University of Oregon Foundation

The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Oregon School of Journalism’s Agora Journalism Center to create workshops to strengthen the community of practice of Engaged Journalism. This grant builds on Knight’s larger grant that supports building a web-tool, with our emphasis on creating robust connections within the field.

The Eyebeam Atelier Inc.

This grant will support the development and testing of Viz Lab, a dashboard designed to track and visualize ‘memes’ carrying misinformation and fake news. Viz Lab’s dashboard tool will trace memes as they move throughout networks automatically. This will be a resource for newsrooms and the public.

City Bureau

This grant will support the development and expansion of the City Bureau Documenters Project which strengthens local media coverage and builds trust in journalism by creating opportunities for anyone to participate in the production of local journalism.

Georgetown University

The purpose of this grant is to support the “Constructive Voices for the Common Good” dialogue series – promoting bipartisanship and civility in public life – hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life (“the Initiative”) based at Georgetown University. The Initiative will lead one major event in Washington, D.C. and multiple smaller events focused on Latino leaders and young professionals during the grant period.

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.

The Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) will undergo a strategic planning process and support new leadership as it develops into a national hub for ethnic media. CCEM will add depth and national scope to its efforts with news and information outlets serving ethnic, minority and immigrant communities.

URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement

The purpose of this grant is to implement the election line allocation tools created by the Voting Technology Project, as recommended by the Rhode Island Board of Elections Task Force.

National Press Photographers Foundation Inc

The National Press Photographers Foundation work as educators and advocates for the rights of visual journalists and freedom of the press. The grant is to support NPPF’s legal advocacy on behalf of journalists and their work to educate journalists about their rights and their safety.

POPVOX LegiDash Fund

The POPVOX LegiDash Fund, a project of the Tides Foundation, will develop a communications and legislative resources dashboard for use by congressional staff. The free product, called LegiDash, will provide staff with an improved constituent communications portal they can use to view and respond to messages delivered to Congress by POPVOX, increasing the efficiency of that process.

Lawfare Institute

This project grant will support capacity building at the Lawfare Institute. Lawfare facilitates research and robust analysis of national security issues, and its experts also use FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making. This capacity building grant will support Lawfare’s work to build its influence by improving its ability to produce high-quality audio and video content.

Democracy Fund
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