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

The primary purpose of this grant is to expand the use of CIR’s Impact Tracker in the United States, so that news outlets can better monitor their role in their community. The grant will also support a budding partnership with local outlets in Chicago and a set of opportunities to promote diversity within the ranks of investigative reporters.

This grant provides MIJE resources to relaunch programs and advocacy around diversity in journalism. MIJE is fresh off a round of strategic planning where they worked with over a dozen journalism professionals to identify needs within the field and devise ways to build on those opportunities for change. The purpose of this grant is to help the organization reestablish itself so that it can begin to take on the roles outlined from their human centered design strategic planning process.  

The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.

The Campaign Finance Institute will support scholarship to assess the current conditions and features of campaign finance systems and determine and investigate the most important research questions associated with those systems. Answers to those questions can help inform the field of campaign finance reform with the respected nonpartisan information and analysis. 

This grant will explore innovation in policy making related to the federal government generally, and more specifically related to civic engagement, and participatory budgeting.

To provide funding for survey work of public opinions about election administration.

To strengthen reporting and commentary by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

The Faith & Politics Institute works in a variety of ways to bring members of Congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through private reflection groups, public meetings and transformative pilgrimages.

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 is a renewal grant to CJR’s United States Project to support experimentation in building local journalism capacity in the areas of collaboration, innovation, impact, and funding in target states. 

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating capacity for Center for Civic Design, a key (and overlooked) player in the elections field. Center for Civic Design supports many of our grantees and other organizations we work with. It needs assistance to expand its work this election year, which includes designing election materials, experimentation, and usability testing.

Support The Monkey Cage’s efforts to make the political conversation more informed by timely, accessible and sound research from a publicly oriented political science discipline and less dominated by evidence-free  arguments. This is achieved by increasing the public engagement of political scientists and other academics and connecting academics with key audiences among journalists, policy analysts, and lay readers.

INN’s mission is to help nonprofit news organizations produce and distribute stories with impact; to achieve cost efficiencies by pooling resources and services; and to develop new revenue streams that will help member organizations become sustainable, mission-driven, nonprofit businesses.  

The purpose of this grant is to support the Aspen Congressional Program’s efforts to improve trust, dialogue, and informed participation among Members of Congress.

The purpose of this grant is to further build out participatory budgeting as a practice in communities around the United States.

Take Back Our Republic (TBOR) gives concerned citizens a voice on money in politics. Their activities include research and education to return political power to individuals.

Politico is co-sponsoring an event on the future of American democracy and the political parties. While examining these structures through the context of the 2016 election, two panels will focus on the forces and factors that created our current election and how they will influence the future.

The Election Law Program (ELP), a joint project of William & Mary (W&M) Law School and the National Center on State Courts, supports judges with information as they navigate election law questions and decisions.

The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that defends and protects our nation’s democracy in the areas of campaign finance and voting rights.