The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) focuses on three areas: training local governments on technology to enhance engagement with their communities, developing low to no cost tools for governmental use, and helping develop infrastructure to evaluate interactions between citizens and government.
Grant Type: General Operating Support
Women’s Congressional Policy Institute
The purpose of the grant is to support the Womens Policy Inc whose mission is to bring women policymakers together to work across party lines on issues of importance to women and their families.
Common Cause Education Fund
Common Cause Education Fund (CCEF) is a national organization supporting civic reform in the U.S., working for improvements in both election administration and campaign finance. At the national level, they are a key player in shaping conversations around voting. Leverage their 35 state offices and national membership, they continue to build local coalitions around many of the reforms that the Democracy Fund believes can strengthen our democracy.
Former Members of Congress Inc.
General Operating Support
The OpenGov Foundation
This grant will provide OpenGov Foundation with additional resources to help Congress modernize its technological infrastructure. Such modernizations hold the promise to improve the legislative capacity of congressional staff and make communications between constituents and member offices more efficient, effective, and satisfying for all parties.
Asian Americans Journalists Association
The Asian American Journalists Association builds programming that engages Asian American and Pacific Islander community voices, grows membership, and leads in developing entrepreneurship/enterprise projects in the journalism industry.
Democracy Works Inc.
Democracy Works and their subdivision of TurboVote explores low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting through new civic technology and improving processes and data. Their aim is to make voting easier through use of technology and support for elections administrators and voters.
American Press Institute
The American Press Institute ias a catalyst for meaningful change in journalism using a research-driven approach to fostering more sustainable, audience-centered journalism.
Online News Association
To support journalism schools as laboratories for innovation through the ONA Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. The competitive Challenge Fund supports “live news experiments” that further the development of teaching hospital models in journalism education. The Fund aims to hack the journalism ecosystem to encourage more collaborative local news coverage, community engagement, and digital innovation.
The Obsidian Collection Archives
General support grant to Obsidian Collection.