To support the League of Women Voters Education Fund with funding to conduct a one-year assessment of the organization’s structure, processes, people and engagement, and alignment and culture. This would be the first of at least a three-year organizational change process, focused on assessing the LWVEF’s strengths and assets as well as our weaknesses and liabilities in advancing our goal of becoming an even more relevant and high-impact organization.
Grant Status: Completed
Millennial Action Project
This grant will allow Millennial Action Project to build on work to increase civil dialog and strengthen its own organization through collaborations with like-minded organizations while focusing on a key strategic constituency identified in our emerging strategy/map — younger Americans.
University of Maryland Foundation Inc.
To provide project support to the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise at the University of Maryland, which will conduct extensive research into the current and future election cybersecurity issues faced in the State of Maryland.
MuckRock Foundation, Inc.
This general operating support grant is to continue the development of the Muckrock platform and staffing capacity as they seek to broaden user base and interface capability.
PEN American Center, Inc.
The purpose of this project grant is to empower PEN America to leverage their robust cohort of writers to galvanize their local communities around issues of press freedom. The PEN America leadership will establish a fund that allows deeply engaged members to execute activities and hold events that educate their local communities about the importance of press freedom with the support of the greater PEN team.
Indiana University
This grant will support the development and testing of Hoaxy Bot-o-Meter, a tool to uncover attempts to boost the spread of misinformation online. Hoaxy Bot-o-Meter will uncover and display how information from such questionable sources is generated and rebroadcasted.
American Library Association
Media Literacy @ Your Library is a one-year adult media literacy program in five public libraries serving diverse communities. With the American Library Association (ALA), they will create online learning sessions, resources, and a workshop to train public librarians on developing programs to teach patrons to be informed media consumers.
The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
The Campaign Legal Center is convening and producing a report identifying legal deterrents to foreign influence in U.S. elections. The panel and report will explore questions of how current law addresses foreign influence in the system, vulnerabilities in the current laws, and potential solutions.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The purpose of this grant is to provide funding for enhanced staffing dedicated to pro bono and technological enhancement.
Proteus Fund Inc.
To provide support for the Security & Rights Collaborative (SRC), a Proteus Fund initiative. SRC’s primary grantmaking focus is to support a diverse field of organizations working to address anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, and more, by building capacity of Muslim, Arab and South Asian (MASA) community based and grassroots organizations.