To support Convergence’s work to help Congress function more effectively through its work with the House Bipartisan Working Group (BPWG), which seeks to encourage members to engage in meaningful and consensus-driven dialogue on complex policy challenges with colleagues.

Convergence Center for Policy Resolution will create and convene a Roundtable on transforming the civil service to meet the needs of the 21st century. The Roundtable will be an incubator for different groups and stakeholders to share ideas about how to transform the system and attract, retain, and develop talented and diverse career public servants.

The Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) will undergo a strategic planning process and support new leadership as it develops into a national hub for ethnic media. CCEM will add depth and national scope to its efforts with news and information outlets serving ethnic, minority and immigrant communities.

The Center for Community Media, at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, is dedicated to bolstering community media organizations that deliver crucial local coverage, with the mission of empowering trusted outlets to increase access to relevant and impactful news.

The Center for Community Media (CCM) at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York will continue expanding its role as a national hub for outlets serving minority and immigrant communities and advocating for greater investment in community media overall.

The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) will focus on expanding its role from a resource center and advocate for New York City-based community and ethnic media to a national hub for outlets serving ethnic, minority, and immigrant communities.

The mission of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is to prepare outstanding journalists to make a difference as they transform journalism. They train reporters to listen to and collaborate with communities, and to generate clear and compelling work that offers information and insight, holds the powerful accountable, and drives civic conversation.

Democracy Fund will provide general support for the work that Cultivate the Karass engages in to provide tools for emerging leaders to overcome polarization, seek understanding, and build trust.  

The purpose of this grant is to support training and research on how newsrooms can build trust with their communities through social media, in person engagement and via their web sites and news products. 

General operating support for Data for Black Lives.

The Liberated Capital Initiative by Decolonizing Wealth Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, aims to collectively move us all from disparities to equity. They train funders on the structural inequalities that shape philanthropy, to support more equitable philanthropic efforts.

The Pillars of the Community Project, which is part of the Defending Democracy Together Institute (DDTI), bolsters local and state election officials in key counties and states in their defense of the electoral process and the election administrators who make it work.

To support Demand Progress Education Fund, a project of the New Venture Fund, to investigate and highlight potential improvements to congressional legislative, oversight, and administrative capacity for audiences on and off Capitol Hill. Grant funds will support Demand Progress Education Fund’s execution of written reports and newsletters, participation in public events, and meetings with stakeholders that cumulatively contribute expert, substantive ideas in support of congressional reform. 

Demand Progress Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. They work to protect an internet that affords the public the ability to communicate freely online, without unjust interference from corporations or governments.

This grant will provide support to Demand Progress, an organization that plays a critical education and advisory role on a variety of institutional practice and rulemaking areas that affect congressional capacity to function.

Democracy 2076, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., is convening organizers, state legislators, those running campaigns to amend the US Constitution, and legal scholars to envision what a Constitution for 2076 needs to include to ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.

The Democracy Legal Strike Force project at Democracy 21 Education Fund provides rapid-response legal work with the objective of protecting the system of democratically elected representative government, challenging anti-democracy efforts, and advancing the foundational American principle that no one is above the law.

Democracy Docket Legal Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, works to detect and combat suppressive voting laws and practices through litigation.

Democracy Forward Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that uses the law to build collective power and advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people.

Democracy Forward Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that uses the law to build collective power and advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people.