖 Out on Human Rights Day next week!
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
💡 International relocation is not a magic bullet for activists at risk...
My new report for Open Briefing instead highlights solutions that prioritise managing risk, building resilience, and protecting communities. #RethinkRelocation
📖 Out on Human Rights Day next week!
My new report for Open Briefing instead highlights solutions that prioritise managing risk, building resilience, and protecting communities. #RethinkRelocation
📖 Out on Human Rights Day next week!
On the train to London for the @openbriefings strategy away days!
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On the train to London for the @openbriefings strategy away days!
I support the call for a UK law on mandatory due diligence. It means standing by the human rights defenders who face threats for protecting people and our planet.
Read @PBIUK's report on why #HRDs need a law on #BizHumanRights!
https://peacebrigades.org.uk/news/thecaseforchange
Read @PBIUK's report on why #HRDs need a law on #BizHumanRights!
https://peacebrigades.org.uk/news/thecaseforchange
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I support the call for a UK law on mandatory due diligence. It means standing by the human rights defenders who face threats for protecting people and our planet.
Read @PBIUK's report on why #HRDs need a law on #BizHumanRights!
https://peacebrigades.org.uk/news/thecaseforchange
Read @PBIUK's report on why #HRDs need a law on #BizHumanRights!
https://peacebrigades.org.uk/news/thecaseforchange
That feeling? That’s called grief. It’s ok to be scared. It’s ok to be angry. It’s ok to grieve. Today. But tomorrow we pick ourselves up. Because we have work to do. And hope and love always wins out in the end. Always. ✊
#USElection2024
#USElection2024
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
That feeling? That’s called grief. It’s ok to be scared. It’s ok to be angry. It’s ok to grieve. Today. But tomorrow we pick ourselves up. Because we have work to do. And hope and love always wins out in the end. Always. ✊
#USElection2024
#USElection2024
On #WorldMentalHealthDay Exile Hub and @openbriefings are launching an innovative mentoring programme to address gaps in the community mental health system for human rights defenders and journalists in Myanmar and those in exile in Thailand....
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
On #WorldMentalHealthDay Exile Hub and @openbriefings are launching an innovative mentoring programme to address gaps in the community mental health system for human rights defenders and journalists in Myanmar and those in exile in Thailand....
Time to kick out the party of austerity, Brexit, lockdown rule breaking, economic decline, and shrinking civic space!
Goodbye Tories 👋
#VoteToriesOut #Election2024
Goodbye Tories 👋
#VoteToriesOut #Election2024
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Time to kick out the party of austerity, Brexit, lockdown rule breaking, economic decline, and shrinking civic space!
Goodbye Tories 👋
#VoteToriesOut #Election2024
Goodbye Tories 👋
#VoteToriesOut #Election2024
As a social enterprise, 32% of @openbriefings income in 2023 came from mission-related services with nonprofits and foundations – allowing us to help more people than ever before.
Find out more in our new impact report for 2023 at...
Find out more in our new impact report for 2023 at...
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As a social enterprise, 32% of @openbriefings income in 2023 came from mission-related services with nonprofits and foundations – allowing us to help more people than ever before.
Find out more in our new impact report for 2023 at...
Find out more in our new impact report for 2023 at...
Fellow nonprofit leaders: will you help make the charity sector a safe place for all trans and non-binary people?
Sign the #StandWithTrans pledge today!
http://charitysostraight.org.uk
Sign the #StandWithTrans pledge today!
http://charitysostraight.org.uk
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Fellow nonprofit leaders: will you help make the charity sector a safe place for all trans and non-binary people?
Sign the #StandWithTrans pledge today!
http://charitysostraight.org.uk
Sign the #StandWithTrans pledge today!
http://charitysostraight.org.uk
It’s time to stand up for trans and non-binary
people’s human rights.
This is why I’ve signed the #StandWithTrans open letter, to say NO to trans-hate #CharitySoStraight
Sign the pledge today: http://charitysostraight.org.uk/stand-with-trans
people’s human rights.
This is why I’ve signed the #StandWithTrans open letter, to say NO to trans-hate #CharitySoStraight
Sign the pledge today: http://charitysostraight.org.uk/stand-with-trans
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It’s time to stand up for trans and non-binary
people’s human rights.
This is why I’ve signed the #StandWithTrans open letter, to say NO to trans-hate #CharitySoStraight
Sign the pledge today: http://charitysostraight.org.uk/stand-with-trans
people’s human rights.
This is why I’ve signed the #StandWithTrans open letter, to say NO to trans-hate #CharitySoStraight
Sign the pledge today: http://charitysostraight.org.uk/stand-with-trans
Nonprofit hive mind...
How are annual pay reviews handled in your organisation? Do you benchmark against the sector, increase with inflation, increase with average pay rises, or on some other basis?
Thanks!
How are annual pay reviews handled in your organisation? Do you benchmark against the sector, increase with inflation, increase with average pay rises, or on some other basis?
Thanks!
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Nonprofit hive mind...
How are annual pay reviews handled in your organisation? Do you benchmark against the sector, increase with inflation, increase with average pay rises, or on some other basis?
Thanks!
How are annual pay reviews handled in your organisation? Do you benchmark against the sector, increase with inflation, increase with average pay rises, or on some other basis?
Thanks!
Fascinating abstraction of the global submarine fibre-optic cable network by @geoplace and @maps4thought. Includes enemies of the internet: surveillance, censorship, and imprisonment.
Spotted at @PKPorthcurno.
Spotted at @PKPorthcurno.
March 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Fascinating abstraction of the global submarine fibre-optic cable network by @geoplace and @maps4thought. Includes enemies of the internet: surveillance, censorship, and imprisonment.
Spotted at @PKPorthcurno.
Spotted at @PKPorthcurno.
You couldn't make this stuff up...
March 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
You couldn't make this stuff up...
Last year was a time of global pandemic and closing civic space. The number of calls for @openbriefings assistance nearly trebled compared to the previous year. We provided over 6,000 hours of direct support. Read more in our new Impact Report 2021...
March 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Last year was a time of global pandemic and closing civic space. The number of calls for @openbriefings assistance nearly trebled compared to the previous year. We provided over 6,000 hours of direct support. Read more in our new Impact Report 2021...
Had some help with the coppicing this holiday 😀
March 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Had some help with the coppicing this holiday 😀
Got there in the end 😀
March 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Got there in the end 😀
Got all four green ticks from @hardenize on the new @openbriefings website! (Apparently only 42% of the top 500 websites are 'well configured', and only 7% get all four ticks!)
March 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Got all four green ticks from @hardenize on the new @openbriefings website! (Apparently only 42% of the top 500 websites are 'well configured', and only 7% get all four ticks!)
Finally finished moving http://openbriefing.org to a static site plus a load of other security and performance enhancements. Pleased with the results!
March 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Finally finished moving http://openbriefing.org to a static site plus a load of other security and performance enhancements. Pleased with the results!
Oh wow, that was too close…
March 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Oh wow, that was too close…