To provide state and local election administrators with a common location for reporting mail system problems and allowing that information to give a comprehensive picture on the scope of problems across the country.
Grant Type: Network Grant
FairVote
The project will create greater understanding and transparency on how political giving affects the universe of viable candidates, in hopes of developing messaging strategies that draw attention to the key role major campaign funders have in citizen ability to shape electoral bodies and therefore eventual policy.
Internet Archive
The purpose of this grant is to train journalists on using the Internet Archive’s new digital library resources of political ads and television news.
Institute for Nonprofit News
For a project to organize a two day in-depth training session for reporters on the latest tools and techniques for following the money in the 2014 elections.
Participatory Budgeting Project Inc.
Grantee plans to increase turnout in participatory budgeting (PB) processes by using TurboVote to provide consistent, streamlined election reminders for the City of Boston’s participatory budgeting program for youth, Youth Lead the Change (YLC).
The University of Texas at Austin
The purpose of this grant is to understand how newsrooms can better optimize their engagement metrics, particularly with election‐related coverage.
Trustees of Tufts College
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.