To support the Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy (TeCD-Lab) at the University of California, Riverside in their efforts to further development and deployment of an online communications platform that congressional offices can use to have constructive dialogue with constituents. This platform will provide an alternative to those currently available to offices on the commercial market. 

A team of researchers are working with a constituent relationship management software vendor to compare the demographics of constituents who contact a congressional office and the demographics of the congressional district. Their findings and insights will be shared with congressional staff and the vendor partner.

Reinvent Albany will convene a group of technology and policy experts to produce a report that recommends how New York State could use technology to modernize compliance and reporting of campaign finance contributions under a proposed small-donor matching system.

The purpose of this grant is to support the existing activity of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press as it fits within the emerging strategy for the Press Freedom arm of the emerging Fourth Estate Initiative.

The Local Legal Initiative places full-time staff attorneys throughout the country to provide direct legal services to journalists and news outlets engaged in state and local enterprise and investigative reporting.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides pro bono legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides pro bono legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for Reporters Without Borders – the North American branch of Reporters Sans Frontieres, as they build their influence and efforts to support and defend journalists within the United States.

Representative Democracy, a fiscally sponsored project of the Miami Foundation, supports leadership development programs and innovative diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) solutions for governing institutions focused on building inclusive workplaces in the United States Congress.

RepresentWomen, Inc. is committed to researching, understanding, and then championing the evidence-based solutions that break down structural barriers to women’s political leadership.

Professor Thomas Main of The City University of New York is writing a book about the roots and reach of the Alt-Right. This grant will support Professor Main’s ability to access social media data, to provide transcription support for his research, and to provide his salary during the time in which he conducts this research. 

Resolve Philadelphia is a groundbreaking nonprofit newsroom that demonstrates how news can better serve communities when rooted in solutions and community voices.

The purpose of this grant to provide project support to Rehink Media Inc.’s Security and Rights team to address anti-Muslim bigotry through strategic communications, rapid response messaging, and spokesperson training.  

The Collaborative Communications Initiative will continue to improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community. Allowing groups to build collective messaging success in the field.

The Democracy Collaborative (previously known as the Collaborative Communications Initiative) will continue to improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community and allow groups to build collective messaging success in the field.

The Revolving Door Project, a fiscally sponsored project of The Good Nation Foundation Inc., scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.

The Maynard Institute was founded to promote diversity and antiracism in the news media through improved coverage, hiring and business practices. They challenge the systemic lack of diversity in the news industry through training, collaborations and convenings.

The Maynard Institute was founded to promote diversity and antiracism in the news media through improved coverage, hiring and business practices. They challenge the systemic lack of diversity in the news industry through training, collaborations and convenings.

The purpose of this grant is to further develop Maynard’s strategic plan and to support reporting on diversity in journalism. This will help them further build out from their priorities developed following Knight’s support for a human centered design work.

This grant will provide three years of general operating support for the Maynard Institute as they execute their strategic plan. This funding will support Maynard in their mission to drive diversity, equity and inclusion in news media and academia through training, engagement and convenings with journalists, news leaders, storytellers, and entrepreneurs.