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Grants Database

Democracy Fund champions the leaders and organizations who defend democracy and challenge it to be more open and just. We are proud to have supported more than 200 organizations doing this work.

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  • Foundation for City College
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.    

Project:

Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

November 2023 to September 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Foundation for City College
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice, a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York, provides training and resources to leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.    

Project:

Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice Seed Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

December 2021 to November 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Foundation for City College
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.  

Project:

Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

November 2023 to September 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Foundation for City College
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice, a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York, provides training and resources to leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.  

Project:

Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice Seed Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

December 2021 to November 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Foundation for Minority Interests In Media Inc.
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Emma Bowen Foundation helps place students of color in a variety of media outlets across the U.S. to increase the diversity of newsrooms. They provide early career support for journalists of color, and track the retention of their fellows in the industry over time.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

May 2023 to April 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Foundation for Minority Interests In Media Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant will provide support for the Emma Bowen Foundation’s (“EBF”) diversity through internships work. This project will provide capacity for EBF to support at least 25 interns in rural, diverse-led, and nonprofit news outlets across the country. To enhance and extend current EBF intern programing on media specific content and leadership development, EBF will also hire a Program Director. […]

Project:

Supporting Diversity through Internships

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

October 2017 to September 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Foundation for Minority Interests In Media Inc.
  • $750,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To provide general operating support to the Emma Bowen Foundation as they continue their work placing undergraduates of color in a variety of media outlets across the U.S., diversifying newsrooms overall, and track the retention of their fellows in the industry over time.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

November 2019 to October 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Foundation for Minority Interests In Media Inc.
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Emma Bowen Foundation helps place students of color in a variety of media outlets across the U.S. to increase the diversity of newsrooms. They provide early career support for journalists of color, and track the retention of their fellows in the industry over time.    

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

May 2023 to April 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Foundation for Minority Interests In Media Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant will provide support for the Emma Bowen Foundation’s (“EBF”) diversity through internships work. This project will provide capacity for EBF to support at least 25 interns in rural, diverse-led, and nonprofit news outlets across the country. To enhance and extend current EBF intern programing on media specific content and leadership development, EBF will also hire a Program Director. […]

Project:

Supporting Diversity through Internships

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

October 2017 to September 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Foundation for Minority Interests In Media Inc.
  • $750,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To provide general operating support to the Emma Bowen Foundation as they continue their work placing undergraduates of color in a variety of media outlets across the U.S., diversifying newsrooms overall, and track the retention of their fellows in the industry over time.    

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

November 2019 to October 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Four Freedoms Fund
  • $20,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support wellness and healing for frontline staff at Four Freedoms Fund, a project of NEO Philanthropy, and to learn about strategies, resources, and needs in the field.    

Project:

RAD Healing and Wellness for Four Freedoms Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

November 2019 to November 2020

Strategy:

General
  • Four Freedoms Fund
  • $20,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support wellness and healing for frontline staff at Four Freedoms Fund, a project of NEO Philanthropy, and to learn about strategies, resources, and needs in the field.  

Project:

RAD Healing and Wellness for Four Freedoms Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

November 2019 to November 2020

Strategy:

General
  • Free Election Fund
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Free Election Fund is a 501(c)(3) fiscally sponsored project of Hopewell Fund that uses litigation to protect the right of all citizens to participate fully in our democratic process and safeguard our free and fair elections.  

Project:

Free Election Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

April 2024 to March 2025

Strategy:

Roadmap for American Democracy
  • Free Election Fund
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Free Election Fund is a 501(c)(3) fiscally sponsored project of Hopewell Fund that uses litigation to protect the right of all citizens to participate fully in our democratic process and safeguard our free and fair elections.    

Project:

Free Election Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

April 2024 to March 2025

Strategy:

Roadmap for American Democracy
  • Free Press
  • $1,000,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Free Press’ Media 2070 project calls for the policies needed to make media reparations a reality, falling within the historical lineage of calls for repair of anti-Black harm. Media 2070’s vision is to achieve a future where Black people have the capital and power necessary to own and control their own stories, from ideation to […]

Project:

Media 2070

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media

Grant Length:

November 2023 to December 2026

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Free Press
  • $2,100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Free Press is a watchdog for media and technology policy. They conduct research and policy analysis, educate policymakers, the press and the public, pressure corporations, organize campaigns with grasstops and grassroots constituencies to hold decision-makers accountable, and lead winning coalitions.    

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

October 2023 to September 2026

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Free Press
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support Free Press in their work to create a new deal for the digital age with a focus on racial and gender equity. This grant will advance the work of Change the Terms, a coalition co-founded and co-led by Free Press, in organizing stakeholders from civil society, government, and technology to hold platforms accountable through […]

Project:

Change the Terms

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

July 2019 to June 2020

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Free Press
  • $620,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2016

To support the core journalism program at Free Press, which is building an advocacy approach that combines credible, rigorous analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of local media ecosystems with a public engagement approach.    

Project:

Journalism Program and NJ News Replication

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

September 2016 to August 2018

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Free Press
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2014

To support the core journalism program at Free Press, which is building an advocacy approach that combines credible, rigorous analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of local media ecosystems with a public engagement approach.    

Project:

Building Community Around News

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

November 2014 to March 2016

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Free Press
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

The Free Press News Voices develops and implements community engagement strategies for journalism that build and sustain information equity and local reporting. These strategies help to create news sources that reflect and represent the communities they serve, in particular people of color who have been neglected and harmed by systemic racism.    

Project:

News Voices Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

December 2020 to November 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
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