General operating support to the Government Accountability Project. 

To support the New Mexico local news ecosystem in collaboration with local funding partners through the New Mexico Local News Fund, which focuses on building more healthy news ecosystems as a vital part of just communities and a healthy democracy.

General operating support to the National Security Archive Fund. 

To support the activities of the Levin Center at Wayne Law to promote bipartisan, fact-based oversight. The Levin Center will conduct oversight trainings for congressional staff, promote scholarly research on oversight, host conferences and symposia on oversight topics, and strengthen the public narrative around the importance of meaningful oversight. 

To support the Constitutional Accountability Center’s work to research the tools Congress can use to enforce its oversight requests, enhance capacity to provide legal analysis at the request of Hill offices, support litigation, and shape a media narrative on the importance of Congress serving as a coequal branch. 

The American Political Science Association (APSA) will host a public service fellow from May 1, 2019 – October 31, 2020 to conduct research in  service of the U.S. Congress. With this fellowship, APSA enhances public understanding of policymaking and improves the quality of scholarship, teaching and reporting on American national politics.

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Congress Project fosters congressional reform ideas, with a particular focus on the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. The Congress Project will also organize recurring bipartisan programming for Members of Congress and their staff.

General Operating Support

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to The Equity Alliance

This grant provides general operating support for Democracy North Carolina (DemNC). The organization works to protect the right to vote, reduce the role of money in politics, and advance fair redistricting in North Carolina.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to Student Press Law Center to expand and defend the rights of student journalists and their advisors.

This grant will support the launch of The George Washington University’s Project on Political Communications Ethics. The grantee will conduct lunch meetings with key stakeholders to discuss ethics in political communications and will conduct initial research and planning for the future of this program. 

To support TechCongress, a project of New America Foundation, in placing an additional mid-career fellow with deep technological knowledge in a congressional office to support and strengthen the ability of lawmakers and staff to generate informed public policy on a variety of technology-related issues currently facing the nation.

Democracy Works and their subdivision of TurboVote explores low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting through new civic technology and improving processes and data. Their aim is to make voting easier through use of technology and support for elections administrators and voters.

To support the efforts of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University in researching the intersection of youth engagement and election administration.

From the October 01, 2019 up to May 01, 2020, the Grant funds are restricted for the following purpose: To support Upturn’s research, publication, and coordination on the topic of discriminatory targeting by social media platform companies.
Any remaining funds from this Grant as of May 01, 2020 are hereby released from the project restriction outlined above and can be used for General Operating Support. 

The purpose of this grant is to support Bold Impact in their coordination work to organize action within their stakeholder network to generate momentum to advance data policy innovation within a human rights framework through the event series Rights x Tech.

This general operating grant to The American Journalism Project will support the organization’s mission to make transformative investments in Civic News Organizations, building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.

To support the Technology and Social Change Research Project in researching coordinated inauthentic activity to promote mis/disinformation that could impact US democratic processes including rule of law issues, elections, and their impact on Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

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