As organizers across the U.S. contend with crises that are both massive and fast-approaching, they are revisiting the core premises that have guided their methods for the last 50 years. The Commonwealth Foundation is researching the evolution of progressive strategy over the last 100 years to write “Grassroots Strategy in the US,” documenting the craft of community organizing and the strategic needs of the progressive movement.

This grant will support initial research into the surveillance, experimentation, and persuasion capabilities of platforms such as Facebook and Google and the ways we can prevent or mitigate the use of these capabilities by authoritarians. The initial funding will support the development of a plan for an academic center devoted to these issues as well as the hiring of research support staff for the primary investigator.

To provide general operating support for the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding as they seek to continue to conduct research around the American Muslim community, the challenges the communities face, and to produce a series of online training for media professionals that are covering issues effecting the community.

Accountable.US will develop a “Self-Research 101” training and hold sessions for pro-democracy organizations on defending against potential misinformation and disinformation campaigns targeting their work.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and historians, and based at the George Washington University, the National Security Archive provides highly credible, evidence-based, award-winning investigative journalism, scholarship, and openness advocacy.

The Disinformation Defense League at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund (NVF), is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers, and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that target communities of color.

The Common Cause Education Fund’s (CCEF) Media and Democracy Program is committed to working to ensure that our communications ecosystem achieves its potential as a key engine of democracy.

To support Common Cause Education Fund’s efforts in Hawaii to increase nonpartisan voter turnout and engagement. Common Cause will use core strategies such as creating a narrative around the importance of voting rooted in Hawaiian values and culture; leveraging local leaders and technology platforms to spread this narrative; and promoting good election reform practices to help make voting more accessible and increase civic engagement throughout the state.

Documentary Educational Resources is producing a two-part radio documentary series on judicial independence. The series, airing nationally on public radio affiliates, will explore the history of politicization of the U.S. judiciary and explore strategies and reforms to maintain the independence and legitimacy of the courts.

The purpose of this project grant is to empower PEN America to leverage their robust cohort of writers to galvanize their local communities around issues of press freedom. The PEN America leadership will establish a fund that allows deeply engaged members to execute activities and hold events that educate their local communities about the importance of press freedom with the support of the greater PEN team.

This grant will provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions. 

The purpose of this grant is to support planning between centers for the study of Congress, the presidential libraries and iCivics, and will result in a shared strategic plan that will facilitate collaboration and collective impact among these organizations, with the goal of increased civic awareness, especially with regard to Congress.

The purpose of this grant is to support development of a joint strategic plan between iCivics and the centers for the study of Congress, led by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The strategic plan will include documentation of planning activities, a summary of the assessment of required program enhancements, and an outline of next steps required for program scaling.

To support the Cato Institute’s study on the American people’s feelings toward pluralism and immigration. Cato Institute will conduct a large-scale polling project and will publish a report on their findings. 

To provide support to a website that provides news about the latest and ongoing trends in election administration.

The Fund for the Republic will conduct research on conservative attitudes towards campaign finance reform.

To support Sojourners’ Matthew 25 initiative to shift the political and public narrative towards more inclusive and constructive conversations. To do this, Sojourners will use values-based messaging and convene diverse partners to address issues such as racism and xenophobia through videos, audio pieces, and other resources.

This grant will support the Social Science Research Council’s research on media and democracy, cutting across two areas of their existing work- Anxieties of Democracy and Digital culture. The grant will support cross-sector convenings and research about the role of media in democracy and the development of communications tools to provide resources to help media better serve democratic ends.

The Political Reform program of New America develops new strategies and innovations to repair the dysfunction of government, restore trust, and rebuild the promise of American democracy.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for Reporters Without Borders – the North American branch of Reporters Sans Frontieres, as they build their influence and efforts to support and defend journalists within the United States.