Issue One

General operating support to Issue One. 

Native American Journalists Association

This is a general operating grant to the Native American Journalists Association that will increase their support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of Native American communities.

ReflectUs

To provide general support for ReflectUs. 

Thought Partnerships

To support Thought Partnerships, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropies, as it seeks to build effective cross sector communities of practice to advance non-violent and just societies through research, sharing and learning.  

Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project promotes recommendations that improve the quality of U.S. elections. Building on the work in 2019 of the Task Force on Elections, BPC will advance state and federal election reform with recommendations about new challenges in election administration.

Regents of the University of California at Riverside

To support the Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy (TeCD-Lab) at the University of California, Riverside in their efforts to further development and deployment of an online communications platform that congressional offices can use to have constructive dialogue with constituents. This platform will provide an alternative to those currently available to offices on the commercial market. 

Issue One

The Rebuild Congress Initiative (RCI), a project of Issue One, seeks to better understand congressional dysfunction and aims to build bipartisan coalitions in support of congressional reform measures⁠ — especially efforts to increase congressional capacity⁠.

University of Maryland

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland is conducting research comparing traditional social science methods of determining voting accessibility through distance-based calculations. This research seeks to improve the data and methods used to select and evaluate the accessibility of voting sites.

ReThink Media, Inc.

The Democracy Collaborative (previously known as the Collaborative Communications Initiative) will continue to improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community and allow groups to build collective messaging success in the field.

Democracy Fund
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