Face the Facts USA will deliver provocative facts about big issues to help Americans debunk myths, hold better conversations, get involved, and make choices as smarter citizens around the 2012 election.

AmericaSpeaks will develop a plan through which a critical mass of citizens in 1-2 Congressional districts will take part in a pilot project for scaling up public deliberation.

This grant supports impact campaign activities for And She Could Be Next, a documentary series celebrating women of color in leadership. The campaign aims to inspire and encourage the participation of young, more diverse, and politically skeptical American audiences in civic and democratic life.

America needs modern technical talent, at all levels of state and federal government, working in coordinated fashion to advance the Nation’s most pressing technical challenges. The United States of Technologists (“10K Techies”) project is a collective effort to activate 10,000 diverse technologists across state and federal government by the end of 2021.

The Arab American Institute Foundation focuses on three buckets of work. Strengthening democracy, protecting civil rights and civil liberties for all, and standing for international peace and human rights. They believe all citizens must be able to fully participate in public life free from bigotry and discrimination.

The Arab American Institute Foundation was created to encourage Arab American participation in civic life, by ensuring that Arab Americans have the tools and data necessary to empower their communities through organization.

Arch + Bow Productions LLC, a fiscally sponsored project of Documentary Educational Resources, Inc., created a documentary that elevates awareness of the role of local elections officials in hosting safe, secure, and voter centric elections in the U.S.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Morrison Institute’s research into the practice of Citizen’s Initiative Review.

This grant supports the establishment of the News Literacy Lab at Arizona State University. The project’s focus is on developing newsrooms as leaders in news literacy through education, research, and engagement. 

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

The Asian American Journalists Association builds programming that engages Asian American and Pacific Islander community voices, grows membership, and leads in developing entrepreneurship/enterprise projects in the journalism industry.

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities through Asian Law Caucus’s National Security & Civil Rights work.

To support direct litigation, legal services work, and to develop multi-lingual know-your-rights materials that can be delivered in MASA community centers.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving low-income, immigrant, and underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. They provide legal services, community empowerment, and policy advocacy to fight for immigrant justice, economic security, and a stronger democracy.

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities.  

This grant will provide general operating support for the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies . 

The Robert H. Michel Retrospective will honor Mr. Michel’s contribution to the nation’s political history by commissioning a series of essays by scholars and practitioners. The authors will use his career to illustrate and explain themes such as political polarization, congressional gridlock, and leadership dysfunction.

Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Vance Center, and in partnership with the Press Freedom Defense Fund, provides pro bono legal services to local and social mission-driven organizations in the United States.