The Voting Works Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) tool helps election officials calculate the number of ballots needed to conduct an RLA based on the risk limit they have set for a contest. Post-election auditing is one important way that election officials can prove the accuracy of election outcomes and inspire greater public confidence in the voting process.
Grant Status: Completed
United We Dream
To support wellness and healing for frontline staff at United We Dream, and to learn about strategies, resources, and needs in the field.
FairVote
FairVote will work with a team of academic partners to research the relationship between ranked choice voting and political conduct / civility.
Faith and Politics Institute
Faith & Politics will work to perform strategic assessment of their programs to determine how and where best to grow.
Faith and Politics Institute
The Faith & Politics Institute will work in a variety of ways to bring members of congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through meetings and transformative pilgrimages.
Faith and Politics Institute
The Faith & Politics Institute will explore how faith leaders can contribute to improving civil discourse by convening a discussion among prominent faith leaders from across the political spectrum.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Inc.
This grant will provide additional award money for the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $3 million in funding – and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas. Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate.
Public Citizen Foundation, Inc.
To provide a renewal grant to Public Citizen Foundation for its work on the Bright Lines Project, which is a bipartisan group of tax attorneys who have developed a set proposed rules which are designed to clarify the IRS regulations governing nonprofit organizations’ political activities.
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public (CPI) Integrity will combine its historic strength in follow-the-money reporting with a rejuvenated approach to data analysis, digital presentation and high-impact distribution to make the influence of special interests on the 2016 presidential election impossible to ignore and relevant to a wider audience.
Next Century Cities
To support a process to develop a competition between communities with access to next-generation networks (i.e. up to at least a gig to some premises) to leverage their internet capacity to promote stronger democratic processes and increase civic engagement. In short, Democracy on a Gig.