This grant supports the use of particularly valuable new research on youth voting and political engagement for publication in the form of 10 Monkey Cage articles, which will be shared so that they inform the political press. The goal is to make nonpartisan practitioners aware of recent research relevant to youth voting.
Grant Status: Completed
Trustees of Tufts College
To provide support for a 2-year research project that seeks to better understand the reasons why hard-to-reach youth populations choose not to vote and then create a set of guidelines that election officials can use to help address the needs of young voters.
Trustees of Tufts College
CIRCLE will lead a process engaging multiple experts that will develop an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the news literacy and associated fields. Subsequently they will propose and prototype an approach to building new networks between newsrooms, news literacy and youth civic engagement.
Trustees of Tufts College
The MGGG Redistricting Lab, a project of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, conducts cutting-edge research modeling alternative election systems with modern mathematical and statistical tools, with a focus on STV (single transferable vote) elections within the family of ranked choice systems.
Vanderbilt University
The Monkey Cage is a platform which seeks to contribute timely, accessible, evidence-based analysis to public policy conversations.
LawWorks
The 65 Project, an initiative within LawWorks, a fiscally sponsored project of the Franklin Education Forum, works to increase the adoption of ethics best practices by lawyers and state bar associations.
Narrative Initiative
Narrative Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, works with social movements and changemakers to envision and strategize for narrative change that embodies a movement’s aspirations.
New York University
The Dutch news site, De Correspondent – which has solved the sustainability problem by becoming a world leader in member-supported journalism — wants to bring its formula to the US. This grant would fund a year of research and incubation at NYU and would create a laboratory to test De Correspondent’s models and lessons in the American context and focus on sharing those lessons throughout nonprofit news in the United States.
New York University
To support the Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory in conducting research around the role of misinformation on social media platforms during the 2018 election.
New York University
The Membership Puzzle Project is a research and field lab designed to help journalism in America rebuild its social contract with communities through membership and reader revenue strategies.