Narrative Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, works with social movements and changemakers to envision and strategize for narrative change that embodies a movement’s aspirations.

Piece by Piece (PxP) supports the community of practice for Ecosystem Builders, a network of leaders in the local news space, including distributing funding to some participants to expand and sustain their work.

State Leadership Project (SLP) is 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on resourcing nonpartisan efforts to grow a sustainable civic ecosystem. They cultivate donor communities to fund and build the state infrastructure needed to ensure free and fair elections, combat mis and disinformation, register and educate voters, and support policies that will help achieve a multiracial democracy.

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. 

The Monkey Cage is a platform which seeks to contribute timely, accessible, evidence-based analysis to public policy conversations.

Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York, to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.

Black River Life, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, is a nonprofit creative studio and cultural organizing hub working to redress generations of anti-Black narrative harm. Through music, film, journalism and digital content, they seek to transform public conversations about Blackness, inviting the kind of discourse that makes multiracial democracy possible.

Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists.

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. They serve their neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most.

The Bridging Divides Initiative’s (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative at Princeton University that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States.

The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying a foundation for longer-term work to bridge the divides we face as a nation.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and historians, and based at the George Washington University, the National Security Archive provides highly credible, evidence-based, award-winning investigative journalism, scholarship, and openness advocacy.

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

This grant supports Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). Nonprofit VOTE works to recruit, educate, and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneous launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.

Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC), a project of the New Venture Fund, is a national hub that connects, coordinates, and creates efforts to both counter the increasing misuse of preemption, and to strengthen local democracy. Preemption is when higher levels of government restricts the authority of a lower level of government to act on a particular issue.

The Brookings Institution is researching the impact of climate change and climate migration on American systems of democracy and governance.

Democracy North Carolina (DemNC) works to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a part of the Native American Voting Rights Coalition, which fosters partnerships with tribal governments across the country to tackle systemic challenges to voter participation for tribal communities. 

The Online News Association (ONA) works to build a stronger journalism field that serves an engaged and informed public. Their programs for digital journalists and related fields include professional development, community-building, shared learning, and more.