The Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project, a project of Charlottesville Tomorrow, aims to support and cultivate collaboration among the region’s local news outlets.

Aspen Digital’s AI Elections Initiative works to ensure that amid rapidly evolving technology, civic participation remains a touchstone of American democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.

To support the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding’s (ISPU) collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on covering the American Muslims confidently, creatively, and fairly. 

The Democracy Futures Project is a collaborative effort to equip democracy funders with tools, resources, and skills to be more “future-ready.”

To encourage donors to move critical pro-democracy funding in time for maximum impact, the #HalfMyDAF campaign and the Amalgamated Foundation created a matching democracy pool for election-related DAF gifts made by June.

Fair Elections Center delivers nonpartisan, creative solutions to make the processes of voter registration, voting, and election administration as accessible as possible for every American, with a special focus on student and underrepresented voters.

The mission of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators is to be the foremost organization serving and representing the interests of Hispanic state legislators from all states. The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL) is organizing the first joint meeting of the Quad Caucus.

The Center for American Progress’s Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative’s project, “Exploring the Wisdom Traditions Behind Progressive Faith Movements” will include a convening of faith leaders and movement builders (to be conducted virtually, if needed) in 2020 to develop shared language and a common vision on progressive faith leadership, as well as publication of their findings.

To support Interfaith Youth Core’s Alumni Fellowship Program. The organization will provide fellowships to at least five individuals from their alumni network to create innovative new interfaith civic engagement projects focused on promoting pluralism in their communities. 

This grant provides general operating support for Trinity Forum.

This grant will support the development and testing of Viz Lab, a dashboard designed to track and visualize ‘memes’ carrying misinformation and fake news. Viz Lab’s dashboard tool will trace memes as they move throughout networks automatically. This will be a resource for newsrooms and the public.

This grant will support the development and expansion of the City Bureau Documenters Project which strengthens local media coverage and builds trust in journalism by creating opportunities for anyone to participate in the production of local journalism.

This grant will support the Inclusive America Project’s landscape analysis of the religious pluralism funding field and dissemination of the findings to inform field and the public.

To support the Wesleyan Media Project, a project of Wesleyan University, in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and 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 particular interest on ads that involve race and gender.

This grant will support the development and testing of Hoaxy Bot-o-Meter, a tool to uncover attempts to boost the spread of misinformation online. Hoaxy Bot-o-Meter will uncover and display how information from such questionable sources is generated and rebroadcasted.

Media Literacy @ Your Library is a one-year adult media literacy program in five public libraries serving diverse communities. With the American Library Association (ALA), they will create online learning sessions, resources, and a workshop to train public librarians on developing programs to teach patrons to be informed media consumers.

ElectionLine.org is the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information.

Continued support for the Democracy Field Mapping Tool. The grant funding will allow Foundation Center to make additional improvements and enhancements to this tool. The tool provides relevant data visualizations for various funders, nonprofits, and other groups interested in the philanthropic sector’s role in U.S. democracy.

This grant will support Congressional Sports for Charity, organizer of the annual Congressional Baseball Game. The Congressional Baseball Game, first held in 1909, is an annual bipartisan event in which Members of the United States Congress face off in a friendly baseball game. Congressional Sports for Charity uses proceeds from the game to support charities across the Washington, DC area.

To support PressOn, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, in their continued work on media ecosystem analyses in the South.