This project grant will provide support for the Levin Center at Wayne Law to continue its efforts to strengthen congressional oversight. This work will include academic research and collaboration on congressional oversight issues. By facilitating the development of an academic field focused on oversight and research into effective oversight methods, the Levin Center’s work is part of a longer term strategy to rebuild civil society’s work on oversight and accountability issues.

ReflectUS (formerly known as the Women’s Representation Coalition), a fiscally sponsored project of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, is a project by a bipartisan group of national organizations who support women leaders and a political system in which more women can be represented.

The purpose of this grant is to provide support to the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.

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.

General Operating Support

OpenTheGovernment (a project of the Fund for Constitutional Government) will map civil society sectors to identify groups to collaborate with. They will identify organizations who do not traditionally advocate for open government and transparency, but whose own causes could be helped by focusing on this issue.

This grant will support the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program as it endeavors to grow and improve its elections administration programming and provide the best possible service to its members and their staffs. 

This grant will provide funding to Demos to continue its work in enforcing the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that state motor vehicle agencies provide information and assistance to register to vote at all state facilities. This grant will also provide limited assistance to engage in Section 8 compliance efforts in states and jurisdictions where opportunities exist to support modernization of list-maintenance programs.

To support the Georgetown University’s Beeck Center in conducting its first field research project of the Resilient Democracy Coalition (RDC), as well as to support RDC’s experimental effort to design an app to connect newly elected Members of Congress to current and former Members.

A grant to the News Revenue Hub to support expanded services and capacity building activities to strengthen the financial sustainability of their clients and the larger nonprofit news community. 

This grant will provide support for the field of elections and voting research through participation in the Civic Engagement and Elections Research Collaborative Fund.

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.

This grant will renew support for training programs developed by the Library of Congress. Specifically, this grant will extend Democracy Fund support for the Congressional Research Service – a division of the Library of Congress – to conduct orientation seminars for newly-elected members of the 116th Congress and for the John W. Kluge Center at the Library to conduct a congressional masterclass series on governance-related topics of wide interest by leading academics. 
The grant will also support two historical exhibits that will showcase important Library resources and collections for congressional audiences and the broader public. One exhibit will focus on the history of Baseball and the exhibit will focus on the women’s’ movement. The goal of the exhibits is to educate members of Congress and others who might not seek education on the role of race in sports or the history of gender (in)equity in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

The purpose of the Grant is to provide support for the fight against mis/disinformation through fact-checking innovation, research, collaboration, and training. For this project, Grantee will work to support fact-checking through the PolitiFact and PunditFact platforms. Grantee will also support research, training, and opportunities for collaboration for the broader fact-checking and journalism networks. 

To provide support for a 2-year research project that seeks to better understand the reasons why hard-to-reach youth populations choose not to vote and then create a set of guidelines that election officials can use to help address the needs of young voters. 

BrightLinesWatch is a project to track the potential corrosion of democratic norms through the expert opinion of domestic and international political scientists. The grant will also fund an international conference and a series of briefing papers using international experiences to better understand potential threats to American democracy.

This grant supports a collaborative research initiative led by the University of Maryland (UMD) in partnership with the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress (FMC) and the Millennial Action Project (MAP). This research explores the behavioral and psychological aspects of political cooperation to counteract polarization in American government.

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.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) as it conducts research, raises awareness, and works with partners to better understand the American Muslim community. 

To support the Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory in conducting research around the role of misinformation on social media platforms during the 2018 election.