The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) as it conducts research, raises awareness, and works with partners to enable more understanding of the American Muslim community.

Open the Government, a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for Constitutional Government, strengthens its partners in the field by training organizations and individuals on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other tools for government openness, serves as a network hub for the government transparency community, and conducts its own research into government wrongdoing. 

The Hope CommUnity Center in Apopka, Florida fosters diverse, empowered, learning communities engaged in personal and societal transformation. Through service and advocacy, they stand with immigrants and others who are tenacious and courageous in the face of all systems of oppression.

The League of Women Voters Education Fund addresses mis- and dis-information and builds states’ capacity for voter protection.

The Free Press News Voices develops and implements community engagement strategies for journalism that build and sustain information equity and local reporting. These strategies help to create news sources that reflect and represent the communities they serve, in particular people of color who have been neglected and harmed by systemic racism.

General operating support

The National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program is promoting effective policymaking around elections and redistricting by providing accurate and bipartisan information and research on elections administration to state legislators, legislative staff, and election officials.

The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (CR+DS) is a network of prominent, public scholars of color who produce research, distribute knowledge, and convene stakeholders at the intersections of race and technology.

The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF), a collaborative fund of NEO Philanthropy, works to protect and advance the voting rights of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically underrepresented communities.

The purpose of this general support grant is to continue to develop the research led innovation approach API has used in its work on fact checking and extend this support for other API projects that help support local media ecosystems.

To support First Draft News, a fiscally sponsored project of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, in designing training programs at news outlets across the United States in resilience building and collaboration to provide ongoing support for journalists, technologists, and the public as they navigate the challenges of mis/disinformation.

Provide two years of general operating support to The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL will continue to focus on three areas: training local governments to utilize technology to enhance civic livelihood in their communities, develop low to no cost tools for governmental use, help develop infrastructure allowing the capture of data and information during interactions between citizens and government.

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.

The Faith & Politics Institute works in a variety of ways to bring members of Congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through private reflection groups, public meetings and transformative pilgrimages.

This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.

TurboVote looks for low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting.

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the New Americans Campaign (NAC), which will in turn support multilingual hotlines to advise and assist eligible legal permanent residents (LPR) in becoming U.S. citizens. The grant will also support the NAC’s Innovation Fund, including resources to help NAC partners to move more people along the path to becoming citizens.

For general support to National Institute for Civic Discourse to encourage political and civic leaders to embrace vigorous debate in a way that allows for diverse perspectives to be shared, for complex issues to be discussed thoughtfully, and for challenging topics to be explored without resorting to invective and personal attacks.

This grant will support the Defending Digital Democracy Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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