Grants Database
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- TPF Special Assets Fund, DBA The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
The Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF) is a philanthropic collaborative to subsidize the costs of engagement tools like Hearken, Groundsource, Coral Project, and Listening Post in newsrooms across the country to help them better connect with their communities.
Project:
Community Listening and Engagement FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2024 to Jun 2024Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- TPF Special Assets Fund, DBA The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2017
This grant will help establish The Community Listening and Engagement Fund at the The Lenfest Institute. The Fund will subsidize the costs of adopting new community engagement tools for newsrooms who want to deepen their connections to their audience. By making engagement tools more accessible to a broader array of newsrooms the Fund will help accelerate the adoption of journalism practices and models that make newsrooms more responsive to their communities.
Project:
The Community Listening and Engagement FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Jun 2024Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Translash Media Inc
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Translash Media Inc., is a U.S-based and globally recognized Black, trans-led nonprofit news organization and digital community dedicated to telling trans stories to save trans lives. Using the power of journalism and personal narrative, TransLash creates, curates, and presents trans-affirming content, resources, and events in collaboration with their partners.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, MediaGrant Length:
Oct 2024 to Dec 2024Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Trinity Forum, Inc
- $50,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2021
This grant provides general operating support for Trinity Forum.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, MediaGrant Length:
May 2024 to Apr 2024Strategy:
General- Trinity Forum, Inc
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
To disseminate Trinity Forum’s research on the contributions Christianity can make in a pluralistic society through writing and other outreach, events, and convenings.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2024 to Oct 2024Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Trinity Forum, Inc
- $110,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2018
To conduct research on the role of Christian leaders within the United States in our political system, how their followers engage in politics, and how leaders can be a source of increasing pluralism and decreasing polarization. As part of this work, Trinity Forum will interview key Christian leaders, and publish and disseminate findings in a report.
Project:
Support for Research Project on Christian EngagementFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2024 to Oct 2024Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Trusted Elections Fund
- $700,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2019
To support the Trusted Elections Fund (formerly known as the Joint Fund for a Healthy Democracy), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. The Trusted Elections Fund will undertake efforts to ensure a free and fair election in November 2020.
Project:
Joint Fund for a Healthy DemocracyFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Jun 2024Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Trusted Elections Fund
- $3,000,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The Trusted Elections Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a pooled donor fund with a portfolio of democracy-related investments. The Trusted Elections Fund undertakes efforts to help prepare U.S. institutions for the possibility of challenges to free and fair elections.
Project:
Project Support for the Trusted Elections FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Nov 2024Strategy:
General- Trusted Elections Fund
- $1,500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
The Trusted Elections Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a pooled donor fund with a portfolio of democracy-related investments. The Trusted Elections Fund undertakes efforts to help prepare U.S. institutions for the possibility of challenges to free and fair elections.
Project:
Trusted Elections Fund 2022-23Foundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
May 2024 to Dec 2024Strategy:
General- Trusted Elections Fund
- $900,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2021
To support the Trusted Elections Fund (formerly known as the Joint Fund for a Healthy Democracy), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. By strengthening civic infrastructure and election administration resiliency, the Trusted Elections Fund works to ensure free and fair elections.
Project:
Trusted Elections Fund 2021-2 RenewalFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024Strategy:
General- Trustees of Boston University
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences’ Data & Democracy partnership with the MGGG Redistricting Lab conducts cutting-edge research modeling alternative election systems with modern mathematical and statistical tools, with a focus on single transferable vote elections, to help build a powerful resource hub for election reform.
Project:
Data & Democracy ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and VotingGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Representative Institutions- Trustees of Princeton University
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2024
The Bridging Divides Initiative’s (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative at Princeton University that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States.
Project:
Tracking and Mitigating Political Violence in the USFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Sep 2024 to Aug 2024Strategy:
General- Trustees of Princeton University
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying a foundation for longer-term work to bridge the divides we face as a nation.
Project:
Bridging Divides InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Trustees of Princeton University
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying a foundation for longer-term work to bridge the divides we face as a nation.
Project:
Tracking and mitigating political violence in the USFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2024 to Apr 2024Strategy:
General- Trustees of Princeton University
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2020
To support the Bridging Divides Initiative, at Princeton University, which works to mitigate political violence in the United States by laying the groundwork for a more coordinated response.
Project:
Support for Bridging Divides InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
May 2024 to Apr 2024Strategy:
General- Trustees of Princeton University
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2020
To support research that contributes to a growing body of evidence that can inform stakeholders in media, industry, and government on how to most effectively design and regulate online spaces in a way that limits threats to democracy, with a particular focus on the impacts on people of color and women.
Project:
Investigating Digital Outrage as a Root Cause of Threats to DemocracyFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Apr 2024 to Mar 2024Strategy:
Digital Democracy- Trustees of Tufts College
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
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.
Project:
Research on Youth Engagement in Election AdministrationFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Nov 2024 to Apr 2024Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Trustees of Tufts College
- $295,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2012
Evaluate a series of experimental programs to educate and engage the public during the 2012 election cycle.
Project:
2012 EvaluationsFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Jul 2024 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Trustees of Tufts College
- $15,000.00
- Network Grant
- Elections and Voting
- 2015
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.
Project:
Youth Engagement ResearchFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Trustees of Tufts College
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2017
To provide support for a 2-year research project that seeks to better understand the reasons why hard-to-reach youth populations choose not to vote and then create a set of guidelines that election officials can use to help address the needs of young voters.