Grassroots Asians Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association, is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in working-class Asian communities. Their members support communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.

The Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, a fiscally sponsored project of Project South, advances structural shifts toward Climate Justice + Ecological Equity in Gulf South Black, Indigenous, and Brown communities on the frontlines of climate change.

The Gumshoe Group, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc, builds structural, financial, and legal support for diverse freelance investigative journalists to pursue open records requests that hold institutions, power, and public officials accountable.

The purpose of this grant is to continue our support of Healthy Democracy Fund as they enter a new phase, and seek to build out an online infrastructure for the replication and adoption of CIR in new areas with more ease. 

The Healthy Democracy Fund will organize a Citizen initiative Review in Oregon and work with leaders from other states to encourage the replication of the Citizen initiative Review outside of Oregon.

Encourage the replication of the CIR in states outside of Oregon

Healthy Democracy Fund and the Participatory Budget Project will work with Personal Democracy Media to explore how technology may be used to improve their models of public engagement.

To continue support for Healthy Democracy as they further institutionalize the Oregon process and extend the CIR practice to other states.

To support Hearken and their “Responsive Election Coverage for Better Democracy” work, fiscally sponsored by the American Press Institute, to provide training, coaching, resources and emergency support to 500+ journalists throughout the country, for more engaged, trusted, and informed elections coverage in 2020.

To support the Hearken Engaged Elections project, a fiscally sponsored project of the American Press Institute, in promoting and spreading audience-centered innovation in elections coverage by newsrooms.

Hearken’s Election SOS project, a fiscally sponsored project of the American Press Institute, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage in 2022.

The Election SOS project at Hearken, a fiscally sponsored project of Policy Impact, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage.

The Hope CommUnity Center in Apopka, Florida fosters diverse, empowered, learning communities engaged in personal and societal transformation. Through service and advocacy, they stand with immigrants and others who are tenacious and courageous in the face of all systems of oppression.

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI), a project of Human Rights First, is a coalition of veterans and allies who continue their service to America by upholding, defending, and advocating for human rights at home and abroad.

This grant will support Vets for American Ideals (“VFAI”). VFAI will continue to organize support amongst its chapters of veterans to speak out against anti-Muslim rhetoric. VFAI do so by with expanded capacity in the form of a field coordinator and a junior communications associate. 

To support the Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) project as they continue to organize veterans and chapters to speak out to counter Islamophobia, to advocate for refugees, and to bridge divides. In particular, this grant will support VFAI’s veteran trainings and bi-annual convenings, service and community events, and their 29/29 Ramadan initiative.

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI), a project of Human Rights First, is a coalition of veterans and allies who continue their service to America by upholding, defending, and advocating for human rights at home and abroad.

The Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) project organizes veterans to speak out to counter Islamophobia, advocate for refugees, and bridge divides. This grant will also support VFAI’s veteran trainings and bi-annual convenings, service and community events, and their 29/29 Ramadan initiative.

This grant will support iCivics’ strategic planning efforts to coordinate a network of presidential library foundations and the National Archives Foundation to work collaboratively to establish a common set of measurement tools, support opportunities to develop joint civics programming, and explore a national communications strategy to promote and enhance civic education. 

The purpose of this grant is to support planning between centers for the study of Congress, the presidential libraries and iCivics, and will result in a shared strategic plan that will facilitate collaboration and collective impact among these organizations, with the goal of increased civic awareness, especially with regard to Congress.