New American Leaders is leading a movement fighting for inclusive democracy by equipping immigrants, refugees, and their allies with the tools they need to realize their potential by running for and holding elected office, and by engaging in civic action that brings their voices to the forefront of American politics.

New Georgia Project (NGP) builds power with and increases the civic participation of the New Georgia Majority — Black, Latinx, AAPI, and young Georgians — and other historically marginalized communities through nonpartisan voter registration, organizing, and advocacy on the issues important to our communities.

To provide general operating support for NGP.

The New Jersey Civic Information Consortium is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that funds initiatives to benefit the State’s civic life and meet the evolving information needs of New Jersey’s communities. The Consortium reimagines how public funding can be used to address the growing problem of news deserts, misinformation, and support more informed communities.

The New Jersey Civic Information Consortium is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that funds initiatives to benefit the State’s civic life and meet the evolving information needs of New Jersey’s communities. The Consortium reimagines how public funding can be used to address the growing problem of news deserts, misinformation, and support more informed communities.

For the purposes of assisting the election administration team at NOI plan and assess the best manner in which to complete a spinoff.  The planning grant can include: assistance on developing the business plan, evaluating a proper Board development strategy, understanding and developing stronger relationships with the EA community, and other purposes to benefit the new organization.

This grant will provide support for the field of elections and voting research through participation in the Civic Engagement and Elections Research Collaborative Fund.

To strengthen the field of elections and voting research through participation in the Civic Engagement and Elections Research Collaborative Fund (“the Collaborative Fund”), which is a joint effort with other democracy funders. The Collaborative Fund seeks to provide funding for academic and policy research that supports the work of the philanthropic sector, public and nonprofit leaders and institutions, advocates, academics, and other stakeholders.

The Eclipse Fund a multi-issue, learning and funding community of like-minded funders and donors interested in pushing back on the implementation of Project 2025.

To support the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies’s project on Racial Targeting and Digital Marketing, which will research and disseminate findings related to the ways online environments target and potentially discriminate against non-white users. 

Cybersecurity for Democracy is researching and iterating on Ad Observer and the Ad Observatory, as well as exploring the creation of new tools to better help researchers, advocates, and journalists track digital disinformation.

The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (CR+DS) is a network of prominent, public scholars of color who produce research, distribute knowledge, and convene stakeholders at the intersections of race and technology.

The Dutch news site, De Correspondent – which has solved the sustainability problem by becoming a world leader in member-supported journalism — wants to bring its formula to the US. This grant would fund a year of research and incubation at NYU and would create a laboratory to test De Correspondent’s models and lessons in the American context and focus on sharing those lessons throughout nonprofit news in the United States.

To support the Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory in conducting research around the role of misinformation on social media platforms during the 2018 election.

The Membership Puzzle Project is a research and field lab designed to help journalism in America rebuild its social contract with communities through membership and reader revenue strategies.

This grant will support a project of GovLab, a program within the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, to develop a handbook for congressional offices with techniques for increasing citizen voice in the policymaking process and improving constituent engagement through new technologies. The grant also will allow GovLab to pilot projects with several congressional offices for using open source software to test some of the techniques outlined in the handbook. 

To support the NYU Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue (IACD) as it organizes a convening entitled, “Radical Hospitality: Imagining Home for a Generation Displaced and Discarded – A Global Convening of Artists, Scholars, and Activists.” The convening will take place at La Pietra, the NYU academic center in Florence, Italy in 2020. 

Planning grant for comprehensive bipartisan research on the current state of money in politics.

To support New York University in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus to ads that involve race and gender.

A grant to the News Revenue Hub to support expanded services and capacity building activities to strengthen the financial sustainability of their clients and the larger nonprofit news community.