Reinvent Albany will convene a group of technology and policy experts to produce a report that recommends how New York State could use technology to modernize compliance and reporting of campaign finance contributions under a proposed small-donor matching system.

The Mini-Grant serves to incorporate the Fact-Check.org data into the My Voter Account information, such that people can get customizable fact check information on their elected members of congress.

The End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting Specification and Feasibility Assessment Study will examine a form of remote voting that enables a so-called “end-to-end verifiability” (E2E) property. A unique team of experts in computer science, usability, and auditing together with a selection of local election officials from key counties around the U.S. will assemble for this study.

The Collaborative Communications Initiative will improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community.

TurboVote, Sunlight, and ELECTricity will work together to develop a template of easy-to use election websites and pilot those sites in 5 states.

Fair Vote and BPC will examine state houses who had to adapt to unusual power-sharing structures to understand how agreement can be reached in such cases.

The No Labels Foundation seeks to convene policymakers, across party lines and at all levels of government, to provide fact based educational programming promoting trust and collaboration.

Support an evaluation or assessment to better understand how the organization is performing.

CIRCLE will lead a process engaging multiple experts that will develop an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the news literacy and associated fields. Subsequently they will propose and prototype an approach to building new networks between newsrooms, news literacy and youth civic engagement.

Faith & Politics will work to perform strategic assessment of their programs to determine how and where best to grow.

The Faith & Politics Institute will work in a variety of ways to bring members of congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through meetings and transformative pilgrimages.

Support the professional development of senior management at No Labels Foundation to strengthen the organization and its management practices.

The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.

To provide a restricted grant for Issue One to hire a consultant to strengthen the organization’s internal grant making processes and procedures.For more on Issue One’s background and program areas, please refer to R-201410-01360.

The Campaign Finance Institute serves to provide balanced, thoughtful policy analysis related to solving some of the challenges associate with money in our political system.

The Polling Place of the Future Project at MIT brings election officials, political scientists and tech experts together to refine and build free-access tech tools to allow election officials to run elections better.

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.

Cato’s DeepBills Project will serve as a platform to decode the legal language of bills, allowing journalists and others to identify what parts of government is actually being amended.

To reduce political fear mongering by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

Support the Democracy Program to raise awareness of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration and The Commission on Political Reform recommendations among key stakeholders and the general public and support key research and technical assistance to assist officials who are seeking to adopt best practices recommended by the commissions.