The Campaign Finance Institute will convene a nationally prominent group of scholars to assess what is known about the campaign finance system and determine what are the most important research questions that should be investigated to insure that future policy reforms are informed by the best available nonpartisan information and analysis.

Democracy Fund will support NALEO Educational Fund’s efforts to identify, recruit, and train Latino candidates for positions in the federal government, with a particular focus on staffing Congressional offices. Additionally, Democracy Fund will support NALEO’s efforts to provide increased training on civility and bipartisanship to their membership. 

The purpose of this grant is to support the Digital Disinformation Research and Mapping Project, which will track and aggregate ongoing research, facilitate the alignment of research with relevant policy efforts, and build a diverse and multidisciplinary scholarly network.

The purpose of this grant is to support City Bureau, an innovative local news organization in Chicago, that is leading efforts in community engagement, ecosystem building, business models. This grant will enable City Bureau to continue and expand their core programs, including Documenters, Civic Reporting Fellowships, and Public Newsrooms.

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities.  

The purpose of this grant is to support the Local News Lab in New Jersey. Dodge has been a co-funder (using Knight Funds) of our work with Rutgers and Free Press. They are also involved in a number of other initiatives well aligned with our priorities.

This grant will support Lawfare, a blog and project of the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. Lawfare facilitates research and robust analysis of national security issues, and Lawfare experts also use FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making. 

This grant will support the development of an App Market that reviews tech products for use by congressional staff, focusing on key features like whether those tools can handle the required volume and whether they meet security requirements. 

The Asian American Journalists Association builds programming that engages Asian American and Pacific Islander community voices, grows membership, and leads in developing entrepreneurship/enterprise projects in the journalism industry.

National CAPACD’s 2021 AAPI Community Resilience Fund supports the racial healing and anti-racism work of recipient organizations, as well as their work to build multi-racial coalitions and strengthen solidarity work locally in neighborhoods. This work includes political education that combats anti-Blackness and advances a deeper understanding of diverse AAPI communities.

The Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, a fiscally sponsored project of Project South, advances structural shifts toward Climate Justice + Ecological Equity in Gulf South Black, Indigenous, and Brown communities on the frontlines of climate change.

A general operating grant to the No Labels Foundation will support the innovative work of the organization to reduce Congressional dysfunction and foster bipartisan problem solving.

The purpose of this grant is to provide funds to the INNovation Fund which supports projects proposed by nonprofit news organizations to advance the economic sustainability of their newsroom.

The Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) works to ensure that Black and African, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (BAMEMSA) immigrant communities are centered in legislative and administrative policies. They also work to reimagine refugee resettlement narratives and policies that have created barriers to the full inclusion of refugees in the fabric of our democracy.

Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice is an immigrant women-of-color-led grassroots organization based in Woodside, New York. Founded in 2005, they are the country’s only worker and social justice center dedicated to serving and mobilizing the Nepali-speaking community — an underserved, under-resourced, and undercounted community.

To continue support for Healthy Democracy as they further institutionalize the Oregon process and extend the CIR practice to other states.

This grant will support the Georgia News Lab. The News Lab’s mission is threefold: To make the vital work of investigative reporting affordable for news organizations, to increase diversity in newsrooms, and to help news outlets better serve their communities by increasing the flow of trustworthy public interest journalism.

The purpose of this grant is two-fold. This grant will support research and communications on the impacts and general efficacy of participatory budgeting regarding how governments spend money. This grant will also map and compare expert insights on the state of U.S. democracy, so that field leaders might better anticipate the path of democratic evolution and decide how best to support positive change in our politics. 

OpenNews, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, helps journalists create authentic, trusting relationships and to build a community of support. This grant supports their ongoing efforts to increase peer support and peer learning among the journalists they serve.

Democracy Forward Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that uses the law to build collective power and advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people.