To support ProPublica’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide ProPublica with general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. 

To support the Wesleyan Media Project in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus on ads that involve race and gender.

Sojourners is an independent, award-winning print and online magazine of faith, culture, and politics.

The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Election Security Best Practices team will develop security-focused tools and guidance for election officials and election technology providers.

To support New York University in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus to ads that involve race and gender.

To support the New School’s Journalism + Design program in their efforts to train local newsrooms on systems and design thinking through workshops, convenings, and a digital toolkit to help journalists develop new ways to understand and serve their local communities’ needs.

This grant will provide general support for College to Congress. 

To support the Win/Win coalition’s efforts around automatic voter registration implementation in Washington state.

To support Common Cause Massachusetts’ work on automatic voter registration implementation.

To provide general operating support to the Center for Technology and Civic Life. 

General support for Millennial Action Project

General operating support for the Project On Government Oversight. 

To support the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to help election administrators and other government officials better protect election systems through a variety of trainings and tools.

To support Take the Lead’s “50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism” program, providing training, cohort building, and networking opportunities for women leading in the media industry.

To support the Center for Investigative Reporting’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide the Center for Investigative Reporting with critical support for their local news collaborations through the Reveal Local Labs to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. This project will help expand investigative capacity around the country and at the national level. 

General operating support to the Niskanen Center. 

To support the Trusted Elections Fund (formerly known as the Joint Fund for a Healthy Democracy), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. The Trusted Elections Fund will undertake efforts to ensure a free and fair election in November 2020. 

To support the Brookings Institution’s work to track and analyze the actions being taken by members of the House of Representatives and its committees to conduct oversight of executive branch actions and policies in the 116th Congress through its House Oversight Tracker webpage. 

This grant will provide general operating support for the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies . 

To be able to review, process and legally share with other partners the volume of documents connected to Thomas Hofeller, now in the possession of Common Cause Education Fund.