The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)’s Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project will assess and counter foreign technology-enabled threats to our judicial system by alerting members of the judiciary to threats from foreign adversaries, and train judges and their staff to mitigate the threats.
Grant Status: Completed
TPF Special Assets Fund, DBA The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
The Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF) is a philanthropic collaborative to subsidize the costs of engagement tools like Hearken, Groundsource, Coral Project, and Listening Post in newsrooms across the country to help them better connect with their communities.
Pro Publica Inc.
To support ProPublica’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide ProPublica with general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate.
Wesleyan University
To support the Wesleyan Media Project in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus on ads that involve race and gender.
Sojourners
Sojourners is an independent, award-winning print and online magazine of faith, culture, and politics.
Center for Internet Security Inc.
The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Election Security Best Practices team will develop security-focused tools and guidance for election officials and election technology providers.
Center for Public Integrity
The Consider the Source project seeks to ‘out’ shadowy political organizations that have flourished in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.
Committee for Economic Development
The Committee for Economic Development will conduct research on the attitudes of business leaders about campaign finance reform.
Democracy Works Inc.
TurboVote looks for low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting.
Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
Demos will conduct research on the level of state compliance with the motor voter provision of the National Voter Registration Act.