To support TechCongress, a project of New America Foundation, in placing an additional mid-career fellow with deep technological knowledge in a congressional office to support and strengthen the ability of lawmakers and staff to generate informed public policy on a variety of technology-related issues currently facing the nation.

This grant will support a fellowship within the TechCongress program. Fellows are experienced professionals with deep technological knowledge and experience who agree to work for a congressional office (typically a committee) to provide support to congressional staff on complex policy matters. The knowledge they share with lawmakers and staff strengthen the ability of Congress to generate informed public policy on a variety of technology-related issues currently facing the nation. 

The Political Reform program of New America develops new strategies and innovations to repair the dysfunction of government, restore trust, and rebuild the promise of American democracy.

This grant will support the work of New America’s Political Reform Project, which seeks to revitalize American democratic practice by introducing new ideas and new perspectives to the public debate, putting reform ideas to the test, and bringing together activists, academics, and political practitioners to test and refine promising concepts.

To support the Political Reform Program, through the New Models of Policy Change project, at New America Foundation to strengthen work on resilience to political violence. 

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.

To provide general operating support for NGP.

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.

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.

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.

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.