The Fund for the Republic will conduct research on conservative attitudes towards campaign finance reform.
Grant Status: Completed
Healthy Democracy Fund
The Healthy Democracy Fund will organize a Citizen initiative Review in Oregon and work with leaders from other states to encourage the replication of the Citizen initiative Review outside of Oregon.
Healthy Democracy Fund
Encourage the replication of the CIR in states outside of Oregon
Civic Hall LLC
The purpose of this grant is to scope opportunities to enable greater public participation in candidate debates by studying, modeling and encouraging the use of innovative approaches from around the country and also elsewhere that make debates more substantive, engaging, educative, and accountable to public concerns.
University of Arizona Foundation
For general support to National Institute for Civil Discourse to encourage political and civic leaders to embrace vigorous debate in a way that allows for diverse perspectives to be shared, for complex issues to be discussed thoughtfully, and for challenging topics to be explored without resorting to invective and personal attacks.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Programatic support for the Pew Safe Spaces Project to create a regular, bipartisan convening of House Chiefs of Staff to allow for diverse perspectives to be shared on effective management practices and encourage bipartisan lawmaking on the staff level.
Duke University
The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.
The Campaign Finance Institute
The Campaign Finance Institute will support scholarship to assess the current conditions and features of campaign finance systems and determine and investigate the most important research questions associated with those systems. Answers to those questions can help inform the field of campaign finance reform with the respected nonpartisan information and analysis.
Georgetown University
This grant will explore innovation in policy making related to the federal government generally, and more specifically related to civic engagement, and participatory budgeting.
The Reed Institute
To provide funding for survey work of public opinions about election administration.