The Leadership Conference Education Fund builds public will for laws and policies that promote and protect the civil and human rights of every person in the United States. They work on issues including voting rights, educational equity, and justice reform.

This grant supports Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.’s development of a training program for diverse professionals in the public service sector.

The purpose of this grant is to help the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) implement the Transformation Roadmap, with a focus on increasing LWVEF capacity at the state and national levels to help build a more engaged, diverse, and sophisticated network of 501(c)(3) members, volunteers, and activists. 
A portion of this grant will also support LWVEF’s consultations with legal counsel to ensure that its legal structure positions it well for its next phase of operations.

To support the League of Women Voters Education Fund with funding to conduct a one-year assessment of the organization’s structure, processes, people and engagement, and alignment and culture. This would be the first of at least a three-year organizational change process, focused on assessing the LWVEF’s strengths and assets as well as our weaknesses and liabilities in advancing our goal of becoming an even more relevant and high-impact organization.

The League of Women Voters Education Fund addresses mis- and dis-information and builds states’ capacity for voter protection.

This grant will renew support for training programs developed by the Library of Congress. Specifically, this grant will extend Democracy Fund support for the Congressional Research Service – a division of the Library of Congress – to conduct orientation seminars for newly-elected members of the 116th Congress and for the John W. Kluge Center at the Library to conduct a congressional masterclass series on governance-related topics of wide interest by leading academics. 
The grant will also support two historical exhibits that will showcase important Library resources and collections for congressional audiences and the broader public. One exhibit will focus on the history of Baseball and the exhibit will focus on the women’s’ movement. The goal of the exhibits is to educate members of Congress and others who might not seek education on the role of race in sports or the history of gender (in)equity in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

The Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress, will conduct their signature New Member Seminar (NMS) in January 2021 for newly elected members of the 117th Congress.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is an agency within the Library of Congress that works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and members of both the House and Senate.

This grant will support the development of an App Market that reviews tech products for use by congressional staff, focusing on key features like whether those tools can handle the required volume and whether they meet security requirements. 

Reboot Congress brings together leaders from the technology industry and political institutions in Washington, D.C. to bridge the gap between tech and our government in Washington.

The purpose of this grant is to support the sustainability of news publishers with training and education from the Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION). For this project, LION will create a pilot program to help educate independent publishers on sustainability to support a healthy local news ecosystem.

The purpose of this grant is to provide capacity building support to LION (Local Independent Online News Publishers), a fiscally sponsored project of Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc., for strategic planning and board training.

LION Publishers strengthens the local news industry by helping independent news publishers build more sustainable businesses. They provide teaching, resources, and community to independent news entrepreneurs.

LION Publishers strengthens the local news industry by helping independent news publishers build more sustainable businesses. They provide teaching, resources, and community to independent news entrepreneurs.

General operating support

The Oklahoma Media Center (OMC) project, led by the Local Media Foundation, will strengthen Oklahoma’s local news ecosystem. This grant will support the early activities of the OMC as it builds out local staff and partnerships and sets itself up to serve the informational needs of Oklahomans.

Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC), a project of the New Venture Fund, is a national hub that connects, coordinates, and creates efforts to both counter the increasing misuse of preemption, and to strengthen local democracy. Preemption is when higher levels of government restricts the authority of a lower level of government to act on a particular issue.

To support research on radical polarization and the behaviors to lead to increased political violence in the United States and dissemination of the research through white papers and a book.

To conduct an academic study that advances knowledge on gender equity in journalistic practice. This research will target both the mechanisms of gender bias in use of expert sources in reporting and potential interventions, and report on the outcomes.

To support the Election Law Program (ELP), a joint project of William & Mary Law School and the National Center on State Courts, which exists to support judges as they and their staff navigate election law questions and decisions.