The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is forming a Litigation Strategy Council (LSC), which is comprised of a small group of the country’s best and most experienced constitutional litigators to collaborate on and lead the development of a pragmatic and winning strategy to transform campaign finance jurisprudence in the courts.

Renewal Grant for Campaign Legal Center to do legal work and education related to money in politics and election law.

The Campaign Legal Center is convening and producing a report identifying legal deterrents to foreign influence in U.S. elections. The panel and report will explore questions of how current law addresses foreign influence in the system, vulnerabilities in the current laws, and potential solutions.

To provide the Campaign Legal Center with a restricted grant for the purpose of organizational and programmatic strategic planning.For more on CLC’s history and current program areas, please refer to R-201407-01230.

The Campaign Legal Center has engaged with other projects to reform and strengthen the FEC, improve media around campaign finance issues, and strengthen Congressional ethics around money in politics issues.

The Campaign Legal Center helps reformers and stakeholders shape and improve Money in Politics ideas and approaches. Their work includes issues of redistricting, voting rights, voter registration, and restoration of voting rights to formerly incarcerated persons.

To support the Center for Investigative Reporting’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide the Center for Investigative Reporting with critical support for their local news collaborations through the Reveal Local Labs to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. This project will help expand investigative capacity around the country and at the national level. 

This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.

The primary purpose of this grant is to expand the use of CIR’s Impact Tracker in the United States, so that news outlets can better monitor their role in their community. The grant will also support a budding partnership with local outlets in Chicago and a set of opportunities to promote diversity within the ranks of investigative reporters.

Press Forward Chicago, a funder collaborative housed at The Chicago Community Trust, helps to right-size independent, community news outlets and set them up for long-term sustainability. This initiative infuses the Chicago journalism ecosystem with renewed financial vitality, fortifying the multitude of independent outlets serving the diverse local communities.

Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR), a project at CUNY Law Foundation, address the legal needs of Muslim and all other communities and movements in the New York City area and beyond.

To provide support for the field of elections and voting research through participation in the Civic Engagement and Elections Research Collaborative Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund.

Improve  understanding about the attitudes and behaviors of tea party members in order to better inform strategies to address polarization and strengthen political institutions.

As organizers across the U.S. contend with crises that are both massive and fast-approaching, they are revisiting the core premises that have guided their methods for the last 50 years. The Commonwealth Foundation is researching the evolution of progressive strategy over the last 100 years to write “Grassroots Strategy in the US,” documenting the craft of community organizing and the strategic needs of the progressive movement.

This grant will support the Congressional Institute’s efforts to provide educational information about Congress to the general public, and to educate Members of Congress and staff about efforts to improve the function and management of the institution.

This grant will provide support to the Council of State Governments (“CSG”) to establish a national working group on elections cybersecurity issues with plans to convene in 2018, as well as partnering on CSG’s upcoming Cybersecurity and Privacy Policy Academy. 

The Equity Alliance is the leading Black-led grassroots organization in Tennessee promoting intentional, unapologetic, innovative, and culturally relevant year-round civic engagement among Black communities, while providing their communities with the tools and knowledge they need to be self-determining and create sustainable change.

The Equity Alliance is the leading Black-led grassroots organization in Tennessee promoting intentional, unapologetic, innovative, and culturally relevant year-round civic engagement among Black communities, while providing their communities with the tools and knowledge they need to be self-determining and create sustainable change.

To provide capacity building support to The Equity Alliance to build out its HR policies, including developing a policy handbook, and devote additional resources to other capacity-building work, which could include an audit of organizational processes or other activities as needed.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to The Equity Alliance