The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.

This grant provides support for the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California to maintain and expand the Vote Center and Ballot Drop Box Siting Tool.

The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., is a pooled fund working to repair and transform the state’s news and information ecosystem. They envision a North Carolina where everyone can find, trust, and use the news and information they need to thrive.

MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice) is building a powerful grassroots movement for a more just and participatory media — fighting for racial, economic, and gender justice in a digital age.

Kairos works toward an inclusive, multi-racial democracy by changing how pro-justice organizations see, use, and imagine the future of the internet. Kairos recognizes that understanding the internet as a place, and reshaping governance of the internet as a public square, are essential to strengthening democracy and building a healthier digital media ecosystem.

FlackCheck.org will use satire and deconstructions of political ads to assist reporters and the public in identifying and rejecting fear-mongering and fact-mangling in the 2012 elections.

General Operating Funds to support to goals of the Bipartisan Policy Center, including support of the Democracy Program, and to raise awareness among key stakeholders and the general public of the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration and The Commission on Political Reform, and to support efforts to educate officials and the public regarding the functional benefits of adopting the best practices recommended by the commissions.

This grant is to support The Center for Public Integrity’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide the Center for Public Integrity with critical general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. 

The Partnership for Public Service builds trust and better relationships between the branches of the federal government, enhances accountability for Congressional stewardship for the Executive Branch, and increases general understanding of the challenges facing the government.

The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project (RDYR) is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization that advances public understanding of the unique risks that America’s rural youth face online. They convene stakeholders including researchers, journalists, technologists, parents, educators, religious leaders, and mental health providers.

This grant will provide General Operating Support to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. 

Representative Democracy, a fiscally sponsored project of the Miami Foundation, supports leadership development programs and innovative diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) solutions for governing institutions focused on building inclusive workplaces in the United States Congress.

To support litigation and legal services to support targeted communities, particularly immigrant, refugee, and MASA communities.   

The purpose of this grant is to grow and continue The Fund for Nonprofit News, hosted at The Miami Foundation, in support of NewsMatch, a fundraising campaign for nonprofit news.

The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country. 

This grant will provide three years of general operating support for the Maynard Institute as they execute their strategic plan. This funding will support Maynard in their mission to drive diversity, equity and inclusion in news media and academia through training, engagement and convenings with journalists, news leaders, storytellers, and entrepreneurs.

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities through Asian Law Caucus’s National Security & Civil Rights work.

The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.

The Campaign Legal Center helps reformers and stakeholders shape and improve Money in Politics ideas and approaches. Their work includes issues of redistricting, voting rights, voter registration, and restoration of voting rights to formerly incarcerated persons.

The purpose of this grant is to grow and continue The Fund for Nonprofit News, fiscally sponsored by The Miami Foundation, in support of NewsMatch 2019 and 2020. The Fund supports a matching gifts program designed to encourage donations to nonprofit newsrooms and expand the capacity of nonprofit journalism to build their small donor base.