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.
Grant Status: Completed
Participatory Budgeting Project Inc.
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 Inc
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, LLC
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.
Marshall-Wythe School of Law Foundation
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.
Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
This grant supports the governance-related initiatives of the Bipartisan Policy Center, including: taskforces on Government Oversight, Health of the Political Parties, and Election Demographics; the Healthy Congress Index; congressional reforms recommended by the Commission on Political Reform; and increasing the communications capacity of the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Center for Election Innovation & Research
The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a new organization created by David Becker and Amy Cohen formerly with the Pew Charitable Trusts. CEIR will work to continue improving election administration by studying new trends in elections, working with election officials to ensure confidence in elections, help improve communication with voters, and streamline the administration of elections with technological advances.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The purpose of this grant is to support the existing activity of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press as it fits within the emerging strategy for the Press Freedom arm of the emerging Fourth Estate Initiative.
TPF Special Assets Fund, DBA The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
This grant will help establish The Community Listening and Engagement Fund at the The Lenfest Institute. The Fund will subsidize the costs of adopting new community engagement tools for newsrooms who want to deepen their connections to their audience. By making engagement tools more accessible to a broader array of newsrooms the Fund will help accelerate the adoption of journalism practices and models that make newsrooms more responsive to their communities.
Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project
This grant will provide support to Texas Civil Rights Project’s (TCRP) High School Voter Registration Project. This grant will provide TCRP with support to continue its work with the Secretary of State, high schools, voter registrars, and other relevant stakeholders to improve compliance in this area. TCRP will build important relationships between these entities while encouraging compliance with the law.