To reduce political fear mongering 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.
Grant Status: Completed
Institute for Nonprofit News
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.
Institute for Nonprofit News
For a project to organize a two day in-depth training session for reporters on the latest tools and techniques for following the money in the 2014 elections.
Online News Association
The competitive Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education will support “live news experiments” that further the development of teaching hospital models in journalism education, in which students create innovative projects with professionals, professors and researchers.
Internet Archive
The purpose of this grant is to train journalists on using the Internet Archive’s new digital library resources of political ads and television news.
FairVote
The project will create greater understanding and transparency on how political giving affects the universe of viable candidates, in hopes of developing messaging strategies that draw attention to the key role major campaign funders have in citizen ability to shape electoral bodies and therefore eventual policy.
Democracy Works Inc.
To provide state and local election administrators with a common location for reporting mail system problems and allowing that information to give a comprehensive picture on the scope of problems across the country.
US Vote Foundation
Increase the amount of information available through the U.S. Vote Civic Data Application Programming Interface (API), including state voter requirements, election dates and deadlines, and voting methods. This will increase Rock the Vote access to information for their users.
The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
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.
Internet Archive
The Political TV Ad Archive provides a searchable, viewable, and shareable online archive of 2016 political TV ads, with fact-checking and reporting citizens can trust. The project is open source and available on Github.