The Sunlight Foundation, Philadelphia’s Committee of Seventy, and the Internet Archive will be matching up the political ads with FCC-mandated public inspection file data from each station to uncover which groups paid how much for each political ad.

Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) will plan to host a series of small confidential meetings (fewer than 20 people from various sides of the issues) to discuss three things: areas of agreement, areas of disagreement, and common definitions to minimize misunderstanding. The purpose of this grant will be to explore the idea of convening these meetings and secure buy-in from key leaders.

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

The Campaign Legal Center has engaged with other projects to reform and strengthen the FEC, improve media around campaign finance issues, and strengthen Congressional ethics around money in politics issues.

Planning grant for comprehensive bipartisan research on the current state of money in politics.

This grant supports the use of particularly valuable new research on youth voting and political engagement for publication in the form of 10 Monkey Cage articles, which will be shared so that they inform the political press. The goal is to make nonpartisan practitioners aware of recent research relevant to youth voting.

This grant supports the work and experimentation of the Engaging News Project and in so doing will raise the knowledge across industry of news engagement practices that are COMMERCIALLY-VIABLE and DEMOCRATICALLY-BENEFICIAL.

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.

Building on the infrastructure established in the first phase of the project, we propose to carry out Citizen Cabinet surveys on seven new policy topics in an expanded number of states as well as with a national sample and to more broadly promote the idea of the Citizen Cabinet to Congress, the media and the public. This grant will also work to help VOP find a new long-term home for this project with more robust institutional resources.

This general operating grant is aimed at helping boost the efforts of the Congressional Management Foundation’s efforts to help Congressional offices manage resources as effectively as possible. More specifically, this grant aims to boost several key functions within CMF including a program that would look at developing guiding principles that would establish best practices for use of technology in Congressional offices and a program that focuses on training Freshman Member offices.

This grant will be to help support the general operations of FairVote – an organization working to generate greater civility in government through voting reforms.

The purpose of this grant is to scope opportunities to enable greater public participation in candidate debates by studying, modeling and encouraging the use of innovative approaches from around the country and also elsewhere that make debates more substantive, engaging, educative, and accountable to public concerns.

For general support to National Institute for Civil 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.

Programatic support for the Pew Safe Spaces Project to create a regular, bipartisan convening of House Chiefs of Staff to allow for diverse perspectives to be shared on effective management practices and encourage bipartisan lawmaking on the staff level.

This grant will provide additional award money for the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $3 million in funding – and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas. Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate.

To provide a renewal grant to Public Citizen Foundation for its work on the Bright Lines Project, which is a bipartisan group of tax attorneys who have developed a set proposed rules which are designed to clarify the IRS regulations governing nonprofit organizations’ political activities.

The Center for Public (CPI) Integrity will combine its historic strength in follow-the-money reporting with a rejuvenated approach to data analysis, digital presentation and high-impact distribution to make the influence of special interests on the 2016 presidential election impossible to ignore and relevant to a wider audience.

To support a process to develop a competition between communities with access to next-generation networks (i.e. up to at least a gig to some premises) to leverage their internet capacity to promote stronger democratic processes and increase civic engagement. In short, Democracy on a Gig.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Morrison Institute’s research into the practice of Citizen’s Initiative Review.

To provide support for the ongoing development and maintenance of a website that provides the election administration community with unfiltered news and information, communicates innovation, and fosters information sharing across jurisdictions.