[6] In 2020, a programme of longer-term grants was established for journalists in Syria, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian territories, Tunisia, Yemen.

[9] In 2019, in cooperation with the office of the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, the Candid Foundation co-hosted the conference "EUMed means business" with 100 participants including young entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises from the Arab world.

Other founding members and partners are Marcel Mettelsiefen, a Grammy and BAFTA winning and Academy Awards nominated documentary filmmaker, the entrepreneur Jörg Schäffer, the German journalists Moritz Behrendt and Christian Meier, Inna Rudolf, an Iraq expert at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (King's College London), and the Arabist Katja Brinkmann, who died in 2017.

[14] The advisory board include academics Gilles Kepel, Udo Steinbach, Verena Metze-Mangold, Ayad al-Ani, Christian-Peter Hanelt of the Bertelsmann Foundation, TV journalist and presenter Aline Abboud, and Swiss entrepreneur Heinz Buhofer.

The Candid Foundation also entertains a network of fellows from various fields of expertise, such as Iran expert Walter Posch, Iraqi entrepreneur Alaa al-Bahadli, or the constitutional scholar Naseef Naeem.