The POPVOX LegiDash Fund, a project of the Tides Foundation, will develop a communications and legislative resources dashboard for use by congressional staff. The free product, called LegiDash, will provide staff with an improved constituent communications portal they can use to view and respond to messages delivered to Congress by POPVOX, increasing the efficiency of that process.

This grant will support iCivics’ strategic planning efforts to coordinate a network of presidential library foundations and the National Archives Foundation to work collaboratively to establish a common set of measurement tools, support opportunities to develop joint civics programming, and explore a national communications strategy to promote and enhance civic education. 

To support the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) in their work to create a new deal for the digital age with a focus on racial and gender equity. This grant will support CMJ’s involvement in the Change the Terms coalition, with a focus on using educational events, corporate accountability actions, and cultural strategies to shift corporate practices and policies to eliminate white supremacist hate speech from platforms and strengthen civil rights protections for people of color. 

General support for organization.

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.  

To support Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) in their efforts to promote engagement at the intersection of faith and democracy through a pilot pooled funding program — the “Faith In/ And Democracy” fund — to engage faith leaders and communities, bridge across lines of difference, and support faith-based civic engagement efforts to overcome polarization.

This grant will support the Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

To support Outlier Media via its fiscal agent, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc, in its charitable efforts to to identify, report, and deliver high value information that empowers Detroit communities in need to create accountability around the issues that most impact their lives. The purpose of this grant is to support Outlier Media as they work to further develop this charitable practice of service journalism and identify avenues to teach their methods to other news creators.

To support the pilot of Spaceship Local in Douglas, Arizona, rebuilding a news and information system through community engagement in a border town where reliable news sources are scarce. In addition to supporting this community, Spaceship Media is collecting valuable lessons on how their dialogue journalism model for engagement can be deployed more widely in geographic areas with similar needs.

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

This grant will explore innovation in policy making related to the federal government generally, and more specifically related to civic engagement, and participatory budgeting.

Reboot Congress brings together leaders from the technology industry and political institutions in Washington, D.C. to bridge the gap between tech and our government in Washington.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to the Lawyers’ Committee’s work to activate the private bar and leverage pro bono support to confront civil rights challenges.

To provide planning support for Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) to consider and create the infrastructure, capacity, and resources necessary to support the strategic design and implementation of a pooled funding program to engage faith leaders and faith communities, bridge bridges across lines of difference, and support faith-based civic engagement efforts to overcome polarization. 

The Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF) is a philanthropic collaborative to subsidize the costs of engagement tools like Hearken, Groundsource, Coral Project, and Listening Post in newsrooms across the country to help them better connect with their communities.

This grant would contribute initial funding towards the creation of the position of Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Planning grant for comprehensive bipartisan research on the current state of money in politics.

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.  

Democracy Fund will provide general support for College to Congress.

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.