The Non-Zero Foundation’s Bloggingheads.tv will launch its “The Good Fight” project, which will feature video-based dialogues on hot political topics between important voices from the Left and the Right.
Grant Status: Completed
No Labels Foundation
Support the professional development of senior management at No Labels Foundation to strengthen the organization and its management practices.
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
The purpose of this grant is to support the Morrison Institute’s research into the practice of Citizen’s Initiative Review.
Democracy Works Inc.
To provide support for the ongoing development and maintenance of a website that provides the election administration community with unfiltered news and information, communicates innovation, and fosters information sharing across jurisdictions.
Center for Civic Design
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.
George Washington University
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.
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.
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College
The Trust Project is developing tools and technologies to make quality news easy for the public to identify and technology platforms to surface.
President and Fellows of Harvard College
This grant would contribute initial funding towards the creation of the position of Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Mozilla Foundation
The purpose of this grant is to support the Coral Project in the development and implementation of tools and platforms that encourage a culture of engagement in newsrooms. The grant will largely focus on expanding adoption of their tools in newsrooms, which will consist of training, outreach and work around shifting culture inside newsrooms to be more open to engagement.