To support the Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) project as they continue to organize veterans and chapters to speak out to counter Islamophobia, to advocate for refugees, and to bridge divides. In particular, this grant will support VFAI’s veteran trainings and bi-annual convenings, service and community events, and their 29/29 Ramadan initiative.

To support Pillars Fund’s Culture Change Project, in partnership with the Pop Culture Collaborative, as they develop an American Muslim Pop Culture Cohort.  

The Bright Lines Project provides communications support to a team of nonpartisan tax attorneys supporting a nuetral, consistent application of the IRS rules related to political activity.

This grant will support the work of The Lugar Center, including their work to study the function of Congressional committees, creating bipartisan delegation meetings at state universities, increase congressional capacity for oversight, and other work to improve the bipartisan function of Congress. 

General operating support for the Student Press Law Center.

This grant will support the Future of California Elections (FoCE), a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, in conducting network-building work around California Motor Voter and Voters Choice Act implementation. 

This grant to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will support their project to assess and counter foreign technology-enabled threats to our judicial system. The project will engage stakeholders in off-the-record discussions of the threats presented, train individuals in the judicial system to counter these threats, and will culminate in a report with findings and recommendations for further action. 

The Social Data Initiative will examine social media’s impact on society and democracy, explore questions about the responsible use of social network data, and generate insights to inform solutions.

The University of Virginia’s Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is a nonpartisan organization that uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to promote legislative effectiveness among lawmakers across the United States.

OpenNews, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, creates and supports a diverse community of peers working, learning, and solving problems in technology for local newsrooms to create the stronger, more representative ecosystem that journalism needs to thrive.

The Election Law Program (ELP), a joint project of William & Mary (W&M) Law School and the National Center on State Courts, provides reliable, updatable State Election Law Wikis for state and federal court judges to help them make election law decisions promptly and fairly.

Gather supports community-minded journalists and other engagement professionals through an online platform that acts as a hub for critical tools, resources, and conversations for journalists.

This grant supports work to demonstrate how universities can lead collaborative reporting projects that challenge local newsrooms to shift their practices to better create journalism that is meaningful to communities and responsive to their needs through a focus on reporting from a rural Appalachian perspective.

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.

VotingWorks is developing an open-source tool which will enable election officials to conduct Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs).

This grant provides general operating support to the Online News Association.

The Civic Engagement and Dissemination Hub, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., is a source of research on best practices for voter contact in the field of nonpartisan civic engagement.

This is a general operating grant to the Native American Journalists Association that will increase their support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of Native American communities.

The Democracy & Elections Program at the Center for American Progress explores ways to improve our democracy and increase fairness in representation through structural changes including electoral system reform.

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI), a project of Human Rights First, is a coalition of veterans and allies who continue their service to America by upholding, defending, and advocating for human rights at home and abroad.